--- title: Gossip Girl Creators Discuss Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump description: There's one Gossip Girl storyline the show's creators apparently would have tweaked if they had known Trump would be elected president. canonical: https://time.com/4948290/gossip-girl-creators-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-cameo/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-19T18:17:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:23.494Z og:title: What Gossip Girl's Creators Regret About That Jared Kushner-Ivanka Trump Cameo og:description: Hindsight is 20/20 og:url: https://time.com/4948290/gossip-girl-creators-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-cameo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17091096e519540c/6988de6a0b72e335526ef803/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: President Trump And Melania Trump Lead Moment Of Silence For 9/11 Victims og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Gossip Girl's Creators Regret About That Jared Kushner-Ivanka Trump Cameo twitter:description: Hindsight is 20/20 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17091096e519540c/6988de6a0b72e335526ef803/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the One Thing _Gossip Girl_'s Creators Regret About That Jared Kushner-Ivanka Trump Cameo > Sponsored content. 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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attend a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House marking the September 11 attacks September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 19, 2017 6:17 PM UTC [_Gossip Girl_](http://time.com/4921842/leonardo-dicaprio-gossip-girl/)finished its six-season run long before [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4946276/donald-trump-united-nations-general-assembly/) was elected [President of the United States](http://time.com/4947990/trump-threatens-north-korea-totally-destroy/), but there’s apparently one storyline the showrunners would have tweaked if they had known what was coming. In an interview with [_Vulture_](http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/gossip-girl-creators-what-never-made-it-to-air.html)to mark the 10th anniversary of the premiere of the beloved teen drama, co-creator Josh Schwartz and executive producer Joshua Safran shared their thoughts on the season four cameo by First Daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner — who appeared as themselves in the episode “Easy J.” “With Jared and Ivanka, it would’ve been, ‘They’re on a list and they’re in town, reach out and see if they’re available,'” explained Safran. Schwartz then chimed in to reveal that, in hindsight, there’s one change they would have made to the storyline. “We regret not having Jared Kushner speak when he was on the show,” he said, presumably referring to the [online uproar over Kushner’s voice](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-responds-jared-kushner-voice-funny%5Fus%5F59763878e4b0a8a40e81271a) earlier this year. “We could’ve had a recorded video of his voice!” However, the pair claimed they don’t regret the appearance as a whole. “I’m sure Lily van der Woodsen knows Trump and would have been on the board of charities with him or Melania. That’s the world of _Gossip Girl_, so to deny it would be wrong. I think it was literally a \[_New York_\] _Observer_ party,” Savage said of the scene, referring to the newspaper that Kushner owned at the time. 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