Like a cat leaving a dead canary at your doorstep, Kathy Griffin has a present for you: Donald Trump‘s head.
TMZ shared a photo of Kathy Griffin appearing to hold aloft the decapitated, bleeding skull of Trump by his bloodstained combover. It definitely makes a statement.
Related: Kathy Griffin Deals With The Death Of Joan Rivers: “Respect Must Be Paid To This Woman”
Joking about the image — culled from a recent shoot by photographer Tyler Shields — Griffin apparently said “that she and Tyler would need to move to Mexico once the pics got released.”
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Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO) https://t.co/UM9GHRrFf5
— TMZ (@TMZ) May 30, 2017
Heywood Jablowme
It’s not “unpresidented”:
https://www.pinterest.com/rhurst1945/execution-of-louis-xvi/
KaiserVonScheiss
So edgy. So progressive. Such wonderful, infantile theatrics.
mhoffman953
Can you imagine the outrage if someone held up a bloodied, severed head of Obama?
So much for the left being peaceful
Heywood Jablowme
Oh calm down Blanche. You know there’s a potential death penalty for TREASON. Not that it’s been used very often in the U.S. (Those damn liberals – lol.)
1EqualityUSA
I didn’t open it. I agree with you.
1898
where have you been for the past 8 years? nut jobs have been burning effigies of obama, staging mock beheadings, hanging fake obamas in trees, the works.
1EqualityUSA
two wrongs…
mhoffman953
@1898
You’re comparing hicks in some hickville town to a public figure with a social media following. Those are not the same. Plus no one said what those people did was right.
Are you alleging that because some guy with no teeth burned a dummy with an Obama mask in his backyard that it’s ok to publicly promote beheadings when it’s against people you don’t like?
Sounds like some leftists are truly accepting Sharia Law
Heywood Jablowme
@mhoffman953:
“You’re comparing hicks in some hickville town….”
Eek! That’s why Trump won! All those dismissive, elitist insults at those drooling, opioid-addicted hicks in “flyover country”!
Caine
In just a few minutes I have seen half a dozen people in various places say “Can you imagine if that was done to Obama?”? Why is that always your go to?
mhoffman953
@Caine
Because the left are hypocritical. They’ll act as if they are peaceful, non-violent, and the side of reason but in reality they condone violence and do all of the same things they protest about.
ChrisK
The right has celebrated the image of Obama burning hanging many times. Plus, Ted Nugent who advocated for his death was invited to the white house by 45.
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mhoffman953
@HeywoodJablowme
Hardly. You’re changing topics now by alleging that the one town where some local in a backwoods town hung a mannequin with an Obama mask as being representative of ALL of the people who voted for Trump. That’s painting with a wide brush
My statement was to 1898 who claimed a celebrity who gets paid millions of dollars, access to red carpets, and partnerships with various media outlets knows no better than some guy in a backwoods town in the deep south
Heywood Jablowme
@mhoffman953: Damn, enough of that tiresome argument. The flip side of what you’re saying is that “conservatives” get to be as hateful, violent and disgusting as they want,. And then you guys prissily pretend to faint over supposed hypocrisy on the “left.” F*ck that. Enough of the double standard.
1898
I’m not comparing anything to anything. You’re the one who made the comparison with your original comment, “Can you imagine the outrage if someone held up a bloodied, severed head of Obama?” I was merely responding to your rhetorical question.
The response from many people when those things were done to Obama’s likeness was “FREEDOM OF SPEECH! MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! THE CONSTITUTION!!!” And they were right. And I suspect that’s also the case here, despite how reprehensible this stunt was.
I would also add that this one woman does not represent me or the left or Democrats or liberals or any other group you’d like to assign her to. But when hundreds of self-identified Tea Partiers, Republicans, conservatives, etc., did those kinds of things all over the country over the course of 8 years to Obama’s likeness, I think it’s fair to say there was a trend there and that it wasn’t just some toothless guy in the woods. It happened on large university campuses, on people’s lawns in suburban neighborhoods, in front of statehouses, in D.C., all over the place.
mhoffman953
@HeywoodJablowme
When did I say being violent was ok?
