Tiffany Trump, Donald's 'hidden' daughter
They named it to honor a chain of stores: Tiffany. Very logical in parents obsessed with fame, money, and ostentation. But she has eluded family fate. Or, at least, she has exercised it in a relatively low-key way. For someone named Trump, Tiffany (22) is a relative unknown to American public opinion. She does not usually go out with her father at rallies and, when she does, she always appears away from him, in a corner, very far from her half-sister, Ivanka (34). Unlike her, Tiffany doesn't seem to have a say in Donald's presidential campaign. She is 'the other' daughter of the Republican presidential candidate. All that will change on Wednesday.
That day, 'the other daughter' of Donald Trump will be presented to the American electorate. She will be at the Quicken Loans Sports Center, in the city of Cleveland, before about 20,000 people, and with all the television networks in the United States and the world focusing on her. At that point, Tiffany will step out of the darkness and into Donald Trump's glittering chrome universe with a speech calling for her to vote for her father. Tiffany's stellar appearance will be a typical moment of this Convention.
Because in Quicken Loans there are hardly going to be political heavyweights, or representatives of large companies or pressure groups, fleeing Trump like the bubonic plague, to the point that yesterday the Republican Party, the money and the people wealthy, he still had to find a donor who would give him 6 million dollars (5.4 million euros) to pay for the ceremony and had sent a pleading letter to Sheldon Adelson - the one from Eurovegas - begging him to scratch his fortune of 22,000 million euros and send them a check for that minutia. There will be no former presidents or former presidential candidates. But there are 'celebrities' of the second division, such as the underwear model Antonio Sabáto, the golfer and swimwear model Natalie Gulbis, and the president of the Ultimate Fight Championship wrestling organization Dana White, a militant atheist who, when he speaks, tends to insert a block between every two words.
And that's where Tiffany will come. She to make herself known. Actually, she is relatively well known, but not by the standards of the Trumps. Rather, it should be said that virally, that she is a new category of celebrity in the US. Tiffany has 156,000 followers on her Facebook-owned Instagram account where she posts photos of how you live when you are rich, young, and famous. Tiffany Trump has been classified by the serious and momentous New York Times within a new herd of celebrities from the United States: the snap packs. In other words, the band in the photo, which is dedicated to documenting their parties, trips, dinners and whatever it takes on Instagram. It is a name borrowed from the rat packs of the 50s and 60s. Las Vegas rat packs, founded by Humphrey Bogart and with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis. But snap packs differ in that they are not stars. In fact, they are only one thing: children of.
There are many young people within that group: Kyra Kennedy is the daughter of human rights activist Robert Kennedy, in turn son of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Gaia Matisse is the great-great-granddaughter of the painter Henri Matisse. Reya Benitez is the daughter of music producer Jellybean Benitez, who has collaborated with Madonna, Michael Jackson, or Whitney Houston. Barron Hilton is the younger brother of Paris Hilton, who, let's not forget, started his unsuccessful modeling career by signing for Tiffany's father Donald's agency in the late 1990s. And so on, all the way to Tiffany, but aside from leaving her rich girl life recorded for posterity on Instagram - and to a lesser extent on Snapchat - Tiffany has led a quiet existence. Her mother, Marla Maples, was a former Georgia beauty queen when she met Donald Trump, then married to fellow model Ivana ZelnÃcková (known to the world as Ivana Trump). Trump immediately began a relationship with Maples, which culminated in his divorce from Ivana and in marrying her to the new role model of her life. Two months before the wedding, Tiffany was born.
Maples and Trump only lived together for three and a half years, although the divorce was not formalized until 1999. Since then, the former model does not appear to have had a relationship with her ex-husband. She has lived in Los Angeles, just on the other side of the United States, about five and a half hours by plane from the New York and Miami that Trump seems to enjoy the most. "I raised my daughter as a single mother," said Maples, who has not remarried, in reference to Tiffany. She also raised her relatively removed from the targets of the paparazzi.
So the relationship between Tiffany and Donald has not been as close as the one the candidate has had with Ivanka. But that does not seem to indicate that there has been a breakdown. Rather, just distance. Despite his exuberant character, and his flexible conception of fidelity to his wives, Trump seems to be a good father. One of the earliest memories of Tiffany's life is running away with her father to buy chocolate on the street while her mother, in Trump Tower, was making (or asking the servants to make) low-sugar sweets.
Tiffany just finished. graduating from the ultra-exclusive University of Pennsylvania, which was also attended by her father and half-sister, and was godmother at Ivanka's wedding to businessman Jared Kushner. Ivanka was also the one who landed her an intern position at Vogue magazine, in which Tiffany apparently received no favorable treatment, as shown by the fact that her working hours began at 5:30 in the morning.
Tiffany has also done some modeling work, but according to the American press, she has neither the body nor the face of Ivanka. All those achievements, however, pale in comparison to Ivanka's, of course she is. For the vast majority of US citizens, Donald Trump has only one daughter. On Wednesday, Tiffany must make it clear that she exists too. It will not be an easy task, because Ivanka and hers three brothers - Donald Jr. (38), Eric (32) and Barron (10) - will also participate in the Convention. More than a political act, this is going to be a family reunion. And Tiffany's goal is not to be relegated to the relative who lives far away and whose relationship with others no one knows very well what she is.
