Ivanka Trump said she isn’t planning on returning to work in the second administration of her father, President-elect Donald Trump. The Trump scion will instead be there for him in a supportive role, she revealed in the latest episode of “The Skinny Confidential Him & Her” podcast.
“I hate politics,” Donald Trump’s daughter declared to hosts Lauryn and Michael Bosstick, explaining that she does “love policy and impact” but politics is “not separable” from them and there’s “a darkness to that world that I don’t really want to welcome into mine.”
“To a degree, I’m at the center of the storm because my father is about to be president,” she acknowledged. “But it’s a very dark, negative business and some people love the gladiator aspect of it, the fight. That was never me.”
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Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner served as unpaid White House advisers during Donald Trump’s first term, a period in which they reportedly raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in outside income.
The couple kept a relatively low profile during Trump Sr.’s 2024 campaign, only breaking cover towards the end.
And for the president-elect’s imminent second term, Ivanka Trump said she’d be there for him as a daughter. “My role the first time was very different,” she recalled. “We were like the Pioneers, nobody really knew what to do with him as a political figure and now there’s so many capable people around him, many of whom we’ve worked with in the past, almost all of whom we know very well.”
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“Now I’m having a little distance from it, I think I’m most looking forward to just being able to show up for him as a daughter,” she explained. “And be there for him to take his mind off things, like watch a movie with him or watch 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 for him and in a very loving way as his daughter.
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