Curt Schilling suggested in a trending Esquire magazine interview posted online Thursday that he could be running for president after a second Donald Trump term, pointing out his social media instincts already were "Trumpian-like."
The retired Major League Baseball pitcher – who won World Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks and twice with the Boston Red Sox – last year said he was running against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, according to the Boston Herald.
Schilling, now host of a conservative morning radio talk show on Breitbart News, suggested in the Esquire interview that he could add a presidential run to his political ambitions.
"If I don't run, honest to God, I think it's one of those things that's bad*** cool that I can even say something like this," Schilling told Esquire. "My thought was, I could run for [the] Senate next year and then I would run for president after Trump's second term. I live in a country where I can say that. That's pretty f****** cool."
Schilling appeared to compare his use of social media to President Donald Trump, except his got him in trouble with ESPN. He was fired from the sports network in April 2016 after he shared a Facebook meme about transgender issues that some found offensive, said The Washington Post.
The meme addressed the issue of transgender use of bathrooms and included a photo of a man in a wig and an unusual, tight outfit.
"My comment was, I don't need my government to tell me that men should pee in the men's rooms and women should pee in the women's rooms," Schilling told Esquire. "The photo was f****** meaningless to me, but I was transphobic after that, which I don't get. I guess you could call my social-media instincts Trumpian-like. I'm not saying that's a good thing."
Schilling had complained in January that his conservative political views are keeping him from being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, reported KYW-TV.
In 2016 Schilling received 52.3 percent of the 75 percent of the Hall of Fame vote needed to be inducted. This year, his voting percentage fell to 45 percent, said KYW-TV.
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