Hollywood starlet Chloe Grace Moretz said she thinks young women need better role models than Melania and Ivanka Trump during the Trump presidency.
“I think that young women deserve better role models,” Moretz told Variety in an article published Tuesday. “And I hate to see the way that Melania is treated — I think that she is treated really badly, and I hate to see a woman who is not respected by her own husband, and a daughter who doesn’t see that she is disrespected by her father.”
Ivanka Trump, along with her husband Jared Kushner, serves as an adviser to her father in the White House.
Moretz, who starred in films like 2011 hit “Hugo” before acting as a Clinton surrogate during the 2016 election campaign, admitted she was yet to meet either Trump woman in person. But the 20-year-old said she disliked the perception that they were not ardently advocating for the issues they told voters they cared about.
“I wish they were more aware of their surroundings and I wish they were more aware of what their husband and father are doing,” Moretz said. “It pains me to see people who are just speaking through this veiled curtain of privilege and they have no compass of what is real.”
Moretz added that she thought Trump had made a “mockery of our system.”
“It feels like years and years of marching and protesting is being striped from beneath us,” she said. “In my dream of dreams, I’m still like, ‘Hillary, maybe you’ll run again!'”
