If Donald Trump Becomes President, Ivanka Trump’s White House Cause Would Be...

Ivanka Trump (Photo: Mark Seliger/Harper’s Bazaar September 2016)
Ivanka Trump (Photo: Mark Seliger/Harper’s Bazaar September 2016)

Ivanka Trump has rapidly become the alternative face of her father Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, in which she discusses “family, feminism, and her father’s controversial bid for the White House,” Ivanka shares that she may have no interest in running for office but that she knows exactly what she would want to address in her father’s administration should he win in November.

“The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level,” she tells the mag. “There are issues I am deeply passionate about.” Such as? “Well, obviously, I’m a huge advocate for women and women’s issues, like child care. The cost of child care is incredibly onerous. In half the country, the cost of child care exceeds the cost of housing. It’s the largest expense for households. It’s not sustainable or appropriate.”

It’s in keeping with her existing initiative, #WomenWhoWork. A book she’s written on the subject is due to hit bookshelves this spring, but the mom of three is adamant that a run for office isn’t in her future.

“I made the mistake of once saying, ‘Never say never,’” she says. “I do believe that in life there are so many things I’m doing today that I never thought I’d be doing, so I generally take that perspective. But I said that, and the headline was ‘Ivanka might run for office,’ so … But, no, it’s not something I think I would ever do.”

Ivanka Trump (Photo: Mark Seliger/Harper's Bazaar September 2016)
Ivanka Trump kicks back. (Photo: Mark Seliger/Harper’s Bazaar September 2016)

She also wants it known that her father is his own man, and that neither she nor her siblings are secretly running the show behind the scenes.

“I’m definitely not,” she insists. “His campaign is his campaign. … My siblings and I volunteer our opinions, solicited or not. And I think most children do that with their parents. I think there’s something unique, in that we’re colleagues.”