Trump’s biracial ex confirms joke made about getting her intelligence from ‘white side’ of family
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Kara Young, a biracial supermodel dating former President Donald Trump in the late 1990s, corroborated a story in which the ex-Commander in Chief said she got her intelligence from the “white side” of her family.
Young, 47, spoke to Inside Edition’s Deborah Norville in her first public comments about Trump since becoming president in 2016 and in what she says will be the last.
She corroborated a story from Maggie Haberman’s book, Confidence Man, in which Trump joked that his biracial model ex-girlfriend got her “beauty” from her black mother and her “intelligence” from her white father.
Young told Norville he did, but clarified, “It sounds — if someone says something in jest — are they kidding? I don’t know.’
The model adds that they’re not “fighting or anything,” but she did tell Trump that “it’s not funny.”
Kara Young, a biracial supermodel dating former President Donald Trump in the late 1990s, corroborated a story in which the ex-Commander in Chief said she got her intelligence from the “white side” of her family.
Young, 47, spoke to Inside Edition’s Deborah Norville in her first public comments about Trump since he took office in 2016 and in what she says will be the last.
She corroborated a story from Maggie Haberman’s book, Confidence Man, in which Trump joked that his biracial model ex-girlfriend got her “beauty” from her black mother and her “intelligence” from her white father.
His response, Young claims, is that he said, “I was just kidding, I was just kidding. No, I do not think so.’
Trump asked Young out after his divorce from Marla Maples in 1997.
She said, “I didn’t think I’d like him because he wasn’t my type. I didn’t think he was my type, but it just happens. I know it’s hard to believe, he’s very funny and he had a really good personality.”
They eventually broke up, but Young claims to be in no bad blood and that the relationship “had run its course.”
She added that she finally spoke to Norville – who introduces Young as a friend – because it became frustrating to get in touch about Trump and not be able to say anything.
Young says she hasn’t spoken to Trump in six years when she called him to congratulate him on his victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
The supermodel said she believes Trump will run for president again in 2024, as speculated, but says he shouldn’t.
She also clarified to: Inside edition that this interview would be the first and last time she would ever speak about him publicly.
The new anecdote comes from Confidence Man, by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, which came out on Tuesday, and was first reported by rolling stone.
Trump once joked that his former biracial model girlfriend got her “beauty” from her black parent and her “intelligence” from her white parent, according to a new book
Trump held a reception at the White House in January 2017 to meet with congressional leaders, pictured above
At one point, the former president turned to a group of racially diverse staffers and asked them to bring up the hors d’oeuvres, mistaking them for the wait staff.
Young defended Trump in 2017 against accusations of racism. “I’ve never heard him make a disparaging remark about any race of people,” she told the Times.
When asked if he supported white supremacist ideals, she said at the time, “That was not my experience.”
The president, who had three marriages, was known for dating models before settling down with first lady Melania Trump.
He also dated models Kylie Bax and Rowanne Brewer Lane and tennis player Allison Giannini in the late 1990s.
In a 2017 interview, Young described another incident where Trump expressed surprise that Serena and Venus Williams drew a racially diverse crowd at the US Open because he believed black people were not interested in tennis.
Young’s parents when they were dating, in a supermodel’s Instagram post
Young with her father in more recent times
At another time noted in Haberman’s book, Trump held a White House reception in January 2017 to meet with congressional leaders.
At one point, the former president turned to a group of racially diverse staffers and asked them to bring up the hors d’oeuvres, mistaking them for the wait staff.
“Why don’t you get the food?” Trump asked the wait staff.
Then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus rushed to correct Trump’s flub, telling him he had just addressed top congressional officials and signaled the actual ministry.
In his own former national security adviser, John Bolton noted that Trump had once told him he didn’t like being dumped, preferring instead to end relationships with women, an observation then-chief of staff John Kelly found revealing.
Trump told Bolton “how he never liked the women he’d dated when they broke up with them; he always wanted to be the one who did the breakup. (“Very revealing,” Kelly said when I told him later),” Bolton writes in his memoir.