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Ivanka Trump says she's been 'blindsided'. And the internet is not having it.

After a tricky week in the Trump presidency, First Lady Daughter Ivanka Trump is once again on the PR trail, starting her week with an appearance on the early morning show Fox & Friends.

There, the 35-year-old revealed that she’s been “surprised” by the level of backlash and anger directed towards her father since he took office January 20, 2017, admitting that things have been “harder” than she thought they might be.

“There’s a level of viciousness that I was not expecting,” she said.

“I was not expecting the intensity of this experience…but this isn’t supposed to be easy.”

She then went on to address some of the “distractions” during her father’s first few months in office.

(We’re not sure if she means the ongoing Russia investigations or the endless speculation about Melania Trump not wanting to hold her husband’s hand…)

“I didn’t expect it to be easy, but some of the distractions and some of the ferocity…I was a little blindsided by on a personal level,” she said, adding that her father felt “vindicated” and “positive,” following former FBI boss James Comey’s testimony last week.

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Image via Fox.
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Trump said she's now focused on working to make a positive change with her father and his administration.

"I'm trying to keep my head down, not listen to the noise and work really hard to make a positive impact in the lives of many people," she said.

"My father and this administration intend to be transformative and we want to do big, bold things."

LISTEN: Amelia and Mia go deep on All Things Comey on the latest episode of our new Trump podcast...Post continues after.

"At the end of the day, if you want to think about difficult, it's the factory worker who's been laid off. Difficult is the mother who's lost a child to opioid abuse," Trump said.

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"So those are the real challenges and I think that does put it in perspective for me."

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Ivanka said it's "all about perspective" for her and her father. Image: Getty.

Naturally, Americans  the world is a little confused by Ivanka's statements, given the nature of the campaign her father ran against his opponent Hillary Clinton when he was trying to get elected.

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Back then, Trump led a chant to put Clinton behind bars over her "email scandal," appeared to mock a disabled reporter and made derogatory statements about female news anchor Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle...to name just a few choice moments.

Cue the Twitter outrage after Ivanka's latest comments.

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