Ivanka Floated as Cabinet Member in Trump Administration

Donald Trump floated his daughter, Ivanka, when asked about potential female cabinet members, in addition to previewing an all-male economic adviser team.
Ivanka Floated as Cabinet Member in Trump Administration
Ivanka Trump on the final night of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
8/5/2016
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8/5/2016

Donald Trump suggested that he might choose his daughter Ivanka Trump to be part of his cabinet if elected president.

“I want to know just as a female, who you would actually put into office as one of the first females in your cabinet?” First Coast News reporter Angelia Savage and former employee of the Trump organization, asked Trump in an interview on Aug. 4.  

“Well there are so many different ones to choose, I can tell you everybody would say—‘Put Ivanka in! Put Ivanka in!’ You know that, right?” Trump said.

“She’s very popular, she’s done very well. And you know Ivanka very well. But there really are so many that are talented people, like you,” he said to Savage, “You’re so talented, I don’t know if your viewers know that.”

After that, he joked that he might add Savage to his cabinet.

This isn’t the first time that someone in the Trump campaign has floated Ivanka as a good person to have as an official part of the team. When Trump was deciding on a Vice President, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Eric Trump both recommended Ivanka as a good pick for the position before Indiana Governor Mike Pence was chosen.  

The announcement of Ivanka as a potential Trump cabinet member comes as the Trump campaign announced eleven members to an economic advisory team including real-estate investors, hedge-fund managers and bankers.

Trump is expected to lay out his economic plan on Monday in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club. His campaign is looking to capitalize on economic plans designed to put the working class first in states like Michigan, and revitalize the domestic economy by rejecting unpopular trade deals.