Ivanka Trump's Most Bizarre Behavior Since Her Father Left Office

Ivanka Trump has always been an enigma. For years, people assumed she was the well-heeled, dignified answer to her father Donald Trump's brash public persona. But when he took office, she not only failed to speak out against many of his embarrassing gaffes and family-unfriendly policies; she also accepted a role as his senior adviser and changed her political allegiance to support her dad. Despite having been a lifelong registered Democrat, per The New York Times, she switched to the GOP so that she could vote for her father when he ran for re-election. 

Ivanka also claims to be an advocate for women, but she defended Donald Trump's sexist comments (and tweets) by calling him "an equal opportunity offender" on "The Kelly File." Her dad has also discussed her "hot"-ness, per The New York Times, and even joked that he'd date her if he could. But in her business-manual-cum-memoir, "The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life," Ivanka wrote that women in the workplace should "learn to figure out when a hoot or holler is indeed a form of harassment and when it's merely a good-natured tease that you can give back in kind." So it's not too surprising that she lets her dad's weird remarks slide.

Since her dad stopped being president, the first daughter has kept up the bizarre behavior along with her husband, Jared Kushner. Here are some of Ivanka's most WTF moves since she became a private citizen in January 2021.

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, appeared to be pretty elitist when her father was in office as they allegedly refused to allow their Secret Service officers to use any of the bathrooms in their home, per The Washington Post. The couple paid a pretty penny for the large home: $15,000 per month, to be exact, which went into the pocket of a ​​Chilean billionaire named Andrónico Luksic, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The couple was blessed with six bathrooms in their mansion, which sat in the swanky neighborhood of Kalorama in Washington, D.C. But they reportedly kept all the toilets to themselves whenever their protection officers were around. This left the officers having to drive "a mile" to the official home of the vice president, which has a facility for guards. And when they simply couldn't hold it, they sometimes had to count on the kindness of neighbors and local restaurants. 

​​"I think it was very clear that they just needed a place to take a shower, take a break, use the facilities, have lunch," charitable neighbor Kay Kendall told The Washington Post. "I'm happy to be able to have helped them."

Nowadays, Trump and Kushner have holed up in a $24 million abode in the Miami-neighboring Indian Creek Island, according to The Real Deal. It's got a whopping 8.5 bathrooms, but it's unclear whether the couple is being more generous with their potties this time around.

Even before news broke that they were stingy with their bathrooms, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were considered ... well, creepy. There are countless tweets comparing the miraculously un-wrinkled Kushner to a "marionette," and his remarkable resemblance to the haunted doll in "The Boy" is why the horror movie got a sequel, per The Hollywood Reporter. A column by Suzanne Moore in The Guardian mentioned Trump's "fembot ways," alluding to the animatronic women who bedeviled Austin Powers in his films. "We laugh — because to take her seriously is too ugly to contemplate," wrote Moore.

So it's clear that despite Trump and Kushner's popularity with people on the right, many commentators found them awkward and stiff. This was really hammered home whenever the pair activated displays of genuine human emotion, such as smiling and laughing, according to author Vicky Ward. In her book "Kushner, Inc.," Ward noted their uncanny similarities and mannerisms. "The couple seemed like mirror images of each other," she wrote. "They could both work a room, ask after people's children, talk without notes, occasionally fake a sense of humor." If this is true, they faked their way all to the White House, so clearly, their double act worked on some people.

The final month of Donald Trump's presidency started ominously. He tweeted "Happy New Year!" (this was before Trump's infamous Twitter ban) but still refused to concede that Joe Biden had won the election, per The Guardian. And as the days marched closer to Biden's January 20 inauguration, it became clear that Donald wasn't going to budge on his opinion of the election.

On January 6, Donald's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Some believe he was egging them on, with statements including, "We fight like hell. If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," per NPR. And as the protest turned into a riot, which turned into an attempted insurrection, Ivanka Trump sent out a tweet that left pundits confused.

