T-Mobile’s new CEO tweeted “Bye-bye Tucker Carlson” multiple times this week and said his company will no longer sponsor Carlson’s Fox News show after Carlson made racist comments Monday evening.
In response to angry customers on Twitter, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert tweeted that the company was not currently running ads on the show and wouldn’t be moving forward.
“We aren’t running ads on that show and we won’t be running ads on that showing the future. Bye-bye, Tucker Carlson!” he wrote.
T-Mobile clarified further, saying the company hasn’t run ads on Carlson’s show since May and that it has cancelled “all future placements.”
On Monday Carlson tweeted: “This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will,” echoing racist sentiment against the Black Lives Matter protests that have been held in all 50 US states and around the world, many of which have seen police explode in violence against many peaceful, legal assemblies.
