Sean Hannity tweets that President Obama's portrait is sexually explicit -- then deletes it hours later

UPDATE 11/14/2018: Sean Hannity has issued a response: "Earlier today my web staff posted content that was not reviewed by me before publication. It does not reflect my voice and message and, therefore, I had it taken down."

There's been a lot of talk about President Obama's newly-unveiled portrait -- but few critics were as disgusted as Sean Hannity, who somehow managed to find it sexually explicit.

The image features Obama wearing a dark suit and sitting in a wooden chair, a wall of flowers and greenery in the background. Hannity quickly racked up more than a thousand retweets by asserting that the painting includes "inappropriate sexual innuendo."

He then linked to an article on his website: "PORTRAIT PERVERSION: Obama portrait features 'Secret Sperm.'"

But hours later, after making waves on social media, Hannity apparently had a change of heart, deleting not only the tweet but also the entire web page.

Hannity has not yet addressed the deleted tweet -- or whether he really does believe that it features hidden imagery of semen.