--- title: Ivanka Trump: I Won't Replace Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador description: President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka said she won’t take Nikki Haley’s place as ambassador to the United Nations. canonical: https://time.com/5420113/ivanka-trump-nikki-haley-un-ambassador/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-10T00:11:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:02:22.203Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ivanka Trump Tweets She Won't Replace Nikki Haley as the UN Ambassador og:description: The denial came after the President said she would be "incredible" in the job og:url: https://time.com/5420113/ivanka-trump-nikki-haley-un-ambassador/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02841d9cba882f6b/69893c318fd2ee04b435cd50/gettyimages-1048024122.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Trump Meets With UN Ambassador Nikki Haley At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump Tweets She Won't Replace Nikki Haley as the UN Ambassador twitter:description: The denial came after the President said she would be "incredible" in the job twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02841d9cba882f6b/69893c318fd2ee04b435cd50/gettyimages-1048024122.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump Tweets She Won't Replace Nikki Haley as the UN Ambassador > Sponsored content. 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Trump said his daughter, Ivanka, would be a great ambassador to the UN but he wouldn’t appoint her because of a potential “nepotism” issue._ by [Mike Dorning / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Mike Dorning / Bloomberg Contributor Oct 10, 2018 12:11 AM UTC by [Mike Dorning / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Mike Dorning / Bloomberg Contributor Oct 10, 2018 12:11 AM UTC President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka said she won’t take Nikki Haley’s place as ambassador to the United Nations. “I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley,” Ivanka Trump said in a tweet Tuesday. “That replacement will not be me.” Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me. > [](https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1049773378167590912) The president said earlier in the day that his daughter would be an “incredible” ambassador to the UN, but “I’d be accused of nepotism.” She and her husband, Jared Kushner, are currently senior advisers to the president on the White House staff. “I’m not sure there’s anybody more competent,” the president added. Haley will leave her job as ambassador by the end of the year, the president said earlier in an announcement that surprised many in the White House including Chief of Staff John Kelly and Vice President Mike Pence. The president said he is considering Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Dina Powell as a potential replacement along with “others.” Another potential Haley successor is the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell, who quickly won Twitter endorsements from conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt and several Trump associates. Ivanka Trump earlier tweeted praise for Haley. > [](https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1049684207923023873) ## Transcript It's certainly a person I would consider, and she is under consideration. We have actually many names and Nikki has been great. Nikki's going to be working along with us and helping us with a choice. Plus, she's going to help us with 2020, and Nikki's a great friend of mine. We've become real friends over the last period, she's done a fantastic job. And so she'll be involved, and Dina certainly, and there are other. I've heard a lot of names. I've heard Ivanka. I've heard how good will Ivanka be. The people that know there's nothing to do with nepotism, but I want to tell you the people that know know that Ivanka would be dynamite. But I'd then be accused of nepotism. Even though I'm not sure there's anybody more competent in the world, but that's okay. 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