'The damage the Trump family has done is unforgivable—I expect Ivanka will find a soft landing in Palm Beach instead.' As a child, Ivanka was fun, loyal, and exciting. But she always had the Trump radar for status, writes Lysandra Ohrstrom. VFArchive
We remained that way for more than a decade, more sisters than best friends. Sure, she loved to talk about herself and was shamelessly vain, but she was also fun, loyal, and let’s face it, pretty exciting. In our late teens and early 20s, it felt like Ivanka and I were always on the same page or up for the same adventure, whether it was leaving Bungalow 8 early to watch a Lifetime movie or horseback riding through a town in Nicaragua because we had never been there before.
Instead, I’ve watched as Ivanka has laid waste to the image she worked so hard to build. In private, I’ve had countless conversations with our childhood friends about how appalled we are that she didn’t publicly oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination or most of her dad’s especially repugnant policies. But in public, we’ve stayed silent because that’s what we are taught to do.
A few months ago, after I voted early against her dad, I began to write about my friendship with Ivanka with no eye toward publication. But the more I wrote, the surer I became that I did not owe her my silence. I think it’s past time that one of the many critics from Ivanka’s childhood comes forward—if only to ensure that she really will never recover from the decision to tie her fate to her father’s.
As she’s touted the achievements the Trump administration has made for the middle class while not-so-covertly pursuing a massive wealth transfer to corporate America, I’ve been reminded of a phone call we had in our mid-20s. Ivanka always solicited book suggestions from me, and I had recently recommendedRichard Russo’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the life of a diner manager in working-class Maine.
Another memory that often occurs to me is of Mr. Trump delivering a toast to a room full of diners at Mar-a-Lago, who watched him as devotedly then as his red-capped followers do today. They laughed when he addressed them as the richest Jews in the world, complimented their luxury sports cars in the parking lot, and gleefully recounted the fight he was waging against the Waspy club across the street, which he dismissed as a dump. Beneath the taunting, it was obvious that Mr.
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