<em>Saturday Night Live</em> Makes the Case That Ivanka Is 'Complicit'

“This is fun,” Ivanka Trump, played to robotic and windblown effect by Margot Robbie, announced during a 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live. She was appearing on the show’s version of Political Family Feud. She was talking to no one in particular. “I love fun. Every day I schedule 20 minutes of fun.”

It was funny, as parodies go, but it wasn’t quiiiite satire. And it reflected a longstanding challenge the women of Donald Trump’s inner circle seem to have presented for . The show’s Overall, as the show has struggled to portray a presidential administration determined to change the norms of American government, it has also struggled to interpret the women who are helping to bring those changes about: Its has portrayed these politically powerful people, for the most part, as scorned and trapped and helpless and, in Ivanka’s case, simply robotic. As ’s Caroline Framke , late last year, “Why does keep insisting that the women in Trump’s inner circle don’t want to be there?”