War of the first: Why don't Melania and Ivanka Trump get along

However, as the Daily Mail writes, their split lasts much longer than from Trump's first presidential term, when two women competed for the attention and love of the public. According to the insider, the split between the stepmother and the stepmother originates from the marriage of the former Slovenian model with Donald Trump in 2005. At the time, Melania was 34 and the billionaire was 58. Miss Knavs was closer to 23-year-old Ivanka. However, this was not the reason for close friendship.

Everything worsened Donald's sharp reversal from real estate magnate and reality show stars to become US President in 2016. Moving the family from their own spacious New York apartments to the close residential and working premises of the White House has attracted more attention to the struggle for the power of Melania and Ivanka. The sources described how women quarreled through everything: from office to foreign trips and even certain political issues.

Melanias, of course, made a bear service that she did not move to Washington until the summer of 2017. Her son Berron was 10 years old when his father won the elections for the first time, and Melania stayed with him in New York as he graduated from the school year. It forced Ivanka, who, together with her husband Jared Kushner, quickly transported her family to a rented apartment in Washington for $ 15,000 a month, to take many responsibilities of the first lady. And she truly enjoyed this work.

It came to the fact that the Melania team was asked to ensure that the traditional "first lady's office" in the Eastern Wing of the White House was re -profiled to the "Office of the First Family", which became angry. Until 2018, the relationship between the two women was so tense that at least once the head of the White House, John Kelly, had to intervene and act as a mediator between ladies and their offices.

Even now, when Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who were the main advisers under Trump's first presidency, are strongly removed from politics, tensions persist. "Ivanka will always be for a lamp," said a source that knows both women. It is especially noteworthy that women did not communicate during the Donald Trump inauguration ceremony last month, even when they were standing with each other in the Capitol.

One of Trump's employees even called "desperate" Ivanka's obvious attempts to appear as many of the same key photos as Melania. Although the daughter of Trump, who is now 43, stressed that she would not return to the heart of the policy of the district of Columbia in this administration, she clearly seeks to preserve the presence in her father's life.

"I am most waiting for the opportunity to just appear for him as a daughter and be near him to distract him from his business and watch him a movie or sports match to know that he can be with me and be himself, and just relax," she said in Podcast last month. During the two -hour conversation, many children have never mentioned her stepmother. "[Melania] will be annoyed because Ivanka will just appear in state dinners, etc. It will be a new battle," the source added.

Ivanka was very close to her late mother Ivana, who died in 2022 after falling from the stairs at the age of 73. Before engaging in politics, she graduated from a business school in 2004 and held a position in her father's real estate company. Later, the President's daughter launched a line of clothing sold in large department stores, including Macy's before establishing a jewelry company. At the height of her career, Ivanka earned $ 100 million a year.

But after the first victory of her father, the sales fell in the election. Many have linked the deterioration of sales with boycots against Trump. In 2018, she closed her fashion brand. Melania tried hard to establish himself as a serious business player. However, despite the experience in modeling business and knowledge of English as a second language, its capture by the skin care line and the boasting of jewelry on QVC in 2012 were short -lived.

"There is a sense of competition with Ivanka, which is a very successful businesswoman. I think there is a feeling of trying to fit into Trump's family, to be these successful business people," said a man close to Melania. Now "First Daughter" has departed from politics, focusing on the charity and the role of the mother of three children. Melania, meanwhile, recently enjoyed the laurels of the author of successful memoirs, who became a bestseller # 1 according to the New York Times.