CNN Drops Reza Aslan Over His Vulgar Criticism of Trump -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMJUNE 9, 2017<br />Mr. Aslan, whose program covered global religion and began this year, apologized after his tweets on Saturday, in which he described the president as “an embarrassment to humankind”<br />and compared him, using profanity, to a piece of excrement.<br />CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, has also faced a backlash at another of its units, HBO,<br />because the host Bill Maher used a racial slur during last week’s episode of his show “Real Time.” Mr. Maher apologized the next day.<br />“We wish Reza and his production team all the best.”<br />“In these politically charged times, the tenor of our nation’s discourse has become complicated, and I recognize<br />that CNN needs to protect its brand as an unbiased news outlet,” Mr. Aslan wrote.
