Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has sparked fury after saying there’s ‘always the hope’ Donald Trump will be assassinated.
Olbermann, a longtime media figure in sports and progressive politics, now hosts a podcast and frequently posts his takes on the social media platform.
The ex-SportsCenter host, 65, was reacting to a video posted by a Biden-Harris campaign account where Trump spoke about how he was like former President Abraham Lincoln at an Ohio rally Saturday.
Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the presidents treated worst in their time, adding ‘nobody comes close to Trump’ which led the account to point out the Lincoln was assassinated. ‘There’s always the hope,’ Olbermann said.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann made many furious and called for him to be banned from X after he posted that there’s ‘always the hope’ former President Trump will be assassinated
Many reacted to his comments with rage and a suggestion that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor from the site.
‘This account should be permanently suspended,’ wrote one.
‘Wish of harm is against terms of service of X,’ added another.
A third tagged the X CEO, writing: ‘This should be a ban from Twitter…@elonmusk.’
Olbermann is a former sports reporter who hosted 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 commentary on both social media and in his former life as a TV host and as the author of a book titled Trump is F**king Crazy.
On his old MSNBC show, Olbermann referred to President George W. Bush as a ‘fascist’ and called for him and Vice President Dick Cheney to resign in 2008.
He was also forced to apologize for making a violent metaphor regarding Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the presidents treated worst in their time, adding ‘nobody comes close to Trump’ which led the account to point out the Lincoln was assassinated
Many reacted to his comments with rage and a suggestion that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor 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 opposing President Donald Trump, quitting a more recent stint at ESPN to cover politics again.
More recently, he has called for the likes of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Sean Hannity of Fox News to be ‘removed from society’ for being ‘enablers of Trump.
In 2022, Olbermann said he was in talks with network execs to replace outgoing host Rachel Maddow – who got her start at the network while substituting for Olbermann in 2008 – until she shut the idea down.
Olbermann hosted a nightly show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, at MSNBC from 2003 to 2011, when he abruptly announced his departure live on air.
Maddow was a contributor on the show before she began filling in for Olbermann during his absences in 2008, leading to the debut of her own show that September.
Last year, Olbermann poked fun at Aaron Rodgers after his brutal Achilles injury, claiming the quarterback’s refusal to take the Covid vaccine is to blame.