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US FIRST LADY Melania Trump accused her husband’s first wife Ivana of making “attention-seeking and self-serving noise” yesterday, after the former Mrs Trump jokingly referred to herself as the first lady while trying to sell her memoirs.
In an interview with ABC News to promote her new book – Raising Trump – the 68-year-old Ivana Trump attempted a little joke when describing her longstanding relationship with the 45th US president.
“I have the direct number to White House but I don’t really want to call him there because Melania is there, and I don’t really want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I’m basically [the] first Trump wife, ok? I’m First Lady, ok?” she told ABC, with a laugh.
Melania Trump, 47 and normally very reserved, was not amused.
“Mrs Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the president,” said a tersely worded statement from her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, published by CNN. Barron is the Trumps’ young son.
She loves living in Washington, DC, and is honored by her role as First Lady of the United States.
“She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books,” Grisham said.
She added: “There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex. This is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.”
Ivana Trump is the mother of Trump’s three eldest children: Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric.
The former real estate magnate has two other children: Tiffany, with his second wife, Marla Maples, and 11-year-old Barron – who lives with his parents at the White House.
Ivana, a Czech-born former model, skier and businesswoman, married Trump in 1979. The couple were a fixture on the New York celebrity circuit before divorcing in a blaze of scandal in 1992.
Trump went on to marry Maples, with whom he had been having an affair, but they divorced six years later. Melania is Trump’s third wife.
Ivana is credited for coining Trump’s nickname “The Donald”.
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Do you know. The Trump circus will seem normal when Kanye and the Kardashian c.unts get a hold of the Whitehouse
@Charles Murr: I can believe that will happen after this
@Charles Murr: This is the most terrifying thing I’ve read in a while and I’m currently reading a book about a survivor of Auschwitz.
@Rob Cahill: Sorry about that.. didn’t mean to put you on a downer… There’s just something inevitable about it !
@Charles Murr: Although it is funny that either woman would refer to herself as a lady. As awful as Trump is he has never refered to himself as a gentleman. Laughing.
@Charles Murr: why do we continue to make stupid people famous?
@Gillian Weir Scully: what i find interesting is that Melania is the one who appears to carry the dignity of her role or is that too much botox ?
@john g mcgrath: ‘instant’ culture John, we celebrate absurd/extreme at home and abroad, Mainstream media are dis-interested in reasoned thought/ debate, rationality. Much more ‘fun’ to promote vacuousness. Anyway enough of that, back to my podium with my tassles and pasties…
Melania is a big league upgrade from Ivana. Five Stars Mr President, well done.
@Tristan Rowntree: That’s a disgusting way to talk about women.
@Harry Bookless: oh get a grip, it’s a compliment.
@Tristan Rowntree: it was at least equal parts insult
@Tristan Rowntree: Get a grip of yourself……….. https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/melania_-_copie_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&strip=all
@Karen Wellington: do you deny Melania is younger and more attractive than Ivana?
@Tristan Rowntree: I’ll concede that she’s younger, as I understand it; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just out of interest how does congratulating Trump on upgrading (like a phone?) his wife translate as a compliment to either woman?
@neilo: are you a Catholic church pearl clutching prude?
@Karen Wellington: it’s clearly a compliment both are attractive women, Melania is more so now with youth on her side but bring Ivanka or Tiffany into the picture and it all changes.
@Tristan Rowntree: your original comment really isn’t a compliment to either woman, it definitely isn’t a compliment to Ivana. If you have to tear one woman down to build another one up you’re not complimenting either of them.
@Karen Wellington: Have you got nothing better to do? Give the shrill feminist whinging a rest once in a while.
@Martan O Conghaile: Its not feminist at all Martan , its about a a bit of respect ,persoanlly i dont like either woman ,both are clearly goldiggers and generally poor female role models but hey .., and yes I can see clearly see that Melania is younger and more attractive than Ivanka now, but Tristan does denigrate them both to commodity level by referring to upgrade , i know it was incredibly witty and funny that you think that everyone is being snowflake sensitive for not laughing and saying yeah look the fat rich organge p8ssy grabber kicked the old one to the curb , but lets hope your missus or girlfrind dosent see fit to upgrade you or maybe you are so good looking any wealthy that you are not an upgradadable commodity ? not that it would bother an alpha male who chops wood before breakfast and rides a few birds before tea.Now let your partner now that your only a lotto win away from telling her to pack her bags :-)
@Martan O Conghaile: so sorry for not reducing two people to a (subjective) assessment of their personal appearances, and what an idiot I am for not adjusting Ivana’s value to reflect ageing. Of course you’re right; it is the sole prerogative of feminists to evaluate a person based on their words and deeds rather than their genetics.
A cat fight over the Donald and not for the first time!
@Tristan Rowntree: It’s those soft wavy locks that does it
@A H: or his abnormally well endowed hands.
@Tristan Rowntree: only cats would fight over Donald.
Trash without the Trailer
Melania took the bait here and probably helped Ivana sell a few books with her response
’47 and normally very reserved’….. wow, just wow
In her divorce affidavit (the kind of document you go to jail if you lie in) she claimed Trump came home angry one night and raped her.
@Peter King: “The divorce came under scrutiny during the 2016 election, when it was reported that Ivana once signed a sworn deposition alleging Donald had raped her. She sought to clarify that the accusation, which Trump has consistently denied, was not intended in a “literal or criminal sense”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/ivana-trump-donald-relationship-ivanka-president
@Tristan Rowntree: Needed that. Thank you. :-)
@Tristan Rowntree: You do like to keep the juicy bits out of your many ‘stories’…one might say that you even take a ‘scalp’ off them…
Ivana Humpalot….
Ivana needs to create publicity to sell her book but it must seem embarrassing for the kids trying to get on with their lives and keep on the right side of their dads potential inheritance.
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