Ivana vs Melania: First wife is 'self-serving', says US First Lady in White House statement

Statement followed 68-year-old Ivana Trump's TV interview when she joked about being "first Trump wife" and "first lady"

AFP

10 Oct, 2017

US First Lady Melania Trump accused her husband's first wife Ivana of making "attention-seeking and self-serving noise" Monday, 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 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 perhaps best known for coining Trump's nickname "The Donald."

Comments

Ashraf A. Jamal Oct 10, 2017 06:48pm

I agree Melania is first lady. Ivanca is out of place, plus a looser.

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Thoroughthinker Oct 10, 2017 07:15pm

The spent slug once said: "Gorgeous hair is the best revenge".

AW Oct 10, 2017 10:26pm

1st wife remains the most important person in ones life. Melania should get used to her third class status or quit

randomberry Oct 10, 2017 11:43pm

But Melania would always be #3, nothing can dispute that fact. The first wife remains the first.

M. Emad Oct 11, 2017 12:19am

Donald Trump seems like East-European women.

Khaleesi Oct 11, 2017 02:38am

@AW Cheap

what it means Oct 11, 2017 10:51am

This is about gender discrimination, society and what it means to be a woman. If you're not a woman, not a divorcee , you will never understand what it feels, and no words can explain either what this means, this has been going on for centuries and perhaps will keep continuing, we as humans as male's simply do not treat the female gender with respect. The only real difference is perhaps that some societies treat the female gender with greater respect than others. Pakistan unfortunately belongs to the latter category to a large extent, especially in the rural areas.