Instagram determined that George Lopez’s threat to assassinate President Trump violates the platform’s policy and will delete the comment.
The 58-year-old comedian and actor responded to a post on social media about the Iranian government putting an $80 million bounty on Trump’s head by saying he would “do it for half” of the offer. Lopez was reacting to reports that a eulogist at Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s funeral called for the president’s assassination as payback for the general’s death.
George Lopez just said he’d assassinate President Trump for half of the $80 million dollar bounty.@SecretService should take a look at this.
The Left is sick. pic.twitter.com/hNCsMwOTrV
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) January 5, 2020
The comment violated Instagram’s community guidelines and “will be removed shortly,” a Facebook company spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner on Monday. The spokeswoman declined to answer questions on whether Lopez will lose access to the account either temporarily or permanently. Representatives for Lopez told Fox News the remark was “just a joke.”
Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani after what he described as “very major” and credible intelligence that he was planning to kill Americans in the region. The Iranian military unit Soleimani headed has been designated an official terrorist organization.
