For what seems like long stretches, I forget about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner; and then, in weeks such as this, when both are in the news – Ivanka for her emails and Kushner for irritating the Mexicans by being honoured by their president – I am reminded of what a weird pair they are. The sickly boy king of American politics and Trump’s increasingly diminished daughter.
It was Ivanka who featured more prominently this week, after giving an interview to ABC News. The 37-year-old has always benefited from comparison her father, alongside whom she seems extravagantly sane and articulate. But even by those low standards, she is looking awfully unhappy these days. As the president’s one unfireable adviser, she was hoarse in the interview and for once appeared close to what she actually is: a slight figure with some business acumen who has been elevated to lunatic levels of national importance. The question I have in relation to Ivanka (and it’s not the most pressing, I know) is to what extent she is deserving of sympathy.
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