The radically liberal comic is claiming that she has been “un-cancelled” six years after she posed with the simulated severed head of the then-President Donald Trump for a photoshoot, going as far as to allege that “America has determined to forgive” her.
Griffin Claims She’s Been ‘Un-Cancelled’
Griffin, 63, is getting ready to launch her “My Life on the PTSD Record” tour tonight in Des Moines, Iowa earlier than heading to Omaha, Nebraska tomorrow night time. Forward of those exhibits, Griffin advised the Omaha World Herald that she’s spent the previous years attempting to get “un-cancelled,” and that she feels that she’s lastly achieved her objective.
“It’s nearly like America has determined to forgive me,” she mentioned. “And I don’t know why, however I don’t care. I’m simply glad to be again.”
Griffin named her tour “My Life on the PTSD Record” as a result of she bizarrely believes that she is affected by post-traumatic stress dysfunction, one thing that 23% of navy veterans really undergo from, over the fallout from her Trump picture.
“I assumed you need to be like a fight veteran, however apparently you will get PTSD from, you understand, when the president comes down on you and also you’re on the no-fly checklist,” she mentioned.
Griffin went on accountable the Trump picture fallout for the prescription capsule habit that she developed afterwards. She was then recognized with lung most cancers, and whereas she is now most cancers free, she has been left with simply half a lung on her left facet.
“I’ve bought tales,” she mentioned. “(On the present) we’re going to speak about habit and most cancers and all of the loopy stuff I do for my PTSD the place I simply appear like a loopy particular person.”
How enjoyable…not!
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Griffin Claims Her Present Isn’t A ‘Trump Dump’
Griffin added that a lot of her present is improvisational, so she’s not precisely certain the place it can go. Although she has spent the previous couple of years obsessively bashing Trump each likelihood she will get, she claims that her new present is not going to be a “Trump dump.”
“As of now, I don’t even point out Trump in my new present,” she mentioned. “He simply sort of doesn’t come up.”
Given the truth that Trump remains to be dwelling rent-free in her head, nevertheless, that’s a bit exhausting to imagine.
Griffin concluded by expressing her hopes that those that attend her present will maintain an open thoughts.
“Chicks are humorous. Don’t imagine the hype, it’s an outdated wives’ story that they’re not humorous” she mentioned. “I simply need to get on the market and spew as a lot humorous and provides the viewers time, an escape (and) a aid.”
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Griffin Begs Followers To Purchase Tickets
Sadly for Griffin, nevertheless, it seems that she doesn’t have a lot of an viewers left. Earlier this week, she resorted to begging followers to purchase tickets to her present after admitting that they’re “not promoting properly.”
“I’m gonna be trustworthy with you guys. I had one other voice surgical procedure two days in the past, so my voice is sounding higher, I feel. And but, I’ve COVID and I’m heartbroken as a result of I’m getting divorced,” Griffin mentioned in a determined video posted to social media. “It’s all concerning the tour, man. Simply freaking get me to opening night time in Des Moines. And Omaha will not be promoting properly. Initially, there’s not sufficient folks there.”
“I would like comedy followers to come back out and see me in Kansas Metropolis,” she continued. “Come on! I would like sell-outs. I’ve been by hell. I’ve been by a lot crap since my final tour. I really simply should giggle at it. I simply should giggle. So please…”
Within the wake of Griffin’s Trump severed head picture scandal, hundreds of thousands noticed how not humorous she actually is. Griffin can proceed to play the sufferer and mislead herself all she desires to, however judging by her abysmal ticket gross sales, it’s clear that America has not really forgiven her in spite of everything.
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