A Clinton and a Trump and such friends
There was a time when the Clintons and Trumps were friends. Not the kind of friends who go to the movies or on vacation together, but they moved like big shots who are in the same New York circles of influence and maintained a cordial relationship. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had played golf together, and the Clintons even attended the mogul's wedding to his current wife Melania Knauss in 2005 after he donated $ 100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Politics and business have always known how to find areas of confluence. But all of that ended when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump began to compete for the presidency of the United States. There is no good vibes that can withstand an electoral contest and the Clintons and Trumps have been in open war for months.
Yet amid the crossfire between the two rival candidates, a bridge remains: Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump remain friends.
As personalities of New York high society, in recent years Chelsea and Ivanka have walked the same red carpet on more than one occasion in various cultural and philanthropic galas and always with a very cordial attitude between them. "We fully support the candidacies of our parents, of course, but we have enormous respect for each other," Ivanka Trump recently assured. A few months ago, Chelsea Clinton said about it: "Friendship is always more important than politics, I learned it when I was little, seeing that my parents had friendships from all over the political spectrum in Arkansas."
Of similar ages - Chelsea is 36 and Ivanka, 34 - the two women were introduced by their parents at the time they were dating and, according to people around them, both hit it off immediately. "Our friendship has never had anything to do with politics and I do not expect it to change in the future," Ivanka Trump said in a recent interview. Actually, they had quite a few things in common. From the outset, they shared the privilege and at the same time the burden of being the daughters of their parents. Sources close to both, cited by Politico, emphasize that the fact that they grew up watching their parents' sexual scandals on the covers generated immediate empathy when they met. At the same time, they point out that both have been a stabilizing factor in the image of their parents. The two have been very careful about their public image.
The coincidences do not end there. Chelsea and Ivanka have senior positions at the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Organization, respectively, and they have both written books aimed at young women. They even coincide in the fact that they have married Jewish men without being them and in both cases their spouses come from known families: Marc Mezvinsky - Chelsea's husband -, from the field of politics, since their parents were congressmen, while that Jared Kushner - Ivanka Trump's husband - is the son of a real estate mogul. They even agreed to choose two wedding dresses from the designer Vera Wang for her ceremony.
But the electoral battle is there. Ivanka is a rising asset in the Republican campaign, as she projects a kinder image of Trump and Chelsea has participated in numerous Clinton polls. The two are involved and close sources suggest that both would pay the price of sacrificing their friendship in exchange for seeing their parents in the White House.
In fact, Hillary Clinton has already qualified her old friendship with Donald Trump: “We weren't friends. I knew him, but how I knew many in New York ”. And so did the tycoon: "When you're in business you have to be everyone's friend," she summarized.
