Will the real first lady please stand up?
First Lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman assailed Ivana Trump, the president’s first wife, Monday as a bitter ex following a television interview in which the first Mrs. Trump quipped she was the real First Lady since she was the president’s first wife.
“I have the direct number to White House,” Ivana boasted in a Monday interview on “Good Morning America” about her relationship with the president. “But I’m not really going to call him there because Melania is there, 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, OK?”
Melania Trump’s aide took Ivana to task for the quip, calling her an attention-seeking “ex” trying to sell books.
“Mrs. Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the president. She loves living in Washington, DC, and is honored by her role as First Lady of the United States,” said Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for Melania Trump.
“She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books. There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex. Unfortunately only attention seeking and self-serving noise.”
Ivana was promoting her tell-all memoir “Raising Trump” in the interview, which delves into her tumultuous marriage to the president from 1977 to 1992 and their messy divorce, which became front-page fodder for the tabloids. The president married Melania in 2005.