From left: Ivana and Donald Trump.Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images; Mark Wilson/Getty Images
AsIvana Trumpknows well, ex-husbandDonald Trumpis no fan of birthdays - so she had some advice for the constantly controversial former president as heturned 75 this week.
“Donald hates his birthdays,” Ivana told PEOPLE on Monday. “So I did speak to him and wished him happy birthday and told him, ‘Don’t worry about your age. Age is just a number, and his and mine [are] unlisted.’ " (This, she noted, was something of a joke.)
Ivana’s ex-husband, with whom she shares sonsDonald Trump Jr.andEric Trumpand daughterIvanka Trump, kept a low profile on Monday in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he celebrated at his golf club.
A source told PEOPLE he was expected to play golf while “the family will celebrate Donald’s birthday together as they usually do.”
“As much as 45 doesn’t love birthdays it was great to be there,” Don Jr. wrote in his caption.
It was also unclear if former First LadyMelania Trumpand the couple’s teenage son,Barron, were in Bedminster, where the former president relocated from their Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida for the summer.
(Spokespeople for the family didn’t respond to a request for comment.)
Ivanka Trump (left) and Ivana Trump in April 2013.Jemal Countess/Getty
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President Trump didn’t publicly make note of his birthday Monday but did release several statements to the media - via email, since he wasbanned from social mediaafter the U.S. Capitol attack.
Sources have said Trumphas spent most of his dayssince leaving the White House golfing and lunching at his clubs, meeting with Republican leaders and a loose coterie of aides to mull his future and continuing to push false claims about his 2020 election loss.
For her part, Ivanahas said she is happyfor her family to be free of Washington, D.C. - particularly her kids.
“I just want them to be able to live their normal lives -normal lives,” the businesswoman and former model told PEOPLE last year. “Not the Washington life and all that, just in New York or wherever they’re going to be andjust live their normal lives.”
“I think they enjoyed being around Donald and running the election and seeing what will happen, but now it is - thank god - over,” Ivana said in November. “I’m not really sure what they are going to be up to.”
Of the former president, she said then, that like birthdays “he hates to be a loser, that I’m sure of.”
But, she added, “He has plenty of money, places to go and live in and enjoy his life.”
source: people.com
