Regular readers of The Controversy are well aware of my strong political opposition and my personal distaste for Donald Trump. But I would NEVER... EVER...wish Trump any harm.
Kathy Griffin's posting of photos...in a 12-second video on Instagram...where she is holding - what appears to be - a decapitated, bloody head resembling Donald Trump...is disgusting and disturbing.
It was Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 when Griffin posted the pictures. She later that same day hit the Internet again, but with a video apology. "I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong." You think?
As a journalist, I wholeheartedly support Americans' First Amendment right of free speech. But Kathy Griffin crossed the line with her inappropriate images. If she was attempting to be funny...she totally failed.
Griffin's photos are not only offensive to adults, but to the millions of children who saw the pictures on social media. But Griffin noted that she was "merely mocking the Mocker-In-Chief." Certainly Trump has been insulting and reprehensible with his remarks about various individuals over the last two years since he began his campaign for President. But Kathy Griffin's photos were not politically, socially or morally acceptable. To post something so vile...so sick...does not represent liberals, progressives and Democrats overall. I am as anti-Trump as they come. I have called Donald Trump unfit to be President. In just four months, he has proven to me everything that I knew long before he was elected. That he is reckless and dangerous, as he sits behind The Oval Office desk. But Donald Trump is still a husband...a father...and a grandfather. And whether we like it or not...he is still the President of the United States. And Trump does not deserve anyone - be it Kathy Griffin or anyone else - joking that he was beheaded...and then displaying the bloody, severed faux-head on the Internet. Life is too precious to kid around in such a repulsive and irresponsible manner. Those of us who were on this planet - on November 22nd, 1963 - witnessed a President being killed. I would never compare Donald Trump to John F. Kennedy in any other light but this one. But there's never any humor when depicting the death of a President. And Kathy Griffin should have known better.
I never thought I would ever agree with anything stated by Donald Trump. But in response to Kathy Griffin's despicable actions...I am on the same page with him and his Wednesday morning, May 31st tweet. She "should be ashamed of herself."
And that's The Controversy for today.
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