Peter Fonda apologizes for ‘vulgar’ Barron Trump tweet

Peter Fonda has apologized for a late-night Twitter rant that said 12-year-old Barron Trump should be ripped from “his mother’s arms and put in a cage with pedophiles.”

The all-capitals tweet early Wednesday went on to call President Donald Trump an expletive. Fonda later deleted the tweet and drew sharp rebukes from first lady Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

The actor said in a statement hours later that he was distraught over children separated from families on the U.S.-Mexico border and immediately regretted the remark. But he said he “went too far.”

Donald Trump Jr. called Fonda “a sick individual.”