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how would you describe your father as a
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parent growing up he was an incredible
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parent and is an incredible parent but I
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think I appreciated it much more today
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as a parent of three young children I
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think when I was a teenager I thought
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parenting just is something that happens
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and now I realize how much work goes
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into raising kids with a sense of
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purpose and work ethic and and and
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raising them to be close to one another
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and obviously to stay close to their
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parents so I I'm very grateful for him
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and my mother and and all that they did
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for us as children and all that they
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continue to do for us today but you know
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he was the same type of parent as as we
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see generally he was funny I was
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wickedly so great sense of humor he he
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was demanding of us he had a very high
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expectations for us because he knew what
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we had the potential to accomplish and
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he saw the potential in us before we saw
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it in ourselves and I think really
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encouraged us to pursue our passions he
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wanted us to find meaning and purpose in
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our lives but was very careful not to
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push us into real estate and I think
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that's partially because his excitement
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his passion for real estate and
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everything that he did he brought home
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and so I think we inherited a little bit
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of that excitement and perhaps it's in
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the blood but he he always said to us
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you have to do what you love and you'll
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never succeed you'll never be able to
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compete at the highest level if you
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don't deeply love what it is that you do
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if you don't want to get out of bed
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every morning and do what it is that
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you're doing and he firmly believes that
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it's probably the most consistent piece
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of advice he gave in my whole life
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so he would periodically check in with
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me and almost undermine my thought
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process about coming into the family
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business because he wanted to make sure
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that I knew that it wasn't an
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expectation of his so when you were
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young would your was was your dad sort
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of
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of a dad who would play games with you
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read bedtime stories or different no he
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was different he was not really the type
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of he wasn't long on diaper changing and
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things like that but you know he I think
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maybe he was a little bit more
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traditional in that regard but but he
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was very accessible and very available
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and you know I think one of the things
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that I think about so often is is that I
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never questioned that my siblings and I
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were his top priority he never allowed
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us to he never allowed us to question
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that fact because he always made us his
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top priority so it doesn't mean he was
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home every night for dinner he wasn't he
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was working very hard he was building an
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enormous business and he was in the
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early days of doing that when I was
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young and had a lot to prove to himself
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and and and to others and and he had big
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ambitions for himself so you know he
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wasn't always physically present but he
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was always available so actually as a
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little girl a friend of mine reminded me
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about this recently that she used to
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hang out with me in a janitor's closet
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where there was a payphone at school and
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on recess I'd go there and I'd call
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collect to his office I was probably you
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know 10 years old and I'd call collect
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to the Trump Organization which is
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hilarious then you'd say hi this is
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Ivanka I collect from from from the
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Chapin school and and he would pick up
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the phone every single time and he'd put
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me on speakerphone wouldn't be a long
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conversation he'd introduced me to
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whoever was in his office but only in
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retrospect I laugh now that it didn't
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matter who was there it was colleagues
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it was titans of industry it was heads
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of countries he'd always take my call
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and he'd always tell everyone in the
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room how great a daughter I was and say
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cute things and you know ask me about a
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test I took but you know I think that's
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really telling of him as a person and a
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parent we we always came first how about
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when you brought home a date or a
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boyfriend I was too smart to bring home
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a day
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a boyfriend I think you brought home my
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husband that's it so I tell my husband
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what I brought him home but you know I I
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I was I was not going to subject
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boyfriends to the scrutiny of my father
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or mother for that matter unless I was a
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hundred percent sure and let me move on
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now to the campaign a little bit
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your father has said that you and
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Melania have wanted him to be more
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presidential is the word that he uses
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tell me about that because do you
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believe that the nicknames he used for
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some people or the name-calling was a
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mistake
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is that what you're talking about when
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you say more presidential well you would
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you know my conversations with my father
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are really between us but you know
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obviously I'm I'm his child and I'm also
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been his colleague I've worked alongside
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of him for the past decade here at the
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Trump Organization and part of the
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reason we have such a good relationship
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is because he respects me and because
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I'm candid in my opinions and I share
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them solicited or otherwise so you but
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to that question I mean do you think
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those were did you tell him those were a
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mistake or you don't
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Oh once in a while he'll say things and
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I'll tell him he could probably do with
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ratcheting it back and he listens
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sometimes and sometimes he doesn't or
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sometimes he listens for limited periods
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of times buddy but you can tell it look
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I think it's part of what people love
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about him it's also what part of what
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angers people he is authentic
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you know nobody tells him who to be he
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is himself he is his own man he listens
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to the opinions of others he respects
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the opinions of others he processes the
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advice people give him but ultimately he
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makes his own decisions how do you
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reconcile the Donald Trump you know as
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your dad with the candidate that some
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people see and consider so divisive and
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you know how do you square that that
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circle for for our viewers my father's
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always elicited strong opinions in
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people
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he's bold he's unabashed he's very
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himself and I think for me you know the
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the ultimate the most important thing is
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I know the man so when I hear things
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that are factually inaccurate it
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sometimes hurtful I feel that as a
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daughter but I still know the man I I as
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a woman I as a person could never
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support someone who was sexist or racist
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but I just couldn't I it's I I would not
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be able to be okay with that but I know
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who he is as a human being and I know
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those things are not true and not many
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people say those things but when they do
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it's easier for me to dismiss it because
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of that fact
