
Ivanka's husband is waiting for a role. While the daughter of the American president has declared that she will devote herself only to her three children. Even the eldest son Donald Jr, very active in the campaign, has taken a step back, while noticing the overflow around the Oval Office
Giuseppe Sarcina – Corriere della Sera
This time, the children remain outside Donald Trump's team. At least formally. In 2017, the couple formed by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner found themselves in the spotlight and controversy.
Ivanka, 43, has already announced that she intends to devote herself solely to her three children, as well as businesses and parties at her luxurious Miami residence.
The president's eldest son, Donald Jr., 47, was also very active in the last election campaign and was certainly aiming for a position in the White House. But in the end, he was moved by the sight of the large crowd surrounding the new president's Oval Office.
In fact, Donald Junior was objectively in danger of extinction. That's why he chose to continue his business journey independently, with the "1789 venture capital fund."
The other son, Eric Trump, 41, the third born from the marriage between "The Donald" and Ivana Trump (who passed away in July 2022), will take care of the family group, the "Trump Organization".
Tiffany, 31, the daughter of Marla Maples, is still outside the clan's nerve center, even though her father appointed her father-in-law, Lebanese-American Massad Boulos, to the post of "senior advisor" for the Middle East.
In reality, Trump rewarded him for his ability to muster a certain consensus among Arab-Americans in Detroit, Michigan, at the height of the war in Gaza.
Rounding out the list is the latest arrival, Barron, Melania Trump's son. He's only 18 years old and it's not even a given that he'll live in the White House.
It will depend on the First Lady. Right now it is not clear whether Melania will be more present than in the past, perhaps with more personal initiatives.
But the main figure to keep an eye on is another: Jared, the former son-in-law-counselor in the first term.
Between 2017 and 2021, Kushner, 44, was one of the protagonists of the Administration. He comes from a family from the Orthodox Jewish community. His parents, among others, have always been friends of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In 2020, Trump granted a presidential pardon to Jared's father, Charles, who was charged with tax evasion and witness tampering.
Now, in 2025, he appoints him, Kushner's father, as US ambassador to France. In other words: the ties between Trump and Kushner run deep.
Over time, Jared has also been able to build a solid relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
Moving between Tel Aviv and the Gulf capitals, Kushner contributed to the forging of the “Abraham Accords,” the economic and trade agreement between the United States, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (later also signed by Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan).
The stated goal of "Trump 2" is to resume that plan of normalization in the Middle East, interrupted by the war in Gaza, leading to the pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Everything suggests that Jared Kushner will have an important role. If only for his very close relationship with the new envoy for the Middle East, New York real estate developer Steven Witkoff.
Ivanka's husband has spent the last few years raising significant funds. Today, his company, Affinity Partners, can count on about $5 billion: 2 billion comes from Saudi Arabia; 1.5 from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Business and politics, then, will once again intertwine. And not just in the Persian Gulf. Shortly after his father-in-law's victory in the presidential elections, Jared received the green light from the governments of Albania and Serbia to build a luxury resort in Belgrade and one on the Albanian coast on the island of Sazan.