6/1/2018

CELEBS/IVANKA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump called on Friday [6-1-18] for comedian Samantha Bee to be fired after she made a vulgar comment about his daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump on her cable television program. His remarks capped a week when a debate over the language used by two television stars became an unexpected proxy for the country’s political divide, with Bee’s liberal-leaning audience on one side, and fans of the sitcom ‘Roseanne’ and its Trump-supporting star on the other. On Tuesday [5-29-18], Walt Disney Co’s ABC network canceled a revival of ‘Roseanne’ after its star Roseanne Barr made a racist remark in a post on Twitter, comparing a former top Obama administration official to an ape. Trump criticized ABC and Bob Iger, chief executive officer of Disney, on Twitter, but did not address the content of Barr’s comments. He took exception, however, to Bee’s use of a crude term for the female anatomy to describe Ivanka Trump on her show ‘Full Frontal’ on Wednesday [5-30-18], while discussing the president’s controversial immigration policies.”

-Jonathan Allen, “Trump calls for comedian Samantha Bee’s firing after crude Ivanka slur,” Reuters, June 1, 2018 6:13 am