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Amid an advertiser and conservative backlash, Samantha Bee has apologized for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on last night’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.
The comment came during a Full Frontal segment in which Bee was discussing how the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement had “lost” 1,500 migrant children last year, and how the country was now separating all children from their parents who attempted to come into the country illegally.
Then, after pointing out that Trump had tweeted a photo of her with her son last weekend, Bee said, “Let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless cunt! He listens to you! Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fucking stop it.”
The expletives were bleeped out of the TBS broadcast.
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