Elections in the US: Ivanka Trump faces rejection from New York high society

Ivanka Trump, who once enjoyed the best of New York’s High Society, no doubt hoped to return to the city’s social scene when her father’s administration came to an end.

In April of last year, a lengthy profile of the 39-year-old, who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers for the past four years, on The Atlantic said that the first daughter “believes this is not it will harm her in the future. ” long-term”.

“He intends to return to New York when his time in the White House is up,” wrote reporter Elaina Plott, after speaking with several close friends of Trump.

“Invitations to the Met Gala, dinners with brides in Italian restaurants, charity events, she is said to be sure that ‘everyone is waiting for her.”

Now, when her father refuses to admit the loss of the presidential election to Joe Biden, almost three weeks later, Mrs. Trump and her husband and fellow Trump adviser, Jared Kushner, may have finally realized their dream of being welcomed from return arms is a long shot.

The couple, who married in 2009 and have three children, are reportedly planning to retire to their “cabin” on the grounds of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan.

Proposals to improve the house, sent to city officials and discovered by The New York Times, show plans to add a spa and yoga complex, move a helipad, and insert four courts of pickleball (a sport that combines elements of tennis. , table tennis and badminton).

The new plans also include the expansion of the master bedroom, bathroom and dressing room; two new bedrooms; a study and terrace on the ground floor, lining the house with the $ 5 million ($ 7.1 million) residence that they rent for $ 15,000 ($ 21,500) a month in Kalorama, Washington.

Trump’s representatives are set to present the plans to Bedminster Township on Dec. 3, although a family friend said renovations to the post have been underway for a while.

“In a strange way, they will even have a worse time than Trump himself in New York,” brand management mogul Donny Deutsch told The Times.

“He is despicable but larger than life. Those two are the hapless henchmen who accompanied him.”

While Kushner and Trump were initially seen as Trump’s liberal and moderate influences, until 2018, they were both registered Democrats; Trump was a close friend of Chelsea, the daughter of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 rival; His fierce alignment with the president throughout his administration has dramatically altered that perception.

His turbulent social journey came to a head in October when, after three years of complaints about the disruption of his tough security details; Pressures to deny admission of their children and the disastrous coronavirus outbreak in the White House: The couple withdrew their daughter Arabella and son Joseph from the Milton Gottesman Jewish School in Washington.

Trump has gone from projecting the image of an aspirational “working woman” with a fashion business and carefully cultivated personal brand to “MAGA royalty,” wrote her childhood best friend, Lysandra Ohrstrom, in a explosive item for Vanity Fair. week.

“When Ivanka joined her father’s administration, I was confident that she would step in to moderate her father’s more regressive racist tendencies,” Ohrstrom wrote.

“The Ivanka I knew spent her career developing and embodying a more polished and intellectual offshoot of the Trump brand, mixing the language and appearance of white millennial feminism with the mythical narrative of business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit that she claimed to have inherited from her father. … Instead, I have seen how Ivanka has destroyed the image that she worked so hard to build. “

Noted Upper East Side figure Jill Kargman told The Times that she has fantasized about the moment when the couple return to New York, only to be excluded from the circles they once moved through.

“I’ve had visions of Ivanka with her thousand-dollar hair and makeup trying to appear at the opera like that and get kicked out,” Ms. Kargman said.

“The poetic justice is that coming to New York would already put them in a kind of prison.”

“They will be welcomed back by people who know the Trumps are as close to power as possible,” one of “Javanka’s” former friends told Vanity Fair in a separate article.

“But everyone who respects themselves, a career, morals, respect for democracy or who does not want their friends to shame them in private and in public will stay away.”