{"id":122032,"date":"2017-10-07T04:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122032"},"modified":"2017-10-07T04:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:25:50","slug":"ivana-trump-explores-marriage-to-the-donald-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/07\/ivana-trump-explores-marriage-to-the-donald-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivana Trump explores marriage to ‘the Donald’ in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cRaising Trump\u201d is set to be released next week. The Associated Press purchased an early copy. (Photo by Christopherpeterson at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK\u2014 A new book from Donald Trump’s first wife pulls back the curtain on a tumultuous period of the president’s life, including the messy divorce that was splashed across New York’s tabloids for weeks.<\/p>\n

Ivana Trump, who was married to the real estate magnate from 1977 to 1992, writes in \u201cRaising Trump\u201d that she knew her marriage was over soon after a day in December 1989.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said ‘I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?\u201d’ writes Ivana Trump. \u201cI said ‘Get lost. I love my husband.’ It was unladylike but I was in shock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump’s public affair with Marla Maples spawned the infamous \u201cBest Sex I’ve Ever Had\u201d headline in the New York Post in 1990. After divorcing his first wife, Trump married Maples in 1993.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaising Trump\u201d is set to be released next week. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.<\/p>\n

In the book, Ivana writes glowingly about her marriage to Trump and her prominent role at the Trump Organization. But then she unburdens herself about the heartache that Trump’s affair with Maples caused her and the couple’s three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. Donald Jr. didn’t speak to his father for a year after the split.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only shake my head at how it insane it was,\u201d Ivana Trump writes. \u201cI couldn’t turn on the television without hearing my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she and the president have returned to far warmer terms. She writes that they speak about once a week and that she encourages him to keep using Twitter.<\/p>\n

She said in a CBS News interview this week that she was offered the post of ambassador to the Czech Republic, her native country, but turned it down because she already has \u201ca perfect life.\u201d The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the ambassadorship post.<\/p>\n

Much of the book is spent recounting Ivana Trump’s childhood in Europe, her burgeoning modeling career in New York and Trump’s courtship. She writes that, at their first meeting, Trump secured her and friends a table at a hot Manhattan restaurant, paid the check and chauffeured her back to her hotel in a giant Cadillac.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy instincts told me that Donald was smart and funny an all-America good guy,\u201d Ivana Trump writes.<\/p>\n

Her children also contribute passages to the book, and Ivana Trump muses that her former husband may not be the only Trump to call the White House home.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe in fifteen years, she could run for president?\u201d she writes about her daughter, Ivanka, before musing about her own possible title. \u201cFirst Lady? Holds no appeal for me personally. First Mother? That could work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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