Comedian and actor George Lopez faced backlash online after he posted a comment on Instagram about assassinating President Donald Trump .
The “El Chicano” star wrote “we’ll do it for half” in response to a post that made the unsubstantiated claim Iran had issued an $80 million bounty on Trump following the U.S. assassination of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike last week.
Lopez, a vocal critic of Trump , did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment. A spokesperson played down his post as a joke, according to NBC News.
But people on Twitter led by conservative activists, right-wing radio hosts Wayne Dupree and Mark Levin, Fox Nation personalities Diamond and Silk and disgraced former Fox News host Eric Bolling lambasted the quip.
Many critics called for Lopez to be arrested, and tagged the Secret Service in their posts.
Some social media users, however, accused Lopez’s critics of hypocrisy:
Comedian Kathy Griffin, who drew similar ire in 2017 when she posed for a photo shoot with a fake, bloodied, decapitated Trump’s head, also chimed in:
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