The Trump family vs Kathy Griffin: Who are you backing?
It's just a photograph!
By this time we're all familiar with the photo, the apology and the repercussions. But let's do a quick recap:
Comedian Kathy Griffin does a performance bit where the key element is the above photo of a bloody Donald Trump. That's her job. She's a comedian. Did it work? Not really. Was it over the line of decency? Sure but so is a lot of comedy...but make no mistake, it is comedy.
So how does the President of the United States react? The Secret Service gets involved....over a photograph!! Overkill? Oh yeah, big time!
The way Donald Trump reacted would make you think this is the first time a POTUS has been the butt of a comedian's joke. It's been going on for decades. There were comedy albums making fun of the Kennedy's back in the early 1960's. Did you hear any President respond to a Johnny Carson monologue? Never!!!! Because Carson was more popular than most of them and being President makes you fair game for satire...even if it goes over the top.
Richard Nixon even went on Laugh-In. "Sock it TO Me?"
For decades, Presidents took the heat without a word. A lot even laughed with the joke...or pretended to do it. That's just the way it should be and was until recently. Donald Trump is a different kind of animal...keyword animal. The supposed leader of the free world doesn't like it so he sicks the power of the federal government on you.
Besides the Secret Service there's a Tweet. His sensitive family is very upset, including little Barron. Dude, if you cared at all about Barron, you would have moved your family into the White House so he could see his father every so often. Maybe then the boy wouldn't think that a picture like this is reality.
Then there are your other children. Ivanka, who uses her position in the White House to sell clothes and the two asshole boys Eric and Don Jr., who are using the government connections to make money for your business. And oh yeah, there's this picture of the darling boys. Pretty fucking sensitive. Snowflakes!
As for you Don Sr., you're not supposed to be using the Presidency to go after people who offend you. You want to arrest reporters, sue woman who accuse you of "grabbing them by the pussy", and now sick the government and your dysfunctional family on a comedian. You've been in office almost five months and in that time you've gone after Griffin and Steven Colbert for telling jokes about you. Not to mention trying to get Lawrence O'Donnell fired from his MSNBC gig. You'd think you would have better things to do? Doesn't all of this trying for payback take away from your Golf time? Excellent use of the office.
Now about Ms. Griffin...Kathy honey, the bit wasn't really funny...and to be honest neither are you. I know you've lost a the CNN New Year's gig, some sponsors have dumped you and even Al Franken has said you're out of his new book appearances. Those are the repercussions for what you did. You can't be surprised, can you. An apology doesn't always make everything go away, especially if you've lawyered up with Gloria Allreds's daughter.
Still, if I'm choosing sides in this, I'm with Kathy all the way.
There have been a lot of responses to this story. Some of my favorites have been "I never liked her", "She's never been funny", "She's annoying." What do these have to do with this situation? Absolutely nothing! I agree with them but they aren't relevant to this.
What you really need to know is the President of the United States and his family are trying to use their power to ruin an ordinary citizen of this country. That's what you should really be offended about.
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