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Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (; born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman. She is the second child of
Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...
, the
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, and his first wife,
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. Trump was a senior advisor in her father's first administration (2017–2021), and also the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. Born and raised in
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, Trump attended the
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and later
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. She pursued higher education at
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before transferring to the
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, where she graduated ''
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'' with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004. Trump
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prior to marrying
Jared Kushner Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He is a son-in-law of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, through his marriage to Ivanka Trump and served as a senior advisor in his father-in- ...
, a real estate developer, in 2009. The couple have three children. Prior to her political career, she was an executive vice president of her family-owned
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and also a boardroom judge on her father's television show, '' The Apprentice''. She also had a fashion lifestyle brand called under her own name that consisted of apparel, footwear, handbags, jewelry, and fragrance; Trump shut down the company in July 2018. In January 2017, Trump became an unofficial advisor in her father's first presidential administration alongside her husband. In March that year, she became an official employee in his administration. While serving in the White House, she continued to retain ownership of businesses, which raised ethics concerns, specifically conflicts of interest.


Early life and education

Ivana Marie Trump was born on October 30, 1981, in
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, New York City, as the second child of
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and his first wife, the Czech-American model
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(). For most of her life, she has been nicknamed "Ivanka", a Slavic
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form of her first name Ivana. Trump's parents divorced in 1990 when she was nine years old. She has two full brothers, Donald Jr. and
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, a half-sister, Tiffany, and a half-brother, Barron. Trump attended Christ Church and the
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in Manhattan until switching to
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at age 15 in
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. While attending boarding school as a teenager, she also began modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year", according to her late mother, Ivana. In May 1997, she was featured on the cover of '' Seventeen'' which ran a story on "celeb moms & daughters" as well as in campaigns for
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, Thierry Muglar and
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. After graduating from Choate in 2000, Trump attended
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for two years before transferring to the
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, from which she graduated ''
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'' with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004. She is the first Jewish member of an American first family, having converted before marrying her husband,
Jared Kushner Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He is a son-in-law of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, through his marriage to Ivanka Trump and served as a senior advisor in his father-in- ...
, in 2009.


Career


Business

After graduating from Wharton, Trump briefly worked for the real estate firm Forest City Ratner. As executive vice president of development and acquisitions of
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, she was responsible for the domestic and global expansion of the company's real estate interests. Trump led the request for proposal (RFP) with the
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in February 2012, resulting in the final selection of the Trump Organization to develop the historic Old Post Office in Washington, D.C. She then oversaw the $200-million conversion of the building into a luxury hotel, which opened in 2016. Trump also led the acquisition and redevelopment of the Doral Hotel, a 700-room resort, in Miami. Independent of her family's real estate business, Trump also had her own line of ''Ivanka Trump'' fashion items, which included clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories, available in U.S. and Canadian department stores including
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and Hudson's Bay. Trump formed a partnership with Dynamic Diamond Corp., the company of the diamond vendor Moshe Lax, in 2007 to create ''Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry,'' a line of diamond and
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sold at her first flagship retail store in
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. She also began selling jewelry online through her brand's website, which had a major relaunch in August 2010. Her flagship moved from
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to 109 Mercer Street, a larger space in the
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district, in November 2011. Celebrities were spotted wearing her jewelry including
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on the cover of '' Glamour'' and
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on the cover of '' W'' magazine. Her brand was named "Launch of the Year" in 2010 by '' Footwear News''. Trump's brand also went on to win other awards. Between 2010 and 2018, Trump was also a paid consultant for The Trump Organization. This "non-employee" dual status has been questioned while reviewing taxes and financial disclosures. Trump closed down the company and separated herself from her business affiliations at the Trump Organization after she moved to D.C. to serve as a senior advisor to her father in the White House. Members of 100 Women in Hedge Funds selected Trump to their board in December 2012. Trump's flagship store on Mercer Street was reported to be closed in October 2015, and her brand was available at various retail locations including the
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, Hudson's Bay, and fine-jewelry stores. She also had her own line of fashion items available in department stores. Her brand faced criticism for using rabbit fur and was involved in a design infringement lawsuit with Aquazzura Italia SRL, which was later settled. Shoes sold under her brand's name were supplied by Chengdu Kameido Shoes and Hangzhou HS Fashion. The
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recognized Trump with the Breakthrough Award, presented by designer
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in 2015. Between March and July 2016, Trump applied for 36 trademarks in China. Seven of them were approved between her father's inauguration in January 2017 and Chinese president
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's state visit in the U.S. in April. Three provisional trademarks for handbags, jewelry, and spa services were granted on the day Xi dined with President Trump and his family at
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. According to a trademark lawyer, the process usually takes 18 to 24 months. A Chinese government spokesman said that "the government handles all trademark applications equally." ''
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'' reported in 2017, "an astounding 258 trademark applications were lodged under variations of Ivanka, Ivanka Trump and similar- sounding Chinese characters between Nov 10 and the end of last year... none appear to have a direct business link with the US president's daughter." In 2017, she partnered with the World Bank to launch a fund for financing female entrepreneurs.
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and
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dropped Trump's fashion line due to poor sales in 2017, and other retailers followed. Three members of China Labor Watch were arrested in China while investigating a company that produces shoes for American brands, including Trump's brand. Trump announced in July 2018 that she shut down her company after deciding to pursue a career in
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instead of returning to her fashion business.


