Donald Trump’s first ex-wife, Ivana, revealed in a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair that he kept copies of Adolf Hitler’s speeches in their bedroom, Mediaite reports.
Ivana reportedly told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that “from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed,” Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner wrote in a post-divorce profile of the couple at the time.
When Brenner later asked Trump about the book, he demanded to know who told her, before admitting that it was his “friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.”
Davis admitted he gave Trump the book and it was My New Order, not Mein Kampf as Trump had said. Davis also told Brenner he is not Jewish and that he gave Trump the book because he thought “[Trump] would find it interesting.”
Ivana also said that an employee liked to greet Trump with a Hitler reference: “[W]hen he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, ‘Heil Hitler,’ possibly as a family joke.”
The resurfaced interview comes days after Trump channeled Hitler at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday night, saying immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
