CLOSE Kathy Griffin apologized for the photo she posted of herself holding up what looked like the decapitated head President Donald Trump. Trump responded, saying the comedian should be ashamed of herself.

Kathy Griffin, who has hosted CNN's live New Year's Eve show with Anderson Cooper since 2007, was fired from the show after posing with a fake severed Donald Trump head. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris, WireImage for Turner Networks)

Kathy Griffin's Trump dustup is officially costing her money.

A day after Griffin released a picture holding a mock "decapitated" head of President Trump shot by self-proclaimed "provocateur" photographer Tyler Shields, CNN announced Wednesday that they have terminated their decade-long contract with the comedian to appear with Anderson Cooper on New Year's Eve.

"CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program," spokesman Shimrit Sheetrit confirmed to USA TODAY in a statement Wednesday.

The network used even stronger language a day earlier: "We found what she did disgusting and offensive," read a statement sent to USA TODAY Tuesday night by Sheetrit. "We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down."

Although he's ushered in many a new year alongside the comedian, Cooper would not defend his co-host's actions. "For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in," he tweeted Tuesday night. "It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate."

Griffin also lost two more gigs Wednesday: A casino in New Mexico scrapped the comedian's scheduled July 22 performance and Squatty Potty, a family-owned Utah company, fired her from a recently announced endorsement gig promoting their toilet stools.

Squatty Potty CEO Bobby Edwards said Wednesday the company was "shocked and disappointed" by Griffin's actions. “In response, Squatty Potty has suspended its ad campaign featuring Ms. Griffin. We have acted swiftly and decisively to demonstrate our commitment to a culture of decency, civility, and tolerance."

Social media erupted over the bloody photo, steering attention away from Trump's expected announcement of plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, which went into effect in November.

The president said the image particularly upset his youngest son. "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!" Trump tweeted.

The first lady also chimed in. "As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing," Melania Trump said in a statement issued by her press secretary, Stephanie Grisham. "When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it."

Late Tuesday night, Griffin took to Twitter to profusely apologize for the image. "I crossed the line," she said. "I went way too far. The image is too disturbing, I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it. I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue to. I ask for your forgiveness."

Prior to CNN officially removing Griffin from its New Year's Eve lineup, the president's eldest child, Donald Trump Jr., had used his Twitter account to remark, "Squatty Potty pulls the plug on #KathyGriffin but @CNN still 'evaluating' and weighing their options. Insane what's going on there!!!”

Later, he clarified his statement: “Apologies for my last tweet. I didn't mean to group Squatty Potty (with) @CNN. Obviously, one of them has moral/ethical standards.”

Contributing: The Associated Press

Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2rpyilz</s>CNN has booted Kathy Griffin from its New Year’s Eve coverage for her disturbing photoshoot holding up a faux severed and bloody head of President Trump. The network said in a statement Wednesday, “CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program.” More…http://nypost.com/2017/05/31/cnn-yanks-kathy-griffin-from-new-years-eve-show/ Trump says Kathy Griffin ‘should be ashamed of herself’</s>Kathy Griffin will no longer appear with Anderson Cooper on New Year's Eve.

A day after Griffin released a photograph holding a mock "decapitated" head of President Trump, CNN announced they have terminated their contract with the comic.

"CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program," the network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon.

Late Tuesday, the language CNN used was even stronger. "We found what she did disgusting and offensive," read a statement sent to USA TODAY by CNN spokesperson Shimrit Sheetrit.

Cooper tweeted that he was "appalled." "For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in," Griffin's New Year's co-host said. "It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate."

Late Tuesday Griffin took to Twitter to apologize for the image. "I crossed the line," she said. "I went way too far. The image is too disturbing, I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it. I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue to. I ask for your forgiveness."</s>WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Kathy Griffin (all times local):

 

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CNN says it has cut ties with Kathy Griffin after she posted a video that showed her holding a likeness of President Donald Trump's severed head.

 

The network says it has terminated its agreement with the comedian to appear on its New Year's Eve programs. For a decade she had co-hosted the annual special with CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper.

