President Trump buying fast food for the 2019 College Football Playoff National champions is probably racist because football is a “predominately black sport,” according to ESPN’s Molly Qerim.
That’s it, everyone. It’s time to go home. It’s tragic to say, but with the introduction of the idea that only a racist would give a football player a hamburger, we’ve officially exhausted every possible reason to be angry about fast food in the White House. I feel like Alexander the Great after viewing the “breadth of his domain,” weeping, for there are no more worlds to conquer.
ESPN host says @realDonaldTrump was racist to give Clemson football players fast food. This really just happened on @espn air. We’ve got an early lead for wokest take of the year! Video: https://t.co/ZTnMy45GzD
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 16, 2019
Qerim’s very special moment of insight came Wednesday amid a broader discussion regarding the Clemson Tigers’ visit this week to the White House, where they were greeted with a fast food meal that Trump purchased out of pocket (there’s a government shutdown, you know). The White House spread included burgers, pizza, chicken nuggets, fish sandwiches, and French fries. Though the players appeared to appreciate and enjoy the meal, many in our very serious news media felt that the meal represented a direct affront to decency and kindness.
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, for example, said it was terrible that football players were provided with burgers and pizza, calling the meal “disgraceful.”
“It was classless on the part of the president of the United States. I don’t give a damn about White House employees on furlough because of the whole border security issue with the Democrats or whatever. I don’t want to hear all of that,” he said.
Never mind that star Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence said it “was awesome!”
Smith added, “At the end of the day, these are elite athletes that are national champions that put forth an absolutely shocking and stellar performance and this is how you greet them. It was classless, it was wrong to do, he could do better than that, and it’s unfortunate that the leader of the free world, the president of the United States, would choose … that he would choose to conduct himself this way. But are we surprised? Absolutely not.”
In contrast, ESPN’s Max Kellerman downplayed the matter, saying there are much bigger things to be angry about. This is about where Qerim interjected to suggest the meal was also probably racist.
“I don’t know, I guess I took it very differently,” Qerim said. “When I saw him giving the football players — it’s a predominately black sport and fast food, my thought went a very different place.”
Smith liked where she was going with her line of thinking, adding his own conspiratorial note, “One could also make the argument that it falls in line with an abundance of other things that have transpired with this particular individual.”
Things like this ESPN discussion really bolster Rep. Steve King’s, R-Iowa, claim this week that the word “racist” is a “worn out label.” The word has been so badly abused that it is now dangerously close to being a meaningless sound, no different from a grunt.
Accusations of racism should be saved specifically for things that are explicitly racist.
Like Steve King.
