We had loved each other so much. One time. Then the friendship ended. Ivanka Trump e Lysandra Ohrstrom, 38, an American freelance journalist expert on the Middle East, were inseparable from the early 1990s through the first decade of the second millennium.
The link between the reporter who writes about The Observer e Huffington Post, and the daughter of the president of the United States starts on the desks of Chapin, a girls’ school on the Upper East Side, and since then they have always been together on vacation, traveling to Europe, shopping with dad’s credit card (which he complained about the alimony he passed to his mother) and in nightlife adventures in New York clubs. Then their paths parted.
Trips to Atlantic City, sneaking off to London—as a child, Ivanka was fun, loyal, exciting. But she always had the Trump radar for status. Lysandra Ohrstrom recounts watching her former best friend torch democracy. https://t.co/8D9H1tKjQQ
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Now Ohrstrom paints a merciless portrait of it on Vanity Fair describing the evolution of Ivanka, from a girl with her flaws, but nice, intelligent and funny to the current one: “snob” and “bossy”.
“Little by little, our differences have divided us – reads the article -: ‘Why are you telling me to read a book about the fucking poor?’ she asked me once – then there was a moment, right after college, when Ivanka got embraced the path that her father had outlined for her “.
A path that led her to “throw away the sophisticated image that she had painstakingly built in contrast with her father’s nouveau riche” and to give up her ambition to conquer Manhattan in a more elegant way than Trump to establish himself as the idol and model of “white millennial” women.
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A road that led her to the White House, where “I thought she would be the moderate voice of the administration,” instead she embraced Make America Great Again and her father’s values of status, money and power, Ohrstro says disappointed.
From uniforms with green checked kilts (“the shorter they were the more popular”) to the grunge suits they roamed in Manhattan, the boys and girls from the prestigious school they attended lived in sumptuous homes in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods.
“Donald Trump,” he says, “barely recognized me but asked me if Ivanka was the prettiest or most popular girl in our class.” Although he did not remember his name, Trump “had a photographic memory of my body”, Ivanka’s ex-friend still remembers, reporting when in Mar-a-Lago Donald Jr he stole half of her sandwich from her plate and Trump, looking at Ivanka scolding her brother, said, “He’s doing her a favor,” referring to her weight.
For more than a decade they have been “more sisters than best friends”. “Sure, Ivanka loved talking about herself and was shamelessly vain, but she was also fun, loyal and, let’s face it, quite exciting.”
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The friendship between the two comes to an end in 2009 shortly after being the bridesmaid at Ivanka’s wedding with Jared Kushner under the weight of increasingly evident differences. Once, in the context of a discussion on social housing, Ivanka dryly dismissed her friend: “I can’t talk to you about these things, you’re a Marxist.” The strongest attack, however, was on the chain with the name in Arabic, says Ohrstrom, who has never hidden that he is pro-Palestinian. “I hate her. How does your Jewish boyfriend feel when you have sex and he sees the chain? How do you wear it?” Ivanka said.
“In private”, we read on Vanity Fair “I have had countless conversations with friends who have grown up with Ivanka about how upset they are that she has not publicly opposed the Supreme Court appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, or none of his father’s more repugnant policies. But in public we remained silent because that’s what they taught us. “
The friendship finally breaks down when Ivanka proves too “busy” and doesn’t find time to ask Ohrstrom about her new job.
“For me this was the end,” admits Ohrstrom, convinced that Ivanka would make a serious mistake in returning to New York after the White House. “He should go to Florida, to Palm Beach, where white supremacism is a must and misdeeds are forgiven if you have money …”.
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