Jared Kushner, the perfect husband of Ivanka Trump
As the Trumps prepare to leave the White House, portrait of Ivanka Trump's husband, and favorite adviser to the former president of the United States.
He is - quite - young, he is handsome, he is rich. As straight out of an episode of the Gossip Girl series. Like the heir to a real estate empire united with the sovereign of New York's golden youth. A Chuck Bass with Maison-Blanche sauce. Internationally, Jared Kushner served as Special Advisor to the President of the United States and, for that, would no longer have any support in good New York society. In town, however, he is the very best in the retired golden boy market.
Skyscrapers, Harvard and Range Rover
Before being reduced to the neologism “Javanka” - a contraction of Jared and Ivanka -, Jared Kushner was already someone. Someone who was not just mistaken for Ashton Kutcher. Like Donald's eldest daughter, Jared is "son of" a real estate developer. His father Charles, the son of a Polish Holocaust survivor, built an empire in the 1980s, which he helped to grow. When, for example, at just 24 years old, he replaced the father in prison for tax evasion. When, two years later, he bought number 666 of Fifth Avenue, a 41-story skyscraper and neighbor of the Trump Tower, to restore the family image. Martin Scorsese will shoot the opening scene of The Wolf of Wall Street there.
Like Ivanka, Jared went through a prestigious Ivy League college. His admission to Harvard coincides with a donation of $ 2.5 million from Charles Kushner to the famous Boston College. Simple coincidence, hammer those close to him. There, his slicked back hair, his angelic face and his 7 for All Mankind jeans (the must-have of the time) worked wonders in the secret society the Fly Club - Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt went there before him. He tours the campus with his Range Rover, "not for fun", remembers a former student in the New Yorker, "rather a story of saying" I'm fucking armored "". Jared graduated in political science, earned an MBA in law from New York University, and continues to lead Kushner Companies.
Married, three children
It was there, in 2007, during a professional lunch, that he met Ivanka Trump. Their matchmakers naively think they can do business together. “It's the best deal we've ever done!” Laughs Ivanka Trump on Vogue's glossy paper in 2015. The couple are dangerously matched, vampirize the pages of the tabloids, tear themselves away from the red carpets of galas of charity, insolent of wealth and beauty. Two years later, in 2009, they get married pompously (it's Donald who organizes the party) at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the home of the Kushners.
They are 28 years old and the elite is surprised to discover Ivanka's conversion to Judaism - her in-laws are Orthodox. A subject that Trump's daughter has timidly raised for a long time. "We don't eat meat ... well, well, it's kosher." From Friday to Saturday, they scrupulously observe the Shabbat. “She had never cooked in her life and became an incredible chef,” Jared Kushner said in the couple's interview with Vogue. Now on Fridays, she cooks dinner just for the two of us, and we turn off our phones for 25 hours. Beyond the religious aspect of it all, we live in a world where everything goes so fast ... "
Jared Kushner, the perfect husband who soothed the blonde jet-setter - “I don't even remember my life before Jared,” she says - and gave him three wonderful children. Arabella, Joseph and Theodore, respectively born in 2011, 2013 and 2016. Arabella, 6 years old, already speaks Mandarin. In February 2017, a short video posted to Ivanka Trump's Instagram account and viewed over 1.8 million times showed her singing along for the Chinese New Year.
When they're not on social media, the Kushner kids are in their dad's arms or knees, in the neighborhood of their new Washington home, a few residences from the Obamas - well, until the last election. Communication is perfect. And Jared in beige chinos and a navy blue sleeveless down jacket, a potential DILF. "It is Ivanka the CEO of our home," he continues yet in the interview granted to Vogue. "Me, I'm more on the board."
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The silence of the lamb
Jared Kushner gladly leaves the light to his wife, the better to cultivate his discretion. A strategy of withdrawal that he also adopted with Trump senior, to the latter's delight. “Mr. Son-in-law, ”as Americans call him, remained silent throughout the Republican candidate's campaign. The only notable speech to refute accusations of anti-Semitism targeting his stepfather. Even while he is his - closest - advisor, Jared Kushner declines all (or almost) requests for an interview. He has been on Twitter for about ten years, followed by some 131,000 followers, but has never tweeted. “Honestly, Jared is a very talented real estate developer,” said the Republican candidate during a televised speech in 2016. “But I still think he likes politics more than real estate. And he's very good at politics. ” One more slap for Donald Jr. and Eric, his two sons, who had never received this kind of compliment.
Two sons that Jared obviously gets along with, though lost, perhaps, in his sprawling network. In the White House, they call him the “gatekeeper,” the one who controls access to the Oval Office. Associated with that of Ivanka, his address book could one day overflow with members of the American elite. Among his relatives, the political scientist Henry Kissinger and the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, but also his brother-in-law Joshua Kushner and his partner the model Karlie Kloss, and the couple formed by Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezinsky - who have distanced themselves in recent years years, this explains that.
Often tackled with incompetence by political experts, Mr. Kushner has no real missteps to his credit. For now (he is still the target of an FBI investigation into Russian interventions during the last presidential campaign). If some qualify him as "the smiling face of Donald Trump", others have not yet decided on his true face. He is said to have a black and white photo of John Kennedy hanging on the walls of his office. It is also said that his bedside book is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. A story of betrayal and revenge, and love.
