Ivanka Trump has a transactional relationship with her father, opines New York Times columnist Frank Bruni and he certainly makes a good case for it. When Trump was elected in 2016, Ivanka couldn’t get enough of being the first daughter. Reports were that she and Jared had frequent conversations about which one of them would run for president first and it was decided that it would be her. Oh, the vainglory and delusion were flowing like milk and honey back in the halcyon days of the surprise Trump victory.
Now, the paradigm has inverted and Ivanka, far from having dreams of the White House, or even of running for the Senate, toppling somebody like say, Marco Rubio, have vanished into the horizon like the mirages they were. The cold, hard reality of what is going on has presented itself and Ivanka, once the most visible Trump family member, has vanished. And we mean, into thin air. New York Times:
Whither Ivanka? A fair-haired, fair-weather daughter has allegiances to re-examine and decisions to make, and not just about what to wear if there are jailhouse visits to come. Right here, right now, does she stand by Daddy? Or does she treat Mar-a-Lago as if it were Three Mile Island and run as fast and as far from it as she can?
Nepotism was never supposed to be this hard.
I ache for Ivanka. But mostly, I marvel at her — and at the many, many people like her who have a special talent, a preternatural discipline, for pausing at every pivotal crossroads and making a coldblooded, single-minded assessment: How do I navigate this to maximum advantage for me?
Ivanka navigates like Magellan. She’s GPS made flesh. At times, the coordinates and calculations have been easy: Daddy’s going to the White House; I will not be left behind. She traipsed after him to Washington. She traipsed after him to meetings with European leaders. She even traipsed after him to the Demilitarized Zone. She did so much traipsing that Twitter had a hashtag for it: #unwantedivanka. And then Daddy was dethroned, and the traipsing just wasn’t what it used to be.
Daddy’s been dethroned and that’s quite a drag. The MAGAs used to talk about Ivanka being the first woman president and bummer, doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anymore. Oh, well. At least there’s the money. At least Jared was able to hustle that.
And she’s the patron saint of all the unscrupulous opportunists who are taking little or big steps away from Daddy but contentedly ignored his depravity and destructiveness when there was power to be gained from that. When there was a profit to be made.
The day of Donald Trump’s indictment, a team of Times journalists reported that wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had invested hundreds of millions of dollars with a private equity firm that Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, started not long after he and she left the White House, where they had cultivated close ties to the Arab world.
That’s the bonanza that Ivanka R.S.V.P.’d to, not the bedlam since November 2020, not the ravings of Sidney Powell, the rioter in Viking horns, that wacky Waco rally, all these icky criminal cases.
Supposedly Ivanka visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago last Sunday, when she issued her nothing burger of a statement about how she loved her Daddy and her country and respected all the different political views across the spectrum, bla. It couldn’t have been vaguer, blander, or fallen more flat.
The woman has nothing to say, not that this is a surprise. This entire episode has got to be a massive jolt for her, because, like her father, she’s never known any kind of accountability. Life is just a series of messes and you hire people to clean them up and make you look good. The idea that you would actually have to deal with a mess yourself, especially one(s) like Donald Trump is in now, never crossed Ivanka’s mind. She’s utterly out of her depth and terrified of looking bad. She cannot defend the indefensible, which is her father’s behavior, and she knows it. And she doesn’t have the stomach to rant and rave against the Deep State like her brothers and her father’s television lawyers. So into seclusion she has gone, like Miss Havisham after getting jilted.
It’s just getting started, Vanky. The Trump name is soon going to be mud even more so than it is and you can forget your dreams of ever becoming part of New York society or high society anywhere. Schlepping around Palm Beach with Daddy’s rich asshole friends and his cultists is your portion from here on out. Deal with it.
I hope that Jack Smith can fix America by arresting those in public office that tried to overthrow the government in the name of organized crime.
I hope he locks them all up long enough for the party that works for America to pass a number of laws that will ELIMINATE the influence or effluent of the republiCLOWNS, permanently.
She and Jared had fancied themselves as part of that select group in NYC of “beautiful people”, the ones starting to take over the role of being the true elite and movers & shakers, kingmakers in that city. I imagine the both of them, but particularly wannabe Princess Ivanka were truly, utterly shocked when they started the process of plugging back into the NYC “magic circle” and were coldly rejected. Better still for me is that as time passed the cold, hard reality set in (thanks to how roundly they were rejected – not entirely politely being told they were not welcome back in NYC by those they thought were friends – and equals) that they NEVER were really part of the “in crowd” at all! No, like her daddy Wannabe Princess Ivanka was merely tolerated, but never truly one of the “Masters of the Universe.” Oh how I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when that realization hit home!
