In an unused graphic by HBO's Last Week Tonight show with John Oliver, first daughter Ivanka Trump appears as a mother who hypnotizes her daughter's boyfriend in the horror movie Get Out.
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As in Jordan Peele's 2017 film, Trump is pictured sitting in a chair and stirring a cup of tea. Oliver, who is on vacation and pre-taped the lost graphics video clip released Sunday night, states that the Trump graphic was among some that "were a little more unsettling."
"This graphic of Ivanka Trump as the mother from Get Out," Oliver said, stopping as the crowd is heard laughing and clapping. "It looks eerily real because it's depressingly plausible."
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In the horror movie, hypnotherapist Missy Armitage convinces her daughter's boyfriend Chris Washington to do a hypnotherapy session to get rid of his smoking habit.
"Now you're in the sunken place," Armitage said as she hypnotizes Washington, the beginning of an attempt to knock him unconscious and transplant someone else's brain into his body.
It is not clear whether Trump, who has a daughter and two sons, is familiar with the horror film or hypnosis techniques, but Oliver's point seems to be that the first daughter has a knack for twisting the perceptions of the American public.
Trump billed herself as an advocate for women, children and families' rights, but has failed to see through legislation on issues including equal pay and paid family leave, and largely supported her father President Donald Trump's claim that Democrats in Congress are responsible for migrant families being separated at the border.
Ivanka Trump is "fake," Vanity Fair reporter Emily Jane Fox said late last month while promoting her new book Born Trump: Inside America's First Family.
"She's crafted this whole image of herself that's not actually her," Fox claimed. "The real her is cooler, slightly more interesting, funnier. She curses like a sailor. She partied a lot when she was younger. She flashed a hot dog vendor when she was in eighth grade. She chain-smoked. Which is so opposite of the image she put out there."
Fox added heightened criticism of the first daughter. "What you're seeing now is the unmasking. She can't control the narrative anymore because she's so inauthentic. It has really come back to bite her," she said.
When asked on MSNBC in early June if Ivanka Trump is a stoic human being, numb, dead inside and paid off, Fox responded, "Yes, yes and yes."
"Ivanka Trump is the most masterful compartmentalizer that America has maybe ever seen," Fox said. "And so her ability to separate something like this out from then going and sitting in the West Wing and doing her job or going and visiting her father in the Oval Office, she is able to separate those things in a way that you and I probably can't understand."
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