President Donald Trump asked Friday why comedian Samantha Bee hasn't been fired for calling his eldest daughter and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump a "feckless c**t" on her TBS show "Full Frontal" earlier this week.

"Why aren't they firing no talent Samantha Bee for the horrible language used on her low ratings show?" Trump tweeted. "A total double standard but that's O.K., we are Winning, and will be doing so for a long time to come!"

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Bee's remark outraged may conservatives who said she crossed a line and drew cries of a liberal double standard. In a statement, the White House said Bee's show was not "fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network."

One observer pointed out the hypocrisy in the Trump administration's criticism.

Oliver Willis, a writer at the progressive news site Shareblue, uncovered a 1994 interview in which musician Ted Nugent used the same offensive language to refer to then-first lady Hillary Clinton. He pointed out that Nugent's remark has done nothing to effect his reputation among conservatives. In fact, Republicans, including President Trump, praised him. Willis tweeted a recent photo of Nugent shaking hands with the president in the White House: