Ivanka Trump is far and away the most visually appealing aspect of the impending Trump presidency. The 35-year-old mother of three has Victoria’s Secret Angel looks, an aristocrat’s measured demeanor, and an ability to relate that endears her to virtually anybody she meets.
Well, maybe not those gay dudes on the Jet Blue flight.
They weren’t Ivanka fans, which makes sense considering they aren’t attracted to women.
But she is more than just a perfectly symmetrical face careening around in a model’s body. She is what the wife-seeking refer to as the “total package”.
By all accounts she has her daddy’s ear on a number of issues, his personal conduct on the campaign trail being one of them.
Billionaire business magnate and close family friend Carl Icahn had this to say about the first daughter’s relationship with her dad:
“I think her father really listens to her and when I say listens to her I mean I think her father respects her a great deal, and not just because she’s his daughter.”
Judge Donald Trump if you will. Judge the businessman. Hell, judge the man.
But you would be hard-pressed after examining his children-with Ivanka as the prime example-to judge him as a father.
He took part in raising one bad chick.
She’s unapologetic about her decisions:
“I learned a long time ago that I can’t control the opinions of others or what they project on me. All I can do is live my life, and I’ve tried to do that,” she has said.
After the infamous “grab her by the pussy” tape leaked, she showed that she can be objectively critical, even if it means issuing a reprimand of her own dad:
“My father’s comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive and I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people,” Ivanka responded in a statement to Fast Company.
Plus, she has a swing that would put professional athletes to shame (looking at you, Chuck Barkley):
Her looks and honest nature alone would make her unique among first daughters, many of whom would assume live their life in anonymity rather than being thrust into the limelight that comes with being a member of the First Family.
Ivanka has embraced her inevitable fame from a young age.
You could say she grabbed the limelight by the….horns.
It is the level of competence that she consistently brings to her professional endeavors that qualifies her as a role model for working women, and working moms in particular.
Hey, Rosie the Riveter. How many $200 million hotel conversion projects have you headed?
How many $100 million apparel lines aimed at working women have you cultivated?
The face of modern feminine achievement lives in a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side, and she’s not above flashing some skin, either.
But she was born into massive wealth, fed truffle-laced Gerber with a literal golden spoon, critics may astutely point out.
It is a sure-fire recipe for success, they may naively posit:
And we rest our case.
But donning Ivanka as the most influential/important/impressive First Daughter in history necessarily begets comparisons.
Gerald Ford’s only daughter, Susan, was known for making breast cancer awareness her personal cause. A very noble cause, indeed. She is credited, along with her breast cancer surviving mother, as being a large reason that we now dedicate a month out of each year to bring greater awareness to breast cancer and how to recognize it.
Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter Alice was a strong-minded rebel, with her father stating:
“I can be president of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”
She also embarked on a four month tour of Asia, helping to plant seeds of diplomacy that would ultimately aid in leading to the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
Her dad would ultimately get the glory, being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator between the two nations as a peace treaty was signed at Portsmouth, NH.
Still, her willingness to embrace a trans-Asian trek in the early 1900s is nothing short of impressive.
Anne Roosevelt embraced an increased role as her father Franklin became increasingly ill in his later years.
These figures should not be overlooked or devalued.
But when all is said and done with the Trump administration, Ivanka has the opportunity to have far greater impact than any of those young women, for an array of reasons.
For one, she occupies a different era in time. This is crucial.
Women have a greater platform than ever, and due to her dad’s status she has always had a more visible stage than most. So far she has made the most of the stage, and has vowed to use her proximity to the President to enact positive change in a number of uniquely feminine causes.
For conservatives, her vows can seem understandably perplexing. The issues she has purported to take on are undeniably higher on progressive priority lists than those who were responsible for her father being elected.
But, as we have come to see, playing peacemaker is in Ivanka’s nature. And it suits her.
In the end, her pursuit of these causes will not bankrupt the nation. She can’t enact any policy more extreme than the ones President Obama has already put in place.
Embracing these causes can only lead to more hippies and Never Trumpers understanding (assuming they are capable of such a thing) that his administration is not the second coming of the Thousand Year Reich.
The wage gap between men and women is something many contest, citing flawed metrics and a number of extraneous factors in their argument.
The same thing can be said about “climate change”.
These are two causes she has vowed to undertake as First Daughter.
Let her. She knows what she’s doing.
And she knows the demographic that is going to keep her in a position to influence policy.
What she is, is a graduate of U Penn’s prestigious Wharton School of Business, like her father.
She is a published author of a New York Times bestseller, doling out advice on how to succeed in business and life.
She is a member of Fortune Magazine’s ’40 Under 40′ list.
She’s a married mother of three young kids who has found the time to maintain multiple professional endeavors on an immensely successful level.
And she’s not too harsh on the eyes.
For all of these reasons Ivanka has the potential and the opportunity to be more influential than First Lady Melania Trump and many First Ladies before her.
Sorry Michelle Obama, that crusade to reverse childhood obesity one mystery meal at a time wasn’t exactly the health revolution we hoped it would be:
If she sticks to her current life trajectory, she will have race relations quelled by 2019 (just kidding, she’s not Merlin).
We have increasingly high hopes for the next four years, and having Ivanka on Team Trump is no small part of our belief.
Did we mention that she’s not hard on the eyes?
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