Kathy Griffin retweets pic of bloody ‘decapitated’ Trump head after president claims victory in 2020 election
KATHY Griffin has re-tweeted her controversial Donald Trump severed head photo after the president claimed victory in the election.
The picture shows a stony-faced Griffin holding an effigy of Trump’s decapitated, bloodied head and came soon after his extraordinary early morning White House statement.
The comedian was fired from CNN in 2017 after the gory stunt provoked an angry response from Trump supporters.
In a press conference just after 2am, Trump claimed he had won the election and promised to go to the Supreme Court.
A few minutes later Griffin re-shared the photo to her Twitter feed without comment it has so far has being liked nearly 43,000 times.
The picture was taken by photographer Tyler Shields, who is known for his “edgy, shocking” but reports at the time alleged Trump’s son Baron was frightened by it.
The 11-year-old was watching TV with mum Melania when the comedian’s photo appeared on the screen holding his dad’s fake severed head, gossip site TMZ reported.
Barron panicked and screamed, “Mommy, Mommy!”, Trump family sources told the site.
“He’s 11. He doesn’t know who Kathy Griffin is and the head she was holding resembled his dad”, the insider said.
President Trump branded Griffin “sick” and said she “should be ashamed of herself”.
He wrote: “Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!”
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary and Bill, also condemned the pictures, writing on Twitter: “This is vile and wrong. It is never funny to joke about killing a president.”
Even Kathy’s longtime friend and CNN New Year’s Eve show co-host Anderson Cooper blasted the images.
He wrote: “For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate.”
She initially apologised saying that she understood why the image offended but later retracted it saying “the whole outrage was BS”.
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At one point she claimed that she was investigated by the FBI and placed on the No Fly List over the stunt.
Earlier this year she joked President Donald Trump a “syringe with nothing but air inside it would do the trick.”
Griffin’s jab came on Twitter in response to a tweet that said Trump told reporters he doesn’t use insulin, which diabetics use to keep their blood sugar at safe levels.