World News Tonight 2022_08_12

Ivana Trump: Look and the brain and the energy, and the really potentials. Donald always had a great head on his shoulder. And I saw the potential.

Donald Trump: She is a very nice woman, a very nice person. She’s a friend, she’s a lot of things.

Amy Robach: Together they were the ultimate 80’s power couple, crafting an image of glamour and excess, coupled with business-savvy. She had a nickname for him, and it stuck the Donald.

Ivana Trump: As a boss, you have to be a leader. And you have to say what you want. You have to tell them. You have to motivate them.

Amy Robach: But it didn’t last. And just as “the tabloids” documented their marriage, they ran with their divorce. And Ivana Trump becoming known for something else. Her grit and resilience.

She went on to launch businesses of her own: a clothing line, jewelry, writing several books about her relationship with her ex-husband.

When we sat down in 2017, Ivana Trump told me her ex-husband, by then the president, had offered to name her ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Ivana Trump: Donald called me and he said, “if you want to take the position, I give it to you.” But I said, “I would not have a freedom. Bye bye to Miami in the winter. Bye bye to New York in spring and fall. Bye bye to Saint-Tropez, where I spend all summer long. So I declined.

Amy Robach: I asked her how they were able to stay friends after such a public split.

“The two of you have remained good friends. How does that happen?”