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Ivanka Trump and her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump expected their father would lose the 2016 election, and they could go back to their pre-politics lives. That means Don Jr. and Eric could focus on the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., while Ivanka looked forward to juicing up her fashion line and rolling out her new advice book for working women.

But then Donald Trump won, turning America upside down. A new book, “Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family,” reveals how Donald Trump’s eldest children “seized on the opportunity” presented by their new reality. In particular, Ivanka Trump essentially had stars in her eyes, according to the book’s author Emily Jane Fox, who shares an excerpt of the book with Vanity Fair.

The excerpt is being published during a difficult week for the first daughter and White House senior advisor.

She was blasted on social media over the weekend for posting on Twitter a photo of herself cuddling with her 2-year-old son Theodore as news reports circulated about a Trump administration policy that has undocumented children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S. border. For this “oblivious” post, Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless (expletive)” on her show “Full Frontal,” igniting more controversy around the first daughter.

With regard to how Ivanka Trump initially viewed her father’s White House win, Fox reports that the mother of three used the transition period to strategize ways to insert herself into some kind of future White House role, most likely advocating for issues affecting working women.

But first came Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the marketing-savvy Ivanka Trump “seemed particularly attuned to the stagecraft,” Fox reported.

At first, incoming first lady Melania Trump was wary of the idea of the customary parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, citing security concerns, Fox writes. But Ivanka Trump was keen on the potential pageantry and symbolism of the occasion and insisted the parade happen. Fox said Ivanka also had her wish granted that she and her husband Jared Kushner get to stay in the Lincoln bedroom the weekend of the inauguration.

In addition, Ivanka Trump worked with a stylist on devising her inauguration day outfits. She told friends she wanted a “princess moment,” according to Fox.

“I told her it’s an inauguration, not a coronation,” one friend told Fox. “The sentiment was that Americans wanted a royal family.”

In certain ways, it’s not surprising that Ivanka Trump would hold such beliefs about herself and her family, with the Trumps long seeing themselves “as a modern version of the Kennedys,” Fox writes.

But Fox notes that “the inauguration brought to mind the dynamic of another sort of American first family: the Kardashians.”

Indeed, like the Kardashian siblings, Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric also became famous for being famous.

It’s also been long observed that the Trump kids had strong role models for this kind of fame. Their parents, Donald and Ivana Trump, became tabloid figures of scandal and excess in 1980s New York City society. Two decades later, to revive the bankrupt fortunes of his real estate empire, Donald Trump seized on creating another kind of fame: as a reality TV star on “The Apprentice.” He soon brought his oldest three children along for the reality TV ride, just as he also put them to work in his Trump Organization.

Fox’s Kardashian observation is pretty prescient, given this week’s events. Perhaps even Ivanka Trump could appreciate the symbolism of the photo of her father beaming from behind his desk in the Oval Office, as his fellow reality TV star maverick Kim Kardashian stands by his side.

Great meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing. pic.twitter.com/uOy4UJ41JF — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

Kardashian and the president, by the way, met Wednesday to discuss a serious issue — prison reform and her plea for Trump to pardon jailed grandmother Alice Marie Johnson. So even pressing national issues these days are being worked out as if we’re living in an episode of reality TV. Notably, Kardashian capped off her White House visit by reportedly having dinner at Ivanka and Jared Kushner’s home in Washington D.C.

Unfortunately, Ivanka Trump didn’t have long to enjoy her “princess” moment after her father became president, as Fox points out.

The Trump children began turning the White House and Washington, D.C., into their own “veritable 68th floor of Trump Tower,” Fox writes. But reality quickly set in.

It turns out there were many forces — grassroots organizations, the media, congressional Democrats — who would resist any notion of letting them run the U.S. government like a Trump family business.

For Ivanka Trump, Nordstrom almost immediately dropped her clothing line because of a boycott effort over her father’s sexist comments and actions before and during his campaign, Fox writes. Watchdog groups also launched inquiries and lawsuits into potential conflicts of interests and violations of the emoluments clauses of the Constitution, related to her, Jared Kushner and the president possible mingling Trump family financial interests with White House operations.

To varying degrees, Don. Jr., Ivanka and Kushner also have become entangled in various investigations related to former FBI director James Comey, Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and “fixer” for the Trump family who told Fox he once thought of the Trumps “as family.”

It also turns out that Ivanka Trump hasn’t proven to be that adept at what Fox calls “stagecraft.” She regularly incites controversy and PR fiascos, as in balking at answering reporters’ questions that she, as a White House senior advisor, should typically be expected to answer.

Ivanka Trump also has become notorious for her “tone-deaf” social media posts, especially when she attempts to present herself as the politically moderate, “palatable bridge” to her father’s controversial tweets and hard-line policies. Her social media fiascos include her photo from last weekend of her cuddling her son.

To defend herself against “the trolls,” the woman who reportedly wanted her “princess moment” invoked the words of the leader of another dynasty — from Ancient Rome. Ivanka Trump quoted Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to explain how she planned to ignore “distractions” and to calmly focus on “the work” ahead of her, which she believes she is doing for “the right reason.”

In a message that actually sounded less like Stoic philosophy and more like Kim Kardashian, Ivanka wrote: “Focus on what is before you, on what you can control and ignore the trolls! Have a great week!”

3:3 Focus on what is before you, on what you can control and ignore the trolls!

Have a great week! — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) May 29, 2018

This story has been updated to include reference to Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” commentary on Ivanka Trump.