I am sure you have all seen or heard about the “breaking news” Kathy Griffin photo-shoot where the “comedian” is holding an imitation of President Trump’s head covered in “blood”. If you have not seen it yet, don’t. It’s quite disturbing. Turns out, her “joke” was not all that funny. She was fired from CNN and lost many of her gigs, but of course that was President Trump’s fault. He “broke” her and “ruined” her career. Of course it was nothing she did. Donald Trump was definitely the “bully” in this situation. I mean, he sent out a tweet about her. He ruined her life with that tweet. In case you haven’t seen the absurd tweet yet it reads, “Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!” -@realDonaldTrump.
In Kathy Griffin’s press conference, she said that she truly felt that President Trump and his family was trying to ruin her life forever. He apparently “picked her” to “bully”. Are you kidding me? She literally held up an imitation of him beheaded, and claimed he ruined her life because he responded to it with a tweet? Who really ruined her life here?
While the beheaded President Trump head disturbed me, what disturbs me even more is Kathy Griffin’s failure to accept responsibility for her actions. It disturbs me because this is the way the world is moving. People refuse to accept consequences for their actions, and instead turn to blame it on everyone else. Kathy Griffin claimed that she realized she messed up, and if she would have left it at that, I would have been perfectly satisfied with her apology. Okay, she made a mistake and she took responsibility for it – that is the ADULT thing to do. Of course she could not leave it there though. She had to go on to blame white males, President Trump, and his kids – basically anything she could find to put the blame on, she did. Oh, and she said that he was using her as a “shiny object” to keep people from talking about his “FBI investigation”, the one that former FBI Director James Comey said did not even exist during his hearing on June 8th. She purposely put herself out there as a “shiny object”, but did not receive the reaction she thought she would.
It is not acceptable to fail to take responsibility for your actions, I do not care who you are. President Trump should take responsibility for his actions just as Kathy Griffin should. Just as I should. Kathy Griffin ruined her own life. She irresponsibly posed for a controversial photo and created the buzz she was trying to get, but her audience did not find her funny this time. Her employers didn’t either. President Trump did not ruin Kathy Griffin, Kathy Griffin ruined Kathy Griffin.
