Donald Trump: 'Putting a Wife to Work Is a Very Dangerous Thing' [FULL 1994 INTERVIEW]

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waking moment. I like the reputation of a solid married man. That's what I'd like for myself. So I feel like I know him from a million murders, whether painful or pleasurable. It's like we're united." They're really close, that's all, they're the Trumps of New York and Palm Beach, living a glamorous life as if the '80s never ended at Mar-a-lago, their historic seaside villa. Marla and Donald finally got married, but not without some drama. I think it was a little surprising, we really anticipated getting married and having a baby, not having a baby and getting there, so why didn't you marry her right away when you found out she was pregnant?

Why did you make the decision and was it really indecision? that you are destroying my reputation again here you know it already happened once and just loving you look what happened just because I loved you and now you know we shouldn't get married before we have the baby oh my god but in terms of personal life for me it is a more difficult decision you know that in many ways it is a much more important decision your revocable agreement well, it really is in theory it is an irrevocable agreement and that is why Tiffany Ariana became a triumph two months before her mother signed in the dotted line, not on the marriage license the prenuptial agreement e

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one around Donald said you have to open up to a now dear you, what I felt was please don't talk bad to me, I have supported you through every

thing

, don't do it .

You even offend me, but you know, you know, you know, I love you. I hate the concept of a prenup because it basically says if you get divorced this is what you get and there's some

thing

very wrong with that but I think it's a modern necessity I didn't like the way this system

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s I mean really I felt like it was very offensive to both of us and he was like, you know you're right, but what am I supposed to do? Amala hates him. She doesn't want to sign it, ultimately she has decided, from my point of view, that she has to sign it, so I said whatever they need for their bankers and her associates.

I will sign so that this does not get caught on the coast, let's not put a dollar. amount about what happens once we get divorced what are we divorced? I mean, that's how you start to think in the end they made a deal, reports had her asking for 25 million, but he negotiated her down to a mere million dollars, it seems a little cheap, yeah, it seems cheap, yeah, you mean the amount of money they took out of mine so bad someone gets married and it doesn't

work

out you get a million dollars I mean you know you shouldn't be able to pay a price and be able to walk away they make a commitment between you and God and you shouldn't be able to writing a little check see you later is a lousy thing to do.

I hate the concept but it's totally necessary and I think a million dollars is a lot of money no you don't know, I don't really know but the fact is a million dollars for someone who gets married if something doesn't and I'm not talking about anyone specifically, but it's a lot of money for someone. the woman has been with you six years she has been, as she said, incredibly loyal she will eventually get married you have a child give her the 25 million well, I guess I see it all as a deal, I mean, you know, it's just one of those things that Donald he told me and maybe I believed this somewhere, it's all a deal, well it's all good, we have to work on separating his business from his personal.

Sometimes we both have to stop and say that this business elevates us because there is a difference that I built. Empire and I did it alone, no one did it for me, not Ivana, not Marla, no one, and I think just because someone marries someone who built something huge doesn't necessarily mean that just because they get divorced it should end, you know. , like the Queen of Sheba or perhaps as Ivana's number one

wife

, when Trump left their 13-year marriage, it cost him a total of fourteen million dollars. The bill came due shortly after his

wife

Ivana confronted her lover Marla after skiing in Aspen that day at the restaurant. when you saw those two women coming face to face, how did you know we were standing near the restaurant getting ready to put on our skis and I was standing there like an idiot and Marla and Ivana were here and they weren't screaming? but you could obviously see that there was some friction and a man that was standing next to me, who weighed about 350 pounds and was not a very attractive guy, he told me that he could be worse, Donald.

I've been in Aspen for 20 years and I've never been on a date and I'll never forget the statement and it kind of lightened things up for me a little bit. What I'm saying is, you know, I guess it could be worse, do you think, unless the two of them had actually faced each other? face to face you would have faced that situation well it's interesting because you might know, maybe it would still be happening. I'm not sure, truth be told. Donald Trump had lived a charming life, the model mogul of the 1980s, I mean my life.

