Kathy Griffin, in the midst of controversy after the comedian posed with a likeness of President Donald Trump’s severed head, said Thursday that President Trump was bullying her the wake of the incident.
“I’m not afraid of Donald Trump. He’s a bully,” said Griffin, who said she feels “horrible” about the image, and reiterated her earlier apology.
But, she said, a sitting president and his grown children and family are “trying to ruin my life forever.”
“What would it look like if his own insults were turned on him,” said her attorney Lisa Bloom, whose Woodland Hills office was packed on Friday.
Bloom called it a “beatdown” on Griffin.
She has never threatened violence against anyone, Bloom said.
“Her life’s work has been to make people laugh.”
.@kathygriffin admitted in December that she was going after Barron Trump. Now she's crying misogyny at the direction of @LisaBloom. Moron. pic.twitter.com/UBY3ueb9Zc
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Bloom outlined several instances of male artists, who have depicted authority figures without apology, and noted a instances of Trump’s own words, which said incited violence.
Earlier this week, CNN said Griffin would no longer co-host its live New Year’s Eve special from Times Square, a gig she’d had for more than a decade, and another show was canceled at a New Mexico casino. An endorsement deal with Squatty Potty also ended.
Though Griffin, 56, apologized within hours of the images appearing online Tuesday, they were met with swift and widespread condemnation.
Trump later tweeted that Griffin “should be ashamed of herself” for posting the images.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called Griffin “disgusting” and said the photo was “completely outrageous.”
Meanwhile, backlash against Kathy Griffin continues to grow with at least four theaters announcing Thursday that they had canceled her performances after the comedian posed with a likeness of President Donald Trump’s severed head.
Venues in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania canceled November shows. The Community Arts Theater in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, posted on its website that the show had been dropped “due to the recent controversy surrounding Kathy Griffin and the concern for the safety and security of our patrons and staff….”
The comic has faced controversies before for her abrasive humor, but none as widespread as the one generated by Tuesday’s images.
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Of course good old Kathy liberal TRASH Griffin, went to Hollywood Attorney, Lisa ACLU Bloom, daughter of Gloria AllDEAD! Hey Lisa, I just love all of the so called women that you have represented. When Herman Cain was running for President, women flocked to you, so they could get their minute of fame on television, suggesting that Cain had forced himself on them sexually. When Herman Cain dropped out of the race, these so called women disappeared and you no longer represented them. Ditto for the women that were allegedly sexually abused by Trump. After the election, all of these women you represented disappeared. Ditto for all of the women that you represented when O’Reilly was fired from Fox News. No lawsuits from any of the women you represented, Lisa HOLLYWOOD PHONY Bloom. You and the so called “women” you represent, including Kathy TRASH Griffin, are everything a woman should NOT be!!!!!!!!
If her life’s work has been as a comedian, or a series of attempts at humor, I would suggest, as a whole, that it’s been a total waste of time and effort. To do what she did, and not get the effect she wanted, and then bemoan the effect that it did create, is simply total stupidity.
Can anyone name me three funny jokes she’s told in the last 10 years? She’s a comedian as much as I’m a professional golfer.
No really. If they passed a law to make it illegal to tell jokes, there wouldn’t be enough evidence to arrest her. They’d have to let her go free. She talks fast and whiny. That’s not comedy. It’s background noise.
Then she fake apologized, and now she’s un-apologizing using the lawyer to repeat nonsense she obviously wrote.
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Rather than show solid reasoning behind her actions, she uses comparative bastardry to say she’s no worse than GWAR or Marilyn Manson. That’s not aiming very high. These bands are at the bottom of the gene puddle. Not only that, but the bands actually produce music. You might not prefer it but it really is music. They do their job.
Kathy Griffin does not produce comedy. She’s lowered herself to being a shock jock. Again, not aiming high. Watch out Howard Stern. Here comes a new rival.
I’d never heard of this Clinton like “woman” until this garbage went down but then I don’t watch trash on TV.
