John Legend & Chrissy Teigen Start Twitter War With Piers Morgan After Muhammad Ali Tweet
On Friday, Muhammad Ali passed away at the age of 74. The news sparked a great deal of social media activity – including a controversial tweet from Piers Morgan.
Muhammad Ali said far more inflammatory/racist things about white people than Donald Trump ever has about Muslims. #fact
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
When the tweet yielded outraged responses, Morgan readdressed the statement.
Why sugar-coat what Ali said or stood for? He never did that to himself, or when speaking of others.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Why would stating that Muhammad Ali made a lot of inflammatory, race-charged statements in his life be remotely controversial? He did.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Ali was a brilliantly inflammatory, imperfect genius in & out of the ring. That’s what made him so irresistible, dangerous & exciting.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Morgan included in his tweets a tribute to Ali from his column on the website Daily Mail, but not before John Legend responded to the following tweet.
I hope people don’t make me sound too perfect when I die.
No coats of sugar please.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
.@piersmorgan you could test us by announcing your retirement.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) June 5, 2016
Chrissy Teigen entered the conversation responding to her husband with:
@johnlegend from what? trolling isn’t a job (I’ve tried)
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 5, 2016
This served as the beginning of a Twitter war between Morgan and Teigen. Morgan fired back with a response to Teigen.
Maybe I should take up a proper job, like modelling? > RT @chrissyteigen: @johnlegend from what? trolling isn’t a job (I’ve tried)
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 6, 2016
@piersmorgan it keeps me nice and not-racist so sure, give it a go.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
I’m not racist either, so that makes two of us. > RT @chrissyteigen: @piersmorgan it keeps me nice and not-racist so sure, give it a go.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 6, 2016
Tiegen references the surprising end of the 1999 film The Sixth Sense.
@piersmorgan remember when Bruce Willis didn’t know he was dead? It’s like that.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
In response to the backlash, Morgan followed up with another post on Daily Mail titled, “Muhammad Ali WAS a racist who repented. Trump ISN’T a racist but he too needs to sing a more tolerant tune.”
In the column, Morgan explains that the initial tweet was prompted by reactions to Donald Trump‘s tribute to Ali. One social media Trump, was being bashed by a “howling mob who believe that Trump’s a racist Hitler-esque Muslim-hater and therefore had to be mocked and abused for his ‘sickening hypocrisy’,” according to Morgan.
He continued, “I didn’t intend to disrespect Ali with my tweet, as many claimed… But I did intend to offer the anti-Trump brigade some historical perspective about their own hero as they vented their collective spleen.”
Morgan defends his original tweets, stating “Frankly, Ali’s statements during his 10-year status as the group’s most famous ‘frontman’ were not just outrageously racist but also anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic.”
The article closes with the idea that Ali was once an extremist who’s ideals evolved over the years and Trump should take heed of this path as he moves into the final lap of the election.
But the column was not enough to end the Twitter feud. Teigen’s and Morgan continued to exchange insults.
You may want to read my new column about Ali & racism, @johnlegend @chrissyteigen -you may learn something.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 6, 2016
@johnlegend @piersmorgan sorry can’t read, just a modell doing modelling
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
troll recognize troll.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
I can’t tweet him anymore. He has fans somehow and they…they aren’t quite “all there”, as they say.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
my newborn just looked up at me and said “mommy, why is piers morgan so unequivocally douchy?” i didn’t know what to say
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
My 4 kids all just looked at me and said: ‘Daddy, who’s Chrissy Teigen?’ https://t.co/vCCEDh6lzq
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 6, 2016
Piers Morgan searches his name every 4.8 seconds.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
Hi, Piers. I know you’re reading this. You unequivocal douche.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 6, 2016
Hi Chrissy. No I’m not, you ludicrous swimwear accessory. https://t.co/3gfelyEyzC
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 6, 2016
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