During the first presidential term of her father, Ivanka Trump was crucial. She and Donald Trump have always gotten along nicely; when he initially arrived at the White House in 2017, Ivanka was by his side as she started serving as a consultant.
Ivanka’s stay at the White House mixed good with unpleasant. She apparently once tried to push her way into a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II. Leaving the White House, Ivanka concluded that her time in politics was over and that enough was enough. Then a fresh book came out showing Donald Trump once trying to seek her support on a political matter but she turned him down.
Suffice to say, Ivanka was a major player in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign; she advised her father. She travelled with him on the campaign road and gave several crucial remarks at gatherings like the Republican National Convention in 2016. It was understandable to find maintaining all these things running concurrently difficult.
“My life is crazy right now,” Ivanka said to People Magazine in 2020. “I am worn out ninety percent of the time. Though undoubtedly the most wild and demanding experience, being a mother is the most fulfilling one.
Following Donald’s accomplishment, Ivanka immediately won a role in her father’s government alongside brothers Eric Trump and Donald Jr. and husband Jared Kushner. Her areas of concentration as an adviser were “the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training, and entrepreneurship.”
Trump hired family members as unpaid White House advisers, even though the employment demanded hours of work. Although Ivanka’s stay at the White House was eye-opening and surely provided her special experiences, it also signalled the start of some issues.
People who believed Ivanka should have used her power to prevent Donald Trump from enacting certain policies attacked her personally. Previously close pals, some of those folks wanted nothing to do with her as things developed.
White House Visit by Ivanka Trump
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, was frequently spotted with Ivanka at various events accompanied by her wealthy friends. Chelsea hasn’t spoken to Ivanka, a former registered Democrat, nonetheless, since the Trump administration took office in the White House.
Speaking with Stephen Colbert in 2018, Clinton said: “I have not spoken to her in a long time. She clearly has backed ideas and choices I disagree with. About my criticism of President Trump, I have been quite vocal.
She said: “I think anyone who works for the president certainly should expect to be scrutinised for not only whatever decisions she or he is making but also for whatever decisions the White House is making on any given day.”
Chelsea Clinton revealed to Watch What Happens Now in 2020 how truly she felt. She remarked, “I have not spoken to her since 2016 and I have no interest in being friends with [her]. We were in contact at the start of the [2016] campaign, but it’s rather difficult when someone—perhaps their father—is actively supporting their candidate. Clinton continued, “I don’t want to be friends with someone like that.”
Losing some of her close friends was naturally difficult for Trump’s eldest daughter. According to the New York Post in November of last year, Ivanka felt let down when her pals “turned their back on her” during her father’s White House term.
“Ivanka hated all the criticism and the threats and was unhappy about how many of their friends turned their back on them,” an unidentified insider claimed. “She finds it detrimental for her family generally as well as for her network of friends. She wants as regular a life as she can manage for her family and herself.
Stores would not carry her clothing.
But it seems that losing friends wasn’t the only setback Ivanka experienced while living at the White House. Several stores, including Neiman Marcus, Burlington, and Nordstrom, dropped Ivanka’s clothes lines in 2017. In 2011 she started a clothes line emphasising reasonably priced women’s business apparel, but the stores opted to penalise her once her father took office.
Later, 2017 saw Ivanka decide to close her fashion business completely. Former press secretary Stephanie Grisham exposed some rather embarrassing information about her after serving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
For nine months, Grisham served as the White House press secretary before moving to the office of First Lady Melania Trump. She also was the White House communications director.
In Grisham’s 2020 memoir, I’ll Ask Your Questions Now, much of criticism was directed on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Grisham was “particularly negative” about the marriage, said the Washington Post, and she detailed numerous specific occurrences in her memoir. One had to deal with Ivanka Trump and none other than Queen Elizabeth personally.
According to the Washington Post, during a presidential trip to the UK, Ivanka and Jared sought to push their way into a planned meeting with Queen Elizabeth. Grisham claims that she and her husband intended to attend the meeting with Donald Trump and Melania Trump, therefore violating official etiquette of a state visit. The two were excluded, nevertheless, because of the helicopter’s restricted capacity.
“I at last understood what was happening,” Grisham notes in her memoir. “Jared and Ivanka thought they were the royal family of the United States.”
Ivanka Trump claims she is finished in politics.
Though neither Ivanka nor her husband had government experience prior to Donald Trump assuming office, they occupied top roles within the White House staff.
Grisham also notes in her book that Ivanka Trump invoked “my father” quite often in staff meetings. She also called Kushner multiple times “the Slim Reaper,” alleging that he would regularly participate in other people’s initiatives then leave and let them answer when things went south.
“I had told Mrs. Trump many times my belief that Jared would be the reason we lost reelection in 2020,” she says. She disagreed with me not quite.
Before her White House life, Ivanka developed Trump hotels; she was in the televised boardroom when he was an Apprentice TV star. But Ivanka announced she was done with politics in January 2021 after working with her dad in Washington.
“I really like my father. This time around, I want to give my young children and the private life we are building as a family top priority. As Donald revealed his fresh presidential candidacy, Ivanka Trump remarked, “I do not plan to be involved in politics.”
Rather, Ivanka gives a quiet family life in Florida with her husband and three children top importance. CNN reported in December that any counsel she offers her father will be private.
She enjoys being with her kids.
A source familiar with her thoughts said, “It’s never going to be something that people are going to see publicly,” should Ivanka Trump decide to weigh in and have impact during her father’s second term.
“Her children are at a sweet spot; they are tweens and adolescents, all important ages, and it’s quite fleeting. Long-term Trump family friend Maggie Cordish told CNN she likes spending time with her children and that her personal life has brought much-needed tranquilly and happiness.
She said, “I know today the cost they would pay for me being all in, emotionally, in terms of my absence at such a formative point in their life, and I’m not willing to make them bear that cost.”
Joined by son Theodore, Ivanka Trump travelled with her father to the 2025 Super Bowl. Although Donald sees his grandchildren a lot and their relationship is wonderful, they have somewhat different ideas on several subjects. While they got along at the White House, combining business with pleasure is not always wise.
Now, with the new book All or Nothing by eminent author Michael Wolff, who has published four books on Donald Trump, we have some more understanding of their relationship. She finds out not ready to support her father in every circumstance.
Book claims say Ivanka Trump declined to sign a document declaring Trump not antisemitic.
Referring to the lethal 2023 attack by Hamas in the wake of October 7, Wolff said that Donald Trump apparently was “incapable of offering absolute support for Israel.” For assistance, the now-president “not for the first time” so went to Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka. Donald requested for a public support since Ivanka and Jared are Jewish. But the author claims the couple turned off signing.
The Washington Post, the campaign knew, was working on a piece that would rehash all the words Trump had used over the years, which, on its face, would definitely seem antisemitic as Trump had been wandering. Kushner keeps avoided formal endorsement of his father-in-law. Then, according to Wolff in All or Nothing, the campaign aimed to settle for just a declaration from him stating his father-in-law was not antisemitic.
