Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in for a rude awakening should they go back to New York

As her father faces down the political tide with a furious stare, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner know that the jig is up. And while they haven’t handed in their his-and-her security passes quite yet, they have urged the President to accept defeat.

So back to New York they go, to their $4.1million Manhattan apartment at Trump’s Park Avenue building. To their temple, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, where the Kushners contribute a hefty sum, and where they will be welcome with open arms. And to the Ramaz School, the highly competitive Jewish private school where there will likely be slots for the kids.

Nevertheless, the Kushners will have to take the same advice Ivanka gave to the country’s 18 million unemployed: it’s time to, ‘Find Something New.’ 

Because if Ivanka, 39, and Kushner, 39, expect to ease into other aspects of their old life in New York seamlessly, they may be in for a rude awakening. 

Their return to the city could be socially ‘difficult,’ – at least at first, according to Ivanka’s best friend, Georgina Bloomberg, 37.

If Ivanka and Jared expect to go back seamlessly into their old life in New York they may be in for a rude awakening The couple and their their children Arabella and Joseph are pictured boarding Air Force One 

Ivanka is reportedly looking to make her way back into the art world and has been keeping in touch with prominent art dealers. Ivanka and Jared are pictured posing with mail-in ballots for New York with Donald Trump while on Air Force One

Ivanka is reportedly looking to make her way back into the art world and has been keeping in touch with prominent art dealers. Ivanka and Jared are pictured posing with mail-in ballots for New York with Donald Trump while on Air Force One 

Ivanka and Jared's DC residence

The couple's Park Avenue apartment in a Trump building

Now that Joe Biden has put them out of a job, it’s like Jared and Ivanka will move out of their Washington, DC, home and back intro their Park Avenue apartment, in a Trump building

Many of the couple’s famous friends have become famous former friends in the past four years.

Actress Natalie Portman who attended their wedding in 2009 and invited them to her own in 2012 has been a vocal critic, accusing Trump of ‘taking us backwards on civil rights.’

Emmy Rossum, who was also at their wedding, responded to Trump’s hot-mic ‘locker room’ comments in 2016 with the tweet, ‘Donald Trump thinks ‘when you’re a star,’ you ‘can do anything’ to women? Well you can’t make me vote for you you misogynistic entitled pig.’

Georgina Bloomberg has defended her best friend Ivanka Trump, insisting she is a 'wonderful person' and a 'good daughter' who has received criticism she 'doesn't deserve' (pictured in 2014)

Georgina Bloomberg has defended her best friend Ivanka Trump, insisting she is a ‘wonderful person’ and a ‘good daughter’ who has received criticism she ‘doesn’t deserve’ (pictured in 2014)

Socialite and former Vogue editor Lauren Santo Domingo who once co-chaired the American Museum of Natural History’s winter dance with Ivanka (dress theme ‘celestial black tie’) has made it very clear that she has no intention of sitting anywhere near her former friend now. 

‘In the end, it will be @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump alone in the bunker…’ is just one of her numerous tweets.

And while they may be able to depend on the friendship of some – art dealers Tico and Colby Mugrabi remain close confidantes and went to the couple’s wedding anniversary at Camp David in 2019 – they will also have to face the reality of blame by association with the deeply divisive President.

Prior to her role in politics, Ivanka had been a prominent figure in the art scene, having built up an impressive collection which has been frequently featured in her Instagram posts.

In 2017 it was reported Ivanka and husband Jared owned pieces from a variety of artists, including Dan Colen, Alex Da Corte, David Ostrowski, Jan Yoors, Christopher Wool, John Baldessari, Nate Lowman and Alex Israel.

The first daughter is allegedly looking to make her way back into the art world and start collecting pieces again, according to ArtNet. 

The gossip column claims Ivanka could potentially get her foot back in the door through the handful of art connections she maintained during her time in Washington.

Ivanka had allegedly been preparing for her inevitable return by keeping in touch with prominent art collectors and dealers, including Tico and Mugrabi.

Prior to her role in politics, the first daughter had been a prominent figure in the art collector world, having built up an impressive collection which has been frequently featured in her Instagram posts (pictured)

Prior to her role in politics, the first daughter had been a prominent figure in the art collector world, having built up an impressive collection which has been frequently featured in her Instagram posts (pictured) 

Ivanka Trump was pictured in September arriving at her Manhattan apartment, marking it the first time that she has been photographed in NYC since the pandemic hit earlier this year

Ivanka Trump was pictured in September arriving at her Manhattan apartment, marking it the first time that she has been photographed in NYC since the pandemic hit earlier this year

Bloomberg, who defended her friend to the Daily Beast, described Ivanka as ‘a wonderful smart person [who gets] a lot of criticism she doesn’t deserve.’ 

According to the daughter of former New York City Mayor Michael – himself a vocal Trump critic – any initial froideur from the New York elite, ‘will probably change,’ in time.

Besides, one who knows the family well told DailyMail.com that Ivanka and Jared have never been social butterflies. 

The source who asked not to be named said, ‘Jared is really not a terribly social person and Ivanka hasn’t really been on ”the scene,” since they married, and she had children.

‘They’ve never socialized in the way that some New Yorkers do – she’s not about galas and big philanthropic events. And none of those are happening now anyway because of Covid.’ 

Instead they are all about business and family; that double helix of the Trump DNA. Those are the fundamentals that will underpin their life back in New York. 

Where Don Jr fired off a series of shouty tweets calling for his father to go to ‘total war’ and even the glacial Melania spoke of ‘illegal’ votes, the First Daughter and the First Son-in-law have been conspicuously silent.

Save for a somber and solitary walk-on by Ivanka at the Veteran’s Day Memorial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the compulsively groomed couple have barely been seen.

The billionaire heiresses (pictured with Ivanka's daughter Arabella in 2014), now in their late 30s, were incredibly close in their 20s, when they both lived in New York City

The billionaire heiresses (pictured with Ivanka’s daughter Arabella in 2014), now in their late 30s, were incredibly close in their 20s, when they both lived in New York City 

Emmy Rossum, who was at Jared and Ivanka's wedding (pictured together in 2010) has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump

Emmy Rossum, who was at Jared and Ivanka’s wedding (pictured together in 2010) has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump

The actress responded to Trump's hot-mic 'locker room' comments in 2016 with the tweet, 'Donald Trump thinks 'when you're a star,' you 'can do anything' to women? Well you can't make me vote for you you misogynistic entitled pig'

The actress responded to Trump’s hot-mic ‘locker room’ comments in 2016 with the tweet, ‘Donald Trump thinks ‘when you’re a star,’ you ‘can do anything’ to women? Well you can’t make me vote for you you misogynistic entitled pig’

Socialite and former Vogue editor Lauren Santo Domingo (pictured with Ivanka in 2009) who once co-chaired the American Museum of Natural History's winter dance with Ivanka (dress theme 'celestial black tie') has made it very clear that she has no intention of sitting anywhere near her former friend now

Socialite and former Vogue editor Lauren Santo Domingo (pictured with Ivanka in 2009) who once co-chaired the American Museum of Natural History’s winter dance with Ivanka (dress theme ‘celestial black tie’) has made it very clear that she has no intention of sitting anywhere near her former friend now

'In the end, it will be @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump alone in the bunker…' is just one of her numerous tweets,' Santo Domingo said in a 2007 tweet

‘In the end, it will be @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump alone in the bunker…’ is just one of her numerous tweets,’ Santo Domingo said in a 2007 tweet 

Despite her father’s bigly presence, Ivanka and Kushner’s life in New York has always been relatively small, lived out within the span of a few blocks in the city’s Upper East Side.

Their Park Avenue apartment, in a Trump building of course, is within walking distance of Ivanka’s East 55th street hair salons and Upper East side aesthetician and of course the looming presence of Trump Tower.

Kushner’s parents who have a home in New Jersey also have an apartment near their son’s, overlooking Central Park. 

When Ivanka and Kushner lived in the city they often took their children – Arabella, 9, Joseph, 7, and Theodore, 4 – to visit their grandparents as well as enjoying family outings to the parks’ petting zoo.

Kushner was raised in the Modern Orthodox tradition, a strain of Judaism that integrates observance with life in the secular world, and to which Ivanka converted on marriage.

Those traditions are an integral part of their family life. In fact, they are such strict observers of Shabuoth that the couple had to apply for special rabbinical permission to drive with Trump’s cavalcade on the day of his inauguration because it fell on a Friday.

Their children were enrolled and will likely return to the Ramaz School, a co-ed Jewish Modern School on the Upper East Side not far from the family’s New York City temple, the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.

Social life: Prior to Trump's presidency, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner regularly schmoozed within New York's most elite circles, even attending the Met Gala in 2015 and 2016

Social life: Prior to Trump's presidency, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner regularly schmoozed within New York's most elite circles, even attending the Met Gala in 2015 and 2016

Prior to Trump’s presidency, Ivanka and Jared regularly schmoozed within New York’s most elite circles, even attending the Met Gala in 2015 (left) and 2016 (right)

Ivanka was a regular at outings and tennis matching, seen in 2016 with  Dasha Zhukova, and now-sister-in-law model Karlie Kloss at the Men's Singles Final Match in the 2016 US Open

Ivanka was a regular at outings and tennis matching, seen in 2016 with  Dasha Zhukova, and now-sister-in-law model Karlie Kloss at the Men’s Singles Final Match in the 2016 US Open

In 2017 Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein publicly stated that he was ‘deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation,’ that President Trump offered in response to the Charlottesville riots in which 32-year-old protester Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist. 

But he has never extended that criticism to Ivanka and Kushner whom he says he ‘loves.’

 It would be fitting for their children to return to the school, as the couple moved their children from their expensive Washington, DC, private school last month after parents reportedly complained that the couple were flouting COVID-19 guidelines and attending White House events without masks.

The couple had sent them to $28,400-a-year Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School since moving to the capital in 2017. On October 19 they moved them to Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Maryland, where fees go up to $25,270. 

At the time it was said the move, shortly after Donald Trump and other White House officials tested positive for the virus, was down to the fact Berman offered more in person classes amid the ongoing pandemic.

But the Jewish Telegraphic Agency now reports how other parents had expressed worries at seeing the couple attending events in support of the president and in close contact with people who had been at functions where COVID-19 was spread. 

The school is said to have failed to reach a compromise with the couple on the issue and the children were withdrawn. A spokesman for Milton confirmed: ‘They withdrew from the school.’ 

White House Spokeswoman Carolina Hurley told DailyMail.com on Thursday: ‘Unnamed sources attacking a family’s decision about what is best for their kids in the middle of a pandemic is shameful. 

‘As is true for all families, schooling choices and education are deeply personal decisions and they owe no one, especially idle gossips seeking press attention, an explanation.’  

Their children were enrolled and will likely return to the Ramaz School, a co-ed Jewish Modern School on the Upper East Side not far from the family's New York City temple, the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. Arabella, 9, Joseph, 7, and Theodore, 4  pictured over Fourth of July weekend

Their children were enrolled and will likely return to the Ramaz School, a co-ed Jewish Modern School on the Upper East Side not far from the family’s New York City temple, the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. Arabella, 9, Joseph, 7, and Theodore, 4  pictured over Fourth of July weekend

In 2017 Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein publicly stated that he was 'deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation,' that President Trump offered in response to the Charlottesville riots in which 32-year-old protester Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist. But he has never extended that criticism to Ivanka and Kushner whom he says he 'loves'

In 2017 Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein publicly stated that he was ‘deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation,’ that President Trump offered in response to the Charlottesville riots in which 32-year-old protester Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist. But he has never extended that criticism to Ivanka and Kushner whom he says he ‘loves’

As far as business is concerned neither Ivanka nor Kushner fully divested themselves of their interests during their time at the White House.

Ivanka stepped down as Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Development and put her interests in the Trump Organization into a trust, but she continued to pull down an annual salary of $1.5million.

She initially retained her lifestyle and fashion brand selling clothes, jewelry, perfume and accessories. But in 2018 she closed it down, stating that, ‘After 17 months in Washington I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington.’

In fact, by 2017, the brand had already been pulled from the racks of Nordstrom and Dillards where it had once sold briskly after an online campaign to boycott it gained traction.

Truth be told it seems that Ivanka’s interests have moved on from the world of fashion.  

She could easily step back into a more active role in the Trump Organization and there are rumored television offers and book deals to consider.

But, as DailyMail.com revealed earlier this week, Ivanka has political ambitions of her own and there may be a second season of the Trump administration after all, this time with Ivanka in the Oval Office.  

One who knows the family well told DailyMail.com that Ivanka and Jared have never been social butterflies. 'Jared is really not a terribly social person,' but said Ivanka is 'more like her father. She sees the public profile as part of the business

One who knows the family well told DailyMail.com that Ivanka and Jared have never been social butterflies. ‘Jared is really not a terribly social person,’ but said Ivanka is ‘more like her father. She sees the public profile as part of the business

Meanwhile her husband has a multi-million-dollar real estate empire to return to, albeit one steeped in controversy. 

His family’s company has recently been criticized for filing eviction notices on tenants awaiting Covid relief payments from the government and across the years it has been branded neglectful and litigious.

Kushner’s refusal to fully divest himself of his business interests has long drawn concerns from ethics watchdogs. This manifested most recently at the revelation that Cadre – the real estate company he co-founded in 2014 – had taken a $90million investment from Saudi Arabia.

Cadre’s value has quintupled since 2017 and though Kushner stepped down from the board and reduced his stake to 25 percent that is still a substantial chunk of a company now managing a $522million fund buying properties across the country.

But while Kushner may miss the proximity to power that his roving brief as a presidential advisor afforded him, he is unlikely to miss the limelight. 

One familiar with him told DailyMail.com that, ‘Jared isn’t really someone who is comfortable being out front, in the spotlight. He enjoys having a profile to the extent that it allows him to meet people and make business contacts but Ivanka is different.

‘She’s more like her father. She sees the public profile as part of the business.’

Which explains why Ivanka and Kushner, a couple who have always resembled a shimmering hologram, have all but disappeared from public view completely.

With her sights set on a future White House run neither Ivanka nor her husband want to burn down any bridges.

And if Ivanka makes the leap from First Daughter to first female President then Kushner can look forward to a promotion of his own, from First Son-in-law to First Dude.

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