Ivanka Trump’s best gifts from foreign leaders: what did China’s Xi Jinping, Jordan’s Queen Rania and Saudi’s Mohammed bin Salman give the former US first daughter?

Jan 28 , 2021

Ivanka Trump met many foreign leaders, but what gifts did they give her? Photo: Reuters, AFP

Presents for the former presidential adviser and one-time fashion brand founder ranged from jewellery and a Bao Bao Issey Miyake handbag, to a golf putter and a dung beetle bracelet

During her time as a White House adviser on jobs and the workforce to her dad, former president Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump got to travel the globe. And while her role in his presidency seems to have cost her some of her old friends, on the plus side she did get to meet many of the world’s most important figures. Her family also hosted many political and business leaders on home turf.

When it came to the gifts these people presented to Ivanka, it seems they did their research. Having had her own eponymous fashion and accessories brand – shut down in 2018 as her political activities ramped up – as well as having worked on the Trump golf resort properties, foreign leaders gave her presents that spoke to her presumed tastes.

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Ivanka Trump, second from right, the daughter and assistant to former president Donald Trump, is seated with husband Jared Kushner, right, during a dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, at Mar-a-Lago in April 2017. Photo: AP

President Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visited the US in April 2017 and Donald and Melania Trump weren’t the only people in the White House to get impressive gifts out of it. Madam Peng gave Ivanka a silver-toned brass jewellery box with rosettes on the exterior and faux diamonds, according to a federal report. While the diamonds are thought to be fake, the box was decorated in real pearls.

Ivanka was also given a gold-plated sterling silver jewellery set consisting of a brooch, earrings with real pearls, and a dangling white ovoid in a gold-plated mount.

The Ivanka Trump Collection shop in the lobby of New York’s Trump Tower in February 2017. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

The jewellery, box worth US$1,200, and jewellery set worth US$750, was presented to the businesswoman shortly before she announced she was shutting down her Ivanka Trump Fine Jewels line to focus on her career in politics.

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