Dave Portnoy has problem with controversial Donald | Sports News

Dave Portnoy hit back at President Donald Trump’s immigration coverage whereas offering his two cents on the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Since voting for Trump within the 2024 Presidential Election, Portnoy has disagreed with the 78-year-old on a multitude of topics, together with his administration’s handling of signal-gate and implementation of tariffs final month.

Now, Portnoy has taken situation with the developing state of affairs involving Garcia – a U.S. citizen who was wrongly deported to a jail in El Salvador earlier this 12 months regardless of a choose beforehand blocking his return to the nation in 2019. The Trump administration acknowledged in court docket filings that an “administrative error” was accountable for the mishap involving the alleged MS-13 member.

While making an look on ‘The Megyn Kelly Show,’ Portnoy took situation with the truth that Garcia was deported with no due course of. “You [could deport] about 1,000, and if you just pick the wrong guy once, with no due process, nothing, that’s a major issue,” he mentioned.

“Say they’re an illegal but they’re a great person and they’re actually contributing, to me just picking them up and getting rid of them… I’d have a problem with that. [I want them to have] some due process,” Portnoy continued. “When you’re doing it mass, you just can’t ever make a mistake.”

In current weeks, Garcia has grow to be a foremost speaking level within the ongoing discourse surrounding The Trump administration’s deportations. Whereas Republicans see him as a gangster who’s been accused by his spouse of beating her, Democrats view him as a legal citizen who was wrongly despatched to jail.

Portnoy, for one, doesn’t consider that Garcia ought to be used as a “poster boy” for the Democrats’ pro-immigration agenda. “The Democrats constantly… this is an issue [I can see] the logic behind. But you’re not being sincere when this is your poster child,” he mentioned.

“Take out politics, you see this story a lot… do you want him to be your next-door neighbor? Or do you want him out of the country?”

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This is hardly the primary time that Portnoy has butted heads with Trump. Earlier this week, the Barstool Sports founder known as him out for refusing to shoulder the blame for the United States’ shrinking economic system.

On Wednesday, a Commerce Department report revealed that US gross home product contracted 0.3% within the first quarter of the 12 months – marking the primary financial shrinkage within the United States since 2022.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump insisted that the alarming trend was brought on by the Biden administration. “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th,” he wrote.

“Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers… This has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS.”

Yet Portnoy was having none of it, reposting the message on X alongside the caption: “What’s that old expression? Don’t p— down my back and tell me it’s raining? Well that applies here. The stock market is a direct reflection of Trump’s 1st 100 days in office. Doesn’t mean it won’t get better… but this is his market not Biden’s.”