Kathy Griffin Unveils Christmas Tree Decorated With 'F*** Trump' Bauble

Kathy Griffin showed fans that she's getting into the holiday spirit early—and a president of Christmas past features prominently in her decorations.

The outspoken comedian took to Twitter on Monday to share a photo of herself smiling broadly as she posed next to her Christmas tree, which featured a large red bauble emblazoned with the words: "F*** Trump."

Captioning the image, Griffin, who will celebrate two years of marriage to marketing executive Randy Bick on January 1, wrote: "My husband put the Christmas tree up and decorated it just for me."

The Illinois native has been decidedly forthcoming in expressing her distaste for former President Donald Trump, most notably facing backlash when she posed with the severed head of an effigy of the real estate mogul in 2017.

Trump responded to the image on Twitter, writing at the time: "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick."

Following public outcry over the gory image, which was taken by celebrity photographer Tyler Shields, Griffin issued an apology.

"I sincerely apologize," she said in a video posted to social media on May 30, 2017. "I am just now seeing the reaction of these images... I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn't funny. I get it."

However, during an appearance on ABC's The View in 2018, Griffin retracted her apology, saying: "I take the apology back. F*** him... I'm not holding back on this family. This family is different. I've been through the mill."

Explaining her reasons for retracting her apology, the TV personality said: "The First Amendment is important. It's the first for a reason."

"People thought I was ISIS," she went on. "When my mother called—she watches Fox News and thinks it's real and thinks Bill O'Reilly is on vacation—that day, as crazy as it was, I was in a ball, sobbing, everything's over... I had to spend two hours convincing my mom I hadn't been recruited by Al-Qaeda."

She continued: "My mom got death threats in her retirement village, and my sister got death threats in her hospital bed, and I lost her to cancer—that's why I shaved my head. That's how vicious it can be."

In September 2020, Griffin shared a tweet in which she accused Trump staffers of planting stories about her in the National Enquirer.

Griffin recounted the consequences she had faced for her controversial Trump photo as she compared her experience to the repercussions Republican Arizona Representative Paul Gosar faced for his own recent video.

In the since-deleted clip that was originally shared on his Twitter account, Gosar was shown threatening Democratic President Joe Biden and killing Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Griffin wrote on Twitter that she was "fully investigated" by the Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office, and put on the no-fly and Interpol lists for her Trump image. She also stated that she lost work and had a comedy tour canceled due to threats of violence.

Stating that her First Amendment had been "legitimately violated" by the federal government and attorney general, she added that she was "interrogated under oath at the conclusion of the weeks-long investigation in which the Feds informed me and my attorneys they were considering charging me with a crime of 'conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.' But Gosar..."

Gosar said in a statement that the video was "truly a symbolic portrayal of a fight over immigration policy."

"I do not espouse violence or harm," he said. "The cartoon depicts the symbolic nature of a battle between lawful and unlawful policies and in no way intended to be a targeted attack against Representative Cortez or Mr. Biden."

"It is a symbolic cartoon," his statement went on. "It is not real life. Congressman Gosar cannot fly. The hero of the cartoon goes after the monster, the policy monster of open borders."

In November, the House of Representatives voted to censure Gosar and strip him of his two committee assignments over the video.