- Opinion
- 11 Oct 17
They've been divorced for donkeys years, but Trump's first wife Ivana is bizarrely claiming that she is entitled to call herself America's First Lady.
"I have the direct number to White House but I don't really want to call him there because Melania is there and I don't really want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife, OK? I'm first lady, OK?" she said.
The former Czech model, who has kept her husband's surname despite getting divorced back in 1992, made the comment on ABC while promoting her new book, a memoir entitled 'Raising Trump'.
But the real US First Lady Melania Trump has now hit back via a Whitehouse spokesperson to say that she would never "use her title to sell books"!
A Whitehouse spokesperson said: "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.
"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, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise."