A Trump administration official has apologized to Baltimore County resident and journalist April Ryan for comparing her to the plump pink Muppet Miss Piggy.

“I deleted my last tweet by choice,” Lynne Patton wrote on her personal Twitter account.

“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 is administrator of Region II of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees New York and New Jersey.

The apology was issued late Wednesday after Patton deleted a tweet that lashed out at Ryan, the White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, a CNN political analyst and author of the book “The Presidency in Black and White.”

According to CNN, the deleted tweet read: “I hear #MissPiggys still on a rampage. Gee, I must’ve struck a nerve, @AprilDRyan! #BankruptBlogger.”

Neither Patton nor Ryan could be reached immediately for comment.

— Mary Carole McCauley