Ivanka Trump

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Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born October 30, 1981 in New York ) is an American former entrepreneur , former model and former First Vice President of the Trump Organization . She has been an advisor to her father, US President Donald Trump, since March 2017 .

Life

Ivanka with Jared Kushner and their children in January 2017 at the parade for the swearing-in ceremony of Donald Trump.

Ivanka Trump is the second of three children from Donald Trump's first marriage to Ivana Trump . She has an older brother named Donald Jr. (* 1977) and a younger brother named Eric (* 1984). She also has a half-sister Tiffany (* 1993) and a half-brother Barron (* 2006). On October 25, 2009, she married businessman and political advisor Jared Corey Kushner . As Senior Advisor to the President of the US, her husband is one of Donald Trump's chief advisors and is considered a "silent key figure" on the US President's staff. Before their marriage, Trump converted from the Presbyterianism of her family of origin to Judaism through the Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein and adopted the new first name Yael . The Orthodox Jewish living couple lived in Park Avenue on the Upper East Side in New York City , visited the modern Orthodox synagogue Kehilath Jeshurun and keeps the Jewish dietary laws and the rules of the Sabbath one. At the beginning of 2017, the family moved into a $ 5.5 million mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC The Kushners have three children: Arabella Rose (* 2011), Joseph Frederick (* 2013), and Theodore James ( * 2016).

education

Ivanka Trump attended regarded as elitist Chapin School in New York and then Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford ( Connecticut ). She then studied economics : first two years at Georgetown University in Washington and then at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , where she graduated with a bachelor's degree with a cum laude grade in 2004 .

Business activity

In 1997 she had her first cover for the American teenage magazine Seventeen ; Model appearances for prominent (fashion) brands such as Versace and Tommy Hilfiger followed . Jewelery, shoes and a “ lifestyle ” website are marketed with their names . After her father was elected US president, her products, whose sales had plummeted by 70 percent in the previous weeks, were taken out of the range by the department store chain Nordstrom , which was criticized by Donald Trump and his spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway . The Neiman Marcus company no longer sells Ivanka Trump jewelry either. On July 24, 2018, she announced that she was going out of business with her brand to focus entirely on her White House activities.

After graduation, she worked for a while at the real estate company Forest City Enterprises ; In 2005 she joined the Trump Organization , her father's corporation. There she worked as Vice President of the Real Estate Department. In the summer of 2015, she and her two brothers Don and Eric de facto took over the management of the Trump Organization's operations after her father announced his candidacy for the 2016 US presidential election . On January 11, 2017, she announced that she was leaving the Trump Organization when her father took office and that she would follow her father to Washington. She has had her own office in the White House since March 20, 2017 and officially works as her father's advisor; she is not sworn in as a civil servant (as of March 20, 2017) and does not receive her own salary.

She and her husband say they have a net worth of about $ 740 million.

Support of her father

Ivanka Trump with her father during an election campaign appearance in February 2016
Ivanka and Donald Trump in Jerusalem

In the 2016 US presidential election campaign, she accompanied and supported her father in campaign appearances. Above all, she tried to win voters for her father. She maintains (as of 2016) a close friendship with Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea and avoided negative comments about the Clintons during the election campaign.

After her father's election victory on November 8, 2016 , she joined the transition team. Observers thought she was the actual future " First Lady " of America with her commitment to and with her father and her obviously close relationship , as the current wife of Trump, Melania , is considered to be public shy and is still tied to the upbringing of their son Barron. Originally it was said that Trump wanted to entrust large parts of his company to his daughter in the event of an election victory.

End of March 2017 was Ivanka Trump by her father for his presidency to the Assistant to the President appointed ( "Presidential Assistant") and received its own office in the White House. Without any reference of her own, she is supposed to deal with issues such as women , equality and health .

Ivanka Trump with Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel at the gala dinner of the Women20 summit.

