Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Fast Forward

Does Trump Want Jared And Ivanka Out Of His White House?

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were having a bad enough week even before the latest bit of bad news broke. After all, Kushner recently lost his top-secret security clearance and both him and Ivanka are reportedly under increasing scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller.

According to a New York Times report, the couple may have lost their most valuable asset of all: the support of Donald Trump.

The president, according to the Times, is frustrated with his son-in-law, “whom he now views as a liability” and with his daughter Ivanka, and has at times said that “they never should have come to the White House and should leave.” Trump feels that Kushner’s legal problems and the expansion of Mueller’s investigation into his business finances are reflecting negatively on the White House.

The president, however, either hasn’t really made up his mind, or may be enjoying playing with his daughter and son-in-law’s feelings by sending them mixed messages.

One the one hand, Trump reportedly supports Chief of Staff John Kelly’s criticism of the couple and would like to see Kelly show them the door, but on the other hand, Trump also at times backs Jared and Ivanka and tells them they should ignore the noise and keep doing their jobs.

Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected] or on Twitter @nathanguttman

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.

Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.