You’re the one advocating that because some lone nut did something violent or hateful that you should now have justification to be just as, if not more, violent and hateful.
Imagine if we held that same standard as a society and didn’t condemn things when they were wrong. “Sorry officer, I murdered that guy because someone else on the news murdered someone so I should be allowed to do it too”
Heywood Jablowme
@mhoffman953: “Imagine if we held that same standard as a society and didn’t condemn things when they were wrong. ‘Sorry officer, I murdered that guy because someone else on the news murdered someone so I should be allowed to do it too'”
Um… well, that’s sort of like how you guys excuse and defend EACH and EVERY killing of an unarmed black person by a cop, absolutely without exception.
mhoffman953
@HeywoodJablowme
Now you’re getting WAY off topic. When did I defend every single instance of police force?
Sounds like you’re reaching for every possible way to justify a hateful act and the normalization of brutal violence and beheadings.
Every comment you make seems to be attacking me for stating that this is disgusting, not funny, and people on both sides should condemn it.
Rather than agreeing with me, you’re reaching to find anything you can to disagree, which comes across as normalizing this behavior
Heywood Jablowme
Disgusting? Sure. Funny? No. It’s not Halloween yet. And Trump hasn’t been convicted yet. (Although I can remember similar stuff back in 1974.) Legal? Of course.
juantana
oh you mean like this? where are the apologies for that and there were tons of incidences lime this with Obama effigies – grow the fux up! http://www.wthr.com/article/boone-county-resident-removes-hanging-obama-display
1898
The headline asks “Is this even legal?”
curious to know if the queerty writers ever asked that question when lunatics were doing similar things to obama’s likeness during his entire 8 years as president. or does it only make a blip on your radar when TMZ tweets about a gay icon doing it?
Donston
Let’s not act like there weren’t many, many crazy things said and done when Obama was in office. This is just someone trying to desperately stay relevant and appeal to her “following”. It’s entirely in bad taste however.
Caine
I also have read that a dozen times. No, Griffin is not desperately trying to do anything. I’m far more upset she apologized for it. Where is Joan Rivers when you need her?
mhoffman953
@Caine
Joan Rivers didn’t seem to like Obama too much toward the end of her life. She claimed Michelle Obama was a transgender then died shortly after those statements
MediaGuy
She’s a cu*nt, regardless of what she did or didn’t do. She’s a cu*nt.
Caine
classy.
ChrisK
Sounds like she’s pissing off you right wing loons good. Good on her!
mhoffman953
@ChrisK
She’s holding up a severed, bloodied head and laughing about it. But yeah, people on the right are the loons. Yeah…ok
MediaGuy
ChrisK. You Illiterate hillbilly. “Lookie like she a pissin off youse right wing loons right good now, good on her”. ye haw.
I can just hear you during a hook-up saying to your redneck fu*ckbuddy, “hey dude, nice tooth”. Or “hey bro, I think God wanted us to be together, that’s why He gave us the same parents”. Or “hey handsome, can you help me find my puppy, I think he went into this cheap motel room over here”.
ChrisK you’re a redneck dweeb who can’t speak or write nuttin right. Go fu*ck Mrs. Ziffell (look it up).
Stilinski26
Something ISIS would do! and to do this day after memorial day? the military won’t be happy! Also very offensive for us too because LGBT are beheaded and thrown off the building . Disgusting
1EqualityUSA
Agreed. Champagne Popsicles will not even suffice.
Xzamilloh
As soon as I saw it, and every time I continue to see it, it reminds me of ISIS beheadings. I don’t know what the hell possessed her to even think this would turn out good.
scotshot
Trump says nothing about Russia and Chechnya torturing and murdering gays. “I’m not here to lecture.” (Of course many other countries do the same thing, without Trump saying a word). He hasn’t made a statement regarding the 300% rise in gay bashing here in the USA, nothing about violence done to other minorities – Of course here in the USA the right doesn’t hold up simulations of decapitated blacks – they do the real thing by dragging them behind their pickups.
