Kathy Griffin causes anger with controversial video criticizing Trump

Kathy Griffin has sparked outrage after sharing a video showing artwork of four severed heads of billionaires – including Donald Trump. 

The comedian, who is 64 years old, posted a clip on TikTok. In the video, she stitched together a piece of art featuring detailed cloth heads of four billionaires. The heads had ‘blood’ dripping from their necks.

The four decapitated heads belonged to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the current president. The clip showed these heads hanging on a wall, with the camera panning across them.

The clip ends with Griffin tilting her head and nodding with a very slight smile, as the text above her reads: ‘That’s all.’

‘For the first time ever… no comment,’ she captioned the clip. 

This video was released following a previous incident in 2017 when the comedian sparked widespread outrage. At that time, she shared a clip in which she was holding a fake decapitated head resembling Trump.

The act caused the media personality to lose her hosting gig with CNN, which she had had been a part of since 2007.

Viewers quickly flooded to the comment section of this latest clip – many disturbed by the gory artwork.

Kathy Griffin has sparked outrage after sharing a video showing artwork of four severed heads of billionaires – including Donald Trump 

‘Thought inciting violence was bad,’ one user questioned.

‘Did you not learn from the first time?’ commented another. 

Someone else simply wrote: ‘What is wrong with you?’ while another snarked: ‘Ah look who’s so pathetically desperate to stay relevant.’

Others supported Griffin, praising her in the comments section of the video.

‘Queeeeeeeennnnn. 100000 steps aHEAD of everyone at all times,’ declared a user.

‘You were the pioneer, Kathy,’ gushed another. 

In May, Griffin shared a video to her YouTube channel referencing the infamous ficitional beheading picture, complaining that late night host Stephen Colbert made her cry by ambushing her about the incident during a 2018 interview.

The comedian, who said she had attempted to ban him from discussing the topic, called Colbert a ‘d*ck’ and branded the interview as a ‘bulls**t ambush.’

The four decapitated heads depicted are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the current president, with the video panning across them hanging on the wall 

In May, Griffin, shared a video to her YouTube channel referencing the infamous fictional beheading picture, complaining that late night host Stephen Colbert made her cry by ambushing her about the incident during a 2018 interview

The video sparked mixed reactions online, with some defending the comedian and others fuming 

Griffin argued the CBS host’s line of questioning was ‘laced with misogyny,’ and accused Colbert of punching down on a ‘D-list celebrity.’

The claims came seven years after interview had taken place, and nearly eight after the controversy that caused Griffin to lose her plum hosting gig at CNN.

The interview with Colbert months later saw her lightly pressed about the May 2017 photo-up.

Griffin said she’d just been questioned by the Secret Service over the photo and had begged with Colbert to avoid the topic.

First, showrunners obliged, she said – before recalling how they shifted course at the 11th hour.

The comic compared the ensuing experience to a grilling one might expect on ’60 Minutes’ instead of a satirical talk show. She claimed Colbert – a comic as well – ‘kept going and kept going’ with his questions.

The pointed video comes after the comedian caused mass outrage in 2017, after she posted a video clip she posted showing her holding a fake decapitated head made to look like President Donald Trump

‘And then the tears came,’ Griffin said. ‘I just remember thinking, “He would not talk down to the guys like this. He just wouldn’t.”‘

Griffin claimed she did not release her tears until the interview’s conclusion.

‘I was still smiling and waving, and I could feel them coming down my cheeks,’ she proclaimed, before claiming an executive producer went up to her to ask about her tears.

At the same time, she said the producer tried to explain away Colbert’s line of questioning.

‘”He just couldn’t get over the picture. He just can’t get over it,”‘ she recalled of what the staffer alleged said.

‘And I go, “What’s for him to get over? I don’t understand. It wasn’t a picture of his decapitated head.”‘ 

At the time, Griffin doubled down that it was her right to take a photo of her holding what looked like the president’s decapitated head under the First Amendment.