First son Eric Trump dished on the foundations his future president father laid down for his or her household — and what it was like residing with “robust” mother Ivana — on the newest episode of “Pod Power One,” out Wednesday.
Eric, 41, defined to The Put up's Miranda Devine that his mogul dad gave out some life classes early on by handing his son a tough hat and sending him to building websites to work for minimal wage.
“His guidelines have been all the time no consuming, no medicine, no smoking, get good grades, no tattoos, and don't belief anybody,” Eric mentioned. “That was just about Donald Trump summed up.
“However the different factor my father wouldn't permit — my mom wouldn't permit it, both — was both extra cash or extra time. You give a type-A child an excessive amount of time, an excessive amount of cash, dangerous issues are going to occur.”
Earlier than attending Georgetown College, Eric Trump graduated from The Hill boarding faculty exterior Philadelphia, whose outstanding alums embrace his older brother Don Jr., writer-director Oliver Stone, and future Secretary of State James Baker.
“I didn't know too many youngsters that didn't discover their approach into rehab,” he recalled. “And most of them have been affected by two issues: Approach an excessive amount of free time and approach an excessive amount of cash.”
His father's answer “bought the recipe proper,” Eric went on. “You have been staying out of the nightclubs, you have been staying away from the onerous medicine. … He did it in his personal approach, however he bought it proper.”
Eric's mom Ivana, a former aggressive skier turned mannequin, “was as robust as they got here,” he mentioned.
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“She was lovely, she was elegant, and but if we bought this far out of line, you'd have these pretend lengthy nails dig into your throat,” Eric famous. “She all the time favored to put on her ring inverted, and she or he all the time would neglect about it. It was identical to a European factor.
“So she'd grabbed you together with her lengthy nails, and you actually screwed one thing up at this level, proper? And also you get considered one of these, the flick throughout [the face]. And so forth the way in which throughout, you simply get diamonds throughout the facet [of your face], and on the way in which again, you simply get bruised,” he mentioned. “So one facet of your face can be minimize.”
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When requested which of his mother and father was the disciplinarian, Eric responded: “In the event you needed to get by her to go to my father, you have been in actual deep crap as a result of she had already taken a pound of flesh out of you.
“That's in all probability taboo in at present's tradition, proper? You're not allowed to the touch your youngsters. I admire that, I respect it and every little thing else, however what I'll inform you is it labored.
“I imply, a pair instances she grabbed Don [Jr.] — and [pulled his] pants down and his ass is black and blue — and it actually labored,” Eric mentioned. “It actually labored for me. She was a tremendous individual, wonderful mom …I joke that she was sort of Lindsay Vonn, Claudia Schiffer and Joan Rivers sort of melded into one — as a result of she had no filter. That made her very particular,” her son continued.
“She may very well be extremely elegant, however but she might inform the hardest building employee to go ‘F' himself, proper? And he or she had that in her,” Eric mentioned. “That was the Communist upbringing, however she may very well be enjoyable. She may very well be glamorous. She was an unbelievable athlete.”
Ivana Trump died July 14, 2022, on the age of 73 after falling down a spiral staircase at her Higher East Facet dwelling, a trauma Eric addresses in his new memoir “Underneath Siege: My Household's Battle to Save Our Nation.”
“She suffered with sure illnesses, and considered one of them was she simply in all probability drank an excessive amount of and that ended her life,” Eric instructed to Devine. “That was an unpleasant day.”
“We cherished her,” he mentioned. “She was a tremendous lady, wonderful lady. I imply, she taught us every little thing.”
