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President Donald Trump’s aboriginal wife, Ivana Trump, said she has a “direct number” to the White House, angry bottomward the U.S. ambassadorship to the Czech Republic and takes “full credit” for adopting the couple’s three children.
["1154.3"]Those are aloof a few of the revelations Ivana Trump, 68, fabricated in a sit-down account with ABC News’ Amy Robach to advance her new memoir, “Raising Trump.”
Ivana Trump said she speaks to her above bedmate about already every two weeks, and she has a "direct number" to the White House.
"I [don't] actually appetite to alarm him there, because Melania is there," she said, apropos to aboriginal adult Melania Trump. "And I don't appetite to account any affectionate of annoyance or article like that, because I'm basically aboriginal Trump wife. OK? I'm aboriginal lady."
In acknowledgment to the interview, a agent for Melania Trump told ABC News the aboriginal adult is "honored by her role."
"Mrs. Trump has fabricated the White House a home for Barron and the President," the agent said, apropos to the couple's son. "She loves active in Washington, D.C., and is accustomed by her role as Aboriginal Adult of the United States. She affairs to use her appellation and role to admonition children, not advertise books. There is acutely no actuality to this account from an ex. Unfortunately alone attention-seeking and egoistic noise. "
Ivana Trump's book, set to be appear Tuesday, abstracts Trump’s adventure from growing up beneath Communist aphorism in the above Czechoslovakia to marrying a approaching U.S. admiral and adopting their three accouchement calm -- Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump.
Below are seven key revelations about Trump’s activity as a mother and the aboriginal of Admiral Trump’s three wives.
Ivana Trump said she has no admiration to change places with Melania Trump.
"I anticipate for her to be in Washington allegation be terrible," Ivana Trump said of the aboriginal lady. "It's bigger her than me. I would abhorrence Washington."
She continued, "Would I align up the White House in 14 days? Absolutely. Can I accord the accent for 45 account afterwards [a] teleprompter? Absolutely. Can I apprehend a contract? Can I negotiate? Can I entertain? Absolutely. But I would not actually like to be there. I like my freedom."
She said that befitting her abandon additionally meant crumbling back the admiral of the Czech Republic capital her to be the U.S. ambassador.
When asked by Robach what Admiral Trump said about the offer, Ivana Trump replied, "Well, Donald alleged me and he said, 'If you appetite to booty the position, I [will] accord it to you.' I said, 'Donald, no. I appetite my freedom.'"
Speaking of her admonition for his presidency, Ivana Trump said, "Sometimes I acquaint him to just, not to allege that much, and cheep are the tweets. I don't disagree with him because he has so abundant columnist adjoin him, so if he says article his words are activity to be askance immediately."
["1552"]"If he tweets, the able apple can actually get his apperception and what is his in mind, and he can acquaint it in his own words."
When Donald and Ivana Trump afar in 1992, she told him that back it came to adopting their three accouchement together, "There can be alone one chef in the kitchen."
"I would go and alarm Donald, I said, 'Ivanka is activity to Chapin, or she's activity to go to the Georgetown University. Eric is activity to go to Hill School,' and he said, 'OK,'" she recalled. "I was in charge."
She continued, "I aloof told him area they're activity to go, and he said, 'OK.' He trusted my judgment, because I apperceive the personality of my kids."
During the determinative years of their children's childhoods, Donald Trump was "on the blast authoritative the deals," she said. She takes "full credit" for adopting Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, she added.
"He was a admiring father, don't get me wrong, and he was a acceptable provider, but he was not the ancestor which would booty a airing and go to the Central Park or go comedy to baseball with them or something," she said, adding, "It was alone until they were about 18-years-old [that] he could acquaint with them, because he could alpha to allocution business with them.
"Before, he actually didn't apperceive what chat to bang with the little kids."
President Trump could accept able his political ambitions abundant advanced had it not been for the aspersion that engulfed his alliance to Ivana Trump, she said.
"Donald got [a] letter from Admiral Reagan, and he said, 'You should run for president,' and that was 20 years ago," she said. "And I anticipate he could do it if there would not be a scandal."
She added, "You know, because every American woman hated him, and every American hated him. There was no way he could run during the aspersion time."
Ivana Trump was affiliated to Trump from 1977 to 1992, back their alliance attenuated amidst revelations that he was accepting an activity with Marla Maples, who afterwards became his additional wife.
Ivana Trump has forgiven her above husband, but said she will never absolve Maples, whose activity with her bedmate was splashed on the New York tabloids.
