(CNN) US President Donald Trump may occasionally say "silly" things but he's "definitely not racist," his first wife Ivana Trump said Monday. 
 
 Asked on the UK's Good Morning Britain TV show about the President's vulgar remarks about African nations last week Ivana Trump said she did not believe they showed he was racist. "Sometimes he says things that are silly," she said. 
 
 The President has drawn sharp criticism since he was reported to have called certain countries "shitholes" while discussing immigration with lawmakers Thursday. 
 
 Ivana Trump's comments echo the President's own remarks to reporters at a dinner photo opportunity in Florida on Sunday night that "I'm not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed." 
 
 'Stable genius' 
 
 Ivana Trump told the ITV network's morning show that she didn't think Trump "is going to do anything irrational," adding "he's a stable genius, definitely." 
 
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 "He's very stable, very focused, very organized," Ivana Trump said, when asked about Michael Wolff's controversial book Fire and Fury, which documented a White House in perpetual turmoil. 
 
 Ivana Trump , who has three children with the President -- Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric -- said his use of Twitter was "actually not bad" as the media "change everything you say." 
 
 "When he tweets it's out of his mouth, and sometimes it might not be clear, but at least it is exactly what he thinks," she said. 
 
 'He runs the country like a business' 
 
 Ivana and Donald Trump pictured in 1989. 
 
 Ivana Trump 68, who is in the UK on a book promotion tour, admitted she was shocked when he was elected. "Everybody was," she added. 
 
 "I think he loves to wheel and deal, he likes to make decisions, he like to do contracts. He runs the country as a business," she said. 
 
 'If I were Melania...' 
 
 Ivana was married to Trump for 15 years. Current wife Melania has been married to the President for almost 13 years. 
 
 Ivana Trump, who was married to Donald Trump from 1977 to 1992, said the pair remain friends and she still talks to him on the phone, mostly about the kids and holidays. 
 
 Though she admitted: "If it were me in Melania's place I would not really like if the ex-wife is calling my husband." 
 
 Donald Trump married his current wife, Melania, in 2005 and they have one son, Barron. 

 Donald Trump's ex-wife has said he is not racist, but may say "silly things" because he is confused by the conflicting advice he receives. 
 
 Ivana Trump told Good Morning Britain that contrary to the criticism which flooded the media after the President was accused of using "hate-filled, vile and racist" language in the Oval Office after he reportedly attacked immigrants coming to the United States from "s---hole countries". 
 
 She said: "I don't think Donald is racist at all. Sometimes he says things which are silly and he does not really mean them but he definitely is not racist. He has so many people telling him left and right what to say, what not to say, and maybe it gets confusing." 
 
 His ex-wife also said that she thinks her daughter Ivanka could be the first female President, after many speculated history could be made by Oprah Winfrey in 2020.
– Ivana Trump, former wife of the president, appeared on Good Morning Britain Monday and had good things to say about her famous ex. Two of the big quotes in circulation, via the Telegraph: Racism: "I don't think Donald is racist at all," she said, addressing the latest brouhaha over the president's immigration comments. "Sometimes he says things which are silly and he does not really mean them but he definitely is not racist. He has so many people telling him left and right what to say, what not to say, and maybe it gets confusing." Genius: "I don't think Donald is going to do irrational things. He is a stable genius, definitely," she said, echoing his own self-assessment. "He's very stable, very focused, very organized, and when he sets his goal on something, he does it." Ivana also said she and the president stay in touch by phone, mostly to discuss their three children (Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka) and holiday plans, notes CNN.