Chelsea Clinton hinted on Monday that her friendship with Ivanka Trump is over.
‘I have not spoken to her in a long time,’ Clinton told Stephen Colbert on his late-night CBS show when she was asked if she was still friends with President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter.
Clinton was also asked on Monday if she believes Ivanka Trump should be subject to criticism over her father’s policies.
‘I think anyone who works for the president should expect to be scrutinized for whatever decisions not only he or she is making, but whatever decisions the White House is making on any given day,’ Clinton said.
‘It’s clear that she has supported policies and decisions that I don’t agree with. I’ve been very vocal about my opposition to President Trump.’
Chelsea Clinton hinted on Monday that her friendship with Ivanka Trump is over. ‘I have not spoken to her in a long time,’ Clinton told Stephen Colbert on his late-night CBS show
Clinton was also asked by Colbert on Monday if she believes Ivanka Trump should be subject to criticism over her father’s policies
Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton attend the 2014 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 10, 2014. Despite their parents’ bruising campaign in 2016, the two women said they remained friends
‘Could you call [Ivanka Trump] up and say, “Hey, maybe no war with North Korea?”‘ Colbert asked.
‘I certainly am just really sad that we’re at a point in time that that even has to be said…I mean, that we’re at a point in time where we have a president who has such a callous disregard for a thoughtful, coherent, kind of expert-advised foreign policy is something I would hope, regardless of where we sit on the political spectrum, we could agree on,’ Clinton said.
‘I think, unfortunately, this administration is the collision of cruelty and incompetence.’
The former first daughter also appeared on ABC’s The View and other networks to promote her latest book, She Persisted Around the World.
The book is a companion to her first book, She Persisted.
Ivanka Trump has been criticized by liberals who say she portrays herself as progressive on many issues yet defends her father when he enacts rightist policies.
During last month’s Winter Olympics, Ivanka Trump said media questions about her thoughts on whether her father was guilty of alleged sex crimes against nearly two dozen women were ‘inappropriate.’
Chelsea Clinton made the rounds on television Tuesday to promote the release of her new book. She is seen above on ABC’s The View
‘I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters,’ Ivanka Trump told NBC News.
‘I believe my father, I know my father, so I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.’
Chelsea Clinton, however, disagrees with Ivanka Trump and defended NBC News for asking her about alleged sex crimes.
‘It was a fair question,’ Clinton told The View.
‘Anyone who works for the White House should be expect to answer any question about the White House.’
The daughter of a president facing questions about her father’s alleged improprieties with women immediately drew comparisons to the Clintons.
Chelsea Clinton’s father, former President Bill Clinton, has been accused by multiple women of wrongdoing during his time in the White House as well as during his tenure as governor of Arkansas.
In 2008, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was running for the Democratic nomination against Barack Obama.
Chelsea Clinton was asked during a campaign appearance that year about the Monica Lewinsky affair.
During her appearance on Good Morning America , Chelsea Clinton said that her role as a mother inspired her to write the book, which is a celebration of iconic women. She is seen left with son Aidan in July 2017 and right with daughter Charlotte in April 2017
Then-President Clinton engaged in an extramarital affair with Lewinsky, then denied it before the nation.
‘It’s none of your business,’ Chelsea Clinton said at the time.
‘That is something that is personal to my family. I’m sure there are things that are personal to your family that you don’t think are anyone else’s business either.’
Even as their parents were in the midst of a brutal election campaign in 2016, Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton both insisted that they had remained friends.
In August 2016, Ivanka Trump appeared on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show and said: ‘[Chelsea Clinton is] a great girl and she’s a great friend to me. And obviously the intensity and scrutiny at this moment in our lives is pretty extreme.
‘We’re not the candidates. We’re the children of the candidates. We’ve stayed close to one another, maybe a little less publicly so, but she’s a good friend. We support each other.’
A week before that interview, Chelsea Clinton told NBC that she and Ivanka Trump were ‘absolutely’ friends even though ‘clearly Ivanka and I have very different views on who we think should be our president and who would be best for the country.’
During her appearance on Good Morning America, Chelsea Clinton said that her role as a mother inspired her to write the book, which is a celebration of iconic women.
‘My children, Charlotte and Aidan, are the most important part of my life,’ she said.
The 38-year-old said that her three-year-old daughter, Charlotte, loves her books, joking that ‘she’s not old enough to be deceitful, so I know she’s telling me the truth.’
Clinton told The View that one of her inspirations for her latest book is British author JK Rowling, the author of the wildly popular Harry Potter series.