Food Network Host Celebrates Father's Day By Taking Shot At Melania, Barron Trump

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In an attempt at humor, a comedian who has had the prestigious job of
hosting the “Halloween Baking Championship” on the Food Network decided
to celebrate Father’s Day by taking a shot at President Trump, with the
collateral damage falling on Trump’s 14-year-old son Barron and Trump’s
wife Melania.

John Henson, (no relation to Jim Henson of Muppets fame) tweeted this
snarky comment on Sunday, implying God-knows-what about the First lady
and her son: “I hope Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad
is.”

I hope Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is.

— John Henson (@John_Henson) June 21, 2020

The Food Network’s bio of Henson notes that he has two children of his
own:

With over 20 years of acting, writing, hosting and producing
credits, John Henson is a veteran of the television industry.
Henson began his professional career as a stand-up comedian,
touring the country before gaining audience attention and
critical acclaim as host, writer and co-executive producer of
E! Entertainment’s Talk Soup. In this role, John won a cult
following, and three Emmy Award nominations.

Over the course of his career, he has also co-hosted and
produced ABC’s Wipeout, Spike TV’s The John Henson Project,
and TV Guide Network’s Watch This. He also starred in FX’s
Anger Management and NBC’s My Name is Earl, and hosted truTV’s
Funniest Commercials specials as well as guest hosted of Who
Wants to be a Millionaire… John resides in Los Angeles with
his wife, son and daughter.

Henson obviously got the performing bug early, according to IMDB: “John
Henson started acting when he was eight years old and tried everything
he could–even singing and dancing. It was at Boston University that he
began performing improvisational comedy. He loved the adrenaline rush
it gave him so he quit school at the age of 20 to do stand-up full
time.”

Henson even had his own production company. It was named Skunk Boy,
Inc.

Henson may have gotten the inspiration for his attempt at humor by
watching MSNBC: last September there was this exchange between host Joe
Scarborough and his wife Mika Brzezinski, as The Daily Wire reported:

Scarborough: “We’re going to have Donald Trump, yesterday, I
think it was yesterday, in the White House, talking about
Melania’s son.”

Brzezinski: “Maybe it is Melania’s son.”

Scarborough: “It is Melania’s son?”

Brzezinski: “Well, that’s what he was saying. He was saying
it was just her son,” referring to President Trump discussing
a ban on flavored vaping products. “It’s not — that’s just
what he said.”

Scarborough: “Let me get back to Biden, because I don’t know
exactly what you’re saying.”

Brzezinski: “It seems that he didn’t remember Barron’s name
or —”

Scarborough: “Just stop, just stop.”

Trump had told reporters, “Vaping has become a very big business as I
understand it, like a giant business in a very short period of time.
But we can’t allow people to get sick, and we can’t have our youth be
so affected. And I’m hearing it, and that’s how the First Lady got
involved. She’s got a son, together, that is a beautiful young man and
she feels very, very strongly about it.”