Television

Trump filled in for the businesswoman Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of the fifth season of her father's television program '' The Apprentice'', first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2. Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams. Trump collaborated with season 5 winner Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice, Trump SoHo Hotel-Condominium. She replaced Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the sixth season of ''The Apprentice'' and its follow-up iteration, '' Celebrity Apprentice''. In 1997, at the age of 15, Trump co-hosted the
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Pageant, which was partially owned by her father, Donald Trump, from 1996 to 2005. In 2006, she was a guest judge on ''
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s third season. She reappeared as a guest judge on season 4 of '' Project Runway All Stars'' in 2014 and 2015. In 2010, Trump and her husband made a cameo portraying themselves in Season 4 Episode 6 of ''
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''.


Modeling

While Trump was attending boarding school as a teenager, she also began modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year", according to her mother Ivana Trump. She was featured in advertisements for Tommy Hilfiger, ''Elle'', Vogue, Teen Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and
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, She also engaged in fashion runway work. In May 1997, she was featured on the cover of ''Seventeen''. Trump has been profiled in many women's fashion magazines, including '' Vogue'', ''Glamour'', ''Marie Claire'', and ''Elle''. She was featured on covers such as ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Forbes'', ''Forbes Life'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Golf Digest'', ''Town & Country'', ''Elle Décor'', ''Shape'', and ''Stuff'' magazine. Trump was featured in '' Vanity Fair''s annual International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 2007 and 2008.


Books


The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life

In October 2009, Trump's first
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book, '' The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life,'' was published; according to the
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Daniel Paisner, he co-wrote the book.


Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success

In May 2017, her second
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book, '' Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success'', was published; it is a self-improvement book for women in business, which featured contributions from business and leadership experts such as
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, Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, Simon Sinek, and
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. She donated $200,000 in royalties to the
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and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Half the advance of the book was also donated to fund a Women's Entrepreneur Center at the National Urban League in
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, after visiting the facility with Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League. The book was part of Trump's associated marketing campaign also titled "Women Who Work". It received mixed reviews from critics.