Before the G20 summit in early July 2017, Ivanka Trump, referred to here as "First Daughter" (analogous to " First Lady "), appeared at the Women20 summit in Berlin at the end of April 2017 at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel . On April 25, she took part alongside Chrystia Freeland , Canadian Foreign Minister, Christine Lagarde , Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in a stage discussion moderated by Miriam Meckel on the disadvantage of women in the world of work and possible solutions . During the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8, 2017, Ivanka Trump was an official member of the US delegation and briefly represented her father at the main table of heads of state and government.

Publications

literature

  • Markus Günther: A woman for all occasions. Ivanka Trump knows when it is wiser to keep your mouth shut, in: FAS No. 34, August 27, 2017, p. 3.

Web links

Commons : Ivanka Trump  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Jens Schmitz: Intelligent, beautiful, influential. In: Badische Zeitung . December 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jared Kushner - The silent key figure. In: Handelsblatt.com . 19th November 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Isabel Kershner: Who Is a Jew? Maybe Not Woman Converted by Esteemed New York Rabbi. In: New York Times . June 23, 2016.
  4. ↑ Heike Buchter: The Whisperer. In: Zeit Online . 22nd November 2016.
  5. ^ A b Ivanka Trump Gives Birth to Third Jewish Baby. In: The General. March 28, 2016 (English).
  6. ^ Benjamin Freed, Trump and Jared Kushner's Move to Washington Is Deadly Serious , Washingtonian,  January 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Julie Zauzmer, Colby Itkowitz: Where will Ivanka Trump attend synagogue? Georgetown's Kesher Israel close to White House is one option. In: The Washington Post . December 19, 2016 (English).
  8. ↑ Josefin Dolsten: inner Meet the Jews in Donald Trump's circle. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency . November 14, 2014 (English).
  9. ^ Gabriel Sherman: The Legacy. In: New York . July 12, 2009 (English).
  10. ↑ What Really Drives Ivanka Trump? In: The Huffington Post. September 27, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Ivanka Trump's website .
  12. ↑ Jenni Miller: Sears, Kmart Dump Trump Home Products From Online Stores. In: New York . February 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ FAZ.net / dpa July 25, 2018: The crash of the Ivanka Trump brand
  14. ↑ Ivanka Trump | Facebook. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Guardian staff: Ivanka Trump has West Wing office and will get access to classified information. In: The Guardian. March 21, 2017, accessed March 21, 2017 . Donald Trump officially makes his daughter an employee. In: Zeit Online. March 30, 2017.
  16. ↑ Johanna Bruckner: How big the fortunes of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017 . Jesse Drucker, Eric Lipton and Maggie Haberman: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Still Benefiting From Business Empire, Filings Show. In: The New York Times. April 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017 .
  17. ^ Trump compares Hillary Clinton to a dog. In: FAZ.net . January 19, 2016 (video).
  18. ↑ Maren Hennemuth ( dpa ): News from the Trumps: Ivanka is now working for her father. In: badische-zeitung.de . March 31, 2017, accessed April 8, 2017.
  19. ↑ Women20 summit in Berlin - "Everywhere women earn less than men". In: deutschlandfunk.de . April 23, 2017.
  20. ↑ Women's summit: List of demands to Merkel. ( Memento from April 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: badische-zeitung.de. April 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ Kristina Dunz, Christiane jacket, dpa : Findings from Ivanka Trump's visit to Merkel. In: badische-zeitung.de. April 26, 2017.
  22. ↑ Alexander Smith: Ivanka Trump Grilled, Booed During Women20 Summit in Berlin. In: nbcnews.com . April 25, 2017 ("Ivanka Trump under pressure, booed at the W20 summit in Berlin").
  23. ↑ David Böcking, Vanessa Steinmetz: G20 vies for Ivanka Trump's favor. In: Spiegel Online . July 8, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Trump, Ivanka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trump, Ivanka Marie (full name); Kushner, Yael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businesswoman and former model
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States