Appearing on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers Tuesday, aired early Wednesday morning, left-wing comedian Kathy Griffin portrayed herself as a victim of political persecution by claiming that the Trump administration put her through the “Colin Kaepernick wood chipper” after she was widely condemned for posing in pictures depicting a mock beheading of the President.

Meyers raised the infamous photo that sparked a widespread backlash against Griffin: “Now, so let’s talk again about this photo. Obviously, you know, you have a mask, a Trump mask....it looks like you’re holding up a severed head. But no one thought it was a real severed head.” Griffin recalled that “things got so crazy that day” and touted how her disgusting display inspired her new comedy tour:

And it got so crazy I really did start to think, “I’ve got to make this funny.” And so someone named Jim Carrey called me.... And he said the greatest thing, he goes, “Kathy, you’re the most famous comedian in the world today.” And I’m sobbing, “All for the wrong reasons.” He goes, “No, use it.” And so now I’m naming the tour – and I’ll be playing Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall – at the Kathy Griffin Laugh Your Head Off world tour.

Following cheers and applause from the friendly liberal audience, Meyers sympathized with her, but gently wondered if she had any regrets about the offensive incident: “So, I do want to – so, in no way was it a proportional response, but do you look – I mean obviously it was done to provoke and then you successfully provoked. Do you look back at all and say, ‘Oh, gosh. There was a better photo to take, or not this one’?”

Not surprisingly, Griffin admitted that she “didn’t really think about it” at the time and went on to explain her motivation:

So I was triggered. I admit it triggered. Triggered snowflake. [Laughter] And so, I wanted to shame him. I wanted to shame him. He’s such a misogynist and his policies are so disgusting. And for the rights of women, and LGBT folks, and people of color. I was like, “This guy’s going down.”

After pretending to decapitate the President of the United States in manner reminiscent of ISIS terrorists, Griffin whined over the predictable blowback that she received: “I didn’t know I was just part of the Trump, like, wood chipper....what he did to me, I just want you guys to know, it’s historic, it’s never happened, where, a sitting United States president has used the power of the Oval Office, the First Family...”

Upon mentioning the First Family, Griffin decided it was time to hurl a vile insult at Trump’s children: “...oh, that group, let’s not start with the sons, Date Rape and Eddie Munster.” The audience laughed in response.

She continued her tirade by suggesting that she was the victim of a vast organized conspiracy:

Alright, so, you know, and then the Fox News machine, and TMZ was recording my tour cancellations in real-time because of bomb threats, which I later found out were robocalls. Like, I honestly didn’t know they had this apparatus already in place. So, they just kind of put me in, like, the Colin Kaepernick wood chipper.

Referring to Fox News, she added: “And they bring me up on Fox, like, whenever it’s Mueller time. You know, they bring me up. They bring up, you know, Maxine Waters. Like, so I’m now just in there group of people to go for.”

Meyers noted: “And what was – you were doing your show overseas.” Griffin interjected: “Well, I wasn’t. I was driven overseas, frankly.” She gleefully described how she planned her foreign comedy tour: “And so, yeah, I called my stand-up agent and I said, ‘This is a weird way to route a tour, but can you just send me to countries where they hate Trump?’ Two weeks later, I had 15 countries and 23 cities. So, it was heaven. It was heaven.”

Wrapping up the friendly exchange, Meyers proclaimed: “I’m so happy you’re doing shows here again. I look forward to seeing how they go....I’m glad to see you’re doing well and thanks so much for coming back.”

At the top of the segment, Meyers teed up Griffin to share her experience attending Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the nasty performance from fellow comedian Michelle Wolf. Predictably, Griffin ran to Wolf’s defense and blamed White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for the negative reaction to the routine:

I mean, I was nervous because obviously the fact that Trump didn’t go because he’s such a pussy. And he couldn’t even take a joke....Now, what happened was Michelle started her set and then that pain in the ass Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who, like, lies to the country every single day and bullies reporters and is tearing away at the fabric of the First Amendment, the one I know the best. [Laughter] Anyway, so, she’s sitting there with her, you know, pissy face....and so what happened is the other people on the podium were giving her a look as if she was bombing, and she wasn’t. So, it’s kind of like a virus. So, the first section gets uncomfortable, then the middle section.

Here are excerpts of the interview aired early in the morning on May 5: