- Olbermann was responding to a speech Trump gave on Saturday at a rally in Ohio
- Trump said he was treated worse than the assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- “There is always hope,” Trump could be too, Olbermann said
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has angered many people after posting on X that there is “always the hope” that ex-President Trump will be assassinated.
Olbermann, a longtime media figure in sports and progressive politics, now hosts a podcast and regularly posts his opinions on the social media platform.
The ex-SportsCenter host, 65, responded to a video posted by a Biden-Harris campaign account in which Trump talked about how he resembled former President Abraham Lincoln during a rally in Ohio Saturday.
Trump commented on how Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were the presidents who were treated the worst in their time, adding that “no one comes close to Trump,” leading the report to indicate that Lincoln had been assassinated.
“There is always hope,” Olbermann said.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann angered many and called for him to be banned from X after posting that there is ‘always the hope’ that former President Trump will be assassinated
Many reacted angrily to his comments, suggesting that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor from the site.
“This account should be permanently suspended,” one wrote.
“The desire to do harm is against X’s terms of service,” another added.
A third tagged X’s CEO and wrote: ‘This should be a ban on Twitter…@elonmusk.’
Olbermann is a former sportscaster who hosted ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. He left MSNBC abruptly 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 previous life as a TV host and as the author of a book titled Trump is F**king Crazy.
At his old one MSNBC On the show, Olbermann called President George W. Bush a “fascist” and called for him and Vice President Dick Cheney to resign in 2008.
He was too forced 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 presidents who were treated the worst in their time, adding that “nobody comes close to Trump,” leading the report to point out that Lincoln was assassinated.
Many reacted angrily to his comments, suggesting that X CEO Elon Musk ban the former Countdown anchor from the site
Olbermann previously co-hosted The Resistance with Keith Olbermann, a political web series for GQ Magazine that ran from 2016 to 2017 and focused on the opposition to President Donald Trump, before leaving for a more recent stint at ESPN to return to covering politics.
More recently, he called that Supreme Court justices like Amy Coney Barrett and Sean Hannity of Fox News are being “removed from society” because they “enable Trump.”
In 2022, Olbermann said he was in talks with network executives to replace outgoing host Rachel Maddow — who got her start at the network while replacing Olbermann in 2008 — until she dropped the 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 was a contributor to the show before she began filling in for Olbermann in his absence in 2008, leading to the debut of her own show that September.
Last year, Olbermann poked fun at Aaron Rodgers following his brutal Achilles injury, claiming the quarterback’s refusal to take the Covid vaccine is to blame.