AprilDRyan ಮರುಟ್ವೀಟಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ 🇺🇸 Lynne Patton 
 
 Kick rocks little girl. Find a job! @ LynnePatton I ain’t the one! Girl bye. Blogger girl I do news. What do you do? Do you work at HUD or play at it you washed up wedding planner. Girl bye!https://twitter.com/lynnepatton/status/956314866968559617 … ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Trump campaign surrogate who now holds a job in the administration is apologizing after attacking a reporter on her personal Twitter account. 
 
 Lynne Patton, who heads a regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, referred to reporter April Ryan as "Miss Piggy" in a tweet Wednesday. Ryan is the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and frequently appears on CNN. 
 
 Patton later tweeted, "Tonight, I made an inexcusable comment on my personal Twitter account that I deeply regret & deleted on my own volition." Patton is apologizing to Ryan, HUD Secretary Ben Carson and the "#trump family." 
 
 Patton was an event planner for Donald Trump and his family before his 2016 presidential campaign. ||||| Tweet with a location 
 
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 Lynne Patton, who was an event planner before taking the government job, issued the insult during a vicious Twitter spat with American Urban Radio’s April Ryan. 
 
 “I hear #MissPiggys still on a rampage,” read the since-deleted tweet by Patton over an unflattering image of Ryan. “Gee, I must’ve struck a nerve.” 
 
 Patton — a longtime Trump family friend — had earlier tweeted numerous gifs at Ryan with captions referring to the reporter as a “bankrupt blogger.” 
 
 Ryan, who has endured multiple bouts with White House officials, took a shot at Patton for her lackluster resume. 
 
 “Do you work at HUD or play at it you washed up wedding planner,” Ryan tweeted at the HUD official. 
 
 After deleting the “Miss Piggy” tweet, Patton posted a statement. 
 
 “I deleted my last tweet by choice,” she wrote. 
 
 “No one from this Administration contacted me. It was beneath me & I apologize to @AprilDRyan. My parents raised me to respect others & I regret my response. I apologize to them, @SecretaryCarson & the Trump family. They deserved better.”
– A former Trump campaign surrogate who now holds a job in the administration is apologizing after attacking a reporter on her personal Twitter account. Lynne Patton, who heads a regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, referred to reporter April Ryan as "Miss Piggy" in a since-deleted tweet Wednesday. Ryan is the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and frequently appears on CNN, reports the AP. The New York Post reports the "Miss Piggy" slight came after a bunch of jabs back and forth between the two. Patton had tweeted a series of gifs (featuring the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Ryan Gosling) directed at Ryan, whom Patton referred to as a blogger for a "bankrupt outlet." Ryan fired back with this: "Do you work at HUD or play at it you washed up wedding planner. Girl bye!" Then came the tweet in which Patton wrote, "I hear #MissPiggys still on a rampage. Gee, I must’ve struck a nerve." Patton later tweeted, "I deleted my last tweet by choice. No one from this Administration contacted me. It was beneath me & I apologize to @AprilDRyan. My parents raised me to respect others & I regret my response. I apologize to them, @SecretaryCarson & the Trump family. They deserved better." Patton was an event planner for Donald Trump and his family before his 2016 presidential campaign.