Jemele Hill is not a fan of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson … at least as politics are concerned.
In a recent interview on Fox News, Johnson made it clear that he would not be endorsing President Joe Biden in this year’s presidential election.
Although Johnson stopped short of endorsing any other candidate and opted out of running for president himself this time around, despite previous suggestions, he publicly distanced himself from the current President.
Expressing concern, Johnson stated that endorsing Biden could further divide the United States, a stance he no longer wished to align with.
Jemele Hill did not take too kindly to this report as she responded to the news on “The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz” on Monday.
“Even though he said he was going to keep his ballot to himself, he actually didn’t,” Hill said of Johnson. “Because there’s only one other person who will be the nominee. So unless you plan to write in yourself … you have made your decision that you plan to vote for xenophobia and bigotry and all these other things that you claim to stand against.”
Hill continued,
“If (Johnson) wants to stop the division, then he shouldn’t at all make it seem like he is aligned with the side that is pushing only division,” Hill said. “That’s their entire agenda. They have no policy. The entire thing that they have is to get you to hate somebody else that you perceive is lower on the totem pole than you.”
While she does say that she “loves” Johnson, she labeled his political stance as “political cowardice.”
“I love Dwayne Johnson. During my time at ESPN, if you asked people the No. 1 person when they came through and did the ‘carwash’ who was the best person … in terms of how they interacted with people, how nice they were, it was easily The Rock or No. 2 would be Kevin Hart,” Hill said. “And that’s the kind of frankly political cowardice that’s hard to respect.”
