Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #436

What a guest. I walked in and said wow, what a guest!

Didnt expect this one

I'm Iranian inside Iran. Her biggest achievement during Trump administration was the report about sex trafficking around the world. In that report, in the Iran's section the role of IRGC and Mullahs in exporting minor girls as sex worker to other countries was so painful. Something we all knew about it in Iran and nobody talked about it ever before. She had the courage to persuit this challenging important issue. Mainstream medias never talked about it. She has my appreciation to end of the world just for this one. And I understand why she doesn't want to involve in politics anymore.

Good lord, the picture the media created for me of her versus the reality. Scary. What a well spoken, intelligent and lovely person.

She’s sharp as a tack. I can see why she was chosen by her dad as an advisor

Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/ivanka-trump-transcript 0:00 - Introduction 1:57 - Architecture 14:12 - Modern architecture 21:45 - Philosophy of design 30:01 - Lessons from mother 53:07 - Lessons from father 1:01:39 - Fashion 1:12:35 - Hotel design 1:23:44 - Self-doubt 1:26:07 - Intuition 1:29:17 - The Apprentice 1:33:51 - Michael Jackson 1:35:26 - Nature 1:40:20 - Surfing 1:42:31 - Donald Trump 1:56:53 - Politics 2:13:05 - Work-life balance 2:19:33 - Parenting 2:34:40 - 2024 presidential campaign 2:38:17 - Dolly Parton 2:40:02 - Adele 2:40:32 - Alice Johnson 2:45:56 - Stevie Ray Vaughan 2:48:41 - Aretha Franklin 2:49:51 - Freddie Mercury 2:50:56 - Jiu jitsu 2:58:01 - Bucket list 3:02:30 - Hope SPONSORS: Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. - Cloaked: https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod

I thought "Whoa! Imagine that!" when she said her mother was such a dynamic, intense personality that her dad was like the reserved one in comparison. 😂

She seems genuinely awesome.

I as a Czech really apreciate the part where you discuss Ivanka's mother, Prague's spring and lifw in communist Czechoslovakia. Ivanka has the historical context in her mind and it just tuched my heart really deeply.

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