--- title: Jon Stewart on Samantha Bee's Ivanka Trump Apology description: Jon Stewart has weighed in on the controversy that erupted after Samantha Bee made a crude comment about Ivanka Trump on Full Frontal. canonical: https://time.com/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-04T15:01:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:12.672Z og:title: Jon Stewart Doesn't Buy Trump's Samantha Bee Criticism og:description: "Create your own moral code to live by" og:url: https://time.com/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt602a1dc25b1999b7/6989322e4ee26222d1312002/jon-stewart-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Jon-Stewart-Clusterfest-2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jon Stewart Doesn't Buy Trump's Samantha Bee Criticism twitter:description: "Create your own moral code to live by" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt602a1dc25b1999b7/6989322e4ee26222d1312002/jon-stewart-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jon Stewart Does Not Buy Trump's Samantha Bee Criticism > Sponsored content. 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Jon Stewart performs on the Colossal Stage during Clusterfest at Civic Center Plaza and The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on June 3, 2018 in San Francisco, California.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 4, 2018 3:01 PM UTC [Jon Stewart](http://time.com/5288420/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert-royal-wedding/) has weighed in on the controversy that erupted after [Samantha Bee](http://time.com/5297645/samantha-bee-apologizes-ivanka/) made a lewd comment about [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/5297303/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ivanka-trump-samantha-bee/) on a recent episode of _Full Frontal_. During an onstage Q&A at Clusterfest comedy festival over the weekend, the former _Daily Show_ host was asked for his opinion on Bee’s remark and subsequent apology to the First Daughter. Bee was criticized by some for a segment about President Donald Trump’s immigration policy in which she referred to Ivanka as a “feckless c—,” a crude euphemism for a female body part. She later issued an apology for the comment in a tweet that came hours after [White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders](http://time.com/5297303/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ivanka-trump-samantha-bee/) spoke out about her words. “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night,” Bee wrote. “It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.” > [](https://twitter.com/iamsambee/status/1002252496532856832) However, judging by Stewart’s commentary on the matter, it seems as though he doesn’t think her apology was beneficial. “Please understand that a lot of what the right does, and it’s maybe their greatest genius, is they’ve created a code of conduct that they police, that they themselves don’t have to, in any way, abide,” he said, according to [_The Daily Beast_](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-defends-samantha-bee-trump-doesnt-give-a-sht-about-the-word-cnt). “Don’t get caught in a trap of thinking you can live up to a code of integrity that will be enough for the propagandist right. There isn’t. And so, create your own moral code to live by, but don’t be fooled into trying to make concessions that you think will mollify them.” “They don’t give a s— about the word ‘c—,'” he added of the Trump administration. “That is probably—\[Trump\] says that instead of ‘please,’ I’m guessing.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/"},"headline":"Jon Stewart Does Not Buy Trump's Samantha Bee Criticism","datePublished":"2018-06-04T15:01:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:12.672Z","description":"\"Create your own moral code to live by\"","url":"https://time.com/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV","Late Night Television","Jon Stewart","samantha bee"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt602a1dc25b1999b7/6989322e4ee26222d1312002/jon-stewart-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt602a1dc25b1999b7/6989322e4ee26222d1312002/jon-stewart-samantha-bee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon-Stewart-Clusterfest-2018","caption":"Jon Stewart performs at Clusterfest 2018","creditText":"Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic","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/5300147/jon-stewart-samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-apology/","name":"Jon Stewart Does Not Buy Trump's Samantha Bee Criticism"}}]}] ```