Ivanka Trump: Why First Daughter ‘never stopped’ trying to please father Donald Trump

IVANKA TRUMP has “never stopped” trying to please her father US President Donald Trump for one heartbreaking reason, a book has claimed.

Mr Trump was absent a lot as Ivanka was growing up, especially after he divorced her mother Ivana in 1992, when she was 10 or 11 years old. The divorce followed an affair with actress Marla Maples, who became his second wife. According to the 2019 book ‘Kushner Inc’, Ivanka asked her mother: “Does it mean I’m not going to be Ivanka Trump anymore?”

It was then she decided that she was going to go out of her way to spend time with her father.
Author Vicky Ward wrote: “Whether out of insecurity or love – or a combination of both – Ivanka never stopped trying to please him.”
She would reportedly drop in on him on the way to school every day and even call him from inside the cleaner’s cupboard at school.
Mr Trump would apparently always take her call.
 

Family friend Nikki Haskell said: “She was always daddy’s little girl.”
However, she did admit Mr Trump’s noticeable absence, saying: “Donald was there when he was there.”
Unfortunately, it was not just her father but also her mother who was not often there for Ivanka.
One friend of Ivanka’s, a real estate heir from New York, told Ms Ward: “The dysfunction and loneliness of Ivanka’s family, the absence of her parents from her life, put her in a situation where she was vulnerable.”
 

“But the part that sticks in my mind was the fact that no one was there with her.
“It was a big deal. It was weird.”
That said, Ivanka did “fight” for her father’s attention and ended up having a much closer relationship with him than her brothers Don Jr and Eric.
Ivanka herself has a much more positive view of her childhood, claiming her father was “nothing if not accessible” to her and her siblings in a 2013 interview.

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