Scarlett Johansson brands Ivanka Trump ‘cowardly’

Scarlett Johansson has taken an almighty swipe at First Daughter Ivanka Trump.

It all started last month when the actress parodied Ivanka in an SNL skit that claimed the so-called feminist was “complicit” in her dad’s actions, saying she’s “the woman who could stop all this... but won't.”

The matter came up again this week when Ivanka was asked if she feels “complicit”, particularly considering how she touts herself as someone who stands up for women’s rights, while her dad has often been accused of misogyny and more recently, of making it harder for women to access reproductive services.

"If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit," Ivanka told CBS News.

"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."

She went on to say that people shouldn't confuse her "silence" on particular social issues as inaction, explaining that, "In some case it's through protest and it's through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue in which you disagree with. Other times it is quietly, and directly, and candidly."

Well, that answer seems to have rubbed ScarJo the wrong way, and she’s called out Ivanka's response as “baffling” and “cowardly”.

“[Ivanka] said … she felt that the greatest change, the biggest influence that she would have, the change that she would make, actually would be behind closed doors, and nobody would actually know that she had made this change,” Scarlet told Arianna Huffington at a women’s summit.

“And I thought, well that’s empowering! How old-fashioned, you know, this idea that behind a great man is a great woman. What about being in front of that person or next to them?

“It is such an old-fashioned concept that to be this powerful woman, you know, you can’t appear to be concerned, that someone is going to think that you are bitchy, or a powerful woman, you know, they get concerned with this idea that they are going to be seen in this unforgiving light and, you know, screw that, it is so old fashioned and it is so uninspired and actually really cowardly.”

Standing by her SNL skit, it seems ScarJo wants the First Lady to come good on her feminist beliefs and stand up to President Trump.

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