Ivana Trump: Trump shouldn't run for president in 2020, he should play golf and enjoy life

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Ivana Trump doesn’t want Donald Trump to run for president again in 2020.

“I’ll tell you something, I don’t think it’s necessary,” she told The Post during an interview Wednesday at her Upper East Side townhouse.

“He has a good life and he has everything. Donald is going to be 74, 73 for the next [election] and maybe he should just go and play golf and enjoy his fortune,” the president’s ex-wife said.

Besides, she added, “I think he probably [misses] a little bit of freedom, I don’t think he probably knew how much is involved of being the president. It’s so [much] information — you have to know the whole world.”

Ivana’s sympathy for put-upon women extends to First Lady Melania Trump, in light of lawyer Michael Cohen’s admission that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep silent about her alleged affair with POTUS. Daniels claims the first time she and Donald had sex was in 2006, months after Melania gave birth to their son, Barron.

“I feel bad for [Melania] because I know how bad I did feel. It hurts a lot,” said Ivana.

“I divorced Donald immediately [after I discovered the Maples affair] because I told myself, ‘Am I going to live with the person [who] is going to say, ‘I’m going to go and play golf’ [leaving me to] think, ‘Is he really going to go and play golf?’ I cannot do it.

“I have pride and I have dignity and stuff like that, but so many women, around the world, they live with the men knowing that they are cheating and stuff like that. Everybody handles their situation their own way.”

Ivana, however, does not have sympathy for Daniels: “She is not playing a fair game.” She added dismissively that Daniels is “paid to strip. . . She goes pole dancing or whatever she’s doing.”

The stress of being first lady and dealing with such public humiliation on a globally-scrutinized platform is not something Ivana longs for.

“Honestly, I prefer that she’s in [the White House rather than me],” she said of Melania. “I like to do what I want to do and like to go wherever I want to go with whomever I want to go.”

Melania, on the other hand, is a virtual prisoner according to Ivana.

“It’s a hard adjustment because she cannot go anywhere. She cannot go shopping, she cannot go out to the theater, she cannot go to restaurants because she has Secret Service and 15 cars in front and 15 in back. So she’s sort of a little bit stuck in the White House — and Donald is busy from morning to night and he’s a workaholic — so I’m not sure how much you really can do.”

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