Omarosa reveals: Ivanka Trump wouldn’t shut up about SNL’s ‘Complicit’ sketch
James Holden
Updated on March 11, 2026
I’m mostly exhausted by Saturday Night Live’s political sketches, however well-done or appropriate. Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression has worn thin, and I actually think they’re doing the wrong thing for Jeff Sessions entirely. But one thing they got dead-on was their completely well-received “Complicit” sketch, with Scarlett Johansson playing Ivanka Trump. It aired last year, and it felt like SNL had really captured the zeitgeist. Here is is again:
After that, Ivanka just became Complicit Barbie, Madame Complicity, and the Feckless Complicit C–t. Ivanka even tried to “spin” the complicit label by saying:
“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit. I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing. So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”
It was all sort of dumb and funny. As it turns out, Ivanka was super-bothered by it though. Omarosa reveals in her book that Ivanka is just as thin-skinned as her father, and Ivanka wouldn’t shut up about the SNL skit.
Donald Trump is notorious for being unable to take a joke, often airing his grievances publicly via Twitter. Omarosa reports that Ivanka apparently kept her complaints a little more private.
“At the senior staff meeting, Ivanka couldn’t stop bemoaning it, how offensive it was, how ridiculous it was,” Omarosa writes. “We’d all been subject to S.N.L. attacks . . . We’d all been hit, many of us in that same week’s show. But Ivanka would not stop talking about being ribbed. Like her father, Ivanka was thin-skinned and could not seem to take a joke.”
“Ivanka couldn’t stop bemoaning it, how offensive it was, how ridiculous it was…” I would actually love to see that. I imagine the complicit apple didn’t fall far from the treason tree, and much like Bigly Dearest, she thinks she’s “above” being criticized or mocked. She thinks she’s being clever by dismissing it or acting like a preening little victim (of big bad SNL), but really, daddy’s precious little princess just can’t stand it when people are not groveling at her feet.
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