"American Patriots," she wrote, according to HuffPost, "any security breach or disrespect to our law enforcement officers is unacceptable. The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful." White House correspondent Kate Bennett responded, asking Ivanka, "You're saying these people are 'patriots' ??" Ivanka replied, "No. Peaceful protest is patriotic. Violence is unacceptable and must be condemned in the strongest terms." The so-called "patriots" had already breached security barriers when Ivanka sent the original tweet, so it seems like her opinion on this matter was a work in progress throughout January 6, to put it politely.

While many Americans spent January 7 wondering what the heck had just happened and what the outgoing administration might do to fix things, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner opted to throw a dinner party.

This tidbit comes courtesy of the book "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show" by Jonathan Karl, recapped by the Independent. The point of the party was to come up with "ideas about the formation of a free-market-espousing think tank with the goal of appealing to Democrats and pulling their opponents away from an embrace of left-leaning economic policies that has overtaken the party's base in recent years," according to the outlet. Because the only thing more important than figuring out why an angry mob stormed the Capitol is figuring out how to get more votes.

But the party atmosphere may not have extended much farther than January 7: Ivanka and Kushner became pariahs in New York after Donald Trump left office, according to CNN. And unbelievably, the topic of the January 6 riot — and Ivanka's cringe-inducing resultant tweet — never came up, per Karl's book. Fair enough: it's called insurrection, not introspection.

It's important to hit every segment of the population when campaigning for political office. And for the Trumps, that apparently includes the musician Meat Loaf of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" fame. While Ivanka Trump and her father, Donald Trump, were flying to Georgia to campaign for some fellow Republicans, Ivanka tweeted a selfie. It showed a beaming Ivanka and her distracted dad, with the caption, "Off to Georgia with Dad! Get out and VOTE Georgia!!!"

Ivanka tagged five accounts on the tweet: the Republican party's official Twitter, then-GOP candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia, Trump administration member Dan Scavino Jr. — and late musician Meat Loaf aka @RealMeatLoaf.

Ivanka never explained the tag. But Meat Loaf, who was from Texas, did tell Rolling Stone he voted for Donald in the 2016 presidential race. The singer also once called one of Trump's Twitter targets, climate activist Greta Thunberg, "brainwashed," according to the Daily Mail, and he became friends with Donald and Ivanka Trump when he appeared on "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2011, per Express. But Meat Loaf said their friendship soured after he failed to give Donald a ringing endorsement when asked whether he'd make a good president. It's unclear whether the Trumps and the singer buried the hatchet before Meat Loaf's tragic death in January 2021, and Ivanka's reasons for including him in the tweet remain a mystery. Maybe it's simply that the Trump administration would tag anyone for love?

As the Trump presidency drew to a close, Donald Trump's questionable comments about his daughter's attractiveness became only the ninth or tenth weirdest thing about him. But Ivanka Trump decided to bring them back to the front of everyone's minds after the 2020 election when she delivered a gushing speech about how awesome her dad is.

After tagging Meat Loaf on Twitter as she made her way to a Georgia campaign rally with her dad — who'd just lost the presidency — she made the speech, per the Daily Mail. "​​It's so great to be back in Georgia with this warrior, my father, the people's president," she said, even though the people of Georgia had voted to boot her dad from office. "He is a tireless champion for all of you and he will not stop fighting," she added, alluding perhaps to his insistence on fighting the results of a legal election. She had also called him a "warrior" in a tweet when he fought COVID, so apparently, this is a thing for them.

Her complimentary speech about her dad brought to mind his propensity for publicly piling on the praise for Ivanka. In 2016, the Independent called his remarks about Ivanka "unsettling," while New York Magazine deemed them "gross." At least with this speech Ivanka finally returned the favor.

It seemed like Donald and Ivanka Trump were closer than ever when he left office. But shortly after, Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, allegedly realized that their status as former Trump White House employees rendered them pariahs in most high-society circles.

