'You’re going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or not I made a phone call?' Trump balked

When questioned about the recording on the Today show on Friday, Trump strongly denied that he was the man on the recording

While most politicians manage their social media accounts with the eye of a newspaper editor, Donald Trump is known for his frank and off-the-cuff tweets.

And it appears this hands-on approach is how the mogul has always handled public relations, even in the days before Twitter.

According to a new report in the Washington Post, Trump regularly pretended to be his own spokesman in interviews with reporters in the 1990s, when his love life made him a tabloid staple.

The paper recently obtained audio between a People magazine reporter and one of these so-called Trump spokesmen who is clearly just Trump himself - his Queens accent unmistakable.

Trump later admitted to such in another People magazine article, but 25 years later, he is now denying the masquerade.

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Audio has surfaced of a phone interview between a People magazine reporter and a spokesman for Donald Trump who sounds very much like the mogul himself. Trump pictured above in 1991 with Marla Maples, who would become his second wife after becoming pregnant

Trump fiercely denied that he was the John Miller in the audio recording, in a phone interview with Savannah Guthrie on the Today show on Friday

On Friday morning, Trump called in for an interview on the Today show, and when questioned about the recording, Trump denied that it was him and even lashed out at Savannah Guthrie for bringing up old news.

'You’re going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or not I made a phone call,' Trump balked.

In the audio recording obtained by the Post, People magazine reporter Sue Carswell speaks to a man who claims to be a Trump spokesman named 'John Miller'.

Carswell was writing a story about Trump's divorce from his first wife Ivana and the current state of his relationship with Marla Maples.

Maples would soon become engaged to Trump, but at the time, he was seen around New York with several other women.

In a move that is very out of character for a person who is supposed to be handling a celebrity's PR, Miller answers all of Carswell's questions in vivid detail, boasting about how Trump is living with Maples but has 'three other girlfriends' - including future first lady of France Carla Bruni.

The spokesman says that Trump has been too busy to commit to Maples, since his business is doing so well.

'He really didn’t want to make a commitment,' Miller says. 'He’s coming out of a marriage, and he’s starting to do tremendously well financially.'

He than goes on to talk adoringly about what a great guy Trump is.

'Have you met him?' Miller asks. 'He’s a good guy, and he’s not going to hurt anybody... He treated his wife well and... he will treat Marla well.'

In the 1991 interview with People magazine reporter Sue Carswell, a man who claims to be a Trump spokesman called John Miller, talks about what a great guy the mogul is while boasting about his 'three girlfriends' in addition to Maples

During the call, 'Miller' is mostly careful to answer questions in the third person, but he trips at one point when Carswell asks him about Bruni, using 'I' instead of 'he'.

'I think it’s somebody that - you know, she’s beautiful. I saw her once, quickly, and beautiful...' Miller says, before quickly going back to the third person.

Miller brags about the Donald dating future first lady of France Carla Bruni (pictured on April 14) while also seeing Maples. Trump later went on the record to say that he was pretending to be Miller on the phone. But in an interview with the Today show on Friday, he denied that he pulled the masquerade

Immediately after getting off the phone with the alleged Trump spokesman, Carswell says she played the recording to co-workers who agreed that the man's heavy Queens accent sound very Trump-like.

She then called up a friend, longtime New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who had been close to Trump since the early 1970s, who immediately identified the voice as her rich friend.

'Oh, that’s Donald,' Carswell recalled Adams saying. 'What is he doing?'

The Washington Post spoke to other journalists who worked in New York at the time, who said that they often spoke with a Trump spokesman who went by 'John Miller' or 'John Barron' who sounded so much like the mogul himself that it became somewhat of a joke.

Soon after her story was published in 1991, Carswell says she was invited for a night out with Trump and Maples, which she says was to make up for Trump tricking her with the John Miller phone call.

In a follow-up story about Trump's engagement to Maples, the couple even goes on the record to admit that Miller was Trump all along.

'When I heard his voice on that tape saying those things, I said, "Whoa! Uh-uh. No more,"' Maples said in the article. 'If he could say all that stuff and act like it's cool to have this playboy image, then oh my gosh, all I could say was, "Baby, you're on your own."'

Carswell writes that Trump called the 'John Miller fiasco' a 'joke gone awry'.

'What I did became a good time at Marla's expense, and I'm very sorry,' Trump is quoted as saying.

But when confronted with the audio on the Today show Friday morning, he changed his story and said it wasn't him all along.

'No, I don’t know anything about it,' he said. 'You’re telling me about it for the first time, and it doesn’t sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice, and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams.'

'I don’t think it was me, it doesn’t sound like me,' Trump continues. 'I don’t know even what they’re talking about.'

When Savannah Guthrie points out that he had admitted to being John Miller before, Trump goes on the offensive.

'No, and it was not me on the phone. It doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone,' he said. 'You’re going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or not I made a phone call.'