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If Donald Trump Was A TV Sports Commentator, He’d Be Don Cherry
The similarities extend beyond affection for the thumbs up gesture. One could say they’re cut from the same bigoted cloth.
3 min readNov 16, 2019
If you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume you’ve heard the news about Don Cherry.
Long story short: Don Cherry, a staple of Hockey Night In Canada, and therefore the sport of Hockey in Canada, and therefore Canada, got on his soapbox last week and went on a divisive rant.
He preached the importance of wearing a poppy, then lectured the supposedly-many he’s seen without them. The problem: Cherry started off his monologue by addressing “you people”, which in this case was referring to “you people” in the racial sense and not “you people (who don’t wear poppies).”
Cherry was subsequently fired. (He has since apologized, after initially refusing to do so, and said that he should’ve used “everyone” instead.)
