--- title: Samantha Bee on Ivanka Trump Women Who Work Book Video description: Samantha Bee ripped Ivanka Trump and her new book, 'Women Who Work' during a segment on 'Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.' canonical: https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-11T16:19:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:33.927Z og:title: Samantha Bee on 'Terrifyingly Influential' Ivanka Trump's Book og:description: "Her belief that she's a role model is laughable" og:url: https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5e86d87c6937b73/6988cce68fd2ee15b5357021/samantha-bee-on-ivanka-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2277 og:image:height: 1281 og:image:alt: 170511_Samantha Bee on Ivanka Trump book og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Samantha Bee on 'Terrifyingly Influential' Ivanka Trump's Book twitter:description: "Her belief that she's a role model is laughable" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5e86d87c6937b73/6988cce68fd2ee15b5357021/samantha-bee-on-ivanka-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Samantha Bee Shreds Ivanka Trump's Book 'Her Belief That She's a Role Model Is Laughable.' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 11, 2017 4:19 PM UTC  Full Frontal With Samantha Bee/YouTube  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 11, 2017 4:19 PM UTC [Samantha Bee](http://time.com/4760598/samantha-bee-donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner/) has a book club, but rest assured she won’t be reading [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742699/ivanka-trump/)‘s new book,[ _Women Who Work: Redefining the Rules for Success_](http://time.com/4762278/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-women-who-work/) anytime soon. The _Full Frontal_ host shredded the assistant to the President and her new book during her recurring segment, “The Great Feminists in Feminism Herstory Hall of Lady Fame,” where she proposed starting a book club titled “Ladies Who Book” to discuss _Women Who Work_. Bee referenced a [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/books/review-ivanka-trump-women-who-work.html) review of the book that called it “a strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes” before saying that Trump used no less than 208 sources and quoted _The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_ 30 times. “True to her family’s brand and empire, Ivanka wrote this book largely by taking other people’s work and stamping her name on it,” Bee quipped before saying that Trump misattributed a quote from little-known pastor Dave Willis to voice actor Dave Willis, a voice actor perhaps best known for his work as Meatwad on _Aqua Teen Hunger Force_. However, Bee took bigger issue with the book’s tone-deaf use of Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou quotes about racism and slavery, which Bee went on to highlight to mock the First Daughter’s book’s privilege-laden ideas about career women. “It takes a special kind of whiteness to take a Maya Angelou line about racism, mangle it, and apply it to asking for a raise,” Bee said. Bee’s final thoughts on Trump’s _Women Who Work_ didn’t leave room for much interpretation. “If you were raised working poor like me, this book will inspire you—specifically, it will inspire you to challenge the next rich woman you see to a broken beer-bottle fight.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/"},"headline":"Samantha Bee Shreds Ivanka Trump's Book 'Her Belief That She's a Role Model Is Laughable.'","datePublished":"2017-05-11T16:19:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:33.927Z","description":"\"Her belief that she's a role model is laughable\"","url":"https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night","Late Night Television","Ivanka Trump","samantha bee"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5e86d87c6937b73/6988cce68fd2ee15b5357021/samantha-bee-on-ivanka-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5e86d87c6937b73/6988cce68fd2ee15b5357021/samantha-bee-on-ivanka-trump-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170511_Samantha Bee on Ivanka Trump book","caption":"","creditText":"Full Frontal With Samantha Bee/YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4775655/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-book/","name":"Samantha Bee Shreds Ivanka Trump's Book 'Her Belief That She's a Role Model Is Laughable.'"}}]}] ```