MELANIA Trump pushed her husband Donald off the front page yesterday with her nude modelling pictures. Today, it’s a racy girl-on-girl photo shoot that has stolen the limelight.

The New York Post overnight published its second revealing Melania Trump cover.

This time the newspaper found the United States’ would-be First Lady featured in a 1996 edition of Max Magazine in France.

It was a lesbian-themed photo shoot.

Three years beforethe Slovenian-born model Melania Knauss met Donald Trump, she was pictured entwined with Scandinavian model Emma Eriksson.

In other images Eriksson is shown wearing sheer stockings, high heels and long robe — with a whip raised over a 25-year-old Melania dressed in a skin-tight gown.

“This is beauty and not porn. I am always shocked by the porn industry because they are destroying the emotion and the essence of purity and simplicity,” the Post reports the French fashion photographer who took the images, Jarl Ale de Basseville, as saying.

Don't worry, Donald Trump is fine with it https://t.co/Yk07CEnQ8t — New York Post (@nypost) August 1, 2016

Her would-be president husband Donald was dismissive of the photographs.

“Melania was one of the most successful models, and she did many photo shoots, including for covers and major magazines,” he told US media yesterday. “This was a picture taken for a European magazine prior to my knowing Melania. In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common.”

Today's cover: Melania Trump like you've never seen her before https://t.co/wkoDGWTF9g pic.twitter.com/V375rBTUEw — New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2016

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh also shrugged off the images, suggesting the lesbian photo shoot may actually help her husband’s prospects with the gay and lesbian community.

“I think this probably might wrap up the LGBTQ vote for Trump,” he said. “And the single, white male vote, particularly the some — or no college educated white male vote. Yeah, I mean, isn’t this kind of stuff that makes people big stars today on Twitter and Facebook, TMZ? I mean, this is just the Kardashians in a sense of the subject type stuff.”

Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller told CNN overnight: “These were photos that are 20 years old, before Mrs Trump met Mr Trump. They’re a celebration of the human body as art.”