A Saturday Night Live skit last month condemned Ivanka Trump as "complicit" in her father's controversial administration.

The First Daughter hit back on Wednesday morning, addressing criticisms of her failure to speak out against President Donald Trump's travel ban, border wall, proposed budget cuts or rollback of environmental regulations.

"I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence," Ms Trump says in exerpts of a CBS interview - her first since taking an official, unpaid role as Assistant to the President.

"If being complicit ... is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit."