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  • Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump: Will Their Friendship Go the Way of Their Rival Parents, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?

    Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump are very close friends. The two grew close after their husbands became friends a while back. Will their rival parents, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, throw a wrench into that friendship?

    Chelsea Clinton says no.

    “Friendship is always more important than politics,” the former First Daughter said in a recent interview with People magazine. “I learned that growing up, watching my parents be friends with people across the political spectrum in Arkansas.”

    Keep in mind, however, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were once friends, too. She attended his wedding to wife Melania, and he donated big bucks–tens of thousands, actually–to the Clinton Foundation. These days, the two are arch rivals.

    Donald Trump has publicly called Chelsea Clinton’s mother a criminal, as well as the “worst secretary of state in the history of the U.S.”

    During a recent interview with Andrea Mitchell, Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump likes to defame people.

    “He is the candidate of being against [people],” she said.

    Despite this and more, Chelsea Clinton firmly believes her friendship with Ivanka Trump will outlast the 2016 election–and beyond.

    “I’m really grateful that Ivanka’s my friend,” she says.

    Do you think Chelsea Clinton is kidding herself? Can her friendship with Ivanka Trump last as parents on opposite ends of the political spectrum say cruel things about each other–as has become the norm in politics these days?

    It will be interesting to hear what Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump have to say about each other a year from now.

  • Chelsea Clinton Makes $75K for Speaking Appearance

    Potential 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has come under fire recently for seeming to align herself with “regular folks,” all while pulling in speaking fees that equal more per appearance than most people make in a year. Hillary has made as much as $300,000 on speaking engagements.

    However, Hillary has pointed out that the money from all her speaking engagements goes directly to charity. Opponents of Hillary Clinton have demanded that figures be released that show how much she is making off each speech she gives, and exactly how much of that goes to charity. They say that her wealth makes her out of touch with normal, average Americans.

    Now we learn that former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton ain’t no slouch on the speaking circuit herself.

    Chelsea Clinton reportedly pulls down up to $75,000 per speaking engagement. But, also like her mother, she donates every bit of the money she gets from speaking fees to charity, specifically to the Clinton Foundation.

    A representative for Chelsea Clinton was quick to point out that all the speaking that she does is related to the work of the Clinton Foundation. Furthermore, she chooses specific speaking engagements based on the organization’s focus on issues that the Clinton Foundation supports.

    The Clinton Foundation lists its Guiding Principles as:

    – We’re all in this together.

    – Nothing truly happens unless a life is changed.

    – No one has all the answers, but we can bring together the people who can find them.

    – Results you can measure are the only results that matter.

    – Empowerment is liberating and life-changing.

    – There is always a way to be faster, leaner, and better.

    – The greatest good is helping people live their best life story.

    Beyond her volunteer work with the Foundation, Chelsea herself is not hurting for money. She was under $600,000 per year contract with NBC where she was a special correspondent.

    So what is Chelsea like on stage? Here is a TED talk she gave, as an example.

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  • Chelsea Clinton Announces She’s Pregnant with First Child

    Chelsea Clinton, former First Daughter, is pregnant with her first child.

    Clinton made the announcement on stage at a Clinton Foundation event in New York City on Thursday:

    “Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year and I certainly feel all the better whether it’s a girl or a boy that she or he will grow up in a world with so many strong female leaders.”

    It was an appropriate slant for the announcement given that Clinton was participating in a forum at Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation, an event designed to promote empowerment among young women.

    The event took place at the Lower East Side Girls Club and was moderated by actress and activist America Ferrera.

    ” … thank you for inspiring future generations, including the one that we’ll be lucky enough to welcome into our family later this year,” Clinton said.

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat beside her daughter beaming proudly as the announcement was made.

    In a 2012 interview with Vogue Clinton alluded to the fact that her mother was anxious for grandchildren.

    “Marc and I are both working really hard right now,” she said at the time, “but I think in a couple of years, hopefully . . . literally, God willing. And I hope my mom can wait that long.”

    Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky in 2010. Like his wife, Mezvinsky is the son of politicians, but he seems content to stay on the sidelines, at least for now, and continue his work as an investment banker.

    After announcing her pregnancy, Clinton added “I just hope that I’ll be as good to my child as my mom was to me,” to which Hillary, who is seen by many as the front-runner for the presidency in 2016, replied “I’m expecting a grand child which I’m very excited about. We’re very excited about what’s happening in our family but we’re also very excited about what we’re doing.”

    Clinton’s pregnancy announcement came on the heels of her admission that she may consider running for political office at some point in the future.

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  • Chelsea Clinton: “You Don’t Need to Be Elected to Political Office to Change the World”

    Chelsea Clinton gets asked when she’ll run for political office on a nearly daily basis.

    “Very few days go by when people don’t ask me that question,” the former First Daughter recently told late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon.

    The very reason for her appearance on the show demonstrates why the question gets asked so often. Clinton was promoting the Clinton Global Initiative University 2014 which took place March 21-23 at Arizona State University.

    “I find CGI U every year to be the most potent antidote to any cynicism about the world because of the work students are doing to tackle challenges big and small, to make a difference today and create a different world for tomorrow,” Clinton recently told The WorldPost.

    Besides working with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI,) Chelsea Clinton is Vice Chair of The Clinton Foundation, having formally joined the its board in 2011. Clinton was instrumental in the organization’s decision to get its first external review as well as the selection of a new chief executive officer.

    It seems that political activism is in Chelsea Clinton’s blood, whether or not it results in her running for office in the future.

    During an interview last September at CGI’s annual conference in New York City, Clinton admitted that she hasn’t ruled out running for public office and she hopes many young people feel the same.

    “I do find it pretty discouraging that almost none of my friends think about running for public office as an option in their lives … I find it very troubling that so many of my friends who are doing important and often disruptive work, whether it’s in technology startups or the social sector or beyond, aren’t thinking about how to translate those experiences — and their desire to see our country be stronger and healthier than ever before — into possibly entering into the political arena.”

    However, she pointed out that platforms such as Americorps, Change.org, IndieGoGo, Teach for America, even Twitter and Facebook offer an opportunity to effect change outside political office.

    As for Clinton, she says she’s focusing on being a more purposeful public person.

    “You don’t need to be elected to political office to change the world,” Clinton said.

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