The White House has officially weighed in on the controversial (yet truthful) remarks by ESPN anchor Jemele Hill calling Trump a white supremacist on Twitter on Monday—and they want her fired. The Hill reports:
An ESPN anchor that called President Trump a white supremacist should be fired, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday.
“That is one of the more outrageous comments that anybody could make and certainly is something that is a fireable offense by ESPN,” Sanders said.
The employee they’re targeting co-hosts the ESPN show “SC6 with Michael and Jemele.” ESPN already issued a public statement calling Smith’s remarks “inappropriate.”
Let’s put this into perspective. Hill made these remarks on Monday night—and the White House rushed to condemn her and publicly call for her firing less than two days later. Meanwhile, it took Trump much longer to explicitly condemn white supremacists’ deadly activity in Charlottesville—and we still don’t know when (or if) Trump will sign the joint resolution condemning white supremacists.