Tiffany Trump, the forgotten daughter of the president
He left behind his life as a ‘socialite’ and his friends in New York to get closer to his father and strengthen his ties with the family clan
Like all good satire, for it to work, it must have some truth and The Hard Times' joke had the grace of it. "Tiffany Trump receives the first text message from her father in her entire life," the satirical newspaper titled the day that Donald Trump inaugurated a new system of presidential alerts in the form of sms sent simultaneously to the entire nation. "I melt with emotion, a message like that to his little daughter!" Celebrated the fictitious Tiffany Trump, the least known of the Trump clan not only by the general public but, according to the president's secretary, also by himself. As Madeleine Westerhout told several journalists at a dinner with a few more drinks, Trump would not know how to distinguish her from afar and does not want to take pictures with her because he considers she is overweight (Tiffany, not him). That she is often called the forgotten Trump does not mean, however, that she lived far from the spotlight or that she was not part of America's first family, with all that that implies. In June, he joined his brothers and sisters on the president's state trip to London, which included a banquet in Buckingham and visits to historical places that everyone reported on social media, violating to the surprise of the British Royal House the ban on making photos on certain sites.
Trump's 2020 campaign foresees a leading role for all of his older children, except Tiffany
Other presidents have traveled accompanied by their children on their official visits. What is exceptional in Trump's case is that she, because of her age, has four adult children, who also when they travel for private reasons are entitled to receive protection from the Secret Service. Until the Westerhout slip, some Americans had only learned of Tiffany Trump after learning how much it cost security agents to accompany her on her vacation. Fruit of the second and brief marriage of the real estate mogul, Tiffany Trump (Palm Beach, 1993) spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles with her mother, actress Marla Maples. She went to the same private school as the Kardashians. She occasionally traveled to Florida and New York to be with her father and her stepbrothers Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr. After studying sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Tiffany Trump moved to New York. Become a society with her own name, she rubbed shoulders with other children of millionaires, the so-called Rich Kids of Instagram. It is no secret that her relationship with her father has always been more distant than his relationship with his older children or little Barron, son of the first lady Melania. Tiffany "would like to get to know her father a little better and spend more time with him, as did her other children," Maples told The New York Times in the final stretch of the 2016 election campaign, in which Tiffany had some sporadic appearance. Little by little, her parties with her New York friends disappeared from her Instagram account in favor of photos of her with her stepbrothers, determined to show herself as part of the Trump clan.
Always in the shadow of the president's first daughter, she has not for now made a hole in Trump's political or business projects
Within months of Donald Trump moving into the White House, Tiffany Trump packed her bags and followed him to Washington to study law in Georgetown. People magazine published a few months ago that her closeness with her father, however, has not helped them to strengthen their ties. At the age of 25, Tiffany, always in the shadow of the first daughter of the United States - the president's favorite, the first-born Ivanka - has not made a niche for now in Trump's political or business projects. Unlike her sister and brother-in-law Jared Kuchner, presidential advisers, she has not been graced with any job in the White House nor does she hold any position in the Trump Organization, where at her age some of her brothers already held positions. However, none of his great appointments is missed: the speech on the state of the union, the lighting of the Christmas tree, the family parties in Mar-a-Lago ... The plans of the Trump campaign team with a view to the 2020 election to give her family a leading role does not include Tiffany, Politico published in July. Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr, including his wife Lara, are already actively participating in defining political strategy and fundraising events. Their presence will only become more visible as the election date approaches. "I love Tiffany. She is a wonderful person and studies a lot, "said the president when the comments of his former secretary were leaked. The second daughter of the United States responded with a quote from Rumi, the Persian mystic poet, to shout to the world that no one really knows who he is: "You can study me all you want, you will never know me," begins the poem posted on his stories ( ephemeral posts) from Instagram. In another recent photo, she poses in front of a portrait of her made from Swarvoski crystals. More Trump, impossible.
