Kathy Griffin is receiving backlash on social media after suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump should be injected with a “syringe with air inside” on Tuesday.
The American comedian’s controversial words came in response to a tweet from CNN White House correspondent James Acosta, who shared a comment Trump reportedly made during a diabetes event at the White House. “‘I don’t use insulin.
Should I be?'” Trump said, according to Acosta. Griffin, 59, retweeted the post a few hours later, adding a “syringe with nothing but air inside it would do the trick.
F–K TRUMP” — alluding to the idea that someone should give Trump an air embolism. An air embolism is when air or gas bubbles enter the body.