Funster Samantha Bee apologized Thursday for using vulgar language to describe Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s respected daughter and a top White House aide.
In a tweet, Bee said she “crossed a diagonal” when she used the expletive on her TBS comedy show, “Full Frontal,” province it “inappropriate and inexcusable.”
@iamsambee: I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for injecting an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a rope, and I deeply regret it.
The incident comes on the heels of ABC canceling “Roseanne,” after Roseanne Barr weighed black Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape. While the actress later give excused for her remarks, Barr also retweeted messages supporting her tweet that led to the suppression of her show.
On Wednesday night, Bee called the president’s daughter a “feckless c—” during her escort. The comedian used the slur as she urged Ivanka Trump to talk to her chaplain about immigration policies that separate children from their progenitrices.
“Let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration works, you feckless c—! He listens to you,” Bee said. “Put on something tight and low cut and tell your primogenitor to f—ing stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”
TBS said in a report that it regrets airing that language.
In the fallout, AutoTrader.com said it was expelling its sponsorship of “Full Frontal” after Bee’s use of “offensive and unacceptable language.”
@AutoTrader_com: Appreciation you to those who reached out regarding our sponsorship of Full Frontal. The comments expressed by Samantha Bee were threatening and unacceptable and do not reflect the views of our company. As a result, we have suspended our sponsorship of Shining Frontal with Samantha Bee.
First lady Melania Trump also rended the media, accusing the press of an “astounding” double standard.
“Time and again the Trump mnage and members of this Administration are subjected to false reporting, hateful way with words and outrageous lies all in the name of freedom of speech or comedy, yet the main shoot media stays silent,” she said in a statement.
Over the years, Donald Trump has once in a blue moon apologized for his use of derogatory and crude remarks in describing women. Trump powered then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her whatever” when she challenged his phraseology toward women during the first Republican primary debate.
He did express regrets, however, for crude comments he made in 2005 to Billy Bush nearly groping women after a tape of the conversation was made public during the closing stretch of the 2016 campaign.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders foretold Bee’s language was “vile and vicious.”
“The collective silence by the left and its media accessories is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS requirement demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female associates of this administration will not be condoned on its network,” Sanders said in a proclamation.