UPDATE with statement from Sony Pictures Classics: The studio releasing Boundaries released a statement to Deadline regarding Peter Fonda’s tweet outrage over the Trump administration’s policy of separating undocumented children from their families at the southern U.S. border. Sony Pictures Classics said: Peter Fonda’s comments are abhorrent, reckless and dangerous, and we condemn them completely. It is important to note that Mr. Fonda plays a very minor role in the film. To pull or alter this film at this point would unfairly penalize the filmmaker Shana Feste’s accomplishment, the many actors, crew members and other creative talent that worked hard on the project. We plan to open the film as scheduled this weekend, in a limited release of five theaters. Fonda has apologized for the tweets, which have since been deleted. PREVIOUS: Actor Peter Fonda, who’s furious over the Trump administration’s policy of separating undocumented children from their families at the southern U.S. border, has apologized for a tweet which said Americans upset with the policy, “should rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles.” Hours later, after President Trump signed an executive order mandating that children and parents who enter the U.S. illegally be detained together, Fonda issued an apology. “I tweeted something highly inappropriate and vulgar about the president and his family in response to the devastating images I was seeing on television,’ Fonda said in the statement which was reported by several media outlets. “Like many Americans, I am very impassioned and distraught over the situation with children separated from their families at the border, but I went way too far. It was wrong and I should not have done it. I immediately regretted it and sincerely apologize to the family for what I said and any hurt my words have caused.” Stephanie Grisham, a spokesperson for first lady Melania Trump told DailyMail.com that Fonda’s tweet was “sick and irresponsible” and that the U.S. Secret Service had been notified. In his earlier tweetstorm the Easy Rider actor also said “we should hack the system” and “get the addresses of ICE agents” to ‘surround their homes’ and “find out what schools their children go to and surround the schools.” Calling President Trump a “f****** monster’, he added: “We need to scare the f*** out of [border agents]! Need to make their children worry now.” Fonda has since deleted the tweets. The actor was nominated for a best original screenplay Oscar for Easy Rider and received another nomination for best actor for Ulee’s Gold.<doc-sep>Peter Fonda is apologizing for his tweet which suggested Barron Trump be put in a cage with pedophiles in response to his father's zero-tolerance border policies. The "Easy Rider" star and 78-year-old brother of Jane Fonda says he has been "distraught" over immigrant children separated from their families but he "went way too far" in targeting Barron, who is 12. Early Wednesday the actor tweeted an all-caps missive that declared "we should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will stand up against the massive (expletive) she is married to," he wrote. But Fonda later deleted the tweet and apologized. More:Willie Nelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Kimmel rail against Trump's immigration policy “I tweeted something highly inappropriate and vulgar about the president and his family in response to the devastating images I was seeing on television,” Fonda told USA TODAY in a statement sent by his rep, Monique Moss. “Like many Americans, I am very impassioned and distraught over the situation with children separated from their families at the border, but I went way too far. It was wrong and I should not have done it. I immediately regretted it and sincerely apologize to the family for what I said and any hurt my words have caused.” Joseph A. Casey, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, said that his agency is aware of Fonda's tweet but declined to comment, citing their practice of not commenting on matters of intelligence regarding protectees. Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for first lady Melania Trump, Barron's mother, told The Associated Press the tweet was "sick and irresponsible." Barron's half-brother Donald Trump Jr., swung back on Twitter and called Fonda a "sick individual." The president's eldest son continued, "but rather than attack an 11 year old like a bully and a coward why don’t you pick on someone a bit bigger. LMK." (Barron turned 12 on March 20.) In a follow-up tweet, Trump Jr. asked for Sony Pictures to drop the actor from "Boundaries," a new film due out on Friday. "I wonder if they will apply the same rules to @iamfonda that they did to @therealroseanne," he wrote. Sony Pictures Classics did respond to the Fonda controversy by Wednesday night, calling his comments "abhorrent, reckless and dangerous," but said they wouldn't drop Fonda from their film. In a statement, the studio said Fonda has "a very minor role" and to "pull or alter this film at this point would unfairly penalize the filmmaker Shana Feste’s accomplishment, the many actors, crew members and other creative talent that worked hard on the project. We plan to open the film as scheduled this weekend, in a limited release of five theaters.” Roseanne Barr on racist tweet:'It was about anti-semitism' Meanwhile, President Trump, facing a national outcry, signed an executive order Wednesday designed to keep migrant families together at the U.S.-Mexico border, abandoning his earlier claim that the crisis was caused by an iron-clad law and not a policy that he could reverse. As of Wednesday, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents at the border as a result of the policy. What we know: Trump signs executive order to end immigrant family separations More: Willie Nelson, Ellen DeGeneres rail against Trump's immigration policy Contributing: Doug Stanglin<doc-sep>
WASHINGTON — Peter Fonda has apologized for what he says was a “vulgar” tweet that attacked the administration over the family separation policy. First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director, Stephanie Grisham, confirmed that the Secret Service had been contacted about Fonda’s tweet. “I tweeted something highly inappropriate and vulgar about the president and his family in response to the devastating images I was seeing on television,” Fonda said in a statement. “Like many Americans, I am very impassioned and distraught over the situation with children separated at the border, but I went way too far. It was wrong and I should not have done it. I immediately regretted it sincerely apologize to the family for what I said and any hurt my words have caused.” In all caps, Fonda tweeted that “We should rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if his mother will stand up against the giant ass—- she is married to.” He then deleted it. Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that ends the family separation policy, reversing a position he took earlier in the week that stopping the practice would take congressional action. Outrage over the policy grew over the weekend and in recent days, and even some Republicans called for the White House to end it. Donald Trump Jr. condemned the remarks, and wrote, on Twitter, “As an FYI Sony Pictures has a movie with him dropping in a few days. I wonder if they will apply the same rules to @iamfonda that they did to @therealroseanne. I have a strange suspicion that they wont do anything. Please RT, we deserve an answer!” As an FYI @SonyPictures has a movie with him dropping in a few days. I wonder if they will apply the same rules to @iamfonda that they did to @therealroseanne. I have a strange suspicion that they wont do anything. Please RT, we deserve an answer! https://t.co/j38NnlJKn7 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 20, 2018 The movie is “Boundaries,” and Sony Pictures Classics said that it has no plans to pull the movie. “Peter Fonda’s comments are abhorrent, reckless and dangerous, and we condemn them completely,” the distributor said in a statement. “It is important to note that Mr. Fonda plays a very minor role in the film. To pull or alter this film at this point would unfairly penalize the filmmaker Shana Feste’s accomplishment, the many actors, crew members and other creative talent that worked hard on the project. We plan to open the film as scheduled this weekend, in a limited release of five theaters.”