Debra Messing Apologizes to 'Will & Grace' Fans After NBC Airs Controversial Trump Ad

Debra Messing is apologizing to "Will & Grace" fans Monday after NBC aired an immigration Trump ad that the New York Times reports was "deemed too racist by CNN."

"I want you to know that I am ashamed that my network aired this disgusting racist ad," Messing tweeted. "It is the antithesis of everything I personally believe in, and what, I believe, our show is all about. @nbc."

The actress inlaced a screenshot of the NYTimes' report on the ad with her tweet.

According to the newspaper's reporting:

The 30-second prime-time ad stirred fear of a migrant caravan making its way through Mexico that is still hundreds of miles from the United States border. It tied Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was convicted of murdering two Sacramento sheriff's deputies in 2014, to the thousands of migrants who are fleeing Central America, even though Mr. Bracamontes is not known to be associated with the caravan.

It was a shorter version of an ad that the president shared on Twitter last week, which falsely claimed about Mr. Bracamontes that Democrats "let him into our country" and "let him stay." The network dedicated substantial editorial coverage to the longer ad, sometimes showing clips as anchors and chyrons declared it "racist."

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