 

Her future with CNN had been in doubt since the video appeared on Tuesday. CNN initially called it "disgusting and offensive."

 

In addition to her losing the CNN job, a New Mexico casino said it was canceling a July live engagement, and she has lost a commercial endorsement she landed just weeks ago.

 

Griffin has apologized for the video.

 

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7:34 a.m.

 

President Donald Trump says celebrity Kathy Griffin "should be ashamed of herself" for appearing in a video holding what looked like Trump's bloody, severed head.

 

In a post on his Twitter account Wednesday morning, the president says, "My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"

 

Griffin, who helped with CNN's New Year's Eve coverage, has apologized, saying that the brief video was "too disturbing" and wasn't funny.

 

"I went too far," she says in a second video. "I sincerely apologize."

 

Many people online called for Griffin to be jailed.

 

The first video showed a straight-faced Griffin slowly lifting the bloody head. She originally described the project with photographer Tyler Shields as an "artsy fartsy statement" mocking the commander in chief.</s>Donald Trump has said Kathy Griffin “should be ashamed of herself” for appearing in a video holding what looked like Trump’s bloody, severed head.

In a post on Twitter on Wednesday morning, the president said: “My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!”

His wife Melania also spoke out against the image. “As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing,” the first lady said, according to NBC News. “When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it.”

Griffin has apologized, saying that the brief video was “too disturbing” and wasn’t funny. “I went too far,” she says in a second video. “I sincerely apologize.”

Griffin had posed for the shot during a photo session with photographer Tyler Shield. Many people online called for Griffin to be jailed.

The first video showed a straight-faced Griffin slowly lifting the bloody head. She originally described the project with Shields as an “artsy-fartsy statement” mocking the president.

CNN, whose New Year’s Eve coverage Griffin has co-hosted, called the images “disgusting and offensive”.

“We are pleased to see she has apologized,” CNN said in a statement. “We are evaluating New Year’s Eve and have made no decisions at this point.”</s>Kathy is going down! CNN fired Kathy Griffin from its New Year’s Eve Special after the comic posed for a photograph where the woman was holding a decapitated head resembling that of President Donald Trump.

The news organization was not happy about the photo, and we’re not surprised considering its gory nature!

Today, on the 31st of May, Wednesday, the network tweeted they had terminated their agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on the New Year’s Eve program.

Shortly before announcing Griffin’s resignation, CNN released a statement saying the images were “disgusting and offensive.”

The reaction among the network employees was nearly unanimous. Kathy’s future co-host, Anderson Cooper, said he was appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in.

He said it was “clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate.”

How did the President respond? Donald, 70, took aim at the comedienne saying she should be ashamed of herself!

The 70-year-old President wasn’t the only Trump to weigh in on the situation; Melania said the photo was “very disturbing.”

The First Lady claimed the world has enough atrocities happening every day and for someone to post a picture like this it makes her wonder of the “mental health of the person who did it.”

In Kathy’s defense, the stand-up comic evidently understands that her joke was not funny at all.

Griffin said, “I sincerely apologize. I’m just now seeing the reaction to these images. I’m a comic. I cross the line. I move the line then I cross it. I went too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career; I will continue. I ask your forgiveness.”</s>LOS ANGELES — Kathy Griffin will not be back as co-host of CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve program, the network announced Wednesday.

CNN’s decision comes one day after photos were released of Griffin that showed the comedian holding up a bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump.

“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program,” the network said in a statement.

Griffin has apologized for the photos, taken by provocative celebrity photographer Tyler Shields.

“I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far,” she said in a video posted to Instagram late Tuesday. “I made a mistake and I was wrong.”

Admitted the images was “too disturbing,” Griffin said she asked Shields to take down the photo.

Griffin has co-hosted CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve program alongside Anderson Cooper since 2007.

On Tuesday night, a CNN spokesperson called the photos “disgusting and offensive.”

Shields, who is know for his envelope-pushing images, released the photos on Tuesday morning and swiftly came under fire by people on social media.

Trump said in a Tweet on Wednesday that Griffin “should be ashamed of herself.”

“My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this,” he wrote. “Sick!”

