Samantha Bee may have apologized to Ivanka Trump after calling her a ‘feckless c**t’ but a number of celebrities have since come out in support of the comedian and some have even agreed with her controversial comments.
Bee apologized to Ivanka and her viewers on Thursday for using the obscenity to describe the president’s daughter on her TBS show Full Frontal the previous night.
The comedian used the slur towards the end of a segment about President Trump’s immigration policies as she urged Ivanka to speak to her father about systems that separate children from their parents.
Several celebrities have come out in support of Samantha Bee even since she apologized for calling Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless c**t’ on her Full Frontal show on Wednesday night
‘You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c***,’ she said after showing a photo of Ivanka and her toddler son Theodore.
The incident quickly thrust Bee into the middle of the nation’s political divide with the White House slamming the comments as ‘vile and vicious’.
But a handful of celebrities backed Bee with fellow comedian Kathy Griffin being among the first.
‘Please do not be hard on @iamsambee for apologizing. While I was hoping she wouldn’t, I know first hand what it’s like being put through the Trump wood chipper..what she’s going through right now is crazy. All for a bleeped word. Comics held to higher standards than the president,’ Griffin tweeted.
Actress Sally Field also weighed in and even had a go at Ivanka herself, saying: ‘I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a c**t. C**ts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.’




Comedian Billy Eichner wrote: ‘Honestly I think Samantha Bee was being generous’.
Meanwhile some famous faces were quick to compare the controversy to that experienced by Roseanne Barr following her racist tweet scandal that resulted in her ABC show being canceled.
‘Ha! The White House today, still not denouncing Roseanne’s racism, tries to confuse the issue by going after Samantha Bee’s brilliant rant against Ivanka last night,’ filmmaker Michael Moore said.
High-profile attorney Lisa Bloom tweeted: ‘OK, but a white woman (Roseanne) invoking slavery-era racism about a black woman is miles away from a woman using the “c” word to insult another woman. Neither comic was ‘kidding,’ really. Sam’s point was true: Ivanka has not helped immigrant kids. Roseanne’s was a flat out lie.’
Bee, a former correspondent on ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart whose own show has been one of TBS’ big successes since it started in 2016, had earlier apologized saying that her language was ‘inappropriate and inexcusable’.


‘I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it,’ she said.
Before the apology, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called Bee’s language ‘vile and vicious’ and said executives at TBS and corporate parent Time Warner needed to demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of the administration would not be condoned.
TBS said Bee had taken the right step in apologizing.
‘Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it,’ the network said in a statement.
The network made no mention of any disciplinary action.
Autotrader and State Farm both pulled sponsorship of Bee’s late-night comedy show on Thursday following her controversial comments.


Comedian Samantha Bee used the slur to describe Ivanka Trump on her TBS show Full Frontal on Wednesday night