Vanity Fair has an interesting essay from Lysandra Ohrstrom, former best friend of Ivanka Trump:

“It was easy to ignore the dozens of press inquiries that flooded my inbox when Donald Trump announced his candidacy because I didn’t think he had any chance of winning. Then, when Ivanka joined her dad’s administration, I was sure she would step in to moderate her father’s most regressive, racist tendencies—not out of any moral commitment, but because caging young children and ripping up global climate agreements was not a good look in the halls of Davos.”

“The Ivanka I knew spent her career developing and embodying a more polished and intellectual offshoot of the Trump brand, which blended the language and look of white millennial feminism with the mythical narrative of the business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit she claimed to have inherited from her dad.”

“Instead, I’ve watched as Ivanka has laid waste to the image she worked so hard to build.”

BuzzFeed News: “The announcement that Ivanka Trump would speak at the Doha Forum in Qatar prompted a wave of speculation from the foreign policy community about what the US President’s daughter might be doing in the Gulf state… But while her mere presence sent a political signal, what actually happened was far stranger.”

“In a room packed with high level officials from around the world, Trump answered admiring questions about her pet project advocating for women’s economic development from a spokesperson for her own government, who is also working on the project.”

Ivanka Trump told the AP that the identity of the whistleblower is not important.

Said Trump: “I don’t view the whistleblower as… it shouldn’t be a substantive part of the conversation because this is a third-party who was not privy to the call and did not have firsthand information.”

Her position, of course, is in stark contrast to that of her father and many of his supporters.

Ivanka Trump tweeted a quote from Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to his daughter: “…surrounded by enemies and spies catching and perverting every word that falls from my lips or flows from my pen, and inventing where facts fail them.”

She added: “Some things never change, dad!”

Washington Post: “President Trump’s deepest desires are primal and obvious: to be loved and worshiped. What his daughter wants has always been a little harder to pin down, but when she’s traveling abroad you see it plain: to be legitimate. To earn respect in a cohort composed not of the sycophants her father favors but of intellectual leaders. To fit in well enough that foreign dignitaries begin to think she really is one of the foremost experts the United States has to offer.”

“To be Ivanka abroad is to escape from the utter weirdness of this White House, with its rally chants and doctored weather charts, and instead give speeches to erudite diplomatic allies who are protocol-bound to nod and smile.”

Elaina Plott: “Since joining her father’s White House as a senior adviser in early 2017, the first daughter has reserved the right to toggle between a strict and loose construction of her portfolio. When flashy opportunities arise—such as the chance to play diplomat with Kim Jong Un—the edges of her purview, which she often defines as ‘women’s economic empowerment,’ become conveniently blurry. But when the issue du jour is particularly messy, she is quick to clarify its limits, thus absolving herself of accountability for problems that exist outside it. When The View’s Abby Huntsman, for example, asked Trump in February why she didn’t speak up about family separations along the U.S.-Mexico border, she objected that she is ‘not president of all women’s issues.'”

“This awkward dance underscores the true nature of Trump’s silence on a flurry of new controversies surrounding her father: She is declining to speak out not because of the limits of her portfolio. She simply does not want to.”

Said one former White House official: “It’s an exclusive club. People who want to be in charge of everything, but when the going gets weird, just disappear.”

Ivanka Trump told the Associated Press that her father asked her if she was interested in taking the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it.

Asked if her father had approached her about other top jobs, Ivanka Trump said she’d “keep that between” them.

“If she ever wanted to run for president, I think she’d be very, very hard to beat.”

— President Trump, quoted by The Atlantic, on his daughter, Ivanka Trump.

President Trump told The Atlantic that he considered nominating his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, to be president of the World Bank in part because “she’s very good with numbers.”

Said Trump: “She’s a natural diplomat. She would’ve been great at the United Nations, as an example.”

Asked why he didn’t nominate her, Trump replied: “If I did, they’d say nepotism, when it would’ve had nothing to do with nepotism. But she would’ve been incredible.”

Ivanka Trump told ABC News she and her husband, Jared Kushner, got no special treatment from her father when obtaining their top security clearances.

Said Trump: “There were anonymous leaks about there being issues. But the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband’s clearance, zero.”