And as her kids get older, she wants to prioritize time with them.
“My highest most core value is family,” Ivanka continued. “And my kids were much younger, so it was easier to not be present. But when you have kids that are teenagers, about to be teenagers, your physical presence matters so much.”
That said, after working with her dad during his first term, it cemented that while she enjoyed “policy and impact,” it confirmed politics isn’t he space for her.
“There is a darkness to that world that I don’t really want to welcome into mine,’ she noted. “To some degree, I’m at the center of the storm because my father is about to be president. It’s a very dark negative. And some people love like the gladiator aspect of it, you know, the fight that, that was never me.”
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