How Ivanka Trump could become America’s first female president

There are big clues Donald Trump’s glamorous daughter has the White House in her sights. And she has some secret weapons up her sleeve.

Despite Donald Trump's remarkable dummy spit, it seems all but certain he will be prised from the White House in January following his crushing election loss.

While President Trump is yet to officially concede, the transition process is now well underway despite the 74-year-old’s unproven but repeated allegations of voter fraud.

But as Democrats across the nation celebrate Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden’s win, it has become abundantly clear the Trump family will not disappear quietly – and there’s a widespread belief the Trump name will make a political comeback in the near future.

TRUMP 2024?

There’s fevered speculation Donald Trump himself will run for office again in 2024, with a recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll revealing he was the clear favourite among Republican Party supporters.

While he is constitutionally able to run again, Mr Trump will be 78 in 2024 – and his famous unpredictability means nothing is set in stone, according to US political commentator and author Spencer Critchley.

“I think it is a possibility, but any form of long-term planning does not apply to Donald Trump,” Mr Critchley told news.com.au.

“He might sincerely believe he will do something, but he has no control over his impulses.

“He’s up then he’s suddenly down, and all we can count on from one day to the next is that he will pursue whatever his self-interest is in that moment.”

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There are rumours Donald Trump could run again in 2024. Picture: Ngan/AFP

PRESIDENTIAL CLUES

But Mr Critchley, a former communications consultant for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, said recent clues implied Mr Trump’s adult children Donald Jr and Ivanka were both seriously considering running for president in future.

He said everything Don Jr had done recently, including speaking at the “right” conservative gatherings and forcefully echoing his father’s election rigging claims, indicated he was trying to build up a political profile.

Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump has been notably and perhaps strategically silent compared to the rest of her family’s ongoing voter fraud allegations, with Vanity Fair reporting the First Daughter “appears to be in extremely frantic damage control mode”, posting a string of recent tweets spruiking Trump administration “wins”.

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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 24, 2020

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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 24, 2020

Mr Critchley said neither of the Trump children had much “substance” and instead represented the “narcissism epidemic” that was sweeping the developed world.

But he said Ivanka, who has served as her father’s adviser since 2017 along with her husband Jared Kushner, was more likely to succeed than either of her brothers.

If she were to pull it off, she would become America’s first female president – an accomplishment most were convinced would be Hillary Clinton’s before her 2016 defeat.

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Could a Trump political dynasty be in the works? Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

‘BIGGEST THREAT’

Mr Critchley said the Trump family’s presidential ambitions were “very much symbolic of the trivialism of our culture” given they had little in the way of serious political experience or qualifications, but said the marketing and entertainment industries had trained the public to value amusement and image over stable leadership in recent years.

However, he said that could work in the 39-year-old mother of three's favour.

“Don Jr is more of a buffoon, but Ivanka is more polished. Her reputation is built on marketing … and I find that absolutely chilling – it’s really all just a look and an attitude,” he said.

“In terms of who is the biggest threat, I would say Ivanka because she is better at faking charm and she gets cut way more slack than she deserves because she is elegantly presented and she comes across as reasonable.

“But I find that more horrifying in some ways, because at least with Trump Senior the ugliness was on the surface for all to see – but Ivanka is so smooth and polished she’s like an android.

“There’s just a void when you talk about what Ivanka stands for – it’s literally nothing. The whole point of an Ivanka presidency would be the success of the Ivanka Trump brand.”

Mr Critchley said he didn’t expect either Trump child would ever be elected as President – but pointed out he also didn’t believe Donald Trump would ever make it to the White House, and that anything could happen.

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Ivanka Trump has been front and centre of her dad’s administration. Picture: Dominique Jacovides/Pool/AFP

“Given the triviality of our culture in the US and the developed world … I believe both are going to fail but I don’t say that with a degree of confidence,” he said.

“We’ve shown we will elect somebody who is nothing but an image on a screen. Trump was a complete failure and a phony in his business career which was the opposite way from how he presented it – he came across as a successful billionaire on his TV show but it was a complete invention.

“What’s scary about this is why (Trump’s children) are under consideration as (presidential) possibilities.”

SO HOW DID WE GET HERE?

While Mr Trump’s 2016 election win stunned pollsters and the general public alike, Mr Critchley argued the writing had actually been on the wall for centuries.

A central theme of his book, Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable and What Happens Next, is the historic divide between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment thinking in the US.

He claims America is actually made up of two separate “nations” – one based on reason as the source of authority, while the other is led by values such as faith, tradition and culture.

But as the former is the dominant belief system, many of those who fall into the latter group have felt ignored and marginalised for some time, sowing the seeds of division.

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Ivanka Trump, pictured with Prince Harry, has been front and centre of her dad’s administration, even accompanying him on a state visit to England. Picture: Tolga Akmen – WPA Pool/Getty Images

At the same time, the conditions were just right for a charismatic and straight-talking “demagogue” like Mr Trump to “stumble” into power and take advantage of a changed media landscape, technological developments, globalisation, automation and grim economic conditions which have been steadily eroding working class jobs and financial security.

Mr Critchley said it was a mistake for the left to simply dismiss Trump supporters, and that it was essential to find out why “nearly half the country preferred him” in order to unite and heal the bitterly divided country.