Donald Trump shared a heartbreaking account of the way his wife Melania comforted their son Barron after July's assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Melania had witnessed the sickening attack on her husband on live television, Trump explained to Mark Levin.

Trump shares Melania's reaction

Barron was practicing tennis when he heard the shocking news that his father had been shot.

Trump said "somebody" ran up and yelled, "Barron! Barron! Your father's been shot!" Barron ran to his mother's side and asked her what had happened.

"He was – he loves his father, he's a good kid, good student, good athlete actually – and he ran, 'Mom! What's going on? What's going on?'' Trump said.

Trump described the iconic moment he got up and raised one fist in defiance to let his supporters know he was ok.

"She couldn't believe it. She was actually watching it live, can you imagine? And then I get up, and I let people know I was okay," Trump said.

"I let people know I was okay. But it was a hit, it was a big hit."

Divine intervention

The famously reclusive Melania shared a rare and elegant statement expressing her love for her husband after the attack, in which she condemned the shooter as a "monster" who saw her husband as an "inhuman political machine."

President Trump told Levin that his wife doesn't discuss the shooting at home - and he shared his belief that God was watching over him.

The gunman was able to shoot at Trump from a rooftop less than 200 yards away, grazing his ear. Trump happened to turn his head just in time.

"She can't even talk about it, which is okay because that means she likes me," he said.

"It's God. I know people that have become believers in God because of it," Trump said.

In a separate interview with Monica Crowley, Trump said he is beginning to entertain the idea that he was set up after the FBI stoked bogus speculation that Trump wasn't actually hit with a bullet.

“There’s so many things going on here, that you do have to wonder,” Trump said. “I wasn’t thinking this way three weeks ago, but the more you see it, the more you start to say there could be something else and that’s really dangerous for the country.”