Trump told me I could be ambassador, says Ivana
Ivana Trump, President Donald Trump’s ex-wife, says she was offered the chance to become US ambassador to the Czech Republic but turned it down to preserve her globetrotting “perfect life”.
Trump’s first wife was raised in communist Czechoslovakia and married the New York property mogul in 1977.
“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,’ ” Ivana, 68, said in an interview with TV network CBS, to be broadcast today.
However, she said she valued her freedom too much to accept.
“OK, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer and bye-bye to spring and fall in New York? I have a perfect life,” she said.
The couple divorced in 1992 but the mother of Donald jnr, Ivanka and Eric said she still spoke regularly to her exhusband and had advised him on his use of Twitter, suggesting it was a perfect way of preventing the mainstream media from twisting his words.
Her memoir, Raising Trump, is to be published this week and details the couple’s divorce, which made front-page news in New York’s febrile tabloid market at the time.
According to the Associated Press, which obtained an advance copy, Ivana knew her marriage was over soon after a day in December 1989.
“This young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said ‘I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?’,” she writes.
“I said ‘Get lost. I love my husband.’ It was unladylike but I was in shock.”
Trump’s public affair with the actress Marla Maples spawned the infamous “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had” headline in the New York Post.
After divorcing Ivana, Trump married Maples in 1993. The couple divorced six years later.