*Donald Trump came for ESPN in an early morning tweet, calling for the sports network to apologize and claiming that it’s “paying a really big price for its politics.”
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
Trump’s response follows comments from 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” co-anchor Jemele Hill, who called Trump “a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself [with] other white supremacists.” ESPN said that Hill “recognized that her actions were inappropriate,” but White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said her words were a “fireable offense.”
According to Variety, ESPN has seen subscribers loss in the past two years, by 7.4% to fewer than 88 million. Its total viewers fell 19.2% from 2014 to 2016.
As previously reported, Hill said in a statement Wednesday that “my comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs. My regret is that my comments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light. My respect for the company and my colleagues remains unconditional.”
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