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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump brings state of daughter Ivanka and Jared Kushner’s marriage into his Israeli parliament address on Gaza peace

President Donald Trump highlighted Jared Kushner’s contributions to the newly inaugurated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a bizarrely tangential anecdote about his son-in-law’s marriage to daughter Ivanka as he addressed Israel’s parliament Monday.

Trump was roughly three quarters through an hourlong speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem when he began thanking his administration’s negotiating team of Kushner, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for their work on the ceasefire.

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