True friendship will conquer all forms of bigotry, divides including those infused by politics. This aptly describe the bond of friendship between daughters of two American Presidential hopefuls- Hilary Clinton of Democrats and Donald Trump of Republican.
Despite the chaos and the seemingly belligerent posture of the two presidential candidates, their daughters remain bosom friends. Ivanka Trump daughter of Republican’s presidential candidate told PEOPLE’s that she and the daughter of Hilary Clinton-Democrats’ presidential candidate, Chelsea Clinton are still friends.
As the presidential election heated up, however, tensions threatened to complicate their friendship, when Trump slammed Clinton as the “worst secretary of state in the history of the U.S.” and dubbed her “crooked Hillary” on Twitter. Clinton fought back, telling CNN that Trump “laid out the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president … I think we’ve ever seen.”
As Trump closed in on the Republican nomination in March, he told PEOPLE he and Clinton had only ever been fair-weather friends.
“No we’re really not [friendly anymore],” he told PEOPLE. “I was friendly with her when I was a business person because it was to my advantage to be friendly. When you are in business you have to be friendly with everybody. Republican, Democrat, Secretary of State. But no I haven’t spoken to her in a long time,” he said, adding, “the last person Hillary wants running against her is me because I’m going to beat her.”
But Ivanka says that, counter to what many may think, she and Chelsea have remained close.
“We’re both incredibly supportive of our parents, as we should be,” Ivanka tells PEOPLE. “But we also continue to have great respect for one another.”
Last fall Chelsea tlld PEOPLE, of her relationship with Ivanka: “Friendship is always more important than politics. I learned that growing up, watching my parents be friends with people across the political spectrum in Arkansas.”
Both new moms –Ivanka has Arabella-5, Joseph-2, and Theodore-3 months and Chelsea has Charlotte, 22 months, and Aiden, 1 month – Ivanka says the pair haven’t seen each other since welcoming their babies this spring, but that they plan to remain friends despite the election.
“Our friendship has never been about politics,” she says. “I don’t expect it will be about politics in the future.”