Trump campaign and administration


2016 presidential campaign and election

Trump introduced her father at the Trump Tower in 2015 as he announced his candidacy for president of the United States. She publicly endorsed his presidential campaign and made public appearances supporting and defending him. However, she admitted mixed feelings about his presidential ambitions, saying in October 2015, "As a citizen, I love what he's doing. As a daughter, it's obviously more complicated." In January 2016, Trump praised her father in a radio ad that aired in the early voting states of
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and
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. She appeared by his side following the results of early voting states in 2016, in particular briefly speaking in
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. She was not able to vote in the New York primary in April 2016 because she had missed the October 2015 deadline to change her registration to Republican. Trump introduced her father in a speech immediately before his own speech at the
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(RNC) in July. The
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song " Here Comes the Sun" was used as her entrance music. She stated, "One of my father's greatest talents is the ability to see the potential in people", and said he would "
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". Her speech was well received as portraying Donald Trump "in a warmer-than-usual light", according to ''
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''. After the speech, viewers commented that the speech was "one of the best – if not the best – of the night", and that Trump is the "greatest asset Donald Trump has". Others said that her speech was the "high point of the convention". An earlier ''Post'' article had questioned whether the policy positions Trump espoused were closer to those of
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than to those of her father. After the speech, the George Harrison estate complained about the use of his song as being offensive to their wishes. The next morning, Ivanka's official Twitter account tweeted, "Shop Ivanka's look from her #RNC speech" with a link to a
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page that featured the dress she wore. After her father's election, Trump wore a bracelet on a ''
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'' segment with her family, which her company then used in a marketing effort. When asked about it, she pointed to a marketing employee at one of her companies. In 2017, the artist
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returned a $36,000 payment he received in 2014 for a work depicting Trump as a protest against her father. A coalition of New York art world figures unhappy with President Trump started an Instagram account called Dear Ivanka to protest against Donald Trump's presidency. Trump attended the inauguration of her father as the 45th president of the United States, at the United States Capitol Building in
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She partly negotiated rates of hotel rooms, rental spaces, and meals at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on which her father's inaugural committee spent funds it privately raised (a standard practice for inaugural committees),
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and
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reported in December 2018. In May 2019, the
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requested documents about her and her sibling's role in her father's
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, although Trump did not have "any official role in running the committee".


Advisor to the President of the United States

In January 2017, Trump resigned from her position at the
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. The organization also removed images of Trump and her father from their websites, in accordance with official advice on federal ethics rules. After advising her father in an unofficial capacity for the first two months of his administration, Trump was appointed "First Daughter and Advisor to the President," a government employee, on March 29, 2017. She did not take any salary for the position and didn't receive any government health benefits during her four years at the White House. She also became the head of the newly established Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. During the early months of her father's administration, some commentators compared her role in the administration to that of Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of President
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. Nixon's daughter was one of the most vocal defenders of his administration, and Ivanka Trump defended President Trump and his administration against a myriad of allegations. The ''Washington Post'' opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg wrote, "Both daughters served as important validators for their fathers." In late April 2017, Trump hired Julie Radford as her chief of staff. Before the end of the month, Trump and Radford had plans to travel with Dina Powell and Hope Hicks to the first W20 women's summit. The W20 was organized by the National Council of German Women's Organizations and the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs as one of the preparatory meetings leading up to the G20 head-of-state summit in July. At the conference, Trump spoke about women's rights. The US media reported that when she praised her father as an advocate for women, some people in the audience hissed and booed in response. The same month, Trump and then
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president
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authored an op-ed published in the ''
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'' on women's economic empowerment, highlighting the critical role that women play in the development of societies and the business case for involving women in the formal economy. Trump advocated for revisions to the Senate tax bill, which proposed doubling the child tax credit. In July 2017, Trump attended the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, with President Trump and the United States delegation. She launched We-Fi (Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative), a United States-led billion-dollar World Bank initiative to advance women's entrepreneurship. In August 2017, President Trump announced that Ivanka would lead a U.S. delegation to India in the fall in global support of women's entrepreneurship. In September 2017, Trump delivered an anti-human trafficking speech at the
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, calling it "the greatest human rights issue of our time". The event was hosted by then British prime minister
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, who personally invited Trump to a patriciate, in collaboration with Great Britain and Ireland. Trump led the United States presidential delegation to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games closing ceremony in February 2018. She dined with South Korean President
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at his residence, the
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. Trump supported passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (HR 1865), which passed through both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2019. She and her father attended the
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in late June 2019; the French government released a video of her awkwardly inserting herself into a conversation with world leaders, leading to online parodies and memes. After the G20 Summit in Osaka in June 2019, Trump joined President Trump to meet with the North Korean leader
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inside the Korean peninsula's
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. She described the experience as "surreal". In 2019 to advance her "Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative", and advocate for changes in laws to allow women to freely participate in the economy, Trump visited countries receiving US development assistance including
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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, as well as attended the 74th United Nations General Assembly. The Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP) also aimed to increase access to vocational training, capital, and networks for women in the workforce, and remove limits on women's economic participation. The two houses of Congress introduced bipartisan bills to attempt to codify the initiative. Trump backed a bill to fund paid family and medical leave for federal employees, which was passed by the Senate in December 2019. In 2021, a
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audit concluded that Trump's initiative, which spent $265 million a year of taxpayer money on 19 women's empowerment projects, failed to target the money towards projects that related to women's empowerment, and did not measure the impact of the spending. In January 2020, Trump organized a Human Trafficking Summit at the White House where President Trump signed an executive order expanding his domestic policy office with a new position solely focused on combating human trafficking. In June 2020, Trump hosted an event at the White House with the Attorney General
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, special advisor Heather C. Fischer, non-profit leaders, and survivors of human trafficking to announce $35 million in grant funding to aid victims of human trafficking. Trump was credited with proposing the controversial photo opportunity for President Donald Trump holding a bible in front of St. John's Church, which required violently clearing peaceful protesters. She walked with her father to the site and carried the bible in her
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purse. In July 2020, Trump tweeted a picture of herself with a
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bean can, endorsing the product. The owner of Goya Foods had days prior praised President Trump, leading to a backlash against the company. Trump's tweet raised ethics concerns, given that Trump was at the time an official adviser in the White House, and employees in public office are not permitted to endorse products. In September 2020, Trump joined William Barr, the governor of Georgia
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, the first lady of Georgia Marty Kemp, and
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in Atlanta to announce $100 million in grant funding for human trafficking. While serving in her father's administration, Trump retained ownership of businesses, which drew criticism from government ethics experts who said it created conflicts of interest. It is not possible to determine the exact amount of Trump's outside income while working in her father's administration because she is only required to report the worth of her assets and liabilities in ranges to the Office of Government Ethics. The incomes of Trump and her husband Jared Kushner ranged from $36.2 million to $157 million in 2019, at least $29 million in 2018, and at least $82 million in 2017. In 2019, she earned $3.9 million from her stake in the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C.