Kathy Griffin is one foul, disgusting woman. I’ve despised her for years. It’s amazing to me that she pulls a gutter humor stunt that seems to have backfired on her and attacks a ten year old child, yet she thinks that she is the one being bullied. Typical liberal (and communist, Alinsky honed) tactic of accusing your opponent of doing the very thing that you are doing.
Here’s another double standard. When we have a liberal, democrat president, the children are off limits to say anything negative about. Now that Trump is president, it’s open season on his children. These people are truly sick and, Kathy Griffin, look in the mirror to find the real bully.
With her actions, she brought this on herself, making it entirely her fault. It was in fact, premeditated. I doubt that it was her idea, and the only mitigating circumstances she might have in a court of law is naming those who thought this up. In the court of public opinion she has no defense, and has earned the consequences of her actions. She is the now the poster child for the term “useful idiot”.
Of course she is.. Liberalism 101. Do something wrong, then BLAME the one you attacked for what ever befalls you.. Never take responsibility for what YOU DID wrong.
Isn’t this just like the democrats, make a statement (visual or verbal or both) and when it bombs cry poor me all I did was (enter excuse). This poor excuse for a human being stated “He did me in” when she should have stated it correctly “Me did Me in”.
Hey, Kathy. What came first–the chicken or the egg? You terrified President Trump’s little boy.
You dished it out, so grow up and take responsibility for your actions. President Trump’s family isn’t ruining you–you did it to yourself.
She’s a typical liberal though. THEY never accept responsibility for what they do wrong. It always has to be someone or something else that’s at fault.
Socialist liberals blame everyone but themselves for their wrongs and screwups. Nothing new unfortunately. The caring/compassionate/fair/ HYPED LIES socialist leftists are the FIRST to hate, attack, denigrate, be unfair with anyone that disagrees with them. Hillary shooting herself in the foot and them losing their lying/deceptive/vile/ evil president they hoped for — they really show their evil faces.
I just got a great idea. If the going gets, the tough get going. Kathy, since you’re such an artist, quit what you’re doing and open an art store. Why, you could cover every piece in blood. It would be fantastic!
Socialist liberals would buy the so called ‘art’. She does not need the president to self destruct, just be who she is.
As Christians we must forgive this person. NOT! Lord is dealing with this waste of space. What goes around, comes around. I truly hope that the rest of the sick filth swirls the drain right after you and heads directly for the Lake of Fire. Your boo-hoo act is not even convincing. You have no morals, no values and have always been demonically possessed. It is in your hands Lord, not even mine to judge. But shouldn’t we have some vigilance over evil? Stand against it?
What a shame that it takes something so vile as her latest feeble attempt at humor to finally put her in the “outside”. Really pitiful attempts at humor all along the way ! BTW – if patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel – what describes her cry for attention ?
Backpacker. IF I was Herman.. AS SOON as those women ‘disappeared, along with their accusations’, once he dropped out, i would have been consulting lawyers about COUNTER SUITS..
Herman has and it is still on-going. He can’t talk about it since it isn’t settled.
I didn’t know that whole rigamorole was still on going..
Kathy Griffin: President Trump is ‘trying to ruin my life’ – good luck Mr President
He doesn’t need any luck. SHE’s doing a fine job of it herself, he won’t need to step in to help her out.
Kathy, when you plant a seed you get a harvest. If you apologized for your actions rather than blame Trump I would respect and forgive you. Get over it and do so and quit blaming others for your actions.
If anyone ruined anything it was Griffin herself with the despicable antic in which she engaged. She has every right to dislike Trump. I despised Obama, but I would never have done anything so tasteless and banal as what she did in her malicious malevolence to toward Trump.
If I, an old white guy, had done the same with a likeness of our previous “president” or HRC I would have been put under the jail.
Didn’t Ted Nugent do something similar about obama though??
