Donald Trump embraces members of his family at his inauguration in January 2017
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The Trump presidency has been a family affair and, as Donald Trump’s star falls, his children find their futures looking uncertain too.
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have been White House employees, senior advisers to the president and, after he leaves office, will be looking for new work.
When Mr Trump assumed office, he left his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, running the Trump Organization. If he were to decide to resume control of his business they may be less busy too.
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Mr Trump’s exit from the White House will lead to the start of a Trump political dynasty.
His children have all been loyal throughout and could try to assume the mantle, running for the Republican nomination in 2024.
For some time it was assumed – including by Mr Trump himself – that if the Trump torch was to be passed on it would go to Ivanka, who would seek to become the first female president of the US.
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Donald Trump Jr
Over the last four years, and particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election, it is Mr Trump Jr who has emerged as his father’s most likely political successor.
The 42-year-old is the most conservative of the children and has embraced and amplified the president’s incendiary speaking style.
In the weeks after the election he called for "total war" and a "fight to the death".
He is almost as popular with the Trump base as his father, and even more outspoken on Twitter.
One Trump aide described Mr Trump Jr as the "emotional centre of the MAGA universe".
Political candidates usually release books ahead of runs. Mr Trump Jr has released two recently – "Triggered" and "Liberal Privilege" – attacking Democrats and political correctness and portraying Joe Biden as a "swamp monster".
In the last few weeks it has been rumoured that Don Jr is eyeing up a run for the White House.
The rumours began in earnest in October 2020, he posted a photo of a "Don Jr. 2024" flag on Instagram.
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Ivanka Trump
When they took jobs in her father’s administration Ivanka and Mr Kushner uprooted their lives with their three children, moving from New York City to Washington DC, where they rented a $5 million home around the corner from Barack and Michelle Obama.
Indications are that they could return to their previous life in Manhattan, with Ms Trump, 39, reinvigorating her lifestyle brand, and Mr Kushner, also 39, re-engaging in the property business.
Ms Trump’s fashion business could be turbocharged by her increased global fame, but in New York City the couple could find a chilly society welcome and party invitations drying up.
They recently threatened to sue after billboard adverts went up in Times Square linking them to the country’s coronavirus deaths.
A lawyer for the couple wrote to the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans responsible for the adverts, calling them "false, malicious and defamatory".
Ivanka Trump walks on stage to introduce her father at a rally in Michigan in November.
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After leaving the White House, Mr Kushner, who invested much of his energy in the Trump administration’s Middle East peace efforts, might be expected to continue working towards that goal in a private capacity.
A month after the election the couple purchased a multimillion-dollar undeveloped plot of on Indian Creek, a private island in Florida which boasts a 13-man police force and an armed marine unit patrolling its perimeter around the clock.
And renovations have been carried out at "Kushner Cottage" — their home at Mr Trump’s golf course in New Jersey, suggesting they could spend more time there.
That relocation has led to persistent rumours that Ms Trump is considering a Senate run in Florida.
Eric Trump
Eric Trump, 36, Mr Trump’s middle son, appears set to continue his role developing hotels, golf courses and apartment buildings.
His wife Lara became very involved in campaigning for her father-in-law, and there has been speculation that she could run for a US Senate seat in her home state of North Carolina.
She said recently: "It would be an incredible thing."
It would make her the first of the next generation of the Trump family to stand for office.
Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law
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Tiffany Trump
The president’s daughter Tiffany Trump, 27, graduated from Georgetown University in Washington with a law degree in May.
Ms Trump also gave a speech at the Republican National Convention.
She has suggested a desire to work for her father in a legal capacity.
After her graduation Mr Trump tweeted: “Great student, great school. … Just what I need is a lawyer in the family.”
Law graduate Tiffany Trump
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