The iPaper reports leaders at Amazon are “toying” with the idea of priming Donald Trump Jr., “the wildest, most Maga-fied Trump … to succeed Dad as president.”
But if Trump could hand-pick his political and showbiz heir, it would be Ivanka, reports iPaper writer Sarah Baxter.
“According to the book Apprentice in Wonderland (2024), when Trump left the show to run for president, he wanted his daughter (44) to take it over,” said Baxter.
“I didn’t press it,” Trump reportedly said. “But I felt Ivanka would have been by the far the best person you could hire.”
“By nature a charmer rather than a divider, and shaken by the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, Ivanka stayed out of the 2024 election,” reports Baxter. Nevertheless, “Trump has done all he can to smooth her path with the experience and money needed to become America’s first woman president.”
“I don’t doubt Jared would be delighted to serve as First Gentleman and consigliere to President Ivanka Trump, but they are both too smart to set their sights on the near future,” opines Baxter. “With Trump at a low ebb – 55 per cent of Americans say they feel worse off, the worst number for 25 years, according to Gallup – 2028 may be a ‘change’ election.
In any case, Trump’s kids are busy getting “richer while their dad is in the White House,” said Baxter. “Eric, who manages the Trump Organization, briefly became a billionaire last year, according to Forbes, after expanding his wealth ten-fold since his father’s re-election.”
And timing is everything, Baxter added.
“If Ivanka runs, it is likely to be when hostility to Trump has faded and nostalgia sets in.
