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rgbecker

(4,823 posts)
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:45 AM Jun 2022

Please explain to me what Trump meant when saying Ivanka was "Checked Out"

NYTimes states Trump said Ivanka was "checked out" .....WTF does that mean? Is it some kind of Gangsta talk or?

Here's from the TImes:

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump, long known for distancing himself from or tossing aside staff members who contradicted him while he was in the White House, discovered a new target on Friday: his elder daughter.

The morning after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol played recorded video testimony of his daughter, Ivanka Trump, at its prime-time public hearing, Mr. Trump used his social media website to separate himself from what she had said and to say she was “checked out” during the final days of his administration.

In the testimony, Ms. Trump said she was influenced by a Dec. 1, 2020, statement by William P. Barr, then the attorney general, that there was no widespread fraud that had altered the outcome of the election. She testified that she respected Mr. Barr and “accepted what he was saying.”

“Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media website, Truth Social, in one of eight messages he posted there in response to the hearing. “She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!).”

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Please explain to me what Trump meant when saying Ivanka was "Checked Out" (Original Post) rgbecker Jun 2022 OP
Checked out of the WH and DC, in my opinion. blm Jun 2022 #1
Hotel lingo. She was no longer there. Can be either literal or figurative. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #2
More Trump word salad. nt Samrob Jun 2022 #3
So here's what happened. The real story Funtatlaguy Jun 2022 #4
Great analogy! IjustDontlikeRepugs Jun 2022 #13
Worthy of being thrown under the bus Zambero Jun 2022 #5
Its a common phrase for uninterested or not paying attention to something. SYFROYH Jun 2022 #6
He meant she and Jared... Bobstandard Jun 2022 #7
Mentally checked out, no longer interested arlyellowdog Jun 2022 #8
He's saying that she was oblivious of what was "really" going on. Only TFG knows what's "really" allegorical oracle Jun 2022 #9
Here's my take PJMcK Jun 2022 #10
Thanks for posting this link etc. rgbecker Jun 2022 #12
He is still trying to protect her. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2022 #11
I think you're right. tikka Jun 2022 #17
He likes to check her out Blue Owl Jun 2022 #14
perv FoxNewsSucks Jun 2022 #15
The data guy who WAS looking at the election number told you that you LOST 3 times. onecaliberal Jun 2022 #16

Funtatlaguy

(10,868 posts)
4. So here's what happened. The real story
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:50 AM
Jun 2022

You see, Ivanka, let’s just call her Marsha, got hit on the nose with a football. No longer was she the pretty sister. So her sister Tiffany, but let’s just call her Jan suddenly became Dads favorite.

Zambero

(8,962 posts)
5. Worthy of being thrown under the bus
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:51 AM
Jun 2022

No one, not even Ivanka, is spared Donnie's wrath whenever he is confronted with factual evidence that proves he lost.

Bobstandard

(1,303 posts)
7. He meant she and Jared...
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:52 AM
Jun 2022

we’re busy feathering their own nest and distancing themselves from the debacle to come. As Stephanie Grisholm has pointed out, they stayed on the bus with Trump, but, it’s reasonable to assume, only to continue their grift.

arlyellowdog

(866 posts)
8. Mentally checked out, no longer interested
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:53 AM
Jun 2022

“I can’t focus, I’m ‘checked out.’” Daddy is no longer worth her effort.

allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts)
9. He's saying that she was oblivious of what was "really" going on. Only TFG knows what's "really"
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 08:57 AM
Jun 2022

going on at any given time because he's a narcissist criminal who is constantly plotting schemes to benefit himself...ONLY himself.

PJMcK

(22,022 posts)
10. Here's my take
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 09:10 AM
Jun 2022

There was an article in the New York Times the other day that shortly after the election Jared Kushner woke up in the middle of the night and told Ivanka that they were going to move to Miami and get out of Washington. Here’s a couple of paragraphs:

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, barely 24 hours after President Donald J. Trump claimed in the middle of the night that “frankly, we did win this election,” Jared Kushner woke up in his Kalorama mansion and announced to his wife that it was time to leave Washington. “We’re moving to Miami,” he said.

The election had not even been called for Joseph R. Biden Jr., but as Mr. Kushner later told the story to aides and associates, the White House’s young power couple felt no need to wait for the official results. They saw which way the votes were going and understood that, barring some unforeseen surprise, the president had lost his bid for a second term. Even if he refused to accept it himself.

No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen, according to people close to them. While the president spent the hours and days after the polls closed complaining about imagined fraud in battleground states and plotting a strategy to hold on to power, his daughter and son-in-law were already washing their hands of the Trump presidency.

Their decision to move on opened a vacuum around the president that was filled by conspiracy theorists like Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who relayed to Mr. Trump farcically false stories of dead voters, stuffed ballot boxes, corrupted voting machines and foreign plots. Concluding that the president would not listen even to family members urging him to accept the results, Mr. Kushner told Mr. Trump that he would not be involved if Mr. Giuliani were in charge, according to people he confided in, effectively ceding the field to those who would try to overturn the election.


I think Trump knew that Ivanka and Jared were moving on, so in his words they had “checked out“.

Here’s a link to the full article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-jan-6.html?searchResultPosition=1

rgbecker

(4,823 posts)
12. Thanks for posting this link etc.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 09:25 AM
Jun 2022

So Ivanka didn't try to convince Trump of the follies of his ideas of victory...just bugged out. But did show up, as if supporting him, for the Jan. 6th rally....?!

Ivanka...a true patriot.

tikka

(762 posts)
17. I think you're right.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 12:09 PM
Jun 2022

But she was there when he was spouting off about all this and it's hard to believe she didn't suspect there was more going on.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,428 posts)
15. perv
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 10:14 AM
Jun 2022


Although , after all those lust-filled years, as Stephen Colbert noted, Ivanka finally screwed him Thursday night.
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