For individuals like WNBA analyst Rebecca Lobo, any dialogue of American greatness has been derailed by issues of sounding like President Trump. Ms. Lobo apologized throughout an ESPN broadcast on Sunday for saying “what makes America nice.”
“I disagree with them, and that’s superb,” Lobo mentioned to her broadcast associate after a foul name throughout a recreation between the Las Vegas Aces and the Indiana Fever. That’s what makes America nice, proper, Pam Ward?”
The remark, which echoed Mr. Trump’s “Make America Nice Once more” slogan, was met with silence from Ms. Ward.
Lobo finally backtracked.
“I ought to rephrase that,” she mentioned.
“I did suppose ’variations of opinion’ are completely superb,” Ward replied.
The Aces went on to defeat famous person Caitlin Clark and the Fever 89-81.
Mr. Trump has had a contentious relationship with the WNBA all through his two presidential phrases. He has not invited any WNBA champions to the White Home, an occasion that was customary earlier than he took workplace for the primary time in 2017.
The WNBA’s gamers, who’re predominantly Black and sometimes liberally minded, have usually bristled towards Mr. Trump’s conservative insurance policies. On Saturday night time, New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud criticized the U.S. army’s aerial strikes on Iran.
“A tragic, unhappy day,” she posted on X. “Grounds for impeachment.”
