Ivanka Trump has been widely mocked on Twitter after suggesting bored Americans spend their Saturday night making shadow animal puppets.

The first daughter tweeted: "Looking for a Saturday night activity? Try making shadow puppets from Henry Bursill's recently unearthed 1860's book of engraving..."

But the idea backfired when people responded with their own shadow puppets - of their middle fingers.

Others used the opportunity to post memes and cartoons of her father as the puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

One replied with a photo-shopped image of Ivanka selling designer body bags, adding: “You are an insufferable vapid pit of nepotism and inhumanity.”

Ivanka came under earlier this month for ignoring her own advice to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic and taking a trip to her father’s New Jersey golf club Bedminster for Passover.

Just a week after pleading with her Instagram followers to stay at home, Ivanka traveled with her family 200 miles from Washington DC to her father’s golf club.

A White House official defended the move at the time, saying: “Ivanka - with her immediate family - celebrated Passover at a closed down facility considered to be a family home.”