2020 presidential campaign

In August 2020, Trump introduced her father at the 2020 Republican National Convention, by which he proceeded on the front lawn of the
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to accept the party's nomination before a crowd of supporters.


Capitol riot and post-presidential career

Trump refused to address the rally at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, but was in attendance. During the ensuing riot at the U.S. Capitol, she encouraged her father to make a video on
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condemning the riots, acting as an
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between besieged U.S. officials and the President. (Donald Trump's video resulted in him being banned from the platform as he said "we love you" to the rioters.) In June 2022, Trump told the panel of the
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that she did not believe the election was stolen and accepted William Barr's conclusion that voter fraud claims have "zero basis". When asked about her father's 2024 bid for presidency in November 2022, she said,
I love my father very much. This time around I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics. While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena. I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our Administration's accomplishments.


Social and political causes

In 2007, Trump donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of then-Senator
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. In 2012, she endorsed
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's presidential campaign. In 2013, Trump and her husband hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic politician
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, and the couple bundled more than $40,000 for Booker's
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campaign. During her father's presidency, Trump transformed from a liberal to an "unapologetically"
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, "proud Trump Republican". At the
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, she said of her political views: "Like many of my fellow
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, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat." In 2018, Trump changed her New York voter registration from Democratic to Republican.


Philanthropy

In 2010, Trump cofounded Girl Up with the
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. She was a member of the board of the Donald J. Trump Foundation until it was dissolved after then New York attorney general Barbara Underwood filed a civil lawsuit against the foundation for "persistently illegal conduct" with respect to the foundation's money. In 2014, Trump launched IvankaTrump.com and the Women Who Work campaign which focused on young, modern professional women, aiming to provide a comprehensive lifestyle guide. In November 2019, Trump's father was ordered to pay a $2 million settlement for misusing the foundation for his business and political purposes. The settlements also included mandatory training requirements for herself and her two elder brothers. Trump also has ties to a number of Jewish charities, including Chai Lifeline, a charity which helps to look after children with
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. Other charities she supports include
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, to which her father, Donald Trump, has reportedly made six-figure donations in the past. After she was appointed advisor to the president, Trump donated the unpaid half of the advance payments for her book '' Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success'' to the
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and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Trump collaborated with the nonprofit organizations CityServe, City of Destiny, and Mercy Chefs to supply a million meals to Ukrainian families in March 2022. In December that year, she purchased generators for CityServe's partner churches in Ukraine that were without power. That same year, alongside healthcare industry leaders, she organized five cargo planes of requested medical supplies for Ukraine with the support of the
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and the Polish ambassador to the UN.


