ESPN made a lot of liberals sad during last night’s College Football Playoff national title game Monday night.
At halftime of the championship bout between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Ohio State Buckeyes, the halftime crew took a break of their normal football analysis to broadcast a message played by a certain individual that makes a lot of people happy, and a lot of other quite unhappy. That person was Donald J. Trump, who is now the 47th President of the United States as of Monday afternoon.
Here’s the roughly 90-second message that ESPN played:
ESPN played a video message from President Donald Trump during halftime of the CFP National Championship Game. pic.twitter.com/mWpQjjH9Ko
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) January 21, 2025
We are so back, people.
Don’t lose sight of how insane it is that ESPN, of all networks, broadcasted this. After all they’ve done to champion woke causes and spew anti-Trump rhetoric in recent years, airing a message from someone the left's deemed a Nazi must have broken the feeble liberal brains of everyone in the production room.
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Of course, seeing Trump sent countless libs on X into a frenzy, causing many to shout in outrage that they would dare show his face on a broadcast.
Whyyyy did @espn give Trump airtime during the National Championship Game??? WTF WAS THAT??? pic.twitter.com/ZcrWZLBw2z
— DJ Commish (@djcommish) January 21, 2025
GET THIS PIECE OF SHIT OFF MY TV DURING FOOTBALL.
— Scotty Fox (@DJScottyFox) January 21, 2025
FUCK DONALD TRUMP@ESPNCFB @espn
It was totally unnecessary by the @ESPN suits. I can't for the life of me figure out why they did this.
— alan segel (@anmis) January 21, 2025
This is Dictatorship 101. Taking over all forms of media to spread lies & disinformation.
— Alex Alvarez (@iamalexalvarez) January 21, 2025
Look, I’m not saying I want to see Trump’s face on every national sports broadcast from here on out, that would be ridiculous. And I do generally want politics to be kept out of sports. But this was a situation where it made sense to break that rule. After all, Trump had just been inaugurated a mere nine-ish hours before that segment, so seeing this mini-address to the people makes sense.
But don’t tell that to the liberals. They’re probably still seething about this video.
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Defund PBS.
— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) January 21, 2025
Defund NPR.
Sell-off all their assets and give the money back to the U.S. Treasury.
Stop wasting our tax dollars on malicious lies.
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