I’ve interviewed Donald Trump numerous times and find him to be a breath of fresh air within the very polluted, fake political realm that most politicians float around in. The first time I sat down with him in 2011 at Trump Tower, we discussed his failed past marriages and he revealed to me the lesson he learned through those troubled circumstances. His answer? Your marriage has a greater chance of failing if you don’t put time and effort into it. Watch his answer below.
MANDATORY COURTESY: CBN NEWS/THE BRODY FILE
ORIGINAL DATE: APRIL, 2011
David Brody: What is your bottom line message to evangelicals who may be watching this interview, intrigued and curious about Donald Trump, but not necessarily sold because of myriad of different reasons from the past?
Donald Trump: Well I really think I have a very good past. I mean I have had very great success. I’ve had a lot of things. I mean you could look at the two failed marriages and when you look at a failed marriage, so much, 56, 57 percent of people, but in my case, I’m a very hard worker and I’ve always said its very difficult for a woman to be married to me because I work. I work all the time. And you know what, that’s what this country needs. This country needs somebody that’s going to work. I’ve always said it was always very unfair for my wife because I work all the time. I’m here, I'm there, and I’m that. I’m home at ten o clock in the evening. It’s not an easy, traditional thing for a woman but that’s what the country needs. It needs somebody that really works and that knows what they’re doing. So that’s a difficult thing from a marriage standpoint but it happens to be a very good thing for the country.
David Brody: Is there a lesson you learned in those two failed marriages?
Donald Trump: Well, I think the lesson is, and they were both wonderful women, I think the message is that you do have to devote the requisite time to your marriage but the thing that, its socially perhaps not the greatest thing to say, this country needs time also. Our great country, the United States, needs time. It needs the time of its leader. And if it’s not given that time, and if intelligent decisions aren’t made quickly, it will no longer be the great country that we knew.