Ivanka Trump - Wikipedia

Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that October 30 is the anniversary of the birth of American businesswoman, fashion designer, author and reality television personality Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump who "is the daughter of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and former model Ivana Trump."
Image: Husband and wife Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump; Ivanka Trump family with daughter Arabella Rose Kushner and son Joseph Frederick Kushner; Jared Kushner has yielded three children: 5-year old daughter Arabella Rose Kushner, 3-year old son Joseph Frederick Kushner, and the latest addition to her family this year, Theodore James Kushner.
Happy 37th Birthday Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump

Background from theweek.co.uk/donald-trump/73022/ivanka-trump-18-facts-you-didnt-know-about-donald-trumps-daughter
"Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka has been credited with persuading him, behind closed doors, to stop family separations at the Mexican border.
Critics pointed out that the 36-year-old, a self-avowed advocate for women and children, had been conspicuously silent about the issue in public, even posting glossy images on social media of her own happy family during the uproar.
However, her supporters claim she was pressing her father in private and showing him pictures of young children separated at the border.
She showed up to watch the president sign an executive order to end the practice yesterday in Washington DC.
Ivanka told the Financial Times in September that some people have created “unrealistic expectations” for her power in the White House, believing that her “presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him”.
The entrepreneur, whom her father regularly calls his “favourite”, was given unparalleled levels of authority in the family business and is now a White House adviser.
So what else do we know about Ivanka Trump?

Exclusive upbringing
Ivanka was born in New York in 1981, the only daughter from Donald Trump's first marriage to Czech athlete and model Ivana Trump (nee Zelnickova). She spent her early years among the Manhattan elite studying first at the Chaplin School, whose former alumnae include Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and then moving to Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, where JFK himself studied. Her ability to master many an exclusive social circle has given her an "urbane self-assurance that her father never mastered", says Politico.
Like father, unlike daughter
In the Trump family business, Donald gave Ivanka a "level of authority none of his wives, or for that matter executives, have ever had", says The New York Times. She handled some of the Trump Organization's biggest deals and along with her elder two brothers, Donald Jr and Eric, has often preached fiscal conservatism in direct contrast to her father's bellicosity.

"While her father uses Twitter as a grenade launcher, she treats her well-tended social media feeds, which are notably politics-free, as marketing tools for the Trump Organization," adds the newspaper.
'Proxy wife'
Throughout her father's campaign, Ivanka found herself being used more and more to get across Trump's political message. A profile in Vanity Fair described her as a "proxy wife", saying this was in part due to Donald's current wife, Melania, not being a "conventional campaign spouse".
"The Trump campaign appears more comfortable using the candidate's daughter to spread his message than his wife," the magazine said.
Quartz suggested Ivanka would serve as Donald's "actual first lady".

Conversion to Judaism
Ivanka was raised Presbyterian but converted to Judaism in 2009, to marry husband Jared Kushner. The couple have three children: Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James.
She told Vogue in the run-up to the election that the family are kosher and observe the Sabbath, turning off their phones to enjoy time together. "We don't do anything except play with each other, hang out with one another, go on walks together - pure family," she said. Ivanka described herself as a "very modern", but also "a very traditional person", adding that her conversion was "a great life decision".
Ivanka rarely discusses her religion, calling it a "personal thing", but her father invoked it several times during his campaign to assure voters he was pro-Israel. "I have tremendous love for Israel," he said. "I happen to have a son-in-law and a daughter that are Jewish, OK, and two grandchildren that are Jewish."

She has written two books
Ivanka published her first book, The Trump Card, in 2009. The self-help tome is aimed at working women - but the average reader would be forgiven for giving up after the first few sentences "to preserve her sanity", writes Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker.
In it, she continues, a woman "born with a silver spoon in her mouth" offers life-coaching to "people who use plastic forks to eat salad at their desks".
Ivanka also displays massive "cognitive dissonance" in asserting that her birth played no part in her success and wealth, says the critic.
Ivanka's second outing, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, hit the shelves last year and focusses on her career advice and "best practices".
It is very much a spiritual successor to The Trump Card - and received even more brutally scathing reviews.

She is a White House adviser
After initially suggesting she would not take an official role in the White House, Ivanka was appointed to an official government post, joining her husband Jared Kushner as an adviser to her father.
At the time the New York Times said Ivanka's role "amounts to the formal recognition of the value Mr Trump places on the judgement and loyalty of both his daughter and his son-in-law". However, the paper added, while past presidents have called on family members to provide unofficial counsel and advice, "giving them a formal role has few precedents".
Ethics experts criticised the appointment, arguing it allows her to avoid financial disclosure rules.
"This arrangement appears designed to allow Ms Trump to avoid the ethics, conflict-of-interest and other rules that apply to White House employees," Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, ethics lawyers for former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, respectively, wrote in a letter to the White House counsel.
Eisen added that the decision to appoint a nuclear family member to such a position was "a lot of nepotism".

She defends her father's attitude towards women
At a women's summit in Berlin, Ivanka faced jeers as she called her father a "tremendous champion of supporting families".
Speaking as part of an all-female panel, which included German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, the "first daughter" said she was "very proud" of her father's commitment to improving maternity rights for working women.
"Long before he came into the presidency, he championed this in the primaries," she said, drawing hisses and boos from the crowd, CNN reports.
Undeterred, Ivanka continued: "He's been a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive."
Magazine editor Miriam Meckel, moderating the panel, questioned how President Trump's supposed commitment to gender equality gelled with his history of misogynistic comments.
Ivanka replied that her father's attitude towards her and towards the "thousands" of women employed by the Trump Organization were "a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man".
She has stepped down from the Trump Organization
Ivanka stepped down from management and operations of the Trump Organization to comply with ethics regulations.
She also quit her eponymous fashion brand.
Kushner, meanwhile, resigned as chief executive of Kushner Companies and as the publisher of the New York Observer newspaper.
According to CNN's Dylan Byers, however, the businessman has transferred his interest in the paper into a family trust.

