Martina Navratilova lashed out at the men’s basketball team coach of Auburn University, Bruce Pearl, for his remarks on former US President Barack Obama. She was furious with Pearl’s claims about Obama dividing the US and vehemently opposed to his statements, which the tennis legend claimed exuded ‘racist’ tones.
Last month, Pearl, who has been coaching the Auburn Tigers since 2014, held the 44th President accountable for his donations to Hamas and blamed him for worsening the conflict in Gaza. During an interview on Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich on OutKick, Pearl touched on that topic and also elaborated on how Obama played a significant role in straining the race relations of the country.
When a clip of making these remarks surfaced on X (formerly Twitter), enraged Navratilova stated that it was extremely low of Pearl to make such a comment and equated him to men who justify r*pe.
Martina Navratilova is her bold self on social media and doesn’t hesitate to call people out on their controversial views. When Donald Trump became the President for the second time, she claimed that the US remains ‘a racist patriarchy’.
