Only days after Ivanka Trump, daughter of president-elect Donald Trump, sat in on her father’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Ivanka has now been reported to have joined in on her father’s call with Argentina’s president.
According to Reuters, Trump and Argentine President Mauricio Marci spoke on November 14, with Macri being one of few Latin American leaders who had spoken with Trump in the days following his election. The call was supposedly intended to rekindle a relationship formed when Trump and Macri worked as businessmen before entering politics.
Macri, in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun, said that he spoke with Ivanka on the phone during his call with Trump.
“At the end of the president's call with Trump, the phone was passed to Ivanka so he could say hello. They have known each other since she was quite young,” Macri’s spokesman responded in regards to questions about the call.
However, considering that Ivanka, as well as Trump’s other children, will be running the Trump business once Trump enters office, the fact that Ivanka has been sitting in on these diplomatic meetings has been troubling.
According to Cosmopolitan, Trump has reportedly made attempts to build a Trump Tower in Buenos Aires since 2012, but has been unsuccessful in getting approval for the project. After Monday’s call, however, the project has suddenly moved forward, with construction supposedly beginning in 2017 and most likely will be completed by 2020.
Some are concerned about this deal, especially since Ivanka will most likely be one of the individuals overseeing this project.
Macri’s spokesman, however, denied reports in the Argentine press that Trump mentioned the pending project that the real estate mogul has been trying to get approved by city regulators during the phone call, Reuters reports.