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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.