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Piers Morgan has gone into social media meltdown over a lewd picture of himself with American President Donald Trump claiming the BBC had broadcast a “homophobic” cartoon.

The picture, which was shown on BBC Two’s Daily Mash report on Thursday night, hasn’t gone down well with the Good Morning Britain presenter. He was granted the first international broadcast interview with the US president last week.

The cartoon image portrayed Piers putting his face on Donald Trump's bottom.

He took to Twitter and posted: “So we can’t have #gridgirls or #walkongirls because the imagery is ‘demeaning’.

But the publicly-funded BBC can broadcast this about 2 men?”

He then tweeted: “Amusing though this image may be to many people, can you imagine the BBC broadcasting it if the President was Hillary Clinton or the interviewer was a woman?

“The BBC thinks this is OK to broadcast. But if it depicted high profile women, there would be outrage. Why the double standard?"

The Trump/Morgan interview divided audiences, with some congratulating him on forcing an apology from the president for retweeting Britain First, while others mocked Mr Morgan.

Comedian Rufus Hound tweeted: “Bless you for trying. Classic tabloid move. False equivalency.

“There is no equivalent to this. You, a millionaire, middle-aged white man spent twenty minutes fluffing a foolish, racist billionaire on international television.

“We are laughing at you. Specifically at you.”

(Image: ITV)

Meanwhile feminist author and journalist Jennifer Wright wrote: “I hate agreeing with Piers Morgan, and I think he is a revolting toady, but...posting pictures of men engaging in sexual acts with other men to demean them seems dated and unfortunate.

“There are ways to convey this point without the ‘ha ha gay’ overtones at work here.”

Lord Alan Sugar, who has had open Twitter spats with Morgan before, found it highly amusing and tweeted: “I am going to ask my people to get me a blown up framed version of this picture for my office. To me it says it all.”