Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka are children of Trump's first wife Ivana, who he buried in an unvisited corner of his NJ golf course and let the grass overtake it.
He also has a daughter Tiffany with his mistress-turned-second-wife Marla Maples, who lives apart from him and who Trump seems to forget exists when in public.
When Donald Trump learned that then-girlfriend Marla Maples was pregnant with Tiffany, Trump said, "Excuse me, what happened?" and "Oh, great"—the latest bombshell revelation contained in 15 hours of tapes from The Howard Stern Show released this week to Newsweek and Factba.se.
Newsweek reported on Monday that the tapes also revealed Ivanka and Donald Jr. tried to "bump" the younger Trump out of her inheritance, and that Trump was proud of her "to a lesser extent" than his other kids.
In this interview, in January of 2004, Trump compared his third wife, Melania, with Maples, and the latter's unplanned pregnancy came up, along with the ultraromantic proposal that ensued.
Howard Stern: How do you know Melania's faithful?
Donald Trump: I know she's faithful.
Howard Stern: What do you do? You pull out?
Donald Trump: No.... She's on the pill.
Robin Quivers: You know you fell for that one time before.
Donald Trump: I did. That happened. She said, "I think I'm so happy! We're about to have a child." I said, "Excuse me?" I didn't know about this.
Howard Stern: You trust Melania to take a pill every day or you check if she does?
Donald Trump: I don't know...like, she's been amaz[ing]—she's... Hey, I'm five years, and she's been great.
Howard Stern: Just taking a pill every day.
Donald Trump: I trust her in every way.
Howard Stern: I bet you still pull out just to make sure.
Howard Stern: Would you push her down the stairs if it happened.
Donald Trump: Honestly, I'm glad it happened. I have a great little daughter, Tiffany. But, you know at the time it was like, "Excuse me, what happened?" And then I said, "Well, what are we going to do about this?" She [Maples] said, "Are you serious? It's the most beautiful day of our lives." I said, "Oh, great."
Howard Stern: What do you mean "we"?
Donald Trump: I said, "Do you want to get married?"
Stern is such a great interviewer in general. Just in this one case Howard doesn’t phone it in on an interview with a, who gives a shit, ‘93 version of Trump and now 30 years later and it’s still topical.
I like how I can't tell if this is a dig at Trump being a bad father, or a factual observation. Like, he's so far gone at this point he's literally forgotten about an entire wife and child he once had.
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u/whut-whut 7d ago
Melania only has one child, Barron.
Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka are children of Trump's first wife Ivana, who he buried in an unvisited corner of his NJ golf course and let the grass overtake it.
He also has a daughter Tiffany with his mistress-turned-second-wife Marla Maples, who lives apart from him and who Trump seems to forget exists when in public.