Following Roseanne Barr's racist tweet, Donald Trump finally broke his silence earlier today. As per usual, the president had to make the whole controversy about himself. President Donald Trump is clearly very upset that Roseanne never apologized for "the most horrible things" she said about him.
In his tweet, Trump addressed Disney chief executive Bob Iger, who apologized to African-American, former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett after Barr's Monday night tweet saying that Jarrett looks like "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby."
"Disney is the parent company of ABC TV network, which on Tuesday dropped the rebooted '90s sitcom 'Roseanne' amid a ferocious online backlash against its star," BBC reports.
Apparently, after a storm of conflicting tweets over the course of the last couple of days, Roseanne Barr said she was considering fighting back after her show was canceled. ABC had renewed it for a second season until the Jarrett tweet.
A spokesman for Viacom, which owns various networks including Paramount, earlier said it would stop airing old episodes of Roseanne, BBC reports. Similarly, Hulu announced it would be removing the series from its streaming services.
Roseanne Barr's revived show's premiere a couple of months ago pulled attracted over 25 million people.
Source: bbc.com
