Ivanka Trumpdespite having been for years in positions of great public importance, cannot be missed thanks to her father’s shenanigans, crimes, and presidency, Donald Trumpis something of a puzzle. The future first daughter, who served as a senior advisor during my dear father’s first term, rarely gives interviews but sat for about two hours with the father. Skinny secret He and she Podcast, published Monday. She was able to stress how great it was to work in the White House during Trump’s first presidency, while also making it very clear that she wants absolutely nothing to do with the place this time around.
“When my father was elected, I had no intention of serving,” Trump said of her role during her father’s first term in the White House. But, oops, sometimes you stumble upon nepotism and get a job straight away. (Trump and his wife Jared Kushner He was not paid a White House salary(But she raised as much as $640 million from outside interests during their time there.) According to Ivanka, Perry Trump asked her and Kushner to join. “This is not what I set my life up for. I loved the life I was building for our young family in New York. I had an 8-month-old son when we arrived in Washington and two children who were not much older.
But, you know: FOMO.
“I feel a tremendous sense of privilege that I had the opportunity. I’m so happy that Jared and I were able to be there to help him,” she told the hosts. Lauren Evarts Postic and Michael Bostic. “This time, it’s completely different because a lot of people are raising their hands and I’m very grateful to them.”
The Bossticks, a couple who run a lifestyle blog and “wellness” brand. Thin secrecyas well as the overall Dear Media brand, have proven to be an audience unsurprisingly sympathetic to Trump. They’ve referenced conservatism in the past: Michael is the son of the founder of JetBed Gary BosticA Longtime Republican donorAnd Lauren (whose “Don’t Tread on Me” flag is popular with the MAGA crowd Delicious home decor) In 2020, she shut down a popular Facebook group she ran for her blog when Things got ‘too heavy’ In her words. This “heavy” content included discussion of Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and more. The 60,000-member group has become, in Lauren’s opinion, “Space of hate and negativityShe just wanted to talk about mascara!
After four years of “recalibrating,” as Ivanka put it, and setting her goals, Trump has no chance of FOMO.
“I’m going to be in Florida,” she said, working on being “the best mom I can be.”
When President Trump first took office, the youngest of Ivanka’s three children, Theodore, was less than a year old, an easy age for both parents to get tough jobs in the West Wing. She explained that although her “primary and highest value was family, my children were much younger [then]So it was easier not to attend.” She insisted that she loved making an impact, “but I hate politics,” adding that “there is a darkness in this world that I don’t really want to welcome into my world.”
“I feel great about this decision,” she said of her scheduled role in Trump’s second presidency, which she revealed would be an occasional human presence watching television. “Like watching a movie with him or watching a sports game, to know that he can be with me and be himself and just relax, and for me to be able to provide that to him in a very loving way like his daughter.”
Which means, fortunately for her, that she is less likely to have the ethics committee involved in her work looking for conflicts of interest, let alone congressional investigations. Let’s leave that to people like her father-in-law, Charles KushnerAmbassador-designate to France. Perhaps he and Donald bond over a big family dinner due to them being convicted criminals, which is a classic of the genre. The elder Kushner was among the people Donald pardoned in 2020 on his way out of his first term, granting him clemency on the 18 federal charges to which he pleaded guilty in 2004, most of which related to filing false tax returns.
Trump has also shown a remarkable talent for calmly dropping absolute statements, not acknowledging any discordant irony. Unlike many who work in media jobs, the Bossticks did not take these opportunities to pursue.
For example, Trump mentioned reading with her children and picking up books from her teenage daughter ArabellaSchool reading list, including the anti-fascist classic Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury’s book is always relevant, but it is It has been particularly invoked in the Trump eraits depiction of self-deception in the face of authoritarianism feels all too familiar. Instead of offering insights, she moved on to how much fun she was having rereading the book Animation series.
