On Monday, Jamele Hill, an anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter, tweeted that President Trump "is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists," among other criticisms of the president, and Washington Post reporter David Nakamura asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about the tweets on Wednesday afternoon. Sanders said she is not sure if Trump was aware of the tweets, "but I think that's one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make, and certainly something that I think is a fireable offense by ESPN."
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