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IVANA TRUMP HAS HER SAY

THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST WIFE WOULD LIKE SOME CREDIT
Trump, with her dog Tiger in her New York City townhouse, says she lives “how Louis XVI would have lived if he had had money”

EVERY FAMILY IS A TINY NATION UNTO itself, with its leaders, its laws and its geopolitics. Each has its natural resources and its internal challenges. The family of President Donald Trump seems to have been a place where its citizens Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric could flourish: for rich kids, they’re remarkably industrious and polite. A new book says that is due not to their founding father but to their mother.

“Some people—including Hillary Clinton—consider [the kids] to be Donald Trump’s finest accomplishments,” writes Ivana Trump, the President’s first and so far longest-serving wife, in her new book, Raising Trump (Gallery Books), which came out on Oct. 10. “I believe the credit for raising such great kids belongs to me.”

No other sitting U.S. President has ever had an ex-wife write a book about their erstwhile home life, the kind of father and husband he was and the kind of fun the ex-wife went on to have after he cheated and left.

Actually, no other U.S. President has had an ex-wife who escaped the communist bloc by means of a fake marriage; or sold her name-brand products on TV in three countries; or still openly feuds with the President’s second wife; or fed his children sea urchins

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