UPDATE: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner on Wednesday tried to convince President Trump that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was behind the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, Vanity Fair reported Friday.

The senior advisors, who have reportedly feuded with Kelly in the past, floated the theory that the scathing op-ed was written by Zachary Fuentes, the deputy chief of staff, Vanity Fair added. Fuentes did so at the direction of Kelly, who has “an ego so large as to have convinced himself that he’s saving the country from Trump.” But Trump disagreed, thinking the op-ed was written to undermine Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, Vanity Fair said.

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Wednesday was an especially crazy day in what White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly called “Crazytown” — that is, according Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book about Donald Trump’s administration.

But Ivanka Trump, in accordance with her reported talent for compartmentalizing, initially appeared to ignore the massive news storms whipped up by the fallout from Woodward’s book and by Wednesday’s bombshell New York Times op-ed, both of which described a dysfunctional White House led by an erratic, ‘amoral’ leader who may be a threat to a functioning government, national security and democracy.

The first daughter was her usually stylish self as she and her husband Jared Kushner, also a White House senior advisor, presided over a White House “listening session” with reality TV star Kim Kardashian and other prison reform advocates. She and Kushner later posed for a photo-op with Kardashian. In a tweet sharing the photo, she touted their work on an arguably worthy cause — improving the clemency process and conditions in U.S. prisons.

Great working session today at the White House on ways to improve the clemency process with policy leaders and criminal justice reform advocates. pic.twitter.com/2Ydoe16Dfo — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 6, 2018

But it turns out that even Ivanka Trump couldn’t ignore the storms. When she finally took time to address the Woodward book or, more immediately, the New York Times op-ed, she didn’t tackle them head-on.

Instead, she expressed displeasure that such events in the “echo chamber” had upstaged news about her meeting with Kardashian on prison reform and the other important work she believes she, her father and her husband are doing on behalf of “every American.”

In a tweet Wednesday evening, Ivanka Trump complained about how this “echo chamber” drives the national narrative about her and her father’s White House. In her view, the narrative should instead of focus on how “we continue to work to better the lives of every American, each and every day.”

Yes…we continue to work to better the lives of every American, each and every day, regardless of what others in the echo chamber deem to be the more “important” narrative… https://t.co/IlFr12yr4n — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 6, 2018

Certainly, Ivanka Trump’s tweet represents an unusual effort to push back against criticism, which can be pretty intense sometimes. The former real estate executive and fashion brand entrepreneur usually ignores negative press and continues to take to her social media to post glowing reports about what her biographer Emily Jane Fox says are her “minor and small” accomplishments on issues like workforce development or paid family leave.

But Ivanka Trump’s ire over how she thinks her work is being upstaged by other news is probably an example of what Fox, the author of “Born Trump,” calls her “delusional” thinking about her father’s political leadership and her own role in his government.

“It’s so delusional that (Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner) think … no one will attach to (them) the stench of what’s else going on,” added Fox, a Vanity Fair senior reporter who was being interviewed on the magazine’s The Hive podcast.

“I don’t understand how they can get up and go to work every day, and say we’re going to keep working on these other things,” Fox continued.

Ivanka Trump’s “echo chamber” tweet also comes across as self-serving, as well as non-responsive to the momentous events that dominated news during the previous 12 hours. Her father’s staff began their Wednesday reeling from the fallout of Woodward’s book, as well as turmoil surrounding the contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh.

But the next bombshell hit in the early afternoon. The Times op-ed, by “a senior administration official,” described Trump as “petty,” “ineffective,” “impetuous” and “amoral.”

The anonymous op-ed said there had been “whispers” among Cabinet-level officials about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. The op-ed also said there currently are efforts among quietly resistant senior staff members to create “a two-track presidency” in which they work to protect the country from Trump’s “instability” and keep the administration moving “in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.”

The op-ed immediately prompted a call from Trump for the New York Times to identify the author, while guessing games over the writer immediately exploded on social media and on cable news shows.

By Thursday morning, administration officials like Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Defense Secretary James Mattis had felt it necessary to not only denounce the op-ed but to issue statements denying authorship, CNN reported.

Ivanka Trump’s name also turned up on lists of author “suspects” from CNN and other outlets. Jimmy Kimmel joked about the possibility of the first daughter penning the piece — if she felt the need to separate her reputation from her father’s — though that would be a stunning reality TV show-like development given that she is known to be fiercely loyal to him.

.@JimmyKimmel of wild guessing game surrounding the Trump op-ed author: "I have to say, I'm surprised by how good a writer Ivanka is" https://t.co/WeDC9rRzvY pic.twitter.com/vMeAAI4lqW — Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 6, 2018

As of Thursday morning, Ivanka Trump’s somewhat oblivious “echo chamber” tweet constituted her only response to the latest turmoil that has led her father to seethe in “volcanic” fury, according to reports.

Meanwhile, her stepmother First Lady Melania Trump, whose name also appeared on some “suspect” lists, at least responded to the op-ed controversy head-on. In a statement issued to CNN, Melania Trump praised the importance of a free press, but voiced concern that “people with no names are writing our history.”

She also called on the author to identify him or herself — meaning she was denying it was her.

“If a person is bold enough to accuse a person of negative actions, they have a responsibility to stand by their words and people have a right to defend themselves,” Melania Trump said.

Otherwise, remaining anonymous means the author is “cowardly” and hurtful to the country, she concluded.