--- title: Ivanka Trump Remarks in Berlin: Read Transcript description: Trump defended her father as an advocate for women and families, drawing boos from the audience at the Women's 20 Summit canonical: https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-25T14:33:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T08:47:17.960Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Ivanka Trump's Remarks About Her Father and Her White House Role og:description: She fielded several questions about her father's administration og:url: https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b57123d22c8a793/6988ca7a196cf40ca403fd19/ivanka-trump-w20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5120 og:image:height: 2880 og:image:alt: IVANKA TRUMP ATTENDS GERMANY WOMEN SUMMIT og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Ivanka Trump's Remarks About Her Father and Her White House Role twitter:description: She fielded several questions about her father's administration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b57123d22c8a793/6988ca7a196cf40ca403fd19/ivanka-trump-w20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 01:15 video:published: 2017-04-25 section: politics topics: presidential adviser role, first daughter, empowering women in the workplace, media criticism, women's potential, international dialogue, private sector career genre: interview, news tones: defensive, earnest, formal, reflective emotions: defensiveness (medium), pride (medium), sincerity (medium) sentiment: neutral audience: news viewers, politics followers, business professionals, policy observers people: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump content_suitability: politics [00:00-01:15] transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Read Ivanka Trump's Remarks About Her Father and Her White House Role > Sponsored content. 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Ivanka Trump was booed by the audience as she defended her father as a supporter of women, while answering questions in Germany about her dual role as a first daughter and presidential adviser_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary Ivanka Trump is asked about her role and who she represents, given that her father is President of the United States. She responds that she is new to the role, describes her prior focus on empowering women in the workplace, and says she brings insights from international dialogue back to the United States. She defends her father by pointing to the women who worked with him over decades as evidence of his belief in women's potential. ## Key points - Ivanka Trump says she is unfamiliar with her role as it is quite new to her. (00:14) - She says she is representing neither the American people nor her business, when asked about who she represents. (00:09) - Before her current role, she was an entrepreneur who cared about empowering women in the workplace. (00:26) - She describes her current role as having lasted a little under 100 days and as a remarkable and incredible journey. (00:21) - She says she came to engage in dialogue and bring advice and knowledge back to the United States, to her father and the President. (00:40) - She acknowledges criticism from the media and says it has been perpetuated. (00:53) - She cites thousands of women who worked with and for her father for decades in the private sector as evidence of his conviction in women's potential. (01:02) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:14] Interviewer questions Ivanka Trump's role. The interviewer asks what her role is, whom she represents, and whether it is the President, the American people or her business. - [00:14 to 00:40] Ivanka describes her new role and background. She says the role is new to her, reflects on about 100 days in it, and recalls her private-sector focus on empowering women. - [00:40 to 01:15] Defending her father's support for women. She describes bringing knowledge back to the United States and points to the women who worked with her father as proof of his belief in women. ## Key quotes - [00:04] interviewer: "Your father is the President of the Unites States, the American people or your business?" - [00:14] Ivanka Trump: "I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me." - [00:30] Ivanka Trump: "I cared very much about empowering women in the workplace." - [00:53] Ivanka Trump: "I've certainly heard the criticism from the media and that's been perpetuated" - [01:09] Ivanka Trump: "are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women." ## Questions this video answers - What is Ivanka Trump's role, and whom does she represent? [00:00] - Does Ivanka Trump represent the President, the American people, or her business? [00:04] - How long has Ivanka Trump been in her current role? [00:17] - What did Ivanka Trump focus on as an entrepreneur in the private sector? [00:30] - How does Ivanka Trump respond to media criticism of her father's support for women? [00:53] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-01:15]: Discussion of the speaker's role as an adviser to the President and criticism from the media.  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 25, 2017 2:33 PM UTC Ivanka Trump was booed by the audience as she defended her father as a supporter of women, while answering questions in Germany about her dual role as a first daughter and presidential adviser  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 25, 2017 2:33 PM UTC [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/money/4744164/ivanka-trump-brand-company-retail-sales-china/) fielded questions about her father’s administration and her role on it during a panel discussion Tuesday about female entrepreneurship in Berlin, Germany. Trump defended her father as an advocate for women and families at the Women’s 20 Summit, [drawing boos](http://fortune.com/2017/04/25/ivanka-trump-berlin-summit/) from the audience. German journalist Miriam Meckel, who moderated the panel, quickly seized on the audience’s response, asking the First Daughter to expand on her father’s advocacy given his [past record](http://time.com/4441052/donald-trump-women-issues/?iid=sr-link3) and [comments on women](http://time.com/4523526/donald-trump-women-leaked-audio/?iid=sr-link2). Trump responded with a[ line of defense](http://time.com/4515709/ivanka-trump-campaign-ad-women/) she deployed on the campaign trail — that she could vouch for his support as a boss and a daughter. Here’s the transcript of this exchange from the panel. **MODERATOR:** “You are the first daughter of the United States, and you are also assistant to the U.S. president. As part of the audience, especially the German audience is not familiar with the concept of a first daughter, I’d like to ask you your role — to whom are you representing? Your father as the president of the United States, the American people or your business? **IVANKA TRUMP:** “Well certainly not the latter, and I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me. It has been a little under 100 days, but it has just been a remarkable, an incredible journey. So you know, as an entrepreneur and as an individual prior to this in the private sector, I care very much about empowering women in the workplace and the opportunity to have an elevated platform, to be able to sit here on this stage, and thank you, Chancellor, for your very gracious invitation. I am humbled to be here with so many formidable leaders, to engage in dialogue, to learn, to bring the advice, to bring the knowledge back to the United States, back to both my father and the president and hopefully, that will bring about incremental, positive change, and that is my goal. So this is very early for me. I’m listening, I’m learning, I’m defining the ways in which I think I’ll be able to have impact. I am seeking the counsel — to use your word — of informed and thoughtful women and men and I’m really striving to think about how best to empower women in the economy, both domestically and across the globe, because it’s all interrelated. So it’s been wonderful today and I have no doubt that coming out of this trip, I’ll be all the more informed. **MODERATOR: “**You wrote in an op-ed in the Financial _Times_, ‘We know what works in women in business.’ If we know what works, first question why don’t we do it, and second question, are you sure that works for you as a first daughter will also work for every other women?” **IVANKA TRUMP:** No. I think we represent 50% of the population, so there is no one-size-fits-all when you think about women in the workplace or women as job creators. And then you have the cultural overlay, which differs from country to country, from region to region, within regions, there are enormous problems. I feel fortunate in America that those problems are less than in other areas of the world. When we think about gender inequality, but we still have formidable problems in our own way, when you think about the fact that 30% of U.S. privately owned businesses are women business, that leaves tremendous potential for growth. Of that 30%, only 16% of businesses have employees beyond the owner. So when you think about the potential women have both to expand as women entrepreneurs, and both become more robust employers in their economy, it’s incredibly exciting. There’s a lot of wood to chop and we’re not right there yet, and I think one of the interesting things is the problems are identifiable. We know what they look like and they’re the same across the globe, just with varying degrees of disparity. The solutions and the tactical means to get to the right outcome will differ. And I think one of the great opportunities we have as we travel and as we talk to knowledgeable and informed people is to find out what’s worked in their countries and cultures. I know that Chancellor Merkel just this past March, you passed an equal-pay legislation to promote transparency and to try to finally narrow that gender pay gap. And that’s something we should all be looking at — to see the efficacy of that policy as it gets rolled out. So there’s this robust dynamic ad and ever-moving discussion, it’s a political discussion, it’s policy-oriented as we think about paid leave. Sadly, the United States is one of the only countries in the world, the only developed country in the world, that doesn’t have a paid-leave policy for the benefit of families, so that is something I’m very proud of my father’s advocacy, long before he came into the presidency, he championed this in the primaries. He’s been a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive in the new reality of —” \[Audible booing for the audience\] **MODERATOR:** You hear the reaction from the audience, so I need to address one more point. Some attitudes toward women your father has displayed in former times might leave one questioning whether he’s such an empower for women. How do you relate to that? Are things changing? What’s your comment on that? **IVANKA TRUMP:** I’ve certainly heard the criticism from the media and that’s been perpetuated, but I know from personal experience and I think the thousands of women who have worked with and for my father for decades when he was in the private sector are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man. So I think in my personal experience, and you were asking me as a daughter and also an adviser, as a daughter I can speak on a very personal level knowing he encouraged me and enabled me to thrive. I grew up in a house where there was no barriers to what I could accomplish beyond my own perseverance and my own tenacity. And I don’t take that lightly as a parent now myself. He did that and he provided that for us. There was no difference between me and my brothers and I think as a business leader, you saw that and as a President you will absolutely see that. **MODERATOR:** We will be curious, thank you. ## Transcript [00:00] I'd like to ask you, what is your role? And whom [00:04] are you representing? Your father is the President of [00:07] the Unites States, the American people or your [00:09] business? Well certainly not the later, and [00:14] I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is [00:17] quite new to me. It has been a little under 100 days, [00:21] but it has Just been a remarkable [00:26] and incredible journey. So as an entrepreneur and [00:30] as an individual prior to this, and in the private sector, [00:34] I cared very much about empowering women in the [00:37] workplace. I am humbled to be here with so many [00:40] formidable leaders to engage in dialogue, to learn, to [00:44] bring the advice, to bring the knowledge back to the [00:48] Unites States, back to both my father and the [00:51] President. I've certainly heard the criticism from the [00:53] media and that's been perpetuated, but [00:58] I know from personal experience and I think the [01:02] thousands of women who have worked with and for my [01:05] father for decades when he was in the private sector [01:09] are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in [01:14] the potential of women. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Ivanka Trump's Remarks About Her Father and Her White House Role","datePublished":"2017-04-25T14:33:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T08:47:17.960Z","description":"She fielded several questions about her father's administration","url":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/","keywords":["Berlin","Ivanka Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b57123d22c8a793/6988ca7a196cf40ca403fd19/ivanka-trump-w20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b57123d22c8a793/6988ca7a196cf40ca403fd19/ivanka-trump-w20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"IVANKA TRUMP ATTENDS GERMANY WOMEN SUMMIT","caption":"IVANKA TRUMP ATTENDS GERMANY WOMEN SUMMIT","creditText":"ODD ANDERSEN—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/","name":"Read Ivanka Trump's Remarks About Her Father and Her White House Role"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ivanka Trump Gets Booed During Speech After Saying Her Father Supports Women","description":"Ivanka Trump was booed by the audience as she defended her father as a supporter of women, while answering questions in Germany about her dual role as a first daughter and presidential adviser","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Y0PPHxNC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-04-25T14:15:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Y0PPHxNC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```