Hollywood celebrities, comedians, and members of the media continue to struggle to find an outlet for the emotions brought on by Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Most of the time, this involves making hysterical Nazi references, but occasionally it devolves into what some critics have described as “actual violent imagery.”
Monday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, for example, featured a sketch poking fun at White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, and his willingness to go on any show to defend Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration, as well as the president’s allegations of a massive voter fraud conspiracy.
The sketch showed a computer-generated Miller making appearances in a variety of popular television shows, including The Big Bang Theory, The Walking Dead, Stranger Things, and Games of Thrones. The latter clip shows Miller’s head on a pike, yet continuing to talk about voter fraud.
Tuesday morning the president’s friends at The New York Times Tweeted out the image of Stephen Miller’s decapitated head from the Times‘ main Twitter account:
I'm taking a screenshot of this before someone at @nytimes with some sense and decency takes it down. Unreal. pic.twitter.com/Y8ObYETmgD
— THE Chris Coon (@Coondawg68) February 14, 2017
The severed head may remind viewers of the time Game of Thrones was caught putting George W. Bush’s head on a pike in the Season 1 finale. HBO was later forced to issue a public apology, claiming it was an innocent mistake.
Here is the full Late Night clip:
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