ESPN's Sage Steele blasted for complaining about airport protests

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ESPN's Sage Steele blasted for complaining about airport protests
Sage Steele has been on SportsCenter since 2007. Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Bleacher Ball

ESPN's SportsCenter host Sage Steele is in hot water for her latest Instagram post, in which she criticized the thousands who protested Donald Trump's Muslim ban at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday.

Steele, who was traveling to Houston, complained about the traffic and flight delays, claiming the protesters were inconveniencing many travelers' plans.

"I love witnessing people exercise their right to protest!" the post reads. "But it saddened me to see the joy on their faces knowing that they were successful in disrupting so many people's travel plans."

Here's the post, in full:

Considering the widespread outcry surrounding Trump's executive order and the protests that erupted across America, the Internet had quite a bit to say about Steele's post.

Steele has tried to fend off some of the criticism by attempting to clarify her post:

As of Monday afternoon, ESPN hasn't commented. Steele can add her named to the long list of ESPN employees who've said the wrong thing at the perfectly wrong time.

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Jacob is Mashable's Sports Intern. He graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where he studied journalism and served as editor-in-chief of Mustang News, Cal Poly's student newspaper. Some of Jacob's favorite activities include watching baseball, playing music and eating bagels.

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