It was hard for Trump to explain to his parents that, as much as he wanted to reward Marla for her loyalty by making her an honest woman, it wasn’t his sole motive for marriage. I will not have my child living here without a father at Christmas.’ ” “I heard that she told Blaine, ‘This is it! Either Donald marries me or I take my child. “I don’t know Marla well,” Mary Trump said in her soft brogue.