Most of the world had no idea President Donald Trump had a daughter other than Ivanka until
he became a presidential candidate in 2016.
Tiffany, his daughter with ex-wife Marla Maples, flew under the radar for most of her life,
let's take a look inside Donald Trump's relationship with Tiffany Trump.
President Donald Trump's personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, was fired in late August
2019 after she revealed details about his family to the press, according to CNN, and
one of those details was about POTUS allegedly body-shaming his daughter Tiffany over her
weight.
According to Politico, Westerhout claimed that Donald alleged that Tiffany should lose
weight before she's photographed with him.
Westerhout was also accused of saying the president wouldn't be able to pick Tiffany
out of a lineup.
While most parents would be furious with an employee who insulted their children, the
president didn't sound too angry with Westerhout, despite her subsequent dismissal.
He tweeted,
"[Madeleine] is a very good person and I don't think there would ever be reason to use [her
confidentiality agreement].
She called me yesterday to apologize, had a bad night.
I fully understand and forgave her!
I love Tiffany, doing great!"
"Tiffany is great, I love Tiffany."
According to a source cited by People in April 2018, becoming President of the United States
has reportedly brought even more distance between Donald and Tiffany.
The insider claimed,
"Since the inauguration, Tiffany and her father have sometimes gone for months without speaking
and she went a very long time without seeing him.
The last time she was at a family function with him, it was awkward for her and she didn't
feel totally welcome."
The source said that they had a few moments in which they bonded during The Donald's presidential
campaign, but noted that once he took office, things supposedly went by the wayside.
The insider added,
"They always had a strained relationship her whole life, and it got exacerbated by the
presidency.
It's gotten much worse now."
Still, a separate insider claimed that while Tiffany and Donald don't have an "easy" relationship,
they don't necessarily have a bad one.
If you ask Marla Maples, the term "dad" may as well be an honorary title for Donald Trump
in regards to his relationship with daughter Tiffany, though Maples acknowledged that The
Donald funded their lifestyle well.
Maples and Tiffany lived in California following Maples' 1999 divorce from the future president,
far from his Big Apple headquarters.
Maples told People in 2016,
"Her daddy is a good provider with education and such, but as far as time, it was just
me.
Her father wasn't able to be there with day-to-day skills as a parent...Everything was a bit
of a negotiation.
I would bring her into New York a couple times a year and let her go see her dad in the office
and let her go have dinner with him and Melania."
Whoops!
Donald may have accidentally revealed that his daughter Tiffany was an "oops baby."
In 15 hours' worth of audio from The Howard Stern Show released to Newsweek, The Apprentice
alum reportedly recalled getting the news of Marla Maples' pregnancy with little enthusiasm.
Donald said during an interview with the shock jock in 2004,
"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?'
[Marla] said, 'Are you serious?
It's the most beautiful day of our lives.'
I said, 'Oh, great.'"
Donald reportedly also revealed that he thought Maples was on birth control when they conceived
Tiffany.
In another Stern segment, he discussed how each time he had another kid, the inheritance
for each one shrunk proportionally, quipping,
"Well, you know, it does cut up the pie as you keep producing."
When a then-15-year-old Tiffany Trump wanted an increase in her funding from her wealthy
father, her beloved big sister helped out.
Ivanka claimed in her book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, that she
convinced Donald to give Tiffany her first credit card for Christmas "with a small monthly
allowance on it."
Ivanka wrote,
"If she'd been living in the same house with our father, she'd have been able to go up
to him from time to time and ask for a little something extra...There were even times when
he would just surprise [me and my brothers] with a nice gift for no reason at all, on
no special occasion, and I imagine Tiffany didn't get to enjoy the same surprises, just
by virtue of lack of proximity."
The New York Post reported that Tiffany couldn't get a designer dress for the 2016 Republican
National Convention, but was allegedly too embarrassed to borrow one from Ivanka, telling
photographer Scott Nathan,
"I don't want her to know I don't have any money."
Tiffany and Donald might not be very close in part because they didn't actually live
physically close to one another for a long time.
A source told People in 2018,
"Tiffany didn't get to be as intimately involved with the family dynamic as Ivanka, Eric and
Donnie Jr.
She doesn't really talk about her dad a lot.
She's always been somewhat independent of the whole family."
The president himself may have inadvertently dissed Tiffany during a 2016 call to Fox News,
in which he boasted about his offspring, saying,
"I'm very proud 'cause Don and Eric and Ivanka and, you know, to a lesser extent 'cause she
just got out of school, out of college, but, uh, Tiffany, who's also been so terrific.
I mean, they work so hard."
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