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Ivanka Trump steps into role behind her father
Ivanka Trump steps into role behind her father
Is Ivanka Trump's role more policy or PR? 03:18
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- The barriers of privacy that shrouded the children of Barack and Michelle Obama don't apply to Ivanka
- Lately, Ivanka's Twitter and Instagram feeds have been a mash-up of her personal and professional life
Washington (CNN)On
Monday evening, as word spread of yet more anti-Semitic behavior around
the nation, it wasn't President Donald Trump who was the first to speak
out against the threats to regional Jewish Community Centers — it was
his daughter, Ivanka Trump.
Like her dad, however, she
used Twitter to remind her followers that the United States is a "nation
built on religious tolerance" and that it's important to protect houses
of worship.
It isn't unusual for Ivanka,
who, along with her husband Jared Kushner, identifies as an Orthodox
Jew, to speak out on such a heartfelt issue. But the President's
daughter has picked up where she left off on the campaign trail — as the
softer, gentler side of her father's gruff demeanor.
Whether handling topics like women in business, as she did when she convened a roundtable with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help "level the playing field" for female entrepreneurs and working parents, or acting as de facto
first lady and accompanying her father on a trip to comfort the family
of a fallen soldier, Ivanka has been the humanizing force of the Trump
administration.
President
Trump and Ivanka walk toward Marine One while departing from the White
House enroute to Dover Air Force base pay respects to Chief Special
Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens, who was killed during a raid in
Yemen.
The
barriers of privacy that shrouded the children of Barack and Michelle
Obama don't apply to Ivanka, nor does she seem to want them for her own
three children. From videos of her daughter singing pop songs in the
backseat of her car to showing off baby Theodore's first crawl in the
White House's State Dining Room, nothing seems off-limits.
Lately,
Ivanka's Twitter and Instagram feeds have been a mash-up of her
personal and professional life, with the possible aim of letting her
millions of followers see her close relationship with her father and, in
turn, his with her own children.
"Grandpa Trump" became a
thing last week when the President walked toward Marine One from the
Oval Office, clasping both hands of his grandkids, 5-year-old Arabella
and 3-year-old Joseph.
Arabella and Joseph had just watched the giant helicopter land on the lawn, staring out the windows of the Oval Office.
On Tuesday morning,
following her previous night's tweet calling for sensitivity to
religious freedom, Ivanka was back to posting cute pictures of her kids,
this time featuring Joseph with his nose pressed against the glass.
Sunday, it was baby
Theodore's turn in the spotlight, when his mom posted a super-static
haired shot from a morning at her Washington, DC, home.
Blowing the lid off the
hardscrabble attitude and language of the elder Trump was Ivanka's
specialty throughout the presidential campaign, when her kind words
about her father served to help people view him as real-person-Trump,
not name-calling-candidate-Trump.
However,
Ivanka's road to branding herself as approachable has hit a few
hiccups, like the time she posted a photo of herself in a ball gown,
ready for a night on the town, as chaos erupted at the nation's airports
over her father's travel ban.
That misstep, which was
criticized on social media, led to a week-long social media hiatus. Her
next post was of daughter Arabella singing a song she learned for the
Chinese New Year. After that, it was back to business, as she appeared
at the end of the table while her father convened his Business Advisory
Council.
One of the key items on
the council's agenda, Ivanka Trump pointed out on Instagram, was
"leveling the playing field for women in the workforce," another of the
issues she focused on significantly during the campaign.
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