Donald Trump's Wife Melania on Their Marriage, His Campaign: Part 2 | ABC News

Donald Trump has always set the gold standard literally for life at the top is 100 million dollar tri-level pentose is inspired by Versailles with a palatial living room imported crystal chandeliers hand-painted ceilings trimmed in gold leaf it has sweeping views of New York City from every side you have said that success is a kind of drug and it's too powerful for most people to handle how do you handle success well a lot of people can't handle success I've seen it a lot of people can't win they don't know how to win you see it in sports where they're right on the threshold of win and then they can't get it over the line it's an amazing thing winning is tough I always said winning is somewhat maybe innate maybe it's just something you have you know you have the winning gene but I've seen it I've seen great talent both in business and lots of other things they should be able to do it and they can't get the ball over the line you are a winner I think so I mean I got around yeah there's a lot of things so I go they're doing pretty well listen he shares this palace in the sky with his beautiful and graceful wife Melania Allah we have she has been mostly absent from the campaign trail until tonight it's a business mrs. Trump it's a pleasure to see you and we don't see you that often you are not on the campaign trail how do you feel about campaigning well it's my choice not to be there I support my husband a hundred percent but we have a nine-year-old son together a barren and I'm raising him and this is the age he needs a parent at home were you involved in the decision of your husband to become president we discuss a lot yes and I encouraged him and I did I encouraged him because I know what he will do and what he can do for America he loves the American people and he wants to help them Melania and her husband met at a party in 1998 where she caught the eye of the flirtatious Donald Trump he came up to you you Bufton yeah what was your first impression of Donald Trump well he was very charming and we had the great Sparkle he came with a date so he asked me for the number and I said I will not give you my number so if you give me your numbers I will I will call you and he was known as kind of a ladies man and but we had we met a week later and then I was ok yes we had the great chemistry the first time we had great chemistry ever since before she was Melania Trump she was Melania Kraus born 45 years ago in a small industrial town in Slovenia when it was still part of Yugoslavia Melania and natural beauty was also a bookworm she went to university and was studying architecture when she was discovered by a major fashion photographer when she was just 17 soon after she left school and Slovenia for New York City who would imagine that the quiet girl from Slovenia would end up the wife of a mega billionaire their relationship made international news not just because it was a made to central romance he is 24 years older but because of Donald's previous to high-profile marriages and even higher profile divorces are you following the Trump thing you can't miss it latest dispatch from the front in the Battle of Trump versus Trump the front-page Fiasco of lovers lawyers and large settlements the first a 13-year old marriage to the stunning Czech model Ivana zone colder and the second - actress Marla maples at last they are mr. and mrs. Trump I give it four months actually it lasted just under four years but today it seems that the third time is indeed the charm it's been ten years since Donald and Melania said I do in a lavish affair at Trump's mar-a-lago estate in Florida one year later they welcomed to son Barron who is now 9 this is your third marriage what's different this time well I think I understand life I've gone through tremendous amounts of everything deals and building companies and taking care of yourself marriage well it hurts marriage because you're working all the time what I did is I worked so hard that I think it was a very very hard thing for somebody to compete with your husband has been married twice before did you have any concerns that it might not work out no I didn't have any concerns we have a great chemistry and to be with the man my husband is you need to know who you are you need to have a very independent life as well and supporting him you need to be very smart and quick and to be there for him when he needs you is yours a marriage of equals I would say yes I would say no no I think she's far greater than the 50% we have we have a very very pretty much equal relation yes is it Melania how do you do how do you do but if the Trump's win the White House Melania will have to note with the distinctions the first foreign-born first lady since John Quincy Adams wife Louisa and the first first lady to opposed in a picture like this I don't know how to put this but your image looking the way you do is that a liability for your husband I don't think so I don't think so I think people will always judge maybe they will say oh the past that you have the way you were modeling that's part of the job that I was doing I was very successful model and I did some photo shoots yes they were little risky but nothing more than you see every year in Sports Illustrated she was actually in Sports Illustrated which I just saw that picture the other day was beautiful but I will say this if I'm lucky enough to win the public will be so lucky to have Melania as the first lady if she will be so beautiful and elegant and good from the heart she will be a fabulous first lady first ladies are expected to have a cause if you have a cause what would it be I'm very involved in charities now many many charities involving children involving many different diseases and I will you know when if the time comes I will choose what is dearest to my heart and work on that 100% do you give your husband any advice on the debates we discuss I tell him my opinions give me an example of a piece of advice that you've given your husband that he has taken I will keep it private well she's talking and I can tell you she's told me a couple of times during the debate she was very happy with my performances if you want to call her performance but she said you could tone it down a little bit on occasion which I understand in the center of the stage tonight businessman Donald Trump and speaking of tone I wondered if Melania had ever taken her husband to task on his tone toward women on the campaign trail did he make a derogatory comment tacking Carly Fiorina insulting the way she said look at that face would anyone vote for that I think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. cumson you know your husband has come under fire here and there for making disparaging remarks about women does this bother you it doesn't bother me he treats everybody the same he talked about men as well not about the women only maybe they just go into a little bit more details when he says something but women while Melania lamented the amount of time campaign in kasnia marriage the couple insists that at heart they're homebodies when he comes home we spend time together two of us or two of us in bed on just be at home because that's a really quality time together and why not when for now home is this lavish penthouse apartment not Pennsylvania Avenue from many the White House is a step up I am looking around this room the White House might be a step down the White House is the White House it's just a spectacular place and you know it's something that represents something very special

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Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 21 2015