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The couple have also made "substantial divestments" from some of their holdings, People says.
Vanity Fair says Ivanka planned to sell "all of her common stock and restructure her participation in Trump Organization transactions so that she no longer benefits from the profits. Instead, she will get a fixed series of payments from the revenue of a spate of projects. She will also recuse from participating in her interest in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, along with her interest in her brand."
She has been compared to Marie Antoinette
The Trump family has lived a glamorous high-society lifestyle for many years, but now The Donald is firmly entrenched in the White House, their lavish lifestyle is coming under increasing scrutiny.
Ivanka has been criticised for posting an Instagram picture of herself wearing a £4,000 silver dress the same day a firestorm of protest erupted over her father's executive order temporarily banning refugees from entering the United States.
The picture shows Ivanka and Jared dressed to the nines on their way to the annual Alfalfa Dinner at the Capital Hilton.
Although it is "one in a long series of Trump's detailed social sharing of her life and family, the timing of this particular post had some people questioning its relevance", CNN says.
Critics accused the entrepreneur of a Marie Antoinette-like attitude. The hashtag #letthemeatcake was applied to several retweets.

Coffee with Ivanka is 'priceless'
The millionaire businesswoman put herself up as a prize on auction website Charity Buzz, with an estimate of $50,000 (£39,700) to "enjoy coffee with Ivanka Trump in NYC or DC".
All proceeds from the auction were earmarked to go to her brother Eric's foundation to benefit St Jude's Children Research Hospital.
However, after a few weeks of bidding, the prize was mysteriously withdrawn with no explanation.
The New York Times suggested the auction raised ethical questions about the implications of one of the most high-profile members of the future first family.
The paper spoke to several of the bidders engaged in the "furious competition" for time with Ivanka about why they hoped to win the prize. Investment manager Ozan Ozkural said he wanted coffee with Ivanka to get an insight into what the president-elect might do in the future. Another bidder who owns a Tex-Mex fast food chain wanted to discuss Ivanka's father's attitude to migrants.
Analysts "have repeatedly raised concerns about possible conflicts of interest related to the influence President-elect Trump's children might have in his administration," NPR says, "especially given his stated plans to leave his companies under family control, rather than putting them in a blind trust."
She's into art... bigly
Ivanka's apartment, which stars in many of her 2,781 Instagram posts, "seems to telegraph contemporary good taste", says Bloomberg.


But while the furnishings may project an air of low-key affluence, the art that adorns the walls does not.
In one image on Instagram, Ivanka "shimmies" in front of a Dan Colen "chewing gum" painting - a comparable work by the artist sold for $578,500 at Phillips New York in 2012.
Another post, taken from a Harper’s Bazaar shoot, shows her posing in front of a piece by Alex Israel, whose pieces also raise similar amounts at auction, adds Bloomberg.
However, not every artist is happy with the coverage. "I think there are a lot of artists that are uncomfortable now being incorporated, or leveraged, as part of the Ivanka Trump brand," said art dealer Bill Powers.
Indeed, some are even calling for their work to be removed from Ivanka's walls.
Giving his support to Halt Action Group, an anti-Donald Trump collection of artists, curators and activists Israel wrote on Instagram: "Dear Ivanka, Please stand with artists and so many people around the world who believe that America means equality for all people."
Alex Da Corte, meanwhile, posted underneath a photo of Trump posing in front of one of his paintings: "Dear Ivanka, please get my work off of your walls. I am embarrassed to be seen with you."

Her daughter can recite Chinese poetry
Trump's election campaign was littered with references to China, not all of them flattering. He told a rally in Indiana Beijing should not be allowed to continue to "rape our country", while the first presidential debate saw him accuse the Chinese of using the US as a "piggy bank".
But that hasn't stopped Ivanka from posting a video of her daughter Arabella reciting a poem in Mandarin. The President's five-year-old granddaughter is pictured wearing a red Chinese-style ball gown, with lanterns and the Chinese character for happiness visible in the background.
The clip was recorded last February, but Ivanka's Instagram post, in which she says Arabella wanted to have a pre-bedtime Chinese New Year party, was widely shared in China since Trump's election win.
Ivanka told the South China Morning Post four years ago that her daughter was learning Mandarin and could name most of the zoo animals and some have interpreted Arabella's command of the language as a hidden sign of her grandfather's affinity with China.
She was a model aged 14
Ivanka might have made a name for herself as a canny businesswoman, developing her own line of jewellery, shoes and accessories, but her first career was as a model.
At the age of 14, the "First Daughter" was approached by a modelling agency while a student at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut.
When the prestigious boarding school was reluctant to allow Ivanka time off for jobs, the quick-thinking teen showed an early flash of her negotiation skills to get around their objections.
She told The Guardian: "They'd granted similar leave to a student who was training to be an Olympic skier, so I used precedent to my advantage and got what I wanted."
Before her 15th birthday, she had featured in the pages of Elle and over the next few years appeared in magazines, catwalk shows and an advertising campaign for Tommy Hilfiger.
However, she fell out of love with modelling - the industry was "ruthless", she told Marie Claire in 2007 - and instead entered Wharton business school after graduating."


Gayle King interviewed Ivanka Trump on Thursday at the Forbes Women's Summit. The daughter of the GOP presidential nominee speaks candidly about being part of the Trump family, her life with a new baby, her own personal goals and if she would ever consider a job in the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGxWzFzdK4

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