Donald J. Trump Archived 1980 & 1994 Interviews | Trump At Age of 34 & 48 On Work Ethic, Friendships, Marriage, Raising Kids, God, Becoming President, "Putting Your Wife to Work Is a Really Bad Idea" + Jim Stovall Interview
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Clay Clark
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. |
| 0:04.0 | I mean, we'll make, we'll do an educational program here, okay. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're in business for yourself, I really think it's a bad idea to put your wife working for you. |
| 0:11.0 | I think it's a really bad idea. |
| 0:13.0 | I think that was the single greatest cause of what happened to my marriage with Ivana. |
| 0:23.6 | The trouble started, he claims, after he suggested that Ivana run the Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City. |
| 0:28.6 | And you never thought of asking her to quit when you saw it wasn't working? |
| 0:31.6 | Well, I'll give you an example. I didn't think of it that way. |
| 0:34.6 | See, you tend not to think of it that way. |
| 0:44.7 | Ivana would get angry at somebody over the telephone all of a sudden who was at the casino and she'd start shouting. And I'd say, I don't want my wife shouting at somebody like that. |
| 0:52.1 | I really don't want that. And a softness disappeared. |
| 0:57.3 | There was a great softness to Ivana. And she still has that softness. But during this period of time, |
| 1:03.2 | she became an executive, not a wife. And I've often said the happiest people and the most |
| 1:09.3 | contented people that I've seen, and I know the very wealthy, I know the moderately wealthy, |
| 1:14.6 | and I guess I know people a lot less than that, |
| 1:16.6 | but the happiest people tend to be the people that are making a nice income |
| 1:20.6 | that really enjoy their life and their family life |
| 1:24.6 | and not the people of tremendous wealth that are constantly |
| 1:28.5 | driven to achieve more and more success. |
| 1:31.7 | I like the reputation of a solid, married man. |
| 1:36.7 | That's what I'd like for me. |
| 1:38.6 | Well, I go on really because I enjoy it. |
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