- Olbermann was reacting to a speech Trump gave at a rally in Ohio on Saturday
- Trump said he was treated worse than assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- ‘There’s always hope,’ Trump could be too, Olbermann said
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Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann sparked fury after saying there was “always the hope” that Donald Trump would be assassinated.
Olbermann, a longtime media figure in sports and progressive politics, now hosts a podcast and frequently posts his views on the social media platform.
The former SportsCenter host, 65, was reacting to a video posted by a Biden-Harris campaign account in which Trump talked about how much he looked like former President Abraham Lincoln at a rally in Ohio on Saturday.
Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the worst treated presidents of their era, adding that “no one comes close to Trump”, leading the narrative to emphasize that Lincoln had been assassinated. “There is always hope,” Olbermann said.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann infuriated many and called for his ban from X after posting that there was “always the hope” that former President Trump would be assassinated.
Many reacted to his comments with anger and suggestions that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown presenter from the site.
“This account should be permanently suspended,” one wrote.
“The wish to do harm is against X’s terms of service,” another added.
A third tagged the X CEO, writing: “This should be a Twitter ban… @elonmusk.” »
Olbermann is a former sports reporter who anchored ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. He abruptly left MSNBC in 2011 in the middle of a four-year, $30 million contract.
He has a history of outrageous liberal comments on social media and in his former life as a television host and author of a book called Trump is F**king Crazy.
On his old MSNBC On the show, Olbermann called President George W. Bush a “fascist” and called for his resignation, along with that of Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2008.
He was too obliged to apologize for making a violent metaphor about Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the worst treated presidents of their era, adding that “no one comes close to Trump”, leading the narrative to emphasize that Lincoln had been assassinated.
Many reacted to his comments with anger and suggestions that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown presenter from the site.
Olbermann previously hosted The Resistance with Keith Olbermann, a political web series for GQ Magazine that ran from 2016 to 2017 and focused on opposition to President Donald Trump, abandoning a more recent stint at ESPN to cover again politics.
More recently, He called for figures like Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Fox News’ Sean Hannity to be “removed from society” for being “Trump enablers.”
In 2022, Olbermann said he was in talks with network executives to replace outgoing host Rachel Maddow – who got her start at the network replacing Olbermann in 2008 – until she dropped out. ‘idea.
Olbermann hosted a nightly show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011, when he abruptly announced his departure live on air.
Maddow contributed to the show before beginning to fill in for Olbermann during his absences in 2008, leading to the debut of her own show in September.
Last year, Olbermann mocked Aaron Rodgers after his brutal Achilles injury, saying the quarterback’s refusal to take the Covid vaccine was to blame.