Netflix talk show host and leftist activist Chelsea Handler stepped up her attacks on White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders this weekend by posting a video featuring an impersonator mocking Sanders’s appearance.
In the video, posted to Handler’s Twitter account, comedian Fortune Feimster wears a wig in an attempt to resemble Sanders as she runs through an exaggerated beauty routine.
“I used to not know what foundation was, but our great president was kind enough to take me to a Sephora, and he said to the boy, ‘Hey, you see that fella over there? Make him a woman,'” Feimster-as-Sanders says in one of many digs at the press secretary’s looks in the short clip.
Get the "Sarah Huckabee Sanders" look @fortunefunny. New @chelseashow Friday. pic.twitter.com/O8y1l2RxZe
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) December 7, 2017
The video comes just a few days after Handler — who recently announced her intention to dedicate herself full time to political activism after Netflix canceled her talk show — first attacked Sanders by calling her a “harlot” who wears “whore lipstick.”
Handler’s video drew strong condemnation on social media from users who accused the talk show host of hypocrisy, for regularly claiming to be a feminist while denigrating another woman’s appearance.
“Glad to see how much of a strong feminist you are, by promoting positive body image of other females,” one user wrote to Handler.
“This woman deserves to be taken down. She is pure evil,” Handler replied.
Handler also lashed out at Sanders’s father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, telling her he “raised a liar.”
A feminist @GovMikeHuckabee is someone who supports other women. A feminist is someone who believes the accounts of 15 different women who have similar stories about our President. A feminist doesn’t discount other women. Your daughter is not a feminist. You raised a liar.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) December 7, 2017
This woman deserves to be taken down. She is pure evil.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) December 8, 2017
Huckabee appeared on Fox News over the weekend to comment on the attacks on his daughter, explaining that Handler was likely “jealous” that Sanders is a “balanced” person.
“She seems to be just in a rage. The sad thing about it, she boasts about the two abortions she had at 16. I think in many ways she’s jealous of my daughter,” Huckabee said.
“My daughter has a husband who loves her and is wonderful to her. My daughter has three delightful children. She’s a happy balanced person,” he added. “My daughter has enjoyed life. She’s a pretty straightlaced person. She goes to church and lives a life Chelsea Handler has never known.”
Handler has regularly used her social media account to attack President Donald Trump, his family members, and administration officials.
Earlier this year, the comedian mocked First Lady Melania Trump by saying she could “barely speak English,” and in March, attacked Trump’s then-unborn grandchild in a mocking tweet, misspelling the word, “genes.”
She previously described Trump as “everything that’s wrong in the world.”
Handler was back to attacking the president on Saturday, calling Trump a “fraud on the American public.”
You are a fraud on the American public. You are the least trusted and worst president this country has ever seen. Stop attacking people who tell the truth. You wouldn’t the know the truth if Russia told it to you. #fake election https://t.co/WMy2l2BVop
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) December 9, 2017
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