Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner want ‘clean break’ from Donald Trump’s presidency

As she settles into life as a private citizen and considers a possible run for office, Ivanka Trump is seeking to distance herself from her father’s reign.

As she settles into life as a private citizen and considers a potential run for office of her own, Ivanka Trump is seeking to distance herself from her father’s tumultuous White House reign.

From the comfort of their luxury oceanfront Miami apartment, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, are “looking forward to having a clean break”, a close associate of the couple told Vanity Fair.

“They haven’t yet gone into what comes next and their government work is done. It is a moment in their lives to focus exclusively on family and just relax,” the source said.

In the final, chaotic weeks of Mr Trump’s presidency, multiple publications reported the former First Daughter was fearing for the future of her political career after the 74-year-old revealed he would break with tradition and skip the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden.

“That has Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in a bit of a panic as they look to their future,” CNN White House correspondent, Kate Bennett, said.

“I talked to a lot of sources today who say they’re questioning everything now, from where they’re going to live after the White House to what their careers will be.”

As she settles into life as a private citizen and considers a potential run for office of her own, Ivanka Trump is seeking to distance herself from her father’s tumultuous White House reign. Picture: Dominique Jacovides/Pool/AFP

She and husband Jared Kushner are hoping for a “clean break”. Picture: AFP Photo/Jim Watson

According to the Daily Mail, the 39-year-old had wanted to be a “good sport” and was doing “whatever she can do to save her reputation”.

In the end, though, she obviously decided it wasn’t going to do much in terms of rehabilitating her fractured public image, and just like her father, skipped the ceremony.

In recent months, speculation has been mounting that Ms Trump was laying the groundwork for a political career of her own after serving as an adviser to the former president since 2017, with many convinced she ultimately has her eyes on the Oval Office.

While the rest of her family doubled down on their baseless election fraud claims, she was noticeably quiet, instead sprucing the Trump administration’s achievements on social media which was widely interpreted as an act of damage control to protect her future aspirations.

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For “Javanka”, though, it’ll be a long road back – if there’s a road at all – to the lives they once enjoyed as fixtures of New York High Society.

While they’re heading to Florida in the next couple of weeks — after tying up loose ends in Washington — when they do finally return to their former home town, “they will even have a harder time than Trump himself”, brand management mogul Donny Deutsch told The New York Times late last year.

“He’s despicable but larger than life. Those two are the hapless minions who went along,” he said.

Ms Trump has transformed, in the eyes of many former friends, from projecting the image of an aspirational “woman who works” — with a fashion business and carefully cultivated personal brand — to “MAGA royalty”.

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It’ll be a long road back to the life in New York’s High Society that the couple once enjoyed. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com

In November, Ms Trump’s childhood best friend, Lysandra Ohrstrom, penned an explosive piece for Vanity Fair, writing that when “Ivanka joined her dad’s administration, I was sure she would step in to moderate her father’s most regressive, racist tendencies”.

“The Ivanka I knew spent her career developing and embodying a more polished and intellectual offshoot of the Trump brand, which blended the language and look of white millennial feminism with the mythical narrative of business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit she claimed to have inherited from her dad … Instead, I’ve watched as Ivanka has laid waste to the image she worked so hard to build,” Ohrstrom wrote.

“They’ll be welcomed back by people who know the Trumps are as close as they’ll get to power,” one of the couple’s former friends told Vanity Fair in a separate piece.

“But everyone with self-respect, a career, morals, respect for democracy, or who doesn’t want their friends to shame them in private and public will steer clear.”