Comedian Kathy Griffin clarified that an old image of herself and President Donald Trump sitting amicably next to each other at an event was, in fact, "not an AI photo."At the start of a video posted to her YouTube channel Tuesday, Griffin claimed that several people had been sending her a picture of herself with Trump, whom she described as "someone I used to know, but now I don’t care to know any longer."Griffin confirmed that the photo was real, adding that she previously had a friendly relationship with Trump.KATHY GRIFFIN STANDS BY BELIEF THAT TRUMP DIDN'T WIN 2024 ELECTION, DESPITE 'TINFOIL HAT' LABELComedian Kathy Griffin confirmed that an old image circulating of herself and Donald Trump was real.(Screenshot/YouTube)"I know, can you f---ing believe it?" Griffin exclaimed.
"There was a time I knew Donald as someone who would show up at the opening of an envelope, and I would sit next to him sometimes, and he’d laugh at my jokes.I’m not glorifying him in his last, final days in any way.
I want to show you that is not an AI photo, and that's why I got the dress out, which I still fit into by the way because that picture's got to be 20 years old."Despite her frequent attacks against Trump, Griffin admitted that she loved one of the images of her, Trump and financial TV personality Suze Orman."It captures the 2000s so much, where I would just run into Donald quite often at events, and he was ever-present," Griffin said.KATHY GRIFFIN SAYS SHE’S MADE ‘TRUMPER FRIENDS’ YEARS AFTER BLOODY TRUMP PHOTO SPARKED OUTRAGEKathy Griffin previously posted an image of herself holding a Halloween mask made to look like the severed head of Donald Trump in 2017.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Out.com)She added, "I just wanted you to know that I’m aware there are many pictures of me with Donald on the internet, and MAGA people love to post them and act like I’m a phony when I acted like I jokingly, Perseus-style, wanted to decapit...