The US press often portrays her and Jared as moderating influences over a president hot to temper, but there has been little evidence that their assumed progressive views have tempered policy decisions.
Ivanka Trump, an unpaid White House adviser, has been a vocal advocate for policies benefiting working women and vocational training. Trump appeared in Berlin sharing the stage with some of the most powerful women in the world and faced uncomfortable questions about her dad's attitudes toward women, along with some scattered jeers.
But on her first trip overseas as an official representative of the United States, the first daughter was put on the spot about her father's attitudes toward women, booed and hissed at by the crowd, and grilled by the moderator about what, exactly, her role is in President Donald Trump's administration.
Ivanka Trump told News' Gayle King she doesn't know what the word "complicit means", when asked about critics' evaluation of her role in the Trump administration.
On Monday, Trump also published an opinion piece in The Financial Times about women's economic role, writing with her co-author Jim Yong Kim, "Only 55 per cent of women participate in the paid labor force globally and they continue to be an untapped source of growth".
Trump's trip is one of the top news stories in Berlin, her face splashed across multiple front pages.
Ivanka Trump booed and hissed at while discussing women's entrepreneurship alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a conference on Tuesday (April 25) in Berlin, Germany.
Ivanka Trump wears many hats and, as a federal government employee, is subject to conflict-of-interest laws from which her father is exempt.
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He said at the time he "didn't think the prize was worthy of a 147", and was criticised by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn. And a year ago he deliberately made a 146 after discovering he'd only bag £10,000 at the Welsh Open for a maximum.
The deeper question for Ivanka Trump - a young mother with three children, lots of advantages and complete access to the president of the United States - is whether she can parlay her growing importance to build bridges on which her father can find his way to respect all women - not just family members.
Ivanka Trump, the oldest daughter of President Donald Trump, has quickly moved from a behind-the-scenes adviser to a White House power player. Meckel asked her about it directly, and Trump defended her father based on her "personal experience", and that of those who have worked with him. During a speech at the Republican National Convention a year ago, she promised to push for paid family leave and better childcare options for working parents.
Sitting next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine LaGarde, Trump added that "I grew up in a house where there were no barriers to what I could accomplish...there was no difference for me and my brothers".
President Trump was caught on tape in 2005 talking about grabbing women's genitals without their permission and, in a 2004 interview, called pregnancy an "inconvenience" to employers.
Ivanka also credited her father's administration for hiring women in important roles. She then heads to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe at 4:40am.
"How can Ivanka Trump talk of women's "empowerment" at the same time President Trump has blocked funding for global reproductive care?"
She does all this looking immaculate in a parade of designer frocks, and posting glossy photographs of her family and White House moments to her 3.4 million Instagram followers.
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