#Roommates, earlier this week Jemele Hill tweeted that Donald Trump was a white supremacist! Her tweet didn’t sit well with Donnie and White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, who said that Jemele should’ve been terminated for the tweet. What’s interesting about this is that ESPN tried to take Jemele off of the air on Wednesday, but her co-host Michael Smith wasn’t having it. He refused to do the show without her, according to the NY Post.
The network reportedly tried to diffuse the situation by replacing her with another black sports anchor, Elle Duncan, but she stood by her fellow colleague and turned down the offer.
At one point producers were about to drop both Hill and Smith for ESPN host Michael Eaves, but he said hell to the naw as well.
“Man this day got me like…,” Eaves tweeted.
The network claims this never happened though!
“Yesterday was a hard and unusual day, with a number of people interpreting the day without a full picture that happened,” said Rob King, the senior vice president for news and information of SportsCenter.
“In the end, ultimately, Michael and Jemele appearing on the show last night and doing the show the way they did is the outcome we always desired.”
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said, “We never asked any other anchors to do last night’s show.”
Donnie on the other hand is still waiting for ESPN to take some affirmative action.
He tweeted, “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!”