Donald would "complain for several hours" about the election results, according to a CNN report, and refused to accept that he'd lost. This led Ivanka and Kushner to "distance" themselves from the former POTUS. They even reportedly skipped some big Trump family events in the months after Biden took office.

Despite their efforts, though, high society hasn't welcomed them back with open arms as of this writing. They attended a Louis Vuitton fashion show in December 2021, and, according to Vanity Fair, the online reaction was pretty negative. Journalist Marlow Stern called their appearance "just too much," and designer Batsheva Hay told The New York Times, "The fashion world is pretty ready to shun her. ​​​​No one is going to lend Ivanka clothing — she'll have to buy it covertly at retail."

Will Ivanka Trump ever run for office? There's rampant speculation from GOP sources that she will, but she keeps insisting that she has no plans. Politico reported in January 2021 that Jared Kushner was "working single-mindedly to protect and promote his wife's 'political career.'" This allegedly included calling people to tell them Marco Rubio was a sucky Senator and newly minted Florida resident Ivanka would be better at it.

It's hard to imagine that the popular Rubio was worried about this political neophyte taking his place, despite her last name. But Ivanka still decided to put those rumors to bed by allegedly calling Rubio personally and telling him not to worry. "Marco did speak with Ivanka a few weeks ago," Nick Iacovella, a spokesman for Rubio, told The New York Times. "Ivanka offered her support for Marco's re-election. They had a great talk."

Still, there are reports that Ivanka and Kushner have a pact that she'll be the one to run for president, according to Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." She has even "entertained" the idea of being the first female president. Haven't we all? Vanity Fair suggested that Donald Trump might make Ivanka his 2024 running mate, so perhaps there's no need for her to waste time in the Senate.

Ivanka Trump remains slippery when it comes to her personal politics, which she rarely comments on. She does say she's "unapologetically" anti-abortion, per RealClearPolitics, which aligns with her dad's base. Other than that, she has tried to appeal to both political parties. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, she said, "I do not consider myself categorically Republican," per the outlet. But her dad's win and subsequent bid for re-election somehow changed her mind: "I am a proud Trump Republican," she told The New York Times in March 2020.

The confusion continued when she posted a vaccine selfie amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Opposition to vaccines has become a rallying cry" for Donald Trump's base, per Reuters, so that same base was not thrilled about Ivanka's cute vax pic. She tweeted and Instagrammed the photo with the caption, "Today, I got the shot!!! I hope that you do too! Thank you Nurse Torres!!!" and the haters came out almost immediately.

As Vanity Fair pointed out, the move backfired. "Sad that you and others would even condone this.... Can't wait for Americans to wake up!" one Twitter user opined. "You are crazy. Vaccine is poison," read another tweet. And Ivanka was even bolder when she got her second jab, writing, "Getting fully vaccinated is the best way to end this pandemic and protect ourselves and one another." Who knows, maybe she'll switch allegiance back to the Dems for her eventual presidential run?

Before and during Donald Trump's tenure in office, it seemed like one of Ivanka Trump's most cherished goals — besides becoming the first female president — was to steadily build her profile as an Instagram influencer. Her feed was full of run-of-the-mill TBTs and lovely lifestyle shots, not to mention pre-White House, copious spon-con. But now that she's just a private citizen living in Florida, her Instagram has gone largely unused, even though she's probably got some sick beach sunset pics piling up in her phone.

In her first year after vacating her six-bathroom Washington, D.C., rental, Ivanka only posted to Instagram four times: once to commemorate a food drive she helped with, twice to reveal her vax status, and once to tell the American public thanks for the mems on her family's way out of the Oval Office. It seems Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner haven't just moved to "distance themselves" from her dad, as CNN pointed out, but also from the public.

So why the reason for this once avid Instagrammer's extended social media cleanse? There's speculation that Ivanka is prepping to either turn on her dad, per The Guardian, or join him on the 2024 presidential ticket, according to Vanity Fair. In other words, no one knows what the heck the former first daughter has up her sleeve. But you can probably put your money on it being bizarre.