It was great in many ways, the business was great and even the concept, I mean a beautiful girlfriend, a beautiful wife, everything beautiful, I mean, life was just a bowl of cherries, there was a Trump shuttle, the Trump princess, Trump Tower in 1989, he says, his empire. He was worth five billion dollars and he was well, let me tell you that he was on the highest of all pedestals, the hottest in the country, the highest point, everything he touched turned to gold immediately, everything he did became little, I started to get bored and then one. The day my pedestal was taken from me and it was an unfair marriage, at the same time the Trump Empire began to collapse under the weight of the recession, the bleeding Atlantic City dress Trump was wearing had no money to spend on the new casino in Trump's billion dollars and his heavily mortgaged real estate holdings plummeted in value Midas had lost his touch it was an incredible period III in many ways I used to tell people one day I'd like to be poor just for a while just to see who will remain loyal to For me, there were specifically 24 or 25 people that I have pointed out that were very disloyal and that shouldn't have been disloyal and I think that's what I learned more than anything else.

Nancy was loyalty because I'm like a big fan of loyalty. I am loyal to the point of absurdity. I stay with the people and it seems that the man who could have been a contender perhaps won once again after four years of avoiding the bankers. Donald Trump's casino business is back and in a few months he will sell shares. give the public the opportunity to buy a piece of

donald

why should the public pay to bail out

donald

trump

if you actually make him public? Well, no one is going to rescue me. I build myself. I think I've done a great job to achieve it. out of trouble, how much personal debt do you have now?

Well, it had billions of dollars of debt five more than five billion. I had nine hundred and seventy-five million dollars of personal debt and that has now been reduced to approximately one hundred and fifteen million and I am going to pay that off very quickly, in fact, over the next very short period of time. Do you think Wall Street respects you? Yes, I think Wall Street has a lot of respect. Call it what you want, they certainly are. courting him Hey guys, these two guys head Merrill Lynch and by the way, speaking of your last question, they came to Florida to kiss my ass to get their lunch job.

You have no idea how much pressure everyone in the country is

putting

on me. I'm literally getting calls from everyone. Would I use this company? Would I use that? For him, everyone on Wall Street respects Trump a lot. I call many analysts. They said we're receptive to Donald Trump because he usually ends up producing. Respect is another matter, maybe he doesn't like the way I dress or something else, but he likes the way I make money and you know, all the analysts like the way I make money. Trump says he has learned from his mistakes in business and in love.

I think

putting

a wife to work is a very

dangerous

thing. I mean, we'll do an educational program here. It's okay, if you have a business of your own. I really think it's a bad idea to put your wife to work for you. I think it's a very bad idea. I think that was the main cause of what happened to my marriage with Ivana. The problems started, he claims, after he suggested there was something going on at the Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City and you never thought to ask him to do it. come out, you saw that it wasn't working well.

I will give you an example. I didn't think about it that way, so you tend not to think about it that way. Ivana suddenly got angry with someone on the phone, who was in the casino and she started yelling and I said: I don't want my wife to yell at someone like that. I really don't want that and the softness is gone. Ivana had a great softness and she still has that softness. but during this period of time she became an executive, not a wife. Well, now you are married to a woman and you would like to continue her career.

Marla says that she does want to have a career. There is a difference between having a career and working for myself. You've said you don't want Marla to work, you actually said oh yeah, on the wedding day and I think I'm probably mixed. I have days where I think she's great, yeah, and then I have days where I come home and you know. I don't want to sound too chauvinistic, but when I get home and dinner isn't ready, I go through the roof, okay, no, those are interesting dollars. You take these women, yes, these two particular women in your life and you help them get better. known and then when they want to act on that attractiveness, you seem to get angry about it.

I create stores. I love creating stores and to some extent I have done so with Ivana. To some extent I have done it with Marla and I. so let me guide you from your loneliness I mean I have really given many women a great opportunity unfortunately after her store the fun was over it's like a creation process it's almost like creating a building it's pretty sad nothing that's all