Florida congresswoman roasts Daily Beast’s ‘nasty’ headline about her

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., took intention at The Every day Beast’s “nasty” headline on Monday that took an alternate she had with President Donald Trump out of context. 

Alex Isenstadt, Axios reporter and writer of “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” made headlines with quotes allegedly mentioned by Trump in a sneak preview revealed by Axios on Sunday.

Among the many quotes was one he allegedly mentioned to Luna in 2023 providing her the mattress on his jet when she was pregnant and feeling ailing, although it included a joke about his spouse Melania being jealous. 

“If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it. Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed,” Trump mentioned to Luna, in response to Isenstadt, who famous in the Axios sneak preview that Trump was joking.

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., slammed The Every day Beast’s “nasty” headline taking an alternate she had with President Trump out of context.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)

Nonetheless, The Every day Beast ran the headline “‘Don’t Tell Melania’: Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed,” teasing to readers, “The alleged comments cast new light on the president’s eyebrow-raising marriage to Melania Trump.”

The report acknowledged Luna was “unwell” within the first paragraph however did not point out the joking nature of Trump’s remark till the fourth. 

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The Every day Beast revealed a headline suggesting an inappropriate relationship between President Trump and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.,  (Screenshot/The Every day Beast)

The Every day Beast shared its story on X additional implying an inappropriate relationship between Trump and Luna, writing, “The new revelations reveal how Trump reportedly offered a female congresswoman his bed, as long as she kept it a secret from his wife.”

Luna didn’t take kindly to The Every day Beast’s reporting. 

“I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding,” Luna wrote on X. 

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“I was very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed,” she defined. “As soon as @realDonaldTrump boarded the plane, being the gentleman and good person that he is, said if I did not feel well, I could use the back room. He did this in a respectful way and in front of my husband, of which we thanked him. He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was.”

“This was the most compassionate thing that could’ve been done at the time. I find it disgusting that the author fails to recognize that,” Luna continued. “A few weeks later, I was induced because I did have pre-eclampsia . The author of this book never reached out to me for comment. Which means that this book is likely going to be a s— hit piece. If people in POTUS orbit are talking to this author, they need to be cut off immediately. This is gross.”

The Every day Beast was later hit by Neighborhood Notes, which learn “The woman in question was Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who has responded publicly to the allegation. She claims nothing inappropriate occurred, she was not asked for comment, and this situation is being presented out of context.”

The Every day Beast was hit with Neighborhood Notes calling out its submit for being “out of context.” (Screenshot/X)

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The Every day Beast didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

A spokesperson for Axios instructed Fox Information Digital, “In our report, Axios correctly portrayed and contextualized comments made by President Trump during an interaction that he had with Rep. Luna, an interaction she confirmed in her statement did in fact happen.”

In an announcement to Fox Information Digital, White Home communications director Steven Cheung denounced Trump books together with Isenstadt’s as a “desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump’s name because journalism is a dying industry with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls in order to make a quick buck,” including, “These works of fiction either belong in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.”