Donald Trump: Ivanka's life would be easier if she was not my daughter
The US President acknowledged that he has added several challenges to his daughter's life.
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Your support makes all the difference.President Donald Trump is praising his daughter, Ivanka, and acknowledging the challenges he's added to her life.
In a rare, self-deprecating moment in Hamburg, the US President said that he's been proud of his eldest daughter from "day one."
He said: "If she weren't my daughter it would be so much easier for her," adding with a laugh: "That might be the only bad thing she has going, if you want to know the truth."
The candid aside came as Trump was speaking at the launch of a new women's entrepreneurship fund that Ivanka Trump helped bring together.
Ivanka Trump moved to Washington to work as a senior adviser to her father and has faced pressure from critics who'd hoped she'd be able to push him to adopt more moderate policies.
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