Asked who his first female
pick would be, the 70-year-old businessman Donald Trump suggested someone close
to his heart – his daughter Ivanka Trump.
Donald Trump may be behind
in the polls right now, but the Republican presidential nominee is already
starting to think about putting together his cabinet if he wins.
“I can tell you everybody
would say, ‘Put Ivanka in! Put Ivanka in!’ you know that, right?” he told
Florida journalist Angelica Savage, a co-host on First Coast News’ afternoon
program The Chat.
“She’s very popular, she’s
done very well,” he continued.
Savage could be a good pick
too, he went on to suggest. The 44-year-old previously worked for the Trump
Organization, is a former Miss Florida and claims to have known Donald for
“probably 20 years now.”
“There really are so many
people that are really talented people,” Donald said, “Like you – you’re so
talented, but I don’t know if your viewers know that.”
“Is this breaking news? Am
I going to be in the cabinet?” she joked. “Is that a yes?”
“Sounds like it to me –
looking good to me,” he joked.
The GOP presidential
candidate failed to name any other women he would add to the Cabinet of the
United States – a group composed of the most senior appointed officers of the
executive branch of the federal government.
Cabinet members are
nominated by the president and then confirmed or rejected by a simple majority
of the Senate. The president may dismiss or reappoint cabinet members at will.
Despite her rousing speech
at the Republican National Convention last month and the work she’s done for
her father on the campaign trail, Ivanka has been coy about whether she wants
to explore a political career or would take a more formal role if her father is
elected president.
“My life is chaotic right
now,” the 34-year-old told PEOPLE. “I’m exhausted 90 percent of the time.”
She does have a pretty full
plate, between raising her three kids – Arabella Rose, 5, Joseph Frederick, 2,
and 3-month-old Theodore James – with husband Jared Kushner, working for the
Trump Organization alongside her brothers, running a website devoted to helping
working women, and helming her own personal brand of Ivanka Trump shoes,
diamonds and more.
Of all those gigs though, she
places motherhood first.
“Being a mother is the most
rewarding experience, but also the most wild and stressful,” Ivanka said.
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