Ivana Trump says she is 'first lady'

Ivana started her career in front of the camera in home country, the former Czechoslovakia.
After she moved to Canada with her first husband, She first met Donald Trump while working for
the 1976 Olympic Games. In a recently unearthed on-air radio interview with Howard Stern from
2002, Donald Trump said that Ivana's accent had charmed him in the beginning but eventually
began to irritate him. "Yes, it was amazing," Trump says of his ex-wife's accent, "and then one
time I woke up that [sic] it was terrible, I couldn't stand it."
She says Donald Trump offered her the job as ambassador to the Czech Republic."My ex said,
'Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,'" Trump told the New York Post at a fashion show in
September 2017. The Czechoslovakia native turned it down though, explaining, "It’s four years
in Prague,." That didn't sit well with current Czech President Milos Zeman, who "was furious"
when Ivana told him she decided not to accept the diplomatic post, according to the Prague
Daily Monitor. Zeman said he could not imagine a better candidate for the job than Ivana and
called her a "coward" for turning it down.
Previously, Ivana published a semi-autobiographical romance novel, For Love Alone, and the
self-help tome The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping With Divorce and Enjoying Life Again.
She said she still talks to Donald Trump about once a week.
She previously said that Maples had "no class!" for taking part in the show and noted, "I
wouldn’t go on that show, dancing in those tiny dresses with the boobs and butt hanging out."
"He's no politician. He's a businessman," she told the New York Post. "He knows how to talk.
He can give an hour speech without notes... He's blunt," she said, adding that he would have
"fantastic advisers, like Carl Icahn. Really brilliant minds. And he'd make a decision! Obama
cannot make a decision if his life depends on it. It's ridiculous."
Donald Trump's first wife Ivana Trump says she has direct number to White HouseIvana Trump
spoke to ABC News' Amy Robach about her former husband and her new memoir, "Raising
Trump."Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, said she has a “direct number” to the White
House, turned down the U.S. ambassadorship to the Czech Republic and takes “full credit” for
raising the couple’s three children.
Ivana Trump said she speaks to her former husband about once every two weeks, and she has
a "direct number" to the White House.
"I [don't] really want to call him there, because Melania is there," she said, referring to first lady
Melania Trump. "And I don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that, because
I'm basically first Trump wife. OK? I'm first lady."
Ivana Trump said she has no desire to change places with Melania Trump.
"I think for her to be in Washington must be terrible," Ivana Trump said of the first lady. "It's
better her than me. I would hate Washington."
She said that keeping her freedom also meant declining when the president of the Czech
Republic wanted her to be the U.S. ambassador.
When asked by Robach what President Trump said about the offer, Ivana Trump replied, "Well,
Donald called me and he said, 'If you want to take the position, I [will] give it to you.' I said,
'Donald, no. I want my freedom.
Speaking of her advice for his presidency, Ivana Trump said, "Sometimes I tell him to just, not to
speak that much, and tweet are the tweets. I don't disagree with him because he has so much
press against him, so if he says something his words are going to be twisted immediately."
"I would go and call Donald, I said, 'Ivanka is going to Chapin, or she's going to go to the
Georgetown University. Eric is going to go to Hill School,' and he said, 'OK,'" she recalled. "I
was in charge."She continued, "I just told him where they're going to go, and he said, 'OK.' He
trusted my judgment, because I know the personality of my kids."