EXCLUSIVE!

Ivanka Trump Wanted Her Dad To Fire Mike Pence, Appoint Her As VP After January 6th

A family scheme that would have sparked a Constitutional crisis.

Dash MacIntyre
4 min readMay 29, 2023

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According to White House insiders, Ivanka Trump tried to convince her father, President Donald Trump, to fire Vice President Mike Pence for the last few weeks of his presidency so that she could replace him and add “Vice President” to her resumé.

“Trump was amenable to the idea of injecting some last-minute sex appeal into his lame duck administration,” explained a former Trump aide, who requested anonymity. “He also thought it would be great for changing the subject after the January 6th riot, but Pence was furious about the idea. After four years of unquestionable loyalty to even the most morally and intellectually deranged aspects of Trump’s decision-making and leadership, Trump was literally so close to impulsively firing him. He went around the White House while the riot was happening asking everyone on the staff if they thought hanging Pence would be good for TV ratings. Afterwards, I heard him say on a phone call with Steve Bannon that his biggest regret was not tweeting, in all caps, ‘HANG MIKE PENCE, STOP THE STEAL!’ when the rioters breached the Capitol Building. In retaliation to Ivanka’s scheming, Pence called Ivanka a…

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.