As the nation continues to watch for news on Donald Trump's health since
his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3rd, so too does the President's ex-wife,
Ivana Trump. According to People magazine, Ivana has been receiving updates on Trump's
condition through the couple's three children, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka.
Ivana admits she is stressed about the situation,
and even called her ex-husband "careless." She told the publication,
"I am afraid. I'm going to be afraid until he gets well and he gets out of it."
Ivana's fear stems in part from all of the unknowns associated
with the coronavirus. She told the magazine,
"Who knows what will happen, because I don't know anything about this virus and
nobody else does and nobody knows how to cure it."
That said, Ivana believes her ex-husband is a healthy man, for the most part, adding,
"Not healthiest with food, but very healthy otherwise—always washes his hands and always
is careful. His only weakness is food. He likes the Big Mac—it's his biggest weakness."
Meanwhile, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
stated on October 4th that he believes, quote,
"there is a very significant level of concern right now" about the president's health.
"Just his age, his pre-existing conditions, now you add in the need for oxygen,
you add in the need for steroids, you add in that he had a high fever."
Trump is 74 years old, and with a body mass index of 30-point-5,
falls into the category of obesity, which, according to the CDC, increases his risk
of complications from COVID-19. Apart from her concerns about her ex-husband's illness,
Ivana also offered her opinion on his attitude towards the virus and his efforts at re-election.
Trump has long been criticized for all the ways in which he has downplayed the
severity of the coronavirus. He has blatantly ignored public health officials' suggestions
to wear a mask and practice social distancing, behavior Ivana referred to as
"careless," telling People, quote, "He didn't think it would happen to him."
Most recently, at the first presidential debate that took place three days before
Trump's positive diagnosis, Trump mocked Joe Biden for his mask habits while Trump himself
and several members of his family refused to wear masks inside the debate hall.
"I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's wearing a mask. He could be speaking
200 feet away from you, he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen."
On the whole, the first presidential debate was unlike any other;
some have even called it an embarrassment. But Ivana,
who was married to Donald from 1977 to 1992, went further. She told People,
"It was catastrophic on both sides. Donald was not well,
and Biden was not well at all, so it was just a horrible, horrible debate.
I don't know what people took out of it, but it left me totally empty."
Anyone who followed Donald and Ivana Trump's messy divorce may be surprised that Ivana chimes in on
her ex-husband's politics at all. However, Ivana told ABC News in 2017 that they have
mended their relationship, they talk often, and she sometimes even gives him political advice.
"Sometime I tell him to, just, not to speak that much."
The businesswoman and former model also revealed she believed decades ago that
Trump could be successful as President, if it wasn't for his affair, referring to Trump's
relationship with Marla Maples in the early 1990s, which ended Ivana and Donald's marriage.
In 2018, halfway through Trump's first term in office, Ivana seemed to feel Trump's presidency
had run its course. She told Page Six she didn't feel Donald should run for a second term.
"I'll tell you something, I don't think it's necessary. He has a good
life and he has everything. Donald is going to be 74 for the next [election]
and maybe he should just go and play golf and enjoy his fortune."
Ivana went on to describe the pressures of the presidency,
implying Trump got more than he bargained for in his role as leader of the free world. She said,
"I think he probably [misses] a little bit of freedom, I don't think he probably knew how much
is involved of being the president. It's so [much] information — you have to know the whole world."
But now, less than a month away from Election Day and despite a controversial showing at the first
presidential debate, Ivana has changed her tune about Trump. She told People,
"He will win. There's no question about it."
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