Then-president Donald Trump talks with Ivanka Trump during a meeting at the White House on June 26, 2020.
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Ivanka Trump’s time in her father’s administration came at a high social cost.
Reports said that losing friends and heavy public criticism helped convince her to leave politics.
As her father seeks a new term, Ivanka is instead focused on re-entering US high society.
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Ivanka Trump was notably absent from former President Donald Trump’s campaign launch in Palm Beach, Florida.
In a public statement after the launch, she said: “I love my father very much. This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics.”
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An unnamed source told the New York Post that Ivanka wanted out — and to live “as normal a life as she can.”
She and her husband, Jared Kushner, have three children: Arabella, 11, Joseph, nine, and Theodore, six.
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Some of the retailers who dropped Ivanka’s clothing brands included Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Gilt, and Burlington.
In July 2018, Ivanka was forced to shut down her fashion company, saying in a statement: “I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington.”
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The skit’s voiceover described Ivanka as “the woman who could stop all this, but won’t.”
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“I hope to make a positive impact, I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly, my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be,” Ivanka told CBS Mornings.
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Ivanka said that she was against her father’s family separation policy and urged him to end it, calling it “a low point.”
But celebrities — including fashion designer Alexa Chung, and actress Amy Schumer — were not happy with her response.
They launched a “Dear Ivanka” social-media campaign, which involved sharing an Instagram post saying: “Dear Ivanka, you follow me on social media. You said family separation was a ‘low point’ for you. The low point is for the separated families.”
“You spoke in the past tense. The crisis is still ongoing,” it continued.
President Joe Biden signed executive orders last year aimed to dismantle Trump’s immigration policies over the years.
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“I think it’s past time that one of the many critics from Ivanka’s childhood comes forward – if only to ensure that she really will never recover from the decision to tie her fate to her father’s,” Ohrstrom wrote in a tell-all essay published in Vanity Fair.
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“They’ll be welcomed back by people who know the Trumps are as close as they’ll get to power,” one former friend told Vanity Fair.
“But everyone with self-respect, a career, morals, respect for democracy, or who doesn’t want their friends to shame them both in private and public will steer clear,” they added.
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Ivanka and her family are staying “far away” from Trump even though they live in the same state, Page Six reported, citing two separate and unnamed sources.
She even left him out of an Instagram post showcasing images of her daughter’s bar mitzvah celebrations in June. She only included a picture of Trump in her Instagram Stories.
Among other lawsuits, Trump is, at the time of writing, fighting federal charges of mishandling classified documents after his presidency.
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Kardashian posted photos of the event on Instagram, including a group photo that included Ivanka, who wore a stylish, sparkly white, two-piece set.
In another photo Kardashian posted to her Instagram story, she and Ivanka were seated next to each other and appeared to be laughing.
“Although Ivanka has supported her father, even working for his various companies and in the White House, she has really tried to distance herself from him in the aftermath of his presidency,” Mitra Ahouraian told Insider’s Kelsey Vlamis and Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert.
“I’m not at all surprised that Ivanka has managed to re-engage with her social circles and establish herself as separate and apart from her father,” Ahouraian added.
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Ivanka recently testified in her father’s New York civil fraud trial.
New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that Donald Trump lied about the value of company assets to obtain favorable loans, claims the former president denies.
At the time, Ivanka was an executive at the firm, but told the court she had a hands-off relationship.
Her involvement in the trial is another example of the difficulty Ivanka has faced trying to extricate herself from her father’s controversial business and political careers.
“There’s no way that she walks out of this trial further distanced from the controversies surrounding her father,” Dan Alexander, author of ‘White House, Inc: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business’, told BBC News.
“It’s going to be an uncomfortable place for her, and I don’t think that reputationally, it’s the direction that she wants to go.”
