Keith Olbermann Makes Early Bid For Twitter's Main Character On Election Day, Calls Trump "Whiny Little Kunta Kinte"
As it is Election Day at the end of an administration that has made pretty much everyone on Twitter varying degrees of insane, there were always going to be some incredibly nutso tweets today.
However, Keith Olbermann, a political pundit and sports commentator known for his piping hot takes from the left, may have already claimed the prize for the wildest tweet of the day, tweeting this morning that President Trump has "always been a whiny little Kunta Kinte."
This is an absolutely bananas tweet. Olbermann was responding to a video of Trump complaining to Fox News hosts that the network wasn't as nice to him as he'd like. "Kunta Kinte," however is the fictional protagonist of Alex Haley's novel Roots, later turned into an acclaimed television series in which the character is played by Levar Burton. In the story, Kunta Kinte is a Gambian man who was captured and sold as a slave in North America in the 1700s and resisted the life he was assigned to. A famous scene from the miniseries shows him being whipped until he agrees to stop using the name Kunta Kinte.
The comparison of Trump to this character was, needless to say, mind-boggling, as people expressed their immediate exhaustion with Election Day-Twitter upon reading it.
While many were bewildered trying to suss out what the hell Olbermann meant, some believed they figured it out: Olbermann was trying to call Trump a "cunt," got shy about using the word, and instead went with a vague pun using the name of a black character that has become iconic in American culture.
Olbermann later logged on to say yes, he did mean to call Trump a cunt.
It is going to be a very long day online, everyone.
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Chewybunny
Nov 03, 2020 at 03:48PM EST