--- title: Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump's Run 'Complicated' description: Ivanka Trump praised her father's presidential campaign in an interview, but said running for the nation's highest office has not been easy canonical: https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T16:48:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:47:24.828Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ivanka Trump on Father's Presidential Run: It's 'Complicated' og:description: "I’m proud of him, but it’s a very difficult thing to do" og:url: https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte939b7295bf1b52a/69886842cf40a861f4c4031e/ivanka-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ivanka Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump on Father's Presidential Run: It's 'Complicated' twitter:description: "I’m proud of him, but it’s a very difficult thing to do" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte939b7295bf1b52a/69886842cf40a861f4c4031e/ivanka-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump on Father's Presidential Run: It's 'Complicated'  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 14, 2015 4:48 PM UTC  Ivanka Trump speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, on Oct. 14, 2015, in Washington. Ivanka Trump speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, on Oct. 14, 2015, in Washington.Carolyn Kaster—AP  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 14, 2015 4:48 PM UTC [Ivanka Trump](http://motto.time.com/4182722/ivanka-trump-negotiation-skills/) praised her father’s presidential campaign in an interview with _Fortune_ this week, but said that running for the nation’s highest elected office has not been easy. Asked how she feels about the run, she replied: “That’s a complicated question.” “I’m proud of him, but it’s a very difficult thing to do,” she said. “My father has achieved tremendous success and he’s not a politician but he’s changing the dialogue and disrupting the process in a very meaningful way.” Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization, also defended her father’s treatment of women in the interview. [Read more at _Fortune._](http://fortune.com/2015/10/14/ivanka-trump-presidential-campaign/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/"},"headline":"Ivanka Trump on Father's Presidential Run: It's 'Complicated'","datePublished":"2015-10-14T16:48:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:47:24.828Z","description":"'I’m proud of him, but it’s a very difficult thing to do'","url":"https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/","keywords":["2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte939b7295bf1b52a/69886842cf40a861f4c4031e/ivanka-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte939b7295bf1b52a/69886842cf40a861f4c4031e/ivanka-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ivanka Trump","caption":"Ivanka Trump","creditText":"Carolyn Kaster—AP","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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4073372/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-campaign/","name":"Ivanka Trump on Father's Presidential Run: It's 'Complicated'"}}]}] ```