{"id":56589,"date":"2016-11-15T09:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56589"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:49:11","slug":"ivanka-trump-is-a-key-adviser-to-her-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=56589","title":{"rendered":"Ivanka Trump Is a Key Adviser to Her Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"feature js-ndn-target\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.usnews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56592\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.usnews.jpg\" alt=\"www-usnews\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.usnews.jpg 970w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.usnews-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.usnews-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"caption text-small text-caption\">Donald Trump with daughters Ivanka Trump, left, and Tiffany Trump, after his announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination for president in June. \u00a0 <span class=\"text-smaller text-muted text-uppercase\">RICHARD DREW\/AP<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ad-in-text-target\" class=\"block-loose\" data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Six-year-old Ivanka Trump was furious: She&#8217;d gotten a Barbie for Christmas while her two brothers got Legos and an Erector Set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>So she grabbed some super glue, locked the bedroom door and built an unbreakable Lego model of Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>&#8220;My father, in scolding me, was never so proud,&#8221; she recounted years later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>That headstrong little girl is now a trusted political adviser to her father, and a willowy walking advertisement for her own line of jewelry, clothing, shoes and more, as well as a power player in the Trump real estate empire.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=ndn1_usnews&amp;videoId=29768534\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Ivanka Trump Shows Off Tiny Baby Bump and Pregnancy Glow at NYC Ballet \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0Entertainment Tonight<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>She&#8217;s the rare executive vice president whose skill set includes an ability to walk the job on a construction site in stilettos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>(&#8220;If you do so,&#8221; she once warned, &#8220;you better be able to walk without too much drama around it.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Her father, by contrast, is the very definition of drama \u2014 in his presidential campaign, with his three marriages and in his brash approach to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Ivanka Trump&#8217;s speech is as measured as her father&#8217;s is unrestrained. Her Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest accounts project an oh-so-curated image that is equal parts fashionista, doting mother, corporate deal-maker and cheerleader for her hashtagged cause, #WomenWhoWork.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>[<strong>OPINION:<\/strong><a title=\"00000150-860e-df31-abd5-8fdf95140000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/Jamie-Stiehm\/2015\/10\/19\/trump-speaks-the-truth-to-jeb-bush-about-9-11\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Speaks the Truth to Jeb Bush About 9\/11<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Sometimes she achieves harmonic convergence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>For example, her back-to-school photo on IvankaTrump.com documenting the contents of daughter Arabella&#8217;s preschool backpack. It included the 4-year-old&#8217;s &#8220;favorite Ivanka Trump sandals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>As for politics, Trump, 33, plays down her influence in her father&#8217;s quest for the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>But <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/the-chase\">Donald Trump<\/a> volunteers Ivanka&#8217;s name when asked whose advice he values. It was Ivanka who introduced her father when he announced his campaign for president. It was Ivanka who huddled with him during the breaks when the Republican debates heated up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s got great sensibility,&#8221; he says, with obvious admiration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>In one debate, he even suggested her for a place on the $10 bill (with Rosa Parks as an alternative.) And, years ago, there was the time when he complimented her figure and joked that if she &#8220;weren&#8217;t my daughter, perhaps I&#8217;d be dating her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Ivanka Trump declined to be interviewed and her father&#8217;s campaign declined to define what she&#8217;s doing for the campaign. But a person familiar with their interactions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because discussion of internal conversations was not authorized, says Ivanka has helped with campaign messaging and helped develop her father&#8217;s tax plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>When he was criticized for making derogatory remarks about women, he pushed back with a testimonial of sorts from Ivanka and his current wife, Melania. Both, he says, have attested to his &#8220;great respect for women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Trump the candidate has promised that both women will be &#8220;out very much on the campaign trail.&#8221; But his wife, a former model, appears content to let Ivanka take the lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>It&#8217;s a role Ivanka is comfortable with \u2014 in business if not in politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>As a college student, she already was looking past modeling gigs to bigger things. She liked to scan the New York skyline and imagine which &#8220;patch of sky maybe one of my buildings will be in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>She laid out those aspirations In &#8220;Born Rich,&#8221; a 2003 documentary that a fabulously wealthy classmate made about his fabulously wealthy friends. While some of the others were conflicted about their lives of wealth and privilege, Trump had gotten over any angst about life in her famous family&#8217;s shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a bad shadow to be under,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>As for her dream of altering skylines, it&#8217;s now her reality as the Trump Organization&#8217;s executive vice president for development and acquisitions. Deals in Rio de Janeiro and Vancouver are in the pipeline. She helped land the Doral Resort &amp; Spa deal in Florida while nine months pregnant with Arabella. Now five months pregnant with her third child, she was in Washington last week checking on redevelopment of the Old Post Office Pavilion as a Trump hotel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>One measure of her intensity: &#8220;When I write with a ball point pen, I press so hard it&#8217;s like Braille on the opposite side of the paper,&#8221; Trump says on her website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>But she also says she tries to leave the office by 6 p.m. for family time at her Park Avenue apartment before resuming work later in the evening, resigned to five hours or less of sleep. Trump converted to Judaism before marrying her husband, real estate developer and publisher Jared Kushner, and the family puts business on hold to observe the Sabbath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>&#8220;From Friday to Saturday we don&#8217;t do anything but hang out with one another,&#8221; Trump told Vogue this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>If anything, her position in the Trump real estate realm has only increased as her father spends more time on the campaign. She and her two brothers from Trump&#8217;s first marriage all work in the Trump Organization, one floor down from their father&#8217;s 26th floor suite \u2014 in that tower she once replicated with Legos. There are also two younger Trump children from her father&#8217;s second and third marriages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Trump is circumspect about her own politics \u2014 she donates about equally to Democrats and Republicans, and counts Chelsea Clinton as a good friend \u2014 but says her father would be &#8220;excellent as a president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>She&#8217;s as generous with superlatives as he is, calling him an &#8220;unbelievable leader&#8221; and saying she&#8217;s &#8220;incredibly proud&#8221; of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Trump made those remarks at a recent Fortune magazine &#8220;Most Powerful Women Summit,&#8221; where her arrival on stage in a sleek black dress and towering leopard-print heels triggered murmurs of admiration. The audience applauded at word of her pregnancy, and laughed along when she joked about a new baby &#8220;adding another layer of chaos&#8221; to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>She spoke of her various enterprises as all about building the Trump brand. She seemed keenly aware that getting too deeply involved in a polarized political race wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be advantageous when pushing Ivanka Trump bangles and bags to millennials of all political persuasions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum,&#8221; she said of her father&#8217;s candidacy, &#8220;I think everyone can appreciate the fact that he&#8217;s creating dialogue around some very real issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>___<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>___<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Follow Nancy Benac on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nbenac\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/nbenac<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-in-text-target \">\n<p>Copyright 2015 The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/entertainment\/articles\/2015\/10\/20\/all-about-ivanka-trumps-daughter-muse-and-deal-maker\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/entertainment\/articles\/2015\/10\/20\/all-about-ivanka-trumps-daughter-muse-and-deal-maker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}