NBC Deletes Tweet About Oprah For President Following Donald Trump Jr. Criticism

NBC has deleted a tweet made during last night’s Golden Globe Awards about Oprah Winfrey for president after Donald Trump Jr. criticized it. The network posted a message to Twitter with a picture of Winfrey after her Golden Globes speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award and captioned it, “Nothing but respect for OUR future president.”

That drew criticism from Trump Jr., who posted the following:

Strange. Seems that @nbc took down there tweet. In case you missed it here it is. pic.twitter.com/gjOXbj3IKO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 8, 2018

NBC released a statement (per TMZ which read, “Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast. It is in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement. We have since removed the tweet.”