Personal life

Trump has a close relationship with her father, who has publicly expressed his admiration for her on several occasions. Ivanka has likewise praised her father, complimenting his leadership skills and saying he empowers other people. Sarah Ellison, writing for '' Vanity Fair'' in 2018, noted that "everyone in the family seems to acknowledge" that Ivanka is her father's "favorite" child. This had been confirmed by the family members themselves in a 2015 interview with
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on network television where the siblings were gathered and acknowledged this. According to her late mother, Ivanka speaks French and understands
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. In January 2017 it was announced that she and Kushner had made arrangements to establish a family home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Federal filings implied that, in 2017, Trump and her husband may have assets upwards of $740 million. They had previously shared an apartment on
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in New York City, which Trump chose due to its proximity to her work with the
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. The residence was featured in ''
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'' in 2012 with Kelly Behun as its interior decorator. Since leaving Washington in 2021, Ivanka and her husband have been residents of
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. Trump began practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu under the Valente brothers alongside her husband and children.


Relationships and marriage

Trump was in a near four-year relationship with Greg Hersch while in college. From 2001 to 2005, she dated James "Bingo" Gubelmann. In 2005, she started dating the real estate developer
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, whom she met through mutual friends. The couple broke up in 2008 due to the objections of Kushner's parents but reconciled and married in a Jewish ceremony on October 25, 2009. They have three children: a daughter born in July 2011, and two sons born in October 2013 and March 2016 respectively. In an interview on '' The Dr. Oz Show'', Trump revealed that she had suffered from
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after each of her pregnancies.


Religion

Raised as a
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Christian, Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism in July 2009, after studying with Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox
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. Trump took the
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name " Yael" (). She describes her conversion as an "amazing and beautiful journey" which her father supported "from day one", adding that he has "tremendous respect" for the Jewish faith. She attests to keeping a kosher diet and observing the Jewish
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, saying in 2015: "We're pretty observant... It's been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with
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, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls." When living in New York City, she used to send her daughter to Jewish kindergarten. She said: "It's such a blessing for me to have her come home every night and share with me the Hebrew that she's learned and sing songs for me around the holidays." In November 2016, Trump and her husband made a
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to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a popular prayer site, shortly before her father's election victory. In May 2017, the couple also accompanied her father on the latter's first official visit to
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as president. As part of the trip to Israel, her father became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit the
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. Ivanka also visited the
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Holocaust memorial in western
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and the
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in the Christian Quarter of the
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during the same trip.


Recognition

In 2012, the Wharton Club of New York, the official Wharton
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for the New York metropolitan area, gave Trump the Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership, one of their four annual awards for alumni. In 2014, ''
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'' magazine included Trump in their 40 Under 40 list. In 2015, she was honored as a
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by the
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, ''
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'' magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. In January 2020, Trump received the "Friend of Israel Award" from the Israeli-American Council. The same year she was honored with the
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' Alexander Hamilton Award.


Cultural depictions

Men dressed as Trump have attended protests against her father
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. On ''
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'', Trump has been portrayed by cast member
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, as well as the guest hosts Margot Robbie,
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, and
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. Former cast member
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, who played Trump on the show in 2005, impersonated her again on ''
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'' in 2017. Trump has also been portrayed on ''
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'' (2017) and ''
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.'' In the eleventh season of ''
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'', a satirical version of her was portrayed by Mercedes Iman Diamond in " Trump: The Rusical".
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has a wax sculpture of Trump. Jennifer Rubell's 2019 art exhibition '' Ivanka Vacuuming'' featured a model resembling Trump
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ing crumbs thrown by spectators.


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