Comedy Central contributor Stephen Spinola tweeted Friday morning, the morning of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, that his 10-year-old son Barron looks like a “date-rapist-to-be.”
Spinola followed up his now-deleted tweet with a second now-deleted tweet in which he said he hoped Barron would one day rape his mother.
Barron, Donald and Melania Trump (Getty Images)
“I don’t want my Mom to get raped, but if she does I hope it’s by Barron Trump,” he wrote. “Small pp [sic] would be painless and we’d win lots of money in court.”
(Twitter, via The Way Back Machine)
The stand up comedian — and self-proclaimed “Master of Cum” — would go on to apologize Monday morning.
I believe in Math and the stats are saying I made a bad joke. I truly apologize if it hurt Barron Trump’s feelings. And thats all I can say.
— Stephen Spinola (@Mr_McStevie) January 23, 2017
UPDATE (2:00 pm, EST): Comedy Central reached out to the Daily Caller to say that Spinola does not “write” for Comedy Central — despite TheDC’s article never claiming he did and “Comedy Central content contributor” appearing in Spinola’s Twitter bio.
@TocRadio: 1/2 Please be advised Stephen Spinola is not a writer for Comedy Central nor has he ever been employed by Comedy Central.
— Comedy Central Press (@ComedyCentralPR) January 23, 2017
@TocRadio: 2/2 We respectfully request that you update your post to correct that erroneous assertion.
— Comedy Central Press (@ComedyCentralPR) January 23, 2017