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Far-left pundit Keith Olbermann apologized after he shocked Twitter on Tuesday by comparing President Donald Trump to “Kunta Kinte,” a fictional slave from the 1976 novel and 1977 TV miniseries “Roots" -- and a lot of people seem to think the lefty broadcaster is racist for making the remark.
“Yes @realDonaldTrump has always been, will always be, and on the day of his bid for re-election, still is: a whiny little Kunta Kinte,” Olbermann tweeted in response to a clip from Trump’s Election Day interview on “Fox & Friends.”
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According to Dictionary.com, “Kunta Kinte is also used as a derogatory name for an African person who has recently immigrated to a new place.”
It’s difficult for Democrats and Republicans to find common ground on Election Day, but it see
Far-left pundit Keith Olbermann shocked Twitter on Tuesday by comparing Trump to “Kunta Kinte,” a fictional slave from the 1976 novel and 1977 TV miniseries “Roots.” (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
ms that Olbermann managed to accomplish the feat with his bizarre tweet.
He was condemned from both sides for the reference. Journalist Tim Pool simply wrote, “Keith Olbermann is a racist,” while the Daily Caller noted “Olbermann wins the prize for first awful tweet of Election Day.”
Others took to Twitter to blast Olbermann for his tweet:
Olbermann eventually apologized after the backlash and claimed he wasn’t being racist, but was actually attempting to be vulgar instead.
“Just logged back in: I apologize for my previous subtweet of this. I was using an old 70's-80's technique for calling somebody a c*** without writing/saying c***, just using a sound-alike to call Trump a c*** Deleting previous, largely because this one clarifies the c*** part,” Olbermann wrote.
Olbermann burst on the scene in the early 1990s as a wildly popular anchor of ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” but moved on to politics and hosted a far-left opinion show on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011. He then bounced around the industry and anchored an anti-Trump online program for GQ, “The Resistance,” and authored a book titled, “Trump is F*--ing Crazy: (This is Not a Joke).”
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He was widely criticized when his anti-Trump book featured a cover image of himself draped in the American flag, which is visibly touching the ground – a violation of U.S. flag code.
Olbermann wrote in November 2017, when he announced he would walk away from his anti-Trump GQ program: “I am confident now, even more so than I have been throughout the last year, that this nightmare presidency of Donald John Trump will end prematurely — and end soon."
He re-joined ESPN in 2018 and managed to refrain from bashing Trump on the sports network until leaving last month so that he could, once again, condemn the president.
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