So now they (Jarvanka) are trying to ingratiate themselves into the south FL “beautiful people” “movers and shakers” scene. Oh the humiliation because let’s face it – it’s minor league compared to NYC. I suspect that if it hasn’t happened already those who have been longstanding members of the south FL social/financial “elite” have already taken the measure of Wannabe Princess ivanka and her hubby and found them wanting. And behind their backs talk about them using the ultimate insult of “nouveau riche!”
Maybe she will take her husband’s name.
Though not sure Kushner is faring much better in the social circles these days.
Likely, in FL, Jared is fairing better than Ivanka. Of course money talks a big game, and his friendships are based in wealth – but, To his advantage, Jared was born into a centuries old brotherhood. It’s a remarkable bond, far more real than a fake Ivy League Greek fraternity.
Ivanka’s history begins with a pimp for a grandfather. No DAR will ever let her in the door.
Who will love Ivanka?
princess has never had anything interesting, valuable, worthwhile, etc. to say. This is news now? I’m trying to figure out how anything she does, has done, or will do is “news”. WTF???
I imagine it’s something along the lines of “Well, once upon a time, she witnessed another heiress, Paris Hilton, becoming famous despite never really doing anything more than making a sex tape that ‘somehow’ got leaked.” And then, “Not long afterwards, realizing she didn’t want to do an icky sex tape–largely worried that she’d encourage extra unwanted attention from Daddy–she witnessed a quasi-unknown woman whose only real claim to fame was being the daughter of one of O J’s lawyers during that ‘nasty business’ suddenly rocketing to fame through a silly TV show about her less than interesting, but remarkably annoying family of lookalike sisters.” Realizing it took little more than a “famous name” to acquire one’s own fame in this era of “instant celebrity,” Ivanka saw that her father’s remarkably bizarre elevation to the Presidency was the most absolutely perfect way to acquire her own fame.
Unfortunately for her (and fortunately for the rest of us), she didn’t realize that those aforementioned “famous for being famous celebrities” managed to avoid doing anything of any real significance that might hinder their celebrity or notoriety–they didn’t really care why they were “making news” as long as the “news” didn’t offend people in political terms. Ivanka, however, chose to hitch her star to Daddy’s White House residency and that alone made her “brand” toxic to half the country while the other half generally didn’t make any real note of her if she wasn’t with “Him”–and I don’t mean Jared.
I’m here for the delicious vanilla princess schadenfruede.
Being a product of ANY woman and Trumpf, has a huge disadvantage from the moment the doctor slaps their butt to get the breathing and bawling started …
Dudley Do-Wrong welcomed them into his nest of stone cold stupidity, irresponsibility, and let them do practically anything, as long as it cost someone else’s money, or, in Ivanka’s case, kept her within arms reach at all times, photos of those two together, invariably showed his hands on her from early age of 12 or so …
Trump’s sick mind has formed certain moods and claims of innocence of all wrong doing, while the public’s exposure to his rants and totally inappropriate comments, (Like reducing a Seals’ wife to tears of tormented loss of her husband during an action of his team, which, of course he blasted her with sing-song sadness during his Congressional speech, if unknown details were released, could have been the result of Trump’s flapping, non-secure mouth) …
He has absolutely NO sense of caring for another person, other than himself … Ivanka has no more use to him, rejection being an important cog in the wheel of Trump’s trusted friends, loyalty at any costs, puts you on his, (Close friends and Family list) …
Good luck Ivanka, grow old with Jug Head/family in your secret cabin in the Swiss Alps … /S 🙂
Well there are hints now that Jarvanka are having marital issues, so while I don’t wish that on anybody, even them, maybe she will need to learn how to deal with ‘totally alone’ status pretty soon. The way she tried to muscle in on the action in Washington was pretty comical really, and when the high powered ladies at that world meeting dissed her attempts at joining their conversation, that was very sad. But of course they knew what she is – a nothing brain just shoving herself in wherever there might be a potential advantage.
Is it just me, or does she look more than a little like the great Hilary Clinton in that picture?
Maybe it’s the sight of a Trump family member holding a book the right way up?
Of course it could be photoshop?
Perhaps she should change her last name from Trump to Dumped? Ivanka Dumped sounds rather nice.