President Donald Trump on Friday morning blasted ESPN and called on the sports network to apologize for its “untruth” in an apparent reference to the anchor who called Trump a bigot earlier in the week.
Under fire from a member of the media, Trump lashed out at ESPN, claiming that its politics have caused its financial decline, a frequent attack line of the President when he feels ridiculed by the press.
ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017
On Monday, ESPN host Jemele Hill published a series of tweets calling Trump a “bigot” and “a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.”
Asked about Hill’s comments Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested the ESPN anchor should be fired over her comments.
Hill then apologized for the way her tweets were portrayed and the network accepted her apology late Wednesday.
It’s comforting to know that the President is devoting all of his energies to solving the problems that face our nation.
The truth sometimes hurts, Donnie.
Dude.
Fair enough. How about a label that has passed Presidential Scrutiny:
Crooked Donnie? Lyin’ Don? Little Trump?
How about Trump the Racist, which is how Trump referred to Obama in a tweet a few years ago?
Groan.
Kelly must have let his guard down or didn’t hide #45’s phone well enough. So much for the “pivot” into “statesman Trump” that the media have been lauding… And the tweet is straight out of the old familiar Narcissist playbook – doesn’t he have a more original attack than falling ratings?