President Donald J. Trump is about to leave the White House in less than eight weeks, which means he’s taking his entire brood with him to new post-White House life. Among those seeking a new residence and career: his daughter, Ivanka Trump.
“When Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner first took jobs in the White House in 2017, they presumably assumed that eight years later, they’d return to New York and be crowned the king and queen not just of an exclusive social set but the city — nay, the entire globe. Vogue would put them on the cover of the September issue. Billionaires would beg them to sit on the boards of their companies to lend an air of credibility,” reporter Bess Levin wrote for Vanity Fair.
“Instead, they’re being unceremoniously booted out of the place after just four years, with significantly worse reputations than when they started,” Levin added. “To be clear, no one was falling all over themselves to get an audience with the couple before Donald Trump was inaugurated. But they weren’t reviled among the people whose opinions they presumably once and probably do still care about, with just a narrow portion of Manhattan reportedly looking forward to their return and an open invitation from Staten Island to take the ferry out and put down roots.”
Levin added that “a former friend of” Ivanka and Kushner told her Vanity Fair colleague, Emily Jane Fox, “Everyone with self-respect, a career, morals, respect for democracy — or who doesn’t want their friends to shame them both in private and public — will steer clear.”