Longtime ESPN personality and co-host of the network’s 6 p.m. SportsCenter, Jemele Hill has garnered a lot of negative publicity for controversial comments she made about President Trump earlier this week.
When a reporter asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if the administration was aware of a tweet referring to the president as “a white supremacist,” and had any response to that, Sanders said she did not know if the president was aware, but she said “certainly that is one of the more outrageous comments that anybody could make and is a fireable offense by ESPN.”
Here are Hill’s Trump-themed tweets from Monday and Tuesday:
Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
The height of white privilege is being able to ✌?ignore✌?his white supremacy, because it’s of no threat to you. Well, it’s a threat to me.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
She continued on Tuesday:
He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
Donald Trump is a bigot. Glad you could live with voting for him. I couldn’t, because I cared about more than just myself
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
Some are calling for The Worldwide Leader in Sports to fire Hill, including the outspoken Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis, who has a track record of being quite critical of ESPN.
So @espn suspended Linda Cohn for saying ESPN was talking too much politics. Didn’t suspend Jemele Hill for saying Trump was a racist.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 13, 2017
As well as former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling, currently a columnist for Breitbart after ESPN fired him last year for what higher-ups deemed insensitive social media posts targeting transgender people.
anyone asking. She didn’t get fired ‘cauee disney and ESPN are fine w/liberal racism vs conservative logic. Only naysayers to that are liars
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) September 13, 2017
ESPN released the following statement regarding Hill’s comments:
ESPN Statement on Jemele Hill: pic.twitter.com/3kfexjx9zQ
— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) September 12, 2017
It’s unclear if ESPN will fire Hill or if she will face a suspension in light of her comments.