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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Walked Out of the Movie ‘Vice’ About Former VP Dick Cheney

According to People Magazine, Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner took to the movies over their Christmas break, but their choice of movie — Vice — apparently didn’t suit their fancy.

Ivanka and Kushner went to a West Palm Beach theater for a showing of Adam McKay’s acidic retelling of the life and rise of Dick Cheney, a former vice president and tremendously consequential figure in the political party that Ivanka’s father now leads.

Partway through the showing, she and Kushner and their Secret Service detail got up and left. It is unclear why they got up and left, but one witness described it as “abrupt.”

Vanity Fair reports that the couple left late in the movie, so they most likely saw the “split-second cutaway to a young Donald Trump.” So, did that scene annoy them enough to make them leave? Were they simply over the film and didn’t need to see the end? Or did they perhaps suddenly remember that a number of government employees have been wondering how they will be able to pay their rent during the shutdown and leave to try to help out?

Multiple members of the Trump family spent the holiday at Mar-a-Lago amid the shutdown of the federal government that has left about 800,000 employees without pay.

First Lady Melania Trump spent Christmas with the president in Washington, D.C., but then returned to Mar-a-Lago for New Year’s Eve with her parents and son Barron. “She didn’t look happy or comfortable,” says a source who saw her that day.

According to People, Ivanka and Kushner were only at Mar-a-Lago for a few days.

“She is not overly social and he is very quiet, often stone-faced,” the source says. “I’m sure they don’t see anything wrong with coming here despite the government shutdown. It is one of their homes.”

Kushner is back in Washington DC where he is trying to find a solution to the government shutdown, and according to the Wall Street Journal, Kushner is lobbying Donald Trump against declaring a national emergency in order to pay for his dumb border wall.

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