Trump wades into ‘Roseanne’ debacle in swipe at Bob Iger
In his first comments about the Roseanne Barr debacle, President Trump on Wednesday slammed the CEO of Disney, which owns ABC, for not also apologizing to him.
“Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that ‘ABC does not tolerate comments like those’ made by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC,” Trump tweeted.
“Maybe I just didn’t get the call?” he added in a fit of sarcasm.
After ABC pulled the plug on “Roseanne” because of the acerbic comedian’s racist tweets, Iger said on Twitter: “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.”
Jarrett, a former Obama White House adviser who was the subject of some of Barr’s vile tweets, said she received a call from Iger Tuesday informing her about the show’s cancellation.
“Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr tweeted in reference to Jarrett, who is black.
She also linked former first daughter Chelsea Clinton to billionaire George Soros, who she falsely claimed was a Nazi collaborator.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted that Trump was too busy to weigh in on the controversy.
“The president is focused on North Korea, he’s focused on trade deals,” she said aboard Air Force One when asked for Trump’s reactions.