Report: Jared and Ivanka Aren’t Winning Any Popularity Contests With Florida Neighbors

When Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner relocated from New York to Washington, D.C., in 2016, the duo perhaps assumed that their next move would be a much quicker one—the less than two miles between their Kalorama mansion and the White House, which they believed they’d inhabit when Ivanka became the first woman president. [Pause for laughter.] Yes, as Michael Wolff reported in Fire and Fury, the couple, had “made an earnest deal” between themselves that “if sometime in the future the opportunity arose,” the two wouldn’t fight over who was going to be POTUS—not because neither of them were remotely qualified but because they believed the choice was obvious. “She’d be the one to run for president,” Wolff wrote. “The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.”

Unfortunately for womankind, that whole thing didn’t work out exactly as Jared and Ivanka had planned, and instead, they were basically run out of town. Except, thanks to their work during the four years prior, and her father’s decision to incite a little insurrection, the couple’s old pals in NYC weren’t exactly welcoming them back with open arms. So they did what any disgraced, ridiculously wealthy couple in their situation would do—they bought $56 million worth of real estate on a private island in Florida known as “Billionaire Bunker” and decamped to the Sunshine State.

And that’s where they’ve been for the last year, only, they haven’t been living on the island they dropped tens of millions of dollars on, where 79% of residents voted for Donald Trump, because their spread is still under construction. Instead, they’ve been staying in the town of Surfside, which went for Joe Biden in 2020. And the locals aren’t thrilled!

According to a report from the Washingtonian, while the town’s “Trumpy mayor” is very excited about the couple’s presence, others would prefer they move on. Eliana Salzhauer, a town commissioner, told the outlet that, at first, “It was, ‘Oh, good, the town is getting recognition.’ Then it was, ‘Oh, no, the psychos are coming.’” She added that she doesn‘t want Surfside to help rehab the couple’s image, which is fair. But others have more specific complaints.

Per the Washingtonian:

One sunny day last June, a Surfside resident spotted a tall blond woman on the hard pack, with a little white dog on a leash. She watched as the woman led the dog off the pathway toward the beach, right past a sign that clearly said dogs weren’t allowed. The resident, a beach activist who finds high purpose in protecting Surfside’s loggerhead sea turtles during nesting season, mobilized. “I was speed-walking at her and yelling at her,” she recalls. “I just opened my mouth and said, ‘You can’t go out there with the dog!’” 

When the startled owner turned around, her face was immediately recognizable. It was Ivanka Trump—accompanied by her ten-year-old daughter, Arabella, and their ultra-white, blue-eyed pooch, Winter. “Oh-uh, I didn’t realize,” Trump said. The women were adjacent to the seaside condo building where Ivanka and Jared, their three children, and Winter (believed to be a Pomeranian mix) had resettled after their inglorious exit from Washington five months earlier—and just steps from the large beach-rules notice that Trump surely must have passed scores of times by then. 

“You’re standing right next to the sign,” the neighbor told Ivanka. “Look, it says ‘No dogs.’”+

“Oh,” Ivanka said again, retreating.