Los Angeles, CA – Comedian Kathy Griffin tearfully apologized in a Friday press conference for posing with a fake bloodied and severed head depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that she felt her career was now over and that Trump “broke” her.
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Griffin has lost sponsorships and jobs, including her role as co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage with journalist Anderson Cooper, since a photograph and video from the shoot appeared on social media on Tuesday.
President Trump said the image of Griffin with the gory mask resembling him was “sick” and that it had traumatized his family, especially his youngest son, 11-year-old Barron. Trump’s oldest son, Donald Jr., called for employers to drop the comedian.
“I don’t think I will have a career after this. I’m going to be honest, (Trump) broke me,” said Griffin, 56, a two-time Emmy-winning performer known for her deliberately provocative brand of humor. She added that she had received death threats.
Griffin reiterated the apology she posted on social media late on Tuesday, but remained defiant, saying, “I’m not afraid of Donald Trump, he’s a bully,” adding that she intended to continue making jokes about the president.
She also described herself as a provocative woman who has often had to deal with older white men in positions of power.
“What’s happening to me has never happened ever, in the history of this great country, which is that a sitting president of the United States and his grown children and the first lady are personally, I feel, trying to ruin my life – forever,” she said.
Griffin said the photo was intended to mock Trump’s comments during the presidential campaign, when he told CNN that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her – wherever” when she moderated a 2015 presidential debate.
Trump’s remark was widely interpreted as referring to menstrual blood, implying that Kelly was in an unfriendly mood because she was menstruating.
At his daily briefing on Friday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer declined to respond to Griffin’s remarks, saying that the president, the first lady and the Secret Service had made clear their views on the photo.
Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokeswoman, criticized Griffin on Twitter after her appearance on Friday, saying that Griffin had had a nervous breakdown about “misogyny & mean white men” at the press conference.
The U.S. Secret Service, which is responsible for presidential security, has opened an inquiry into the photo of Griffin posing with the severed-head replica.
What a sick person! And look how she deflects ANY personal responsibility. So typical of the Holly-Weird crowd. Her ACTIONS broke her. Not Trump. What a buffoon she is.
I have a friend who says as long as people talk about me I don’t care what they say. When all this calms down she will be invited to all the night TV shows and do anti Trump and Government shticks like all the rest. I call her crying Hollywood hysteria, good acting, it might have been almost real tears. She went from a who to I know her.
Let me get this straight.
She runs around with a severed head and Trump is the bad guy. ?
She’s a piece of garbage liberal. Hope we never hear from this dreck again!
Good. She deserves it. She only made the apology because her career is now in the toilet thanks to her own despicable actions. If anyone had done something like this to Obama, the outcry from the world would be heard
Kathy bubbelle…you want equal rights and all that feminist nonsense….well, this is what it looks like! All is fair in love and war….
She should be put in jail (together with HILLARY)
What a disgrace
What loony liberal snowflake! She antagonizes the Trump family and half the country who voted the man in with her barbaric display of hatred and then pretends she’s the one being bullied? Classic liberal bozo.
Kathy must be a student of the Hillary Clinton course on how to avoid responsibly for your own actions.
She is now mad at Donald J Trump and his family for being upset with her. Her offense at them may be the funniest thing she’s done in years.
Typical liberal nonsense, cry fowl when the tide turns against you and blame any and everyone but yourself.
Hillary has mastered that game, I think Kathy has not. Both need to learn that denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Honestly, I had never heard of the lady.
I’ll like to state that Ms. Griffin blaming Trump for her problems reminds me of an incident which occurred to myself, over 60 years ago, while leaving the Cheder school, which I was attending, some bullies, who were in my class were harassing me, after class. Fortunately, their actions were observed by the Principal of that school, and he chewed them out, and told them to go to his office the next day. In any event, the following day, before they went to his office, one of those hoodlums confronted me in school in a threatening manner, and had the gall to tell me that “if any punishment was given to him, as a result of the bullying incident, that he would get me”. Can anyone believe that chutzpah! Did I ask that piece of garbage to bully me in the first place? Hence, this incident with Kathy Griffin reminds me of that, since she chose to instigate that sordid, disgusting affair, and can’t stand the consequences. I have zero sympathy for Ms. Griffin; I can’t understand that pervert Larry King, actually criticizing CNN for firing her; that man certainly has chutzpah!
She is such an idiot. She is right, President Trump shouldn’t get involved. She broke the law and the courts should take care of it! The police should arrest her for high treason.
She has ruined her career with that photo. Too bad for her she’s finished, kaput.