Ituser, I’m pretty sure Ted Nugent never held up a bloody, severed head with Obama’s face on it! He said a couple of things about him–which happened to be the truth, so . . . quite different from the hysterical LIES and malicious STUNTS like Griffin’s. She talked some time ago about going after Barron Trump, and this nasty stunt was LIKELY aimed at HIM to provoke EXACTLY the reaction he had when he saw it. And she wants to talk about BULLIES? What is a GROWN, 50-something WOMAN doing waging psychological WARFARE on an 11-year-old? There IS a “bully” in this equation, and it DAMNED sure is NOT our President!
if i remeber correctly didnt the left wing anti war snowflakes hang and burn president gwb in effigey?
the left wants a war people.
IIRC so was the elder bush AND reagan also.. However, i don’t remember anyone doing it for bill or obama.. Makes you wonder why? Maybe we on the right are not so hate mongering..
Firstly, and I’m writing as a woman – Griffin is a foul, depraved, shovel-faced-UGLY degenerate. An obscene creature like that should not be a “celebrity” in the FIRST place. It’s fame indicates the depth of the sickness of “popular culture”. Secondly – I wish the Trump family WOULD go after it. Really bring the hammer down. Arrest it for making terroristic threats, and throwing it’s scrawny skankiness in jail til it rots.
Very bad people have gotten away with VERY bad things for VERY long time, with no consequences for decades. One example made would do a world of good.
I agree!! Kathy has gotten by with the filthy, vulgar act for years…It’s time she is stopped!!! Hopefully she will be… NOW!
Unfortunately since Colbert is still on CBS, after what HE did, i fear SHE won’t be fired completely..
Griffin, just like Hillary, refuses to accept the fact that she – and she alone – is responsible for her idiotic and grossly offensive act. Cry your crocodile tears, Griffin — you’re still fired…..
You are so correct. She’s been insignificant for her entire career and this is just another feeble attempt to get some media attention. She got it alright.
Kathy Griffin seems surprised to learn that actions have consequences. When you do something as disgusting and totally inappropriate as she did (even if you try to pass it off as “art”) you can expect negative consequences. The best thing she could do now is just shut up, and try to pick up the pieces of her shattered career.
As Homer Simpson would say,
“D’OH! I didn’t expect there to be any unintended consequences!”
Liberals are conditioned to believe that actions and consequences are unrelated. For instance, I’m going to ignore the sanctity of marriage and sleep around like an alley cat. But then I’m going to act the victim if I get AIDS. And other liberals will call me a “hero”.
She’s saying that America knew for years that Trump is an evil, narcissistic, vengeful jerk. OK, but then how stupid does that make you for stepping into the ring with him? You threatened him first. Trump isn’t even really seeking revenge. The Secret Service has automatic protocols for threats like this. Trump isn’t personally involved other than tweeting about how disgusting KG is.
But like always they firmly believe consequences shouldn’t apply to libtards..
Well geez! Doesn’t you heart just break for poor Krappy? Why in the world should she have to face the consequences of her actions? It just boggles the mind!
I agree. People of all ages should understand that their decisions and actions can, and often do, have consequences. And there is a law of nature that every action will have unexpected negative consequences and sometimes these will be severe.
She’s as bad as Hillary, everything is someone else’s fault.
Wow! She is being trampled on by Trump? Now, that is one sick mind. She did an unconscionable thing that was rude, crude and above all nasty and that is Trump’s fault? Get real, you did the dirty and now don’t want to claim how ignorant and stupid you were to do it. A comic? You are NOT a comic but a vicious person. Comedy is to make us laugh and enjoy, but your type of “comedy” is evil and profane to the nth degree. You caused your problem and now, like any brainless Trump hater want to blame him because as a father he chastised you in a very light way? Sorry, your act has caused incitement and threatening ANY president and especially one that has kept our freedom and yours to urinate on it, is plain old treason. Now, you are rightfully upset and afraid this planet to be cleansed of you and your kind. There is no excuse you gave but an excuse for yourself and it isn’t working and obviously neither are the previous jobs you had. Karma is never kind and now you get to enjoy it to the fullest. I will pray for you because you are in need of God’s love and caring and hopefully you will accept it, but getting an attorney will not resolve any of what you have done and actually will make it worse for you.
