On Wednesday night's episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee said what a lot of other people have been thinking for oh, about two years now: Ivanka Trump, she said, is a "feckless cunt."

Bee started the segment talking about the treatment of migrant children at the hands of the government, many of whom have been "lost" or forcibly separated from their mothers while waiting in detention centers along the southern border. The government has punished these innocents like criminals, Bee argued, a practice that existed during the Obama administration and has worsened under Trump.

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Then, over the weekend, as Americans were treated to a resurfaced 2014 photograph of kids lying in a wire cage, Ivanka Trump treated America to a photograph of her nuzzling her young (safe, not lost) son captioned "#SundayMorning." The timing could not have been worse, or the apparent indifference on Ivanka's part uglier.

Or, as Bee said, "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 cunt! He listens to you!"



She continued: "Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fucking stop it."

The backlash has been rolling in since. Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Bee's comments "vile and vicious" and demanded that TBS, which runs Full Frontal, take action. Talking heads on CNN called it "way over the line" and "a really disgusting remark." Megyn Kelly is mad. And comparisons to the Roseanne debacle are being drawn as we speak. (A quick reminder that being racist is not the same as using a bad word.)

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But the real issue isn't that Bee called Ivanka a cunt. It's that this administration has taken a violent and hateful stance towards migrants and their children from south of our border, and Ivanka Trump, hero of the working mother, isn't going to do jack shit about it.

Nevertheless, Full Frontal has removed the video clip from the show's YouTube channel as well as its Twitter account, and Samantha Bee issued an apology: