Kathy Griffin's bloody Trump photo gets the internet to agree on something
Republicans and Democrats agree: Kathy Griffin did something disgusting.
Griffin -- who you might know from, um, Suddenly Susan and reality shows I guess?-- posed in a blue dress with the fake, decapitated head of Donald Trump in a photo.
It's gross. Seriously, if you're eating something right now, look away. OK, here's the photo, via TMZ:
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She was trashed on social media by liberals and conservatives.
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There are plenty of other tweets, too, but it's a toxic cesspool that pretty much boils down to "SEE THIS IS LIBERAL HATE" and "TRUMP SUPPORTERS BASICALLY DID THE SAME THING TO OBAMA."
This sums it up:
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In case you're wondering, yes, people are tweeting about it to the Secret Service, who seem to be indirectly responding to the outrage.
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Griffin responded to the whole thing with a reference to a Trump comment about NBC (and former Fox News) host Megyn Kelly.
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And so this stupid year rolls on.
Updated 8:04 PM ET:
Kathy Griffin issued an apology on Twitter.
"I sincerely apologize," she said in a video. "I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people."
She then said she was asking the photographer to take it down. "I made a mistake and I was wrong."
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
