First Daughter and top White House adviser Ivanka Trump says she may cease working for her father, Donald Trump, is he is elected President for a second term.
The 38-year-old revealed the surprising news during a sit-down interview on Face The Nation, which was recorded in Washington last week and is set to air on CBS this weekend.
When asked by host Margaret Brennan about her future should Trump be re-elected next November, Ivanka coyly replied: ‘I am driven first and foremost by my kids and their happiness, so that’s always going to be my top priority.
‘My decisions will always be flexible enough to ensure that their needs are being considered first and foremost, so they will really drive that answer for me,’ she continued.
The businesswoman and her husband, Jared Kushner, share three children: Arabella, eight, Joseph, six, and Theodore, three.
The family relocated from New York City to Washington in 2017, so that both Ivanka and Jared – who also holds a special adviser role – could commence work at the White House.
First Daughter and top White House adviser Ivanka Trump says she may cease working for her father, Donald Trump, is he is elected President for a second term
‘I am driven first and foremost by my kids and their happiness, so that’s always going to be my top priority’: Ivanka is pictured with husband Jared and their three children
However, the liberal-minded pair have been known to clash with more conservative members of the Trump Administration.
Ivanka refused to address such tensions, and spoke instead of her experiences over the past three years.
‘I think for me, I came down here — it’s about the impact,’ she cooed.
‘It’s about being able to deliver for the forgotten men and women that I met over the course of two years as I campaigned around this country. And over the last two and a half years as I’ve traveled to almost every state in this nation. It’s about providing pathways to opportunity’.
While it initially sounded as if Ivanka may be ready to rescind her role in the White House, she then stated: ‘The day I walk into the West Wing and I don’t feel a shiver up my spine is the day I’ve been here too long, [and] I still every day feel a tremendous humbling and sense of privilege that I’m able to do the work that I came to Washington to do.’
Ivanka is known for her close relationship with her father, President Trump. She is the only one of his four adult children to hold an official White House role
Meanwhile, the First Daughter – who is known for dancing around direct questions – also remained vague about own political ambitions.
Oh, gosh. You know, for me, it’s the politics is truthfully less interesting,’ she asked when asked about a run for office.
‘The policy and the impact of lifting communities and changing people’s lives [is more important],’ she stated.
Elsewhere in her Face The Nation interview, Ivanka spoke of the current impeachment inquiry engulfing Washington.
She shrugged off an assertion that Rudy Giuliani has made life more difficult for President Trump.
‘It is what it is,’ she replied.
Brennan had asked Ivanka if she thought her father was getting good counsel from Giuliani, who has continued to create headlines by going to Ukraine in an effort to prove the president was right to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.
Ivanka also remained vague when asked about her own political ambitions. She is pictured at a White House Summit on Child Care and Paid Leave
‘I know Rudy Giuliani in a very different context, as one of the greatest mayors in the history of this country and – and a real hero in New York,’ Ivanka Trump began. ‘So that is – that is the experience I’ve had with Rudy for a very long period of time.’
‘He’s smart and thoughtful and – and a real warrior and was a great – a great mayor,’ the first daughter went on.
Brennan explained she had asked about Giuliani because he’s continued to pursue Ukraine-related investigations.
President Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives earlier this month for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The charges were related to a pressure campaign the president mounted to get Zelensky to announce investigations into the Bidens and the origins of the 2016 Russia Probe – while $400 million in military aid to Ukraine was being withheld.
Elsewhere in her Face The Nation interview, Ivanka spoke of the current impeachment inquiry engulfing Washington
Giuliani was a central character in the Ukraine scheme and continued to pursue the investigations in the days leading up to Trump’s impeachment.
Brennan pointed out that those actions have ‘created a lot of news and new storylines that the White House has had to respond to that have only complicated, in many ways, moving on.’
‘That’s your assessment,’ Ivanka told the’Face the Nation anchor. ‘So I don’t know that I want to validate that.’
The White House adviser the pointed out that ‘more than 50 percent of America’ didn’t think the president should have been impeached.
‘And we have agreement of every single Republican member of Congress and a handful of Democrats as well,’ she said. ‘So the facts are there for the American pepole to assess and determine themselves.’
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, was a central character in the Ukrainian scandal that led to President Trump’s impeachment earlier this month