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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDebra Messing Goes After Ivanka Trump In Scathing GLAAD Acceptance Speech
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/debra-messing-ivanka-trump-glaad_us_590f426ae4b0104c734fa441?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004Debra Messing directly addressed first daughter Ivanka Trump on Saturday night while being honored at the 2017 GLAAD Media Awards in New York City.
The Will & Grace star spoke as one Jewish mother to another while delivering her acceptance speech, which was at turns hilarious and biting.
After thanking the LGBTQ advocacy organization for her Excellence in Media Award, Messing noted that unless youre an unenlightened straight, cisgender, white man, you are a target. She then slammed President Donald Trump, calling him the very bad and very orange man in our White House.
But the actress and activist reserved the brunt of her scorn for Ivanka Trump, who operates in an official capacity as an unpaid assistant to the president. Messing told the audience full of advocates, journalists and celebrities that she wanted to make a direct appeal to the first daughter, whom she referred to as the secretary of state.
Its not enough to simply say that womens issues are important to you, she said. Its time to do something. You can change the lives of millions of women and children just by telling your dad stories about real people who are suffering.
Messing challenged Ivanka to not let the president separate immigrant mothers from their American-born children or take health care away from women who need it. She also asked her to convince her father not to make trans kids like Gavin Grimm fight in court for their basic human dignity. Grimm, who was in attendance at the awards gala, is currently challenging his school for the right to use the restroom that corresponds with his gender identity.
Messing said she wanted Ivanka to stop blindly defending her father and start defending what you say you believe in.
You cant just write #womenwhowork and think youre advancing feminism, Messing added. You need to be a woman who does good work #saywhatyoumeanandmeanwhatyousay.
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Debra Messing Goes After Ivanka Trump In Scathing GLAAD Acceptance Speech (Original Post)
iluvtennis
May 2017
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Cha
(297,196 posts)1. Thank you, Debra Messing!!
More need to do this.. she's a treasure.. like Meryl Streep
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)2. Appreciate the words but IT's bubble is as thick as her father's head.
Nothing penetrates that well cultivated and nurtured bubble.
JI7
(89,249 posts)3. hashtag activism. it's nothing but a business for her
just look at that pic of them all smiling watching the house repeal ACA.
msongs
(67,405 posts)4. ivanka trump believes in making a fortune selling cheap stuff she imports from china. that's it nt
not fooled
(5,801 posts)5. Hey, Ivanka
You're nothing but another predatory capitalist and hypocritical enabler of your father's insane policies.
We see you not as you wish to be perceived, but for what you really are.
oasis
(49,382 posts)6. "start defending what you say you believe in".
ouch!
delisen
(6,043 posts)7. Powerful Challenge.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)8. Thank you Debra.
Guess that Susan Saranwrap will soon attack Debra again.
Susan has been messing herself for years.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)9. Yeah for Debra Messing