Donald Trump once fumed over his daughter Ivanka missing out on the chance to date Tom Brady – while son-in-law Jared Kushner was sat right next to him.
In an excerpt from his new book ‘Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery’, via The Atlantic, California Governor Gavin Newsom recalled his first ever meeting with Trump on board presidential helicopter Marine One during his first term in office back in 2018.
As well as discussing the recent wildfires in California at the time, Newsom says he and the president also spoke about his eldest daughter, and specifically her missed opportunity with Brady.
Trump is said to have lamented Ivanka passing up a shot at the legendary NFL quarterback because of her relationship with ‘some schmuck whose father had just got out of prison’ in Kushner, who was ‘sitting right there’ with them on Marine One.
‘In front of the governor and future governor of California, Trump was making his son-in-law feel two feet tall,’ Newsom wrote. ‘And Kushner just let him do it.’
Kushner – whose father Charles, a wealthy real estate magnate, once spent 14 months in prison for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions – first met Ivanka in 2005 through mutual friends before tying the knot in 2009.
Donald Trump once fumed over daughter Ivanka (center) missing out on dating Tom Brady while son-in-law Jared Kushner (right) was next to him
Trump told California Governor Gavin Newsom that Ivanka could have dated the NFL legend
The president’s eldest daughter has now been married to Kushner for close to 17 years
The couple have three children together in daughter Arabella Rose, 14, and sons Joseph Frederick, 12, and Theodore James, nine.
Amid his marriage to Ivanka, Kushner served as a senior advisor to Trump in his first stint as president from 2017-21. Since his father-in-law returned to office, he has taken on an informal advisory role and served as an intermediary in negotiations regarding the Israel-Gaza and Ukraine-Russia wars.
Brady, meanwhile, dated actress Bridget Moynahan from 2004-06 and welcomed a child with her, now 18-year-old son Jack, before going their separate ways.
The seven-time Super Bowl winner, who was playing for the New England Patriots when Trump claimed Ivanka once had the chance to date him, entered a relationship with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen shortly after.
He married Bundchen in February 2009 and welcomed another two children with her – son Benjamin, now 16, and daughter Vivian, now 13 – before divorcing in October 2022.
Since splitting from Bundchen, Brady has been linked with a number of high-profile women including Kim Kardashian, Irina Shayk and Alix Earle.