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COVER STORY<br />
Kushner — is well aware of how<br />
her executive-in-training picked up<br />
those skills. “She’s like me,” she told<br />
Harper’s Bazaar. “Everything’s a<br />
negotiation.”<br />
Never has that been more true for<br />
Ivanka than now. Since accepting<br />
a role in dad Donald’s presidential<br />
administration — in March the<br />
onetime Seventeen cover model<br />
turned real estate executive took an<br />
unpaid special assistant position —<br />
she has battled the 70-year-old<br />
about everything from LGBT rights<br />
to the North American Free Trade<br />
Agreement. (According to reports,<br />
Kushner, a senior adviser for<br />
Trump, convinced him to remain in<br />
the 23-year-old pact.) While many<br />
assumed the polished business<br />
exec — and her real estate investor<br />
husband, 36 — would serve as<br />
a calming influence on Donald,<br />
Ivanka has struggled at times to<br />
get the president on her side. The<br />
latest blow: his decision to pull<br />
out of the Paris Agreement, part<br />
of the global effort to fight climate<br />
change. Though leaving the accord,<br />
signed in 2015 by every country except<br />
Nicaragua and Syria, was one<br />
of Donald’s campaign promises,<br />
Ivanka openly tried to sway him.<br />
Her home sweet: a<br />
6,870-square-foot<br />
Colonial a mere<br />
two miles from the<br />
White House.<br />
She spoke with Leonardo DiCaprio<br />
about his 2016 documentary Before<br />
the Flood, met with Environmental<br />
Protection Agency head<br />
Scott Pruitt and even arranged a<br />
sit-down with Donald and environmental<br />
activist and former vice<br />
president Al Gore at Trump Tower.<br />
A source close to Ivanka says she<br />
was disappointed by his decision,<br />
but she’s learned to take such defeats<br />
in stride. “Sometimes she and<br />
Jared are a big influence on Donald<br />
and sometimes he takes other<br />
opinions into account and does<br />
something they disagree with,” says<br />
another Ivanka insider. “They win<br />
some and they lose some.”<br />
IVANKA’S ISSUES<br />
Despite telling The New York Times<br />
she’s “still at the early stages of<br />
learning how everything works,”<br />
Ivanka has already notched a<br />
number of victories. In January,<br />
the socially liberal NYC native and<br />
her husband — whose inner circle<br />
includes heavyweight Democrats<br />
such as Hollywood bigwig David<br />
Geffen, producer Brian Grazer and,<br />
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IVANKA<br />
GOES<br />
GLOBAL<br />
The first daughter<br />
stepped up on the<br />
president’s first<br />
trip abroad<br />
She skipped a head<br />
covering, but Ivanka (with<br />
Kushner) opted for a<br />
demure dress in Riyadh,<br />
Saudi Arabia, May 20.<br />
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