Ivana Trump still won’t call Marla Maples by name decades after her affair with the Donald Trump ended his first marriage to the mother of his three oldest children.
The 68-year-old Czech Republic native made the revelation about Maples during an interview with CBS about her new book, ‘Raising Trump’.
‘I don’t talk about her. She’s a showgirl. Never achieve anything in her life,’ Trump said of Maples, who stared in The Will Rogers Follies on Broadway in 1991.
She then implied that Maples gets the blame for her marriage ending.
‘Well, she was flirting… and I think she was flirting and and she got away with it,’ Trump said.
When asked if she blames Donald now for their marriage ending, Trump replied: ‘I’m not sure, because Donald would get 1,000 business cards in the pocket every night. He could choose any girl he wanted to have.
‘So I’m not sure if she was. There could be another one, could be another one. I really don’t know.’
Ivana Trump still won’t call Marla Maples by name decades after her affair with the Donald Trump ended his first marriage to the mother of his three oldest children
The 68-year-old Czech Republic native (left) made the revelation about Maples (right) with Donald in 1993) during an interview with CBS about her new book, ‘Raising Trump’
‘I don’t talk about her. She’s a showgirl. Never achieve anything in her life,’ Trump said of Maples, who stared in The Will Rogers Follies on Broadway in 1991. Maples is pictured above with her cast members from the show
Though it does not seem like she will forgive the president’s second wife anytime soon, she does get along with his third, Melania Trump.
In explaining the difference between Maples and Melania Trump, Ivana said: ‘One is nobody. And the other one is First Lady.’
Also during her wide-ranging interview with CBS, she revealed that her ex-husband offered her the ambassadorship to the Czech Republic but she turned it down so she could keep up her jet-set lifestyle and summers in Saint-Tropez.
The Czech native had long been rumored for the post – and floated the idea herself in a 2016 interview with the New York Post.
‘I was just offered to be the American ambassador to Czech Republic – and Donald told me. He said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,’ she told the network.
‘But I like my freedom. I like to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go with whomever I want to go. And I can afford my lifestyle,’ she explained.
She then implied that Maples gets the blame for her marriage ending. ‘Well, she was flirting… and I think she was flirting and and she got away with it,’ Trump said. Above Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana smile as they attend a formal party, early 1980s
Though it does not seem like she will forgive the president’s second wife anytime soon, she does get along with his third, Melania Trump. In explaining the difference between Maples and Melania Trump, Ivana (above) said: ‘One is nobody. And the other one is First Lady.’
‘Okay, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer, and bye-by to spring and fall in New York? I have a perfect life,’ she said.
Trump had put out the idea herself during the campaign – when she notably backed her ex and said nice things about him during his run.
The Czech native and former model told the Post:’I will suggest that I be ambassador for the Czech Republic,’ she told the paper.
‘[That] is where I’m from and my language and everybody knows me. I’m quite known all around the world. Not only in America. I have written three books, and they were translated in 40 countries in 25 languages. I’m known by the name Ivana. I really did not need the name Trump,’ she said.
Trump nominated Stephen B. King, a Wisconsin political operative, to the post in July.
Trump said the president is still a big part of her life and that they speak ‘maybe once a week,’ and that he is ‘still asking me for advice.’
She said he asked her: ‘Should I tweet, should I not tweet.’
But she gave a simple reply: ‘I said, I think you should tweet.’
‘It’s a new way, a new technology. And if you want to get your words across rightly, without telling the New York Times, which is going to twist every single word of yours, this is how you get your message out,’ she said.
Defending the practice, which has gotten the president in hot water when he lashed out at members of his own administration or ‘Rocket Man’ King Jong-un of North Korea, she said: ‘Well, it’s a tweeting president. This is his new way, how to put the message across. And he’s right.’
Trump, 68, has previously said she raised the three children she shares with the president, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka virtually alone.