Ivanka Trump
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1,538 appearances
13 recordings
8 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 10 Jun
Ivanka Trump’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I was talking with people who in 30 seconds would reveal to me their deepest insecurity, their gravest fear, their wildest ambitions, all of it, with the hope that in telling me that story, it would get back to a potential future president of the United States and have impacts for their family, for their community. So the level of candor and vulnerability people have with you is
It's unlike anything I've ever experienced. And I had done The Apprentice before. People may know who I was in some of these situations that I was going into, but they wouldn't have shared with me these things that you got the impression that oftentimes their own spouses wouldn't know. And they wouldn't do so within 30 seconds. So...
You learn so much about what motivates people, what drives people, what their concerns are, and you grow so much as a result of it.
And they do so in such a raw, vulnerable, and real way. It's shocking and eye-opening and super motivating. I remember once I was in New Hampshire, and early on, right after my father had announced his candidacy, and a man walks up to me in the greeting line,
And within around five seconds, he had started to tell me a story about how his daughter had died of an overdose and how he was worried his son was also addicted to opioids. His daughter's friends, his son's friends, and it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking, and it's something that I would experience every day in talking with people.
Always.
I think a couple reactions to what you just said. I think the first is when you connect with people like that, you... are so inspired by their courage in the face of adversity and their resilience. And it's a truly remarkable experience for me. The campaign lifted me out of a bubble I didn't even know I was in.
I grew up on the Upper East Side of New York, and I felt like I was well-traveled and well-educated. And I believed at the time that I'd been exposed to divergent viewpoints. And I realized during the campaign how limited my exposure had been relative to what it was becoming. So there was a lot of growth in that as well.
But I do think, you know, you think about the vitriol in politics and, you know, whether it's worse than it's been in the past or not, I think that's up for debate. I think, you know, there have been... there have been duels and there's been screaming and there's, you know, politics has always been a blood sport and it's always been incredibly vicious.
I think in the toxic swirl of social media, it's more amplified and there are, there's more sort of democratization around participating in it perhaps. And it seems like the voices are louder, but it's always been, it feels like it's always been that. But I don't believe most people are like that. And you meet people along the way, and they're not leading with what their politics are.
They're telling you about their hopes for themselves and their communities. And it makes you feel that we are a whole lot less divided than the media and others would have us believe.
I think that the vast majority of people aren't participating in it.
Also, you know, I think there's a minority of people that are doing most of the yelling and screaming and the majority of Americans just want to send their kid to a great school and want their communities to thrive. And, um, want to be able to realize their dreams and aspirations. So I saw a lot more of that than it would feel obvious if you looked at like a Twitter feed.
You know, the campaign, I never thought about joining. It was kind of like get to the end of it. And when it started, I was like everything in my life was almost firing on all cylinders. I had two young kids at home. During the course of the campaign, I ended up – I was pregnant with my third. So this young family, my businesses –
Real estate and fashion and working alongside my brothers, running the Trump Hotel collection. My life was full and busy. And so there was a big part of me that just wanted to get through, just get through it, without really thinking forward to what the implications were for me. But when my father won, he asked Jared and I to join him.
And in asking that question, keep in mind he was a total outsider, so there was no bench of people as he would have today. He had never spent the night in Washington, DC before staying in the White House. And so when he asked us to join him, he trusted us. He trusted in our ability to execute. And there wasn't a part of me that could imagine
the 70- or 80-year-old version of myself looking back and having been okay with having said no and going back to my life as I knew it before. I mean, in retrospect, I realize there is no life as you know it before, you know. But just the idea of not saying yes, wherever that would lead me. And so I dove in.
During the course of the campaign, I was just much more sensitive to the problems and experiences of Americans. I gave you an example before of the father in New Hampshire. But even just in my consumption of information, I had a business that was predominantly young women, many of which were thinking about having a kid, had just had a child. were planning on that life event.
And I knew what they needed to be able to show up every day and realize this dream for themselves and the support structures they would need to have in place. And I remember reading this article at the time in one of the major newspapers of of a woman. She had had a very solid job working at one of the blue chip accounting firms. And the recession came.
She lost her job around the same time as her partner left her. And over a matter of months, she lost her home. So she wound up with her two young kids after bouncing around between neighbors living in their car. She gets a call back from one of the many interviews she had done for a second interview where she was all but guaranteed the job, should that go well.
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