Ivanka Trump mocked after urging bored Americans to make shadow puppets
One replied with a photo-shopped image of Ivanka selling designer body bags
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Your support makes all the difference.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.”
One Twitter user said on Saturday: “I thought your idea of a Saturday night activity was sipping wine at Bedminster while your dad goads the incels to bring guns and gather en masse to threaten democratically elected governors during the worst pandemic in 100 years."
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