First lady Melania Trump on Wednesday reported actor Peter Fonda's "sick" tweet about her 12-year-old son to the Secret Service, The Daily Caller reports.
"The tweet is sick and irresponsible and USSS has been notified," Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's communications director, told The Hill.
Fonda, who has since removed his tweets, had taken to social media to criticize President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy resulting in children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border after they were detained crossing illegally. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending the process.
"We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will stand up against giant a–hole she is married to," Fonda tweeted early Wednesday morning before deleting it.
He also called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen to be "put in a cage and poked at by" passersby.
Fonda also took a dig at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"Maybe we should take her children away and deport her to Arkansas, and giving her children to Stephen Goebbels Miller for safe keeping," the two-time Oscar nominee said.
Melania Trump has spoken out against the policy.
"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform," Grisham told The Hill on Sunday. "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."
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