Trump’s daughter says she won’t replace Nikki Haley as US envoy to UN

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (APP):President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has said she won’t take Nikki Haley’s post as US ambassador to the United Nations, even though her father said she would be “dynamite” at the job.
“I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley,” Ivanka Trump said in a tweet Tuesday. “That replacement will not be me.”
The president said earlier in the day that his daughter would be an “incredible” ambassador to the UN, but “I would be accused of nepotism.” She and her husband, Jared Kushner, are currently senior advisers to the president on the White House staff.
Haley, formerly the Republican governor of South Carolina, was confirmed as U.N. ambassador in January 2017. She announced her resignation on Tuesday.
“It has been an honour of a lifetime,” Haley, the daughter of Sikh immigrants from India, said in Washington, announcing her departure as Trump looked on at a White House ceremony.
“Look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy. Now, the United States is respected,” she said. “Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.”
Speaking to reporters later in the day, Trump said his daughter “would be incredible” as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
“I want to tell you, the people” know that Ivanka would be dynamite,” Trump said. “But, you know, I’d then be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it.”
Trump added: “You’d be accused of nepotism, even though I’m not sure there’s anybody more competent in the world.”
Ivanka Trump, a former fashion designer, has no foreign policy experience, though she’s been present at meetings with foreign heads of state.
Haley will leave her job as ambassador by the end of the year, the president said earlier in an announcement that surprised many in the White House including Chief of Staff John Kelly and Vice President Mike Pence.
The president said he is considering Goldman Sachs Group’s Dina Powell as a potential replacement along with “others.” Another potential Haley successor is the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell, who quickly won Twitter endorsements from conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt and several Trump associates.