Of course Macron of France had the balls to say it to Putin. Poor Trump couldn’t even win a little hand wrestling that he instigated….
Those on the right have the freedom of speech to make hateful comments – it’s the feeling of their hypocrisy that makes Progressives gag.
Xzamilloh
Comedy is one thing, but this wasn’t a joke. It was supposed to be “provocative” for the sake of being provocative, and there is no value in that. Like I said on one forum, there is art that elicits a response, and there is cheap tomfoolery that is meant to get people riled up and nothing else. It’s why Da Vinci is a world renown artist and Milo Yiannopoulus is a troll.
1EqualityUSA
You mean, “Mo Bro?”
nitejonboy
I don’t see the big deal, reminds me of a scene from MACBETH. Doesn’t offend me in the least. Wouldn’t have offended me if it were Obama either…it’s only if you make a racial joke or a slur that it becomes offensive, IMO.
1EqualityUSA
It falls into the category of “we’re better than this.”
JessPH
Ted Nugent gave actual death threats to Obama and Trump invited him in the White House.
1EqualityUSA
Trump ‘n’ Ted are lower forms of life.
DCguy
Well well well, how interesting, Mo Bro and his 8 or 9 other screenames say that the position of President, in their opinion should get a little respect.
How weird, because I don’t remember them making any comments about the Obama dolls with nooses around their necks at Trump Rallies.
Hmm, Guess I must have missed their defending Obama on those, because of course, pretending to be so upset about this, but not that would be partisan and hypocritical of them now wouldn’t it?
mhoffman953
@DCguys
I wasn’t on this site when that happened. Do you have a link to post showing that this actually happened at a Trump rally?
Also for the 100th time, this is my only screen name
DCguy
I will take you at your word that you were unaware of things like this, but there were tons of incidents and they were reported on. Sounds like the sites you watch are hiding these stories from you.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/10/27/donald-trump-supporter-brings-hillary-clinton-doll-noose-rally/21593034/
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/national/trump-supporter-brings-clinton-effigy-noose-to-rally/vp-AAjsCbb
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2009/racist-backlash-greets-president-barack-obama
mhoffman953
@DCguy
You originally stated: “I don’t remember them making any comments about the Obama dolls with nooses around their necks at Trump Rallies”
Not 1 of your links shows an Obama doll with a noose around its neck at a Trump rally. The last link you provided is from 2009. Trump held campaign rallies in 2015.
The Hillary noose dolls were tacky but were in response to unsubstantiated rumors that she had an outburst from a Matt Lauer interview in September where she was rumored to have said, “If I lose, we all go down and that Fascist F*ck will have us swinging from nooses! What the f*ck is wrong with you idiots?” Hence the links you posted are following that rumored statement.
Again, I will ask you, where is evidence of Obama dolls hanging from nooses at Trump rallies like you originally claimed?
rickhfx
Everyone ! “GET A LIFE” it was a sick joke just like tRump.
Observant
Valid points on both sides of this discussion. It’s unfortunate that this is where we are, that political discourse has devolved to a point where someone thought a bloody, severed head might add value to the conversation.
But Trump played no small part in creating the current climate of vitriol and hostility. This is the man who thought it perfectly acceptable to imply that 2nd-Amendment supporters might find a way to address a Clinton presidency.
BriBri
Love Trumps hate? Yeah right…..not if you’re Kathy Griffin!
radiooutmike
I like her. She had every right to do it. But, really, really poor taste.
Tranceboi1
You know what everyone Kathy is a gay ally for one. She was only thinking what we were all hoping. I see nothing wrong at all what she did. You are all hypocrites if you condemn her for this. What about all the crap Cheetos face has said and done and lied about. Is that ok also? Get over it people. Loved it Kathy I was thinking it also. Everyone is. Nobody likes this idiot clown in the White House. He will be impeached and you will have the last laugh.
johannh
Really? What is the big deal? Can’t believe people are so worked up about it.