ESPN's Jemele Hill, who ran afoul of her bosses and the White House last month with tweets on President Donald Trump, has been suspended, the Disney-owned sports media giant's PR department announced Monday on Twitter.
"Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for a second violation of our social media guidelines," ESPN said via its ESPNPR account on Twitter. "She previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down with an impulsive tweet. In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision."
Hill, who co-hosts a late-afternoon weekday edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter" program, came under fire in September when she tweeted on her [at]jemelehill account that President Trump was "a white supremacist," "a bigot" and "unqualified and unfit to be president."
ESPN disavowed those remarks. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called them "fireable offense by ESPN."
