Comedian Kathy Griffin is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, once again dragging herself into controversy with another grotesque stunt targeting President Donald Trump and other billionaires.
The 64-year-old entertainer shared a TikTok video that showed footage of an artwork showing four severed cloth heads of prominent tech moguls and Trump himself.
The handmade heads, depicted with dripping ‘blood’ at the neck, portray Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the President.
As the camera pans across the four heads hanging on the wall, Griffin appears on screen, tilts her head slightly, and nods with a smirk. Over her head, the text reads: “That’s all.”
@kathygriffin #stitch with @beansmachinestudio For the first time ever…no comment.
“For the first time ever… no comment,” Griffin captioned the clip.
The post is a stark reminder of the comedian’s infamous 2017 photo shoot, in which she posed with a faux severed head resembling President Trump.
The backlash was immediate and intense, resulting in Griffin being fired from her longtime gig co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
This is Kathy Griffin when she posed with Trump's head and this is her now! pic.twitter.com/qwI5GSHXLB
— Ultra MAGA Joyce Day (@Daytobehappy) May 18, 2025
But despite the career fallout and public outrage, Griffin has continued to reference the moment and seems unwilling to leave it in the past.
Earlier this year, she uploaded a YouTube video revisiting the scandal. She took aim at late-night host Stephen Colbert, accusing him of ambushing her during a 2018 appearance on his show.
If you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome(TDS), you are best to get cured in the early stages or you could end up like Kathy Griffin long term. Before and after TDS pic.twitter.com/UNKqWoB4lN
— Kevin Fritts (@kevinfritts7) June 29, 2025
Griffin said she had asked producers not to bring up the decapitated head controversy, only to be blindsided during the taping.
“Colbert kept going and kept going,” she said. “And then the tears came.”
“I just remember thinking, ‘He would not talk down to the guys like this. He just wouldn’t,'” Griffin added.
“He (Trump) broke me” – Kathy Griffin. pic.twitter.com/kWbbyMNCg1
— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) June 29, 2025
The comedian claimed she held back her tears until the cameras stopped rolling.
“I was still smiling and waving, and I could feel them coming down my cheeks,” she recalled.
“I am glad to say not one tear escaped my tear ducts, so I did not cry.”
She also took aim at Colbert’s line of questioning, describing it as a form of bias.
“Wow, [Colbert] has way more of a bias against me and my right to take that photo than I imagined,” she said. “It did not stop him. I did not feel he had any empathy.”
According to Griffin, the experience left a lasting impression about the late-night host.
“I have such a low opinion of Stephen Colbert now,” she stated. “He’s obviously very bright, but man, what a d**k.”
The comedian also accused Colbert of misogyny, asserting that he would never have handled a male guest the same way.
“To me, it was so laced with misogyny. That undercurrent of misogyny where he would probably be shocked to hear that anyone would accuse him of having an ounce of misogyny.”
She recounted how a producer approached her afterward, asking about her tears and attempting to rationalize the host’s behavior.
“He just couldn’t get over the picture. He just can’t get over it,” she was allegedly told.
“What’s for him to get over?” Griffin said in response. “It wasn’t a picture of his decapitated head.”
Kathy Griffin blames the Trump photo controversy for her PTSD and says she had a "suicide attempt," a "pill addiction," and was on a "psych hold for three days."
Imagine what the J6ers are going through for peacefully protesting. Or Douglass Mackey for making a meme. Or pro-life… pic.twitter.com/vEwJ1A2Oum
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) March 29, 2024
Griffin, who has continued to defend her original photo, argued that it fell within her First Amendment rights.
During her appearance on Colbert’s show, she pushed back hard when the host questioned the legality of the image.
“There are limits, though, to what you can say about the President of the United States, having specifically to do with harm against the President,” Colbert said at the time.
“Right, which I did not do,” Griffin replied. “It was a mask. A Halloween mask with ketchup. Where would I get a severed head?”
During her most recent comedy tour, Griffin claimed that it could be her last if Trump sends her to “one of those internment camps.”
In a January interview with Chicago’s WGN radio station, the actress tried to move tickets with the one-liner: “Come see me before I’m in one of those internment camps.”
“I’m on the enemies list. That’s very obvious,” she claimed. “He was very, very scared when I did a parody photo of him and a Halloween mask and a lot of ketchup. And he brings up my name every chance he gets.”
Earlier this month, Griffin told ex-CNN host Don Lemon that she didn’t believe Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election fairly.
“I am just going to be bold and say this. You know, you can take issue with this all you want,” she claimed on Lemon’s podcast. “I do not think he won in a free and fair election. How do you like that, lefties?”
“Yeah, I said it. I’m Kathy Griffin, and I do not think Trump won in a free and fair election,” she continued.
“I believe there was tampering. I don’t know if it was the Elon connection? I don’t know if it was just a few good old boys in the South.”
Watch Griffin’s appearance on “The Don Lemon Show” here: