Ivanka Trump is done with politics and has said she won’t be returning. She has worked for her father her entire adult life. When Donald Trump was in real estate, she designed his hotels. When he was a reality star, she was in his “decision room.” When he was running for president, she was on the campaign trail. When he was president, she had an office in the West Wing of the White House. However, in January 2021, for the first time since she was 23, she left Washington and her father’s service.

“I love my father very much. This time, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the personal life we ​​are building as a family. I do not plan to go into politics,” she wrote in a social media post in 2022, after her father, Donald Trump, announced his third bid for president.

That statement still holds true even after Trump wins the 2024 U.S. election, sources close to Ivanka Trump said, as she and her husband, Jared Kushner, lead a relatively private life in Miami, Florida, where they have spent the last four years out of the public eye.

Ivanka Trump has suffered because of her father’s decisions, which she had no control over

It’s a dramatic turn for one of the former and future president’s closest aides, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise after her grueling first four years in the White House.

Ivanka Trump has faced constant criticism for her father’s decisions, which she couldn’t fully influence or mitigate. She has been estranged from some liberal friends in her New York circle and has shuttered a relatively successful clothing brand. Her departure from politics means her father is no longer her boss, and she is now forging a new path with a decidedly different lifestyle, made possible by the family’s businesses.

-Politics is a pretty murky field. “There’s a lot of darkness, a lot of negativity, and it’s very much the opposite of what I like as a human being,” she said in July in a three-hour interview on The Lex Friedman Podcast.

“It’s really hard work. So it feels like the right thing to do, both for me and for my family, is not to participate,” she added in her most extensive public reflection on her time in Washington and her life since.