Ivanka Trump has been widely mocked on Twitter after suggesting bored Americans spend their Saturday night making shadow animal puppets.

The first daughter tweeted: "Looking for a Saturday night activity? Try making shadow puppets from Henry Bursill's recently unearthed 1860's book of engraving..."

But the idea backfired when people responded with their own shadow puppets - of their middle fingers.

Others used the opportunity to post memes and cartoons of her father as the puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

One replied with a photo-shopped image of Ivanka selling designer body bags, adding: “You are an insufferable vapid pit of nepotism and inhumanity.”