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Kathy Griffin Blasts ‘Stupid and Embarrassing’ NRA TV for Using Her in Trump ‘Build the Wall’ Clip
Kathy Griffin went at NRA TV with both barrels on Tuesday, calling out the channel for attempting to paint her as a supporter of President Trump’s strategy.
In a tweet, Griffin called out the station as “stupid and embarrassing,” and noting that the footage used in a promo clip for NRA TV’s “We Stand” was pulled from a video made by YouTuber Shane Dawson.
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Griffin also provided a link to the original video, posted to Dawson’s YouTube channel earlier this month.
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“You guys are so stupid and embarrassing @NRATV ….look @shanedawson they’re using footage from your video,” Griffin wrote. “See the original video here.”
The video clip, posted to NRA TV’s Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, was accompanied by the message, “#BREAKING: In order to keep herself and her home safe, @kathygriffin has adopted @realDonaldTrump’s Make America Safe Again strategy of #BuildTheWall. @dbongino covers the development tonight on We Stand. “
The tweet ended with “#MAGA,” hashtag shorthand for Trump’s slogan Make America Great Again.
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Griffin is famously not a fan of Trump. Last year, the comedian came under considerable heat for posing with what appeared to be the decapitated head of the president.
In Dawson’s video, which chronicled a tour of Griffin’s home with Dawson’s mother, Griffin noted, “I have a neighbor on this side,” who, she said, has taken to screaming insults such as “f—ing d-ke” and “f—ing c–t” since the publication of the Trump photo.
“As Trump would say, we built the wall,” Griffin said in the video. “I’m not a Trump supporter, but we built a wall.”
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Griffin was presumably referring to KB Home CEO Jeffrey T. Mezger, who last year was purportedly heard calling Griffin a “f-king bald dyke” and a “c-t” in audio published by the Huffington Post.
KB Home subsequently said in a statement that Mezger apologized “for the language that he used,” which “does not reflect who he is or what he believes.”
Even so, the neighborly tensions between Griffin and Mezger took another turn last week, when Mezger and his wife Sandra filed a lawsuit against Griffin and her boyfriend Randy Bick, alleging that lodged a series of noise complaints against the Mezgers, and “illegally captured hundreds of hours of audio and video from the Mezgers’ back yard” via a “campaign of secret electronic surveillance and recording “
13 Stars Who Imagined Violence Against Donald Trump, From Kathy Griffin to Snoop Dogg (Photos)
Since the election, several celebrities have voiced their displeasure — even anger — with the Trump administration. Some have gone so far as to suggest violent measures. From Robert De Niro to Snoop Dogg, here are nine left-leaning noteworthy people who have fanned themes of violence toward Trump and the GOP.
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Larry Wilmore
In late February 2016, the host of Comedy Central’s now-canceled “The Nightly Show” joked about then-candidate Donald Trump: “I don’t want to give him any more oxygen. That’s not a euphemism, by the way. I mean it literally. Somebody get me the pillow they used to kill [Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia and I’ll do it — I’ll do it!”
George Lopez
During the Republican primaries in March 2016, the Mexican American comedian tweeted a cartoon image of former Mexican president Vincente Fox holding the decapitated head of Donald Trump aloft, with the caption “Make America Great Again.”
Marilyn Manson
Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson had to take his turn in the Trump-bashing festivities. In a teaser video for his song, “Say10,” released just after the 2016 election, a Trump-like figure wearing a suit and a red tie lies decapitated on a concrete floor, in a pool of his own blood.
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Robert De Niro
The actor is not afraid to express his disdain for the commander in chief. De Niro confirmed to ABC’s “The View” in February 2017 that he would like to punch Trump in the face. He clarified earlier comments, saying “It wasn’t like I was gonna go find him and [really] punch him in the face, but he’s gotta hear it.”
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Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg’s music video for “Lavender,” released in March 2017, (literally) paints POTUS as a clown and orchestrates his death. At the video’s end, the “Gin and Juice” rapper points a gun at the harlequin Trump figure and shoots. But instead of a bullet, a red flag that reads “Bang!” fires out of the gun.
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Kathy Griffin
The comedian landed in hot water in May after photos surfaced of her holding a fake bloody, decapitated Trump head. Griffin was promptly dropped from her annual New Year’s Eve gig by CNN. Toilet stool company Squatty Potty also pulled its ads featuring Griffin. Trump himself called the photos “sick” and tweeted that his youngest son, Barron, was “having a hard time” with the images. Griffin later apologized.
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Moby
The musician’s new video, released in June 2017, is simultaneously nostalgic and dystopian. In 1980s cartoon fashion, a giant Transformer-like Trump morphs into a swastika/dollar sign and wreaks havoc on a city before meeting a fiery, explosive demise.
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Anthony Bourdain
Asked what he’d serve at a peace summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the celebrity chef told a TMZ video crew: “Hemlock.”
Some celebrities have been more than outspoken in their criticism of the Republican president
Since the election, several celebrities have voiced their displeasure — even anger — with the Trump administration. Some have gone so far as to suggest violent measures. From Robert De Niro to Snoop Dogg, here are nine left-leaning noteworthy people who have fanned themes of violence toward Trump and the GOP.