Trump is trying to ruin your life? You need to get a life before somebody else can ruin it!
I was thinking about this. Kathy it’s about time you called in a professional to ruin your life. You’ve been trying to ruin it yourself for decades now and people still recognize your name. This could be the best thing for you. You clearly have some deep psychological need to be broken and destroyed. With any luck you’ll end up penniless AND box office poison.
If you play your cards right, the name “Kathy Griffin” will be synonymous with a Trivial Pursuit question that nobody knows the answer to.
Or cares to know the answer to!
Poor, poor, kg (not). Guess her mommy forgot to tell her that if she’s going to dish it out, she better be able to take it. Pathetic loser.
Poor Kathy all she wanted to do was hold up the bloodied severed head of our president, you know like a terrorist would do, and now his mean family is upset with her. It’s just a joke can’t they play along, like maybe President Trump could pull his shirt up over head to make it look like he was decapitated. I say “Griffen’s in a blanket fry her like bacon.”
gee–looks like someone got bitten by the unintended consequences bug. . .funny how that works. . .
It is time for the American people to stop tolerating bad behavior on television and on the street and it shouldn’t matter who’s doing it . Other countries don’t put up with this type mess and we shouldn’t either.
My biggest problem is these attorney’s , media and other American’s that praise these individuals taking their money while tying up the court systems . This woman should be used as an example to the rest of these jerks…
I agree. For far too long, we have seen this sort of behavior go on, both on tv and off.. High time we started getting BACK TO discipline and punishment!
BOO HOO HOO HOO HOOOOOO!
The bi*%h has spent years earning this payback – constantly dishing it out, but can’t deal with some of it coming back!
Isn’t it special that Gloria Allread’s daugher, Lisa (the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree) Bloom has jumped into the limelight. I can’t wait to hear their whining press conference, today!
Same goes for her dear, like minded friend, Jim Carrey – who will be there for her, just as soon as his trial for murdering his X girlfriend concludes.
I’m sure Kathy thought she had killed Trump, after all, she had is head in her hand!
So let me get this straight… She says in December at a Gala event that she is going after Trump and his son Barron. Now, after this hideous image she has published, she tearfully cries…”I would never hurt a child”!! What did she expect, that this kid didn’t watch TV!! Phony and fake apology!! I believe this was all a big plan to resurrect what few seconds she has left of her 15 minutes of fame!! Big mistake! And also… I haven’t observed any bullying from Trump himself other than the initial response and the response from Melania! As loving parents would! The ” bullying” against her is coming from the outrage and disgust of the general public! She brought all of this on herself!!
When i heard that she, back last year said “LETS Get on Barron, start hitting him early and often” or something to that, IMO SHE should have gotten lambasted from the GET GO.
Seriously? It’s Trump’s turn? He has been vilified since the day he declared his candidacy. Every day there is some liberal group hoping to destroy him. Give it a rest bimbos. So, Kathy, if you hate all white men, what the heck are you married to.
Probably not married to ANYTHING, onemadwoman. I can’t really imagine ANYBODY who would be willing to hook up with this shrill, NEUROTIC, disagreeable and hateful SKANK.
LOL, could be right, but supposedly she is a wife and mother herself so… Who knows, kids could have been adopted.
Griffin, you said six months ago that you were going to go after DJT Sr and Barron. This was all planned; but, you didn’t think (the operative words) there would be any serious consequences, and there weren’t. You weren’t beheaded; you weren’t stoned to death; you weren’t shot in the head; you weren’t tortured; etc. You were just fired from one job.
I’m in no way intimating that Donald Trump is a genius, but he’s several magnitudes better than the PUTZUS he replaced+Hillary+Fauxahontas Warren+Bernie and a modification of Jonathan Swift’s quote applies, “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him”.
Totally agree. Love the “fauxahontas” thing – lol!
Kathy Griffin is undoubtedly evil. She aimed her venom at a ten year old child. She incited murder of our president, and for that she should be in jail. The last I heard it was a crime to
threaten or to suggest the murder and beheading of a president. Where is the FBI? Where is the CIA?
