New Book Claims President Trump Nearly Fired Jared Kushner and Daughter Ivanka via Twitter

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty

In her new bookConfidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, journalist Maggie Haberman writes that the former president mentioned firing his daughter and son-in-law — both of whom served as senior White House aides — in meetings with Kelly and former White House counselDon McGahn.

Haberman writes that Trump even went so far as to suggest he could announce that the two were leaving via Twitter, but Kelly stopped him.

Ultimately, the two remained in the White House through Trump’s term and were never fired.

Elsewhere in the book — which CNN obtained ahead of its Oct. 4 debut — Haberman writes that Trump would occasionally mock his son-in-law in private, saying that he “sounds like a child,” in 2017, CNN reports.

Similar claims have been made about Trumpwanting to fire Ivanka and Jared in the past.

In author Vicky Ward’s 2019 bookKushner Inc.— largely based on anonymous interviews — she wrote that Trump once told Kelly: “Get rid of my kids; get them back to New York.”

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In his own book, Kushner writes of a tense relationship between he and his wife and Kelly, the former chief of staff.

InBreaking History: A White House Memoir,Kushner alleges that Kelly “shoved” Ivankaafter a tense White House meeting.

Kushner added that Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, offered a “meek apology” to Ivanka about an hour later in her West Wing office.

The strained relationship between Kelly and Trump’s daughter and son-in-law have been widely reported, withKelly reportedly downgrading Kushner’s security clearancefrom top secret in Feb. 2018.

In 2019, after Kelly had left his chief of staff job, hesaid in an interview of the couple: “They were an influence that has to be dealt with.”

source: people.com