Silke Jasso
On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump posted on his Twitter account that his son was very upset at a photo that had circulated on Tuesday evening. The photo in question shows comedian Kathy Griffin holding up the bloody head of a Trump dummy.
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“Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!” Trump wrote on Twitter. A report from TMZ elaborated on Trump’s claim.
“Trump family sources tell us Barron was in front of the TV watching a show when the news came on and he saw the bloody, beheaded image. We’re told he panicked and screamed, “Mommy, Mommy!” TMZ reported on Wednesday.
According to TMZ’s source, the 11-year-old boy doesn’t know who Kathy Griffin is and did not know that the head in the photo was just a dummy.
Donald Trump Jr. expressed a similar dismay on his own Twitter account at how he would have to explain the photo to his own children.
“And I’m counting down having to explain it to my 8 and 10 year olds who I’m sure will see/hear about it at school,” Trump Jr. wrote.
After receiving a high degree of backlash over the photo, Griffin took it off her social media accounts and apologized for its existence.