The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, and First Lady Melania Trump also weighed in.

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Trump’s one-time campaign rival Hillary Clinton, called the photo “vile and wrong.”

“It is never funny to joke about killing a president,” she wrote on Twitter.

In an initial statement, Griffin said she “did not condone ANY violence” by her fans or others.

“I’m merely mocking the Mocker in Chief,” she said in a Tweet of defense. It was later deleted.

Griffin, an outspoken critic of Trump, likely knew the images would draw some negative attention.

In a behind-the-scenes video posted by Shields that has since been removed, Griffin can be heard joking with Shields about moving to Mexico after the images were released.

“We’re not surviving this, okay?” she said in the footage.</s>CNN has fired Kathy Griffin after she was pictured holding a likeness of President Donald Trump’s severed head. Ms Griffin has been dismissed from her annual gig co-hosting the television network’s New Year’s Eve program with network anchor Anderson Cooper, the network announced. CNN’s PR department tweeted: “CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin […]

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Also, Like us on facebook</s>First Lady Melania Trump is the latest detractor of Kathy Griffin's bloody depiction of the president's decapitation.

"As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing," FLOTUS said in a statement to NBC News. "When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it."

Griffin's photographs and video by photographer Tyler Shields showed the comic straight-faced, holding up a blood-splattered severed head that appeared to be Trump's. The president denounced Griffin's stunt, saying that she "should be ashamed of herself" and that the piece greatly disturbed his 11-year-old son, Barron.

Griffin's apology wasn't accepted by some on Twitter either, which spewed a variety of reactions, including several right-wing jabs that Griffin had been radicalized by Islamic State, the terror group that frequently beheads its victims. Several also sympathized with the president's family, citing TMZ's story about Barron believing that something horrible had happened to his father when he saw the images on the news.

Griffin's role at CNN is currently under evaluation, and she has since been dropped as a spokesperson for Squatty Potty.

Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was delighted by the bathroom footstool maker's response but criticized CNN for not immediately doing the same.

"So Squatty Potty pulls the plug on Kathy Griffin, but CNN still 'evaluating' and weighing their options," the president's eldest son tweeted. "Insane what’s going on there!!!" He then added, "Apologies for my last tweet. I didn’t mean to group Squatty Potty with CNN. Obviously one of them has moral/ethical standards."

Griffin's CNN compatriot, Anderson Cooper, who co-hosts the giggle-filled New Year's Eve show for the cable news channel, did not come to his pal's defense.

"For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate," Cooper tweeted.

CNN host Jake Tapper also said on the air that he "thought the beheading imagery by Griffin about the president was disgusting and inappropriate."</s>Comedian Kathy Griffin received criticism from all political persuasions on Monday after posting a short video in which she holds up the beheaded head of President Donald Trump.

Griffin maintains an ominous tone in the clip which shows her raising a bloody Trump head.

“I caption this ‘there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his…wherever’ Also tylershields great Photog/film maker,” Griffen wrote on Twitter.

She later added a qualifier that she actually didn’t wish violence on anyone.

“OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone, ever! I’m merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.”

Despite Griffin’s insistence that she doesn’t condone violence, her actions were met with harsh criticism.

“Nope. Too much. By a very long distance, way too much,” Keith Olbermann of GQ wrote. Olbermann has been one of Trump’s fiercest critics and routinely calls for his arrest. RELATED: ‘D-list’ celeb Kathy Griffin issues a challenge for comedians to take no prisoners during the Trump administration Todd Starnes of Fox News was among the many people to call for CNN to remove Griffin from her annual hosting gig on New Years Eve. Hey @CNN – will Kathy Griffin be hosting your New Year's Eve show again? Your advertisers would like to know. pic.twitter.com/ngzHbBcPhN “Hey CNN – will Kathy Griffin be hosting your New Year’s Eve show again? Your advertisers would like to know,” Starns wrote. Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton also condemned Griffin’s video. “This is vile and wrong. It is never funny to joke about killing a president,” Clinton wrote.
CNN terminates its New Year's Eve Live contract with Kathy Griffin after she released a photograph of her holding a mock severed head of President Donald Trump.