Shannon Sharpe Faces Backlash For Tweet Championing $20 A Gallon For Gas Over Having Trump As President
The following are some of the notable responses that Sharpe’s tweet garnered:
- Nick Searcy, actor: “This is what rich a** kissing leftists like @ShannonSharpe are really like. They don’t give a damn about working people.”
- Greg Gutfeld, Fox News: “Lucky you.”
- Chris Barron, political strategist: “Ah yes s****ing on the poors to own the Trump supporters.”
- Jeff Carlson, political commentator: “Literally the Democrats 2024 campaign slogan.”
- Buzz Patterson, political commentator: “Shannon doesn’t care about poor people.”
- Matthew Betley, political commentator: “Easy to say when you have millions.”
- Gary Sheffield Jr., commentator: “The statement makes sense if you make millions of dollars. Given the average American makes roughly $45K/year, I don’t think this opinion holds up around the country. Hence the approval ratings both CNN and Fox News agree are in the gutter.”
- Jesse Kelly: “Countless men have spent most of their adult lives trying to define communism and in the end it took a racist football player with the IQ of a gerbil to sum it up best.”
- Will Ricciardella, Fox News: “Every conservative on Sunday: let’s watch football! When will Americans understand they’re making people who hate them rich?”
- Caleb Howe, Mediaite: “Can’t … can’t we have neither?”
- Jim Hanson, political commentator: “Rich jacka** fine w/ bankrupting sports fans Because mean tweets give him sadz.”
- John Cardillo, political commentator: “Sharpe here earned $22.3 million in his NFL career, then made $3 million/year at Fox. He can afford the gas. The single mom driving to her second job to feed her kids cannot.”
- Kurt Schlichter, attorney: “Loser.”
- Arthur Schwartz, Republican strategist: “Democrats should adopt this messaging straight through the ‘24 elections.”
- Mike Mason, political strategist: “I’ll take ‘things people with low IQ’s say’ for a thousand, Alex.”