Piers Morgan defends viral tweet about ‘global laughing stocks’ Harry and Meghan

Meghan Markle stepped out with the royal household for the primary time since she spectacularly trashed them in entrance of the world and Oprah Winfrey — and The Submit’s Piers Morgan was watching carefully.

The outspoken British commentator — who has lengthy been a vocal critic of the previous “Fits” star — took to Twitter to share a snarky joke about Markle’s royal return, which shortly blew up on-line.

Morgan compiled a sequence of viral pictures exhibiting younger Prince Louis wincing and screaming on the Buckingham Palace balcony, earlier than sassily tweeting: “Is that this when Aunty Meghan arrived?”

The tweet shortly racked up greater than 17,000 likes, with many individuals praising Morgan for saying what they had been pondering.

“The large response to my tweet completely summarizes public opinion to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” Morgan informed The Submit on Friday. “Most individuals laughed as a result of they’re now world laughing shares in any case their hypocritical money-grabbing royal-bashing antics.”

Nevertheless, the host of the brand new world TV present, “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” added: “However Meghan and Harry’s dwindling variety of humorless deluded woke followers had been triggered into fury, but once more, as a result of they genuinely imagine the Sussexes are the world’s largest victims. This perception, like my tweet, is hilarious.”

Piers Morgan went viral on social media Friday after using images of Prince Louis in a tweet shading Meghan Markle.
Piers Morgan went viral on social media Friday after utilizing pictures of Prince Louis in a tweet shading Meghan Markle.
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Among the many peanut gallery quips on Twitter: “The entire of the UK extra like!” one particular person wrote, claiming all Brits had the identical dramatic response to Markle.

“They bought booed going into the service. Hope that’s on Netflix,” one other chimed in, referencing the frosty reception Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, acquired at an occasion at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Certainly, some did take problem with Morgan for singling out Markle in the course of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, given his lengthy historical past of criticizing the duchess.

“Of all of the issues that might have been posted on a day of celebration and folks coming collectively, you select this. Why the necessity for such nastiness?!” a Twitter consumer requested.

“I knew you couldn’t go 4 days with out mentioning Meghan. However I assumed you’d at the least chorus the primary time out of respect for the Queen,” one other sniped.

Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, are pictured in London on Friday. It was the primary time Markle has seen many royal relations nose to nose since her bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview in March 2021.

Morgan and Markle had been as soon as on pleasant phrases, with the pair as soon as ingesting collectively in a British pub again in 2016.

“We spent two hours in a pub, she had a few soiled martinis, I had a few pints, we bought on brilliantly,” Morgan defined again in 2018. “After which I put her in a cab, and it turned out to be a cab which took her to a celebration the place she met Prince Harry. And the following night time they'd a solo dinner collectively, and that was the final I heard from Meghan Markle.”

“She ghosted me,” Morgan then acknowledged. “Meghan Markle ghosted me.”

Piers Morgan.
Piers has lengthy been skeptical of Markle’s motives after she “ghosted” him in 2016.
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The Submit columnist has since been skeptical of the star’s motives, and slammed her after she trashed the royal household in her Oprah Winfrey interview final yr.

Throughout that sensational sit-down, the actress — who's biracial — leveled accusations of racism at one unnamed member of the royal household, saying there have been “issues about how darkish” her son Archie’s pores and skin can be.

She additionally claimed she had suicidal ideas whereas residing within the UK and finishing up duties as a working member of the royal household.

Morgan subsequently scoffed at Markle’s declare that her psychological well being was struggling, and infamously stormed off the set of “Good Morning Britain” after a colleague criticized him for failing to imagine her assertions.

Morgan refused to apologize for his remarks and was let go from the top-rated morning present. He has since bounced again along with his personal present, “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

In the meantime, Prince Louis turned the bona-fide star of Thursday’s Trooping the Color occasion, which kicked off Queen Elizabeth II’s four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

The 4-year-old was caught on digicam making a sequence of exaggerated facial expressions as he joined his household on the Buckingham Palace balcony amid enormous cheers from the group on the Mall.

The snaps — which had been utilized by Morgan for his tweet — had been beamed world wide, and impressed a sequence of hilarious memes.

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