Griffin should be in jail. In my opinion she committed a crime, and then she said the victims of her crime are “ruining her life”. She is a monster who should be prosecuted.
Shame on Bloom for in any way supporting a person who did something this vile.
IMO the FBI is investigating, but just like we saw with that professor at Fresno state, nothing will be done..
Shame on Jim Carrey as well for supporting her.
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No a comedian’s job is NOT to cross the line as much as possible. A comedian’s job is to tell jokes that make people laugh. Kathy Griffin is not funny.
Sadly, Jim Carrey is funny, but I can’t see supporting his nonsense with my money ever again. The smart thing to do would have been to say no comment. He’s not saving comedy by supporting KG. He’s lowering himself to her level. Now I see him as just another hate-filled moonbat commie. It’s what he is.
It’s all hate from the Left. Just kill people you don’t like. Trump? Kill him. AGW deniers? Kill them. That’s their answer, but conservatives are somehow the murderers? They’re messed up in the head with their own self-importance. Reality is gone. Common sense never happened.
Worse, I have yet to see any amount of evidence sufficient to prove to them that they’re wrong. Logic doesn’t work. Math doesn’t work. They operate 100% on feelings. This makes them unreachable as far as I can tell.
IMO Jim used to be a good actor, but now he’s mediocre.. I have not seen any of his films in at least 5 years.. INCLUDING In re-runs.
Sorry Kathy, your career was already in the tank, now you’ve definitely flushed it!
Griffin and O’Donnell going after Barron Trump? Adults bullying a 11 year old boy?
How edgy. How cowardly. How Democratic. How typical of members of the party of peace, love, diversity, inclusion, intellectual development, caring for the poor and oppressed and saving the planet.
Of course the American public has fallen to such a low intellectual level that I doubt either of these piles of ambulatory excrement will suffer as much as a 10% decrease in their popularity.
My comment is directed directly to Kathy Griffin, and indirectly to all other so-called ‘comedians’ who think they are funny:
Ms Griffin, President Donald Trump is NOT trying to destroy your life in any way shape or form, you have done that all by yourself. You call yourself a comedian, but in all honesty, the bulk of what you do and what comes out of your mouth is anything but funny or comedic, it is downright vulgar.
I don’t know, nor do I really care, what kind of bullying or hardships you underwent as a child, no body has it perfect. I faced bullying like you wouldn’t believe as a kid, but you learn to deal with it and grow up, as that is part of life and no amount of legislation will stop it, but that is no excuse for being foul-mouthed and disrespectful when you grow up, I certainly did not. To be honest, I really lost all respect for you a couple of years ago when you grabbed Anderson Cooper’s crotch on live TV during the New Year celebration, If Mr. Cooper had any respect for himself, he should have slapped you silly. I know I would have. What you did to him was NOT funny, it was disgusting and disrespectful.
Griffin is not being bullied by President Trump but by what she did all by herself. What did she expect? And threatening to go after Barron, a CHILD, is beyond reprehensible! Griffin is NOT funny — never has been! She’s a stupid idiot. She is not sorry for what she did. She is merely sorry for the sane people of America who do not share her warped sense of humor. She should go to jail for her veiled threat to our president. God bless America, and God bless President Donald Trump.
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I hope and pray that for your sake, you will examine your life and actions and come to the realization that you must make some serious changes in your life, accept full responsibility for what has happened instead of blaming President Trump, his family or anyone else. Acting like a low life **** and foul-mouthed biatch, is no way to go through life.
Yes, you do have a First Amendment right to say what you want, and God even created us with free will, but you must bear in mind that there is a consequence, a price to pay for saying and doing the wrong thing, and just because one happens to be famous or a star, even if in their own minds, does not me that they are immune from paying that price.
What a pathetic, sorry excuse for a human being she is. I hope she never works again.
As for her opportunistic lawyer – she gives professional female attorneys a bad name.
She learned it from her mom.
Do you know the difference between Kathy Griffin and a catfish? One is a scum-sucking bottom dweller, and the other is a fish.