Piers Morgan blasts Melania for letting Trump give Joe Scarborough's kids hellish life after FLOTUS fights for son

British television presenter and journalist Piers Morgan praised and slammed Melania Trump in the same breath after she fought for her son Barron following Food Network host John Henson's joke about the teen's parentage.

Henson had reportedly said that he hopes "Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is" after President Donald Trump's four other children wished him a happy Father's Day on social media. Shortly after the stand-up comedian's remark, the first lady responded to his Twitter post through her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham.

In a statement to The Daily Caller, Grisham said: "Sadly we continue to see inappropriate and insensitive comments about (President Donald Trump's) son." Melania added through Grisham: "As with every other administration, a minor child should be off-limits and allowed to grow up with no judgment or hate from strangers and the media."

Morgan penned an op-ed on Daily Mail, expressing his sympathies for Barron as he claimed to understand the plight of Melania's son. "As someone with three sons, I know how tricky it can sometimes be for my boys to grow up with a high-profile controversial father. So, I can’t even imagine how hard the past few years must have been for Barron, now 14. He’s had to contend with his father Donald becoming the most powerful, famous, polarising and divisive man in the world. And he’s had to deal with his own life being turned upside down as he was forced to swap freedom for the heavily guarded and frenziedly scrutinized goldfish bowl of the White House," he wrote. 

However, even his support for Barron felt like a jibe at the POTUS as he added that while Barron must feel lucky that he can "invite friends round to see the Oval Office." Morgan suspected that "it’s not so cool to have your father’s every spit, cough, p*ssy-grabbing tape and porn star fling exposed to the world." Nevertheless, the 'Good Morning Britain' co-host applauded the FLOTUS' response to Henson. "I have tremendous sympathy for Barron, and fully understand why his mother Melania has fought back so hard against a comedian’s repulsive trolling of him at the weekend," he wrote. 

He also went on to criticize Henson despite the fact that the latter deleted the tweet and clarified following the backlash, saying "the joke was aimed at Trump and the mere mention of Barron’s name doesn’t mean it’s at his expense."

Morgan said, "What a contemptible thing to say, especially given Henson has two young children himself. When his jibe was met with outrage, Henson pathetically tried to lie his way out the hole... Henson, a 54-year-old man, was deliberately mocking a 14-year-old boy in the cruellest way possible — by inferring his father isn’t his father."

But Morgan did not stop at that. His very next target was Melania herself. "But I would extend that protective shield to the children of numerous other high-profile people who have been targeted with similar judgment and hate thanks to Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades. Take MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough’s four kids. Two of them are just 16 and 12. What do you think their lives have been like for the past few weeks after the President of the United States publicly accused their father of murdering a young woman?" he asked.

Morgan was alluding to the president's tweets from last month where he falsely alleged that "that Scarborough was responsible for the death in 2001 of Lori Klausutis, a staffer who worked for him in a Florida district office in when he was in Congress." Klausutis died after she fell and hit her head on Scarborough's desk at his office. Investigators had already clarified that there was no foul play involved and that she simply had a heart problem and died of natural causes. 

"And Joe Scarborough was proven to be 800 miles away at the time, in Washington DC," Morgan said. "But this hasn’t stopped President Trump pursuing a vile campaign of disinformation to attack Scarborough who has been very critical of his presidency." The journalist then went on to list a number of tweets where the POTUS called Scarborough a "total nut job" and asked "forensic geniuses" to look into the "cold case."

"For the world’s most powerful man to fuel such a disgusting pack of lies just to hit back at a critical TV host is of course unbelievably hurtful to the Klautusis family. But it must also be unbelievably hurtful to Scarborough’s own young children. They have to go to school with other kids thinking their dad’s a murderer, because the President keeps using his massive platform to suggest he is... It’s a despicable abuse of presidential power, and to date, Melania Trump has said nothing about it," Morgan concluded, adding that he would have respected Melania "a lot more if she publicly told her husband, the world’s most notorious Twitter troll, to lay off making Joe Scarborough’s kids’ lives hell too with his shameful lies."