Ivanka Trump says she is still her father’s daughter and will tell him what she thinks despite being one of his newest employees.
The president’s daughter opened up in an interview with CBS, saying she is not “complicit” in her new role and that anyone in her position would act the same.
Ms Trump has faced criticism since taking up her unpaid post as Assistant to the President at the White House, but says she just wants to do good.
“If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I’m complicit. I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing,” she said.
“So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”
She said she has no problem speaking openly with her father and will tell him outright when she disagrees with his ideas and policies.
“I’m still my father’s daughter,” she said. “But I’ll weigh in with my father on the issues I feel strongly about.”
“I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence.
“In some case it’s through protest and it’s through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue in which you disagree with. Other times it is quietly, and directly, and candidly.
“So where I disagree with my father, he knows it, and I express myself with total candour. Where I agree, I fully lean in and support the agenda and hope that I can be an asset to him and make a positive impact. But I respect the fact that he always listens. It’s how he was in business. It’s how he is as president.
“This isn’t about promoting my viewpoints,” she told CBS. “I wasn’t elected by the American people to be president.”