Comedian Kathy Griffin is worried that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to go after comedians if he is re-elected in November.
“He’s going to pick us off, one by one, like bowling pins, and I’m not kidding and I’m not being paranoid,” the celeb told Entertainment Weekly during a recent interview.
“I’m a D-lister, he’s not going to get to me on day one, but he’ll get to me, trust me,” Griffin continued. “He’s got a list. I’ve known this guy for 25 years, maybe 30. He’s so petty that he lives for this. He doesn’t want to be President or do any president-ing.”
Griffin referenced the infamous photograph from 2017 of her holding a replica of Trump’s decapitated head in her hand. That image and the extreme backlash she received inspired Griffin to create her current tour, called “My Life on the PTSD List.”
Griffin, 63, also told the outlet she was almost arrested for conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States following a “chilling” investigation.
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She went on to make predictions if Trump returns to the Oval Office.
“If he gets re-elected, he’ll go after Jimmy Kimmel, he’ll go after Jon Stewart, all the name ones, but he’ll go after Rosie O’Donnell. That’s all he’s going to do all day,” Griffin told the outlet. “He’ll have press conferences about it. He’s so much crazier than he was the first go-round.”
The photographer who helped Griffin create the severed head image in 2017, Tyler Shields, told EW at the time that Griffin had expressed she was perfectly fine with going to jail for the image.
“Fortunately, we have freedom of speech [in the first amendment], and all art is generally protected by these things, but again, this was [Griffin’s] first thought, ‘Will you bail me out of jail?’ You know, again, it wasn’t, ‘I don’t want to do this because I might go to jail.’ It was like, ‘Well, I’m gonna do it and whatever happens, happens.’”
Griffin later publicly apologized for the image and has since expressed regret, saying it caused her to lose many social media followers.
