Earlier this year TMZ
released a photograph of Kathy Griffin holding a Donald Trump mask covered in
fake blood completely. The photograph which was cooked up as satire in a single
afternoon, quickly spread across social media, uniting Republicans and Democrats
in outrage and forever changing the comedian’s life. In the wake of the
controversy Griffin released a video apology, but the damage was done; and the
next day, Trump intensified the backlash by tweeting a claim that his son
Barron was having a difficult time dealing with the image. Since then Kathy
Griffin has lost jobs, money, and friends but despite that she refuses to bend
the knee to Trump. Joining me today to
talk all about how Kathy Griffin has been dealing with the backlash and moving
on is Yashar Ali who is a contributing
writer to New York Magazine and HuffPost and wrote all about his recent
conversations with Kathy for The Cut.
On Tuesday in Corpus
Christi, Texas, as Houston lay drowning, Trump admired an adoring, pre-screened
crowd from atop the bumper of a firetruck parked at a rural firehouse. “What a
crowd,” the president said, as if he were addressing a campaign rally. “What a
turnout!”; and then during a press event
with Texas Governor Greg Abbot, Trump had to stop himself mid-sentence from
congratulating the governor and himself for a job well done, even as the
disaster wrought by Hurricane Harvey continued to unfold in Houston and
beyond. Joining me today to talk all
about the Presidents response to Harvey and what it says about the state of
emergency our country is in under the Trump administration is Adele M. Stan who is a
columnist for The American Prospect and the winner of the 2017 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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