"I never accustomed her apology," Ivana Trump said. "She broke my ancestors and my marriage."
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Donald Trump's Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | donald trump wife and kidsWhen asked whether she believes Donald Trump is sexist, she batten about her own acquaintance while affiliated to the absolute acreage mogul.
"Donald gave me all the befalling to go and prove myself," she said. "I congenital the Commander Hotel. I congenital the Trump Tower. Again Donald [sent] me to Atlantic City, and I was aerial at 8 in the morning afterwards breakfast with the kids to Atlantic City on the helicopter."
She continued, "I anticipate that Donald supports the woman. He loves the woman. Always did. He actually admired women."
Ivana Trump said she has "not really" announced to the admiral about the "Access Hollywood" band that was appear during the presidential campaign. In the 2005 video, Trump, again the brilliant of NBC's "The Apprentice," brags about his adeptness to grope women because he's "a star."
"He was not actually disrespectful. He aloof jokes. Sometime he said things which are silly," she said.
When asked by Robach whether she anticipation he was badinage about avaricious women, Ivana Trump added, "OK, well, that was one instance, and I aloof wouldn't, I don't appetite to go into it."
Ivana said she could see both her daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her son-in-law, Jared Kushner, acceptable approaching presidents. They serve as chief admiral in the Trump White House.
"I anticipate they both could do it," she said of her babe and Kushner, who confused their three accouchement to Washington, D.C., from New York.
"[The] alone affair which I affliction [is] that Ivanka confused to Washington, so I don't see the grandkids that often, I don't see her that often," she said. "But aggregate abroad they do, it's their destination, you know. They do what they appetite to do and, like I said, they don't cheat, abduct and lie and as connected as they do that, it's OK with me."
Ivana Trump appear it is her 35-year-old babe who can best articulation a aberration of assessment to the president.
"Oh, absolutely. Ivanka is cardinal one," she said. "All my kids are, you know, they're not abashed of him. A lot of people, they're abashed to criticize him and they array of break behind. But my kids acquaint him exactly, you know, how they feel, and you booty it or leave it."
Ivana Trump said she was taken by Donald Trump's looks and his apperception back they met in the 1970s.
When it came time to propose, Trump approved to woo her advanced by admonishing her of what her activity would be afterwards him.
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Donald Trump's family tree: Melania, Ivanka, Tiffany, Eric and ... | donald trump wife and kids"For months before, you know, he said, 'If you're not activity to go ally me, you're activity to ruin your life,'" she recalled.
The brace wed in what Ivana Trump declared as a bells with six of her accompany from Montreal, area she lived afore the nuptials, and 600 bodies from New York.
"I did not apperceive anybody," she said.
Once she was a Trump, Ivana encountered the ancestor of the family, her husband’s father, absolute acreage developer Fred Trump.
"Fred Trump was [a] actually barbarous father," she said. "We went to Tavern on the Green for the brunch one Sunday and [Trump’s] ancestor ordered a steak. So all the, you know, the sisters and brothers, they ordered a steak."
"And I said, 'Waiter, can I accept a filet of sole? And Fred looked up at the waitress and, 'No, she's activity to accept a steak.' I attending up at the waiter, I said, 'No, Ivana is activity to accept a filet of sole,' -- because if I would let him aloof [roll] appropriate over me, it would be all my activity and I would not accustomed it."
When Ivana Trump was abundant with the couple's aboriginal child, she said her bedmate told her they could not name their son Donald Trump Jr. because of a specific concern.
"I said, 'Why not?'" she recalled. "He said, 'How about if he's a loser?'"
She continued, "So I said, 'This is activity to be what it is. I backpack my kid for nine months, and this is what's activity to be. And the aforementioned was with Ivanka. He capital to alarm Ivanka Tiffany, because we got the beneficiary rights for the Trump Tower from [luxury retailer] Tiffany."
Donald and Ivana Trump called their alone babe Ivanka. Donald Trump would go assimilate accept addition daughter, called Tiffany, with Maples.
Donald Trump, Jr., now 39, begin himself at the centermost of a political firestorm involving his father's admiral advanced this year back it was appear that he met with a Russian advocate during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Ivana Trump said her three accouchement accept not yet apprehend "Raising Trump," admitting they anniversary contributed writings.The admiral has additionally not apprehend the book, she said.
"It's about my activity and adopting my kids," she explained. "And he's in the book because he was ancestor of the kids, but I did not ask him for permission."
["291"]ABC News' John Santucci and Jennifer Pereira contributed to this report.
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