--- title: Samantha Bee Slams Trump for Michael Flynn, Russia VIDEO description: It was Samantha Bee's turn to take a crack at the controversy surrounding Michael Flynn's resignation under President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-16T19:13:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:11.196Z og:title: Samantha Bee Slams Donald Trump Over Michael Flynn-Russia Controversy og:description: The Full Frontal host did not hold back og:url: https://time.com/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Samantha Bee Slams Donald Trump Over Michael Flynn-Russia Controversy twitter:description: The Full Frontal host did not hold back twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Samantha Bee Slams President Trump Over Michael Flynn-Russia Controversy  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 16, 2017 7:13 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 16, 2017 7:13 PM UTC In this week’s episode of _Full Frontal_, it was [Samantha Bee’s](http://time.com/4607768/samantha-bee-glenn-beck-ally-trumpism/) turn to take a crack at the controversy surrounding [Michael Flynn’s resignation](http://time.com/4670930/white-house-president-trump-asked-for-flynns-resignation/) as national security advisor to [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4673380/donald-trump-tweets-president-analysis/). Following reports that Flynn was in communication with the Russian ambassador concerning U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia after the election, the late night host denounced his contentious appointment Wednesday night. “When Donald Trump put his hand on those two bibles \[at his inauguration\] and swore to preserve, protect and defend a mendacious Kremlin-stroking nutbag who would wreck America’s national security apparatus in the span of four weeks, he meant it,” she said. “Loyalty is everything to him.” Bee also took aim at Paul Ryan during the segment, dubbing the house speaker Trump’s “faithful husky” over his backtracking on certain hot button issues. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/"},"headline":"Samantha Bee Slams President Trump Over Michael Flynn-Russia Controversy","datePublished":"2017-02-16T19:13:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:11.196Z","description":"The Full Frontal host did not hold back","url":"https://time.com/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Paul Ryan","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","samantha bee"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4673448/samantha-bee-donald-trump-michael-flynn-russia/","name":"Samantha Bee Slams President Trump Over Michael Flynn-Russia Controversy"}}]}] ```