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TheDick Cheney biopicVicehas attracted awards attention, polarized reviews andcriticism from the Cheney family— and, over the holiday, it got perhaps its two most powerful viewers yet inIvanka Trumpand husbandJared Kushner.
The couple, both 37-year-old senior aides to PresidentDonald Trump, headed south in December where they spent some time at the Trump family’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, sources say.
A witness tells PEOPLE that during one outing around Christmas, 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 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, the witness says.
It remains unclear what prompted the exit, though the witness describes it as abrupt. A sourcetoldVanity Fairthe couple left near the film’s end.
Multiple members of the Trump family spent the holiday at Mar-a-Lago amid anongoing shutdown of the federal governmentthat has leftabout 800,000 employees without pay. (Only Ivanka and Kushner are on the U.S. payroll, both as advisers to the president. Trump sons Eric and Donald Jr. continue to run the family business.)
First LadyMelania Trumpspent Christmas with the president in Washington, D.C., but thenreturned to Mar-a-Lago for New Year’s Evewith her parents and son Barron. “She didn’t look happy or comfortable,” says a source who saw her that day.
A club member tells PEOPLE that Ivanka and Kushner spent only a few days at Mar-a-Lago.
“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.”
It appears both Ivanka and Kushner are still at work as essential government employees during the funding freeze: According to CNN,Kushner was on Capitol Hill Wednesdayassisting in ongoing negotiations between the president and Congress to resolve the shutdown. Ivanka joined the presidentfor a bill signing.
Since its Christmas Day release,Viceearned plaudits from the Golden Globes, whereChristian Balewon for his portrayal of Cheney. In his acceptance speech, Bale thanked “Satan for giving me inspiration” for his performance.
“Satan probably inspired him to do this, too,” Liz wrote in her tweet.
source: people.com
