President Donald Trump took a shot at ESPN on Friday after one of its hosts called him a white supremacist.
“ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming),” Trump wrote on Twitter. “People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!”
Host Jemele Hill has not apologized to the president after falsely calling him a white supremacist.
“Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists,” she wrote on Twitter.
Hill expressed some regret for making ESPN look bad.
“My comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs,” she wrote on Wednesday. My regret is that my comments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light.”
Hill has still not deleted her tweet:
ESPN also addressed Hill’s comment in a statement.
“The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the President do not represent the position of ESPN,” the network said in a statement, “We have addressed this with Jemele, and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate.”
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called Hill’s comments a “fireable offense.”
“I think that ESPN should probably stick to sports and leave the rest of the news to other networks because that clearly isn’t something that I think they’re very good at on that front,” Sanders said afterward on Fox News, calling the statement “highly inappropriate.”
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