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Donald Trump was in the midst of a very public divorce fromIvana Trumpand a steamy affair with a muchyounger Marla Maples— and decades away from even running for the presidency — when heappeared onThe Joan Rivers Showin September 1990.
“I don’t know. It really depends on what happens with life,” Trump tells Rivers. “I really don’t know. It’s sort of a difficult right now in terms of that.”
As with so much else in Trump’s life, however, the truth was stretchier than he made it sound: Three years after airing his ambivalence about another union, he and Maples had a daughter, Tiffany — and got married.
By 1997 they separated, and the next year Trump met Melania Knauss, the model who would become his third wife.
In his 1990 sit-down, Rivers says to Trump, joking: “If you had slept with every woman they [the media] claimed you slept with…”
He deadpans in reply: “I’d be dead. One way of the other, from whatever or from whatever.”
Donald Trump onThe Joan Rivers Show.DECADES
“You have a big smile on your face,” says Rivers.
“Happy but dead,” he replies.
Adds Rivers: “But youdidfool around, seriously.”
Other topics they dish about include the effects of the divorce on Trump’s three children — the oldest, Donald Trump Jr., was then 12 and struggling with the split — and his political aspirations.
Says Trump at the time: “I don’t think I’ll be running for public office.”
During the show, Trump’s mother, Mary, calls in. Rivers asks her what kind of child Donald was.
“Well, he was a good boy,” his mom says. “Always very aggressive. Always.”
From left: Ivana and Donald Trump in 1990.Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images
When an audience member asks Trump if he thinks he is an easy man to have for the next woman who comes along, he says:
“I think I am much easier than people think I am. I believe people think I would be impossible and I really think I’d be a lot easier than impossible, and in many respects very easy. ”
Decades will airThe Joan Rivers Showon Mondays through Fridays (6 pm ET).
This week the network will also air Rivers’ interviews with Ivana Trump on Tuesday and Thursday and with Marla Maples on Wednesday.
source: people.com
