Actress Debra Messing lashed out at Ivanka Trump while accepting an award at the 2017 GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, urging the first daughter to “please stop blindly defending your father.”
The “Will & Grace” star, who was a vocal supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
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“There is someone I would like to make a direct appeal to this evening,” Messing said Saturday while accepting the award for "Excellence in Media." “Ivanka … girlfriend … what are you doing? C’mon, it’s me, Deb. Let’s talk for a second, one Jewish mother to another.”
“It is not enough to simply say that women’s issues are important to you. It’s time to do something,” Messing continued.
Messing referred to the president as a “very bad and very orange man in our White House” and noted that "unless you are an unenlightened, straight, cisgender, white male, you are a target."
She called on the first daughter to "change the lives of millions of women and children just by telling your dad stories about real people who are suffering."
"Don’t let him separate immigrant mothers from their American-born children. Don’t let him take health care away from women who need it. Don’t allow him to make trans kids like Gavin fight in court for their basic human dignity," Messing said, referring to transgender Virginia teenager Gavin Grimm, who challenged his high school for the right to use his high school's boys' restroom.
