At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the French giant had already suffered quite a bit of bad buzz on social networks. Wanting to make a joke, the basketball player who was rather skeptical about the new coronavirus at the time had voluntarily and “for a laugh” touched the microphones and everything he could during an NBA press conference, while the virus began to invade the West. Two days later, he tested positive, had contaminated a good part of his locker room, before being suspended by the League.
He had of course apologized as best he could and his teammates at the time at the Utah Jazz were very angry with him. But it seems that the silver medalist from the Paris Olympics, now with the Minnesota Timberwolves, still has a lot on the subject. He once again set the internet on fire with a simple tweet, taken up by the entire press and which saw Internet users falling on him for a few hours.
To do this, he simply released a simple: “Let’s go Robert Kennedy Junior”! Donald Trump’s new Minister of Health is, in fact, a covid skeptic and more generally a vaccine skeptic, among other questionable positions. The 70-year-old Washingtonian launched himself as an independent for the last US presidential election (he previously campaigned for the Democrats), before siding with the New York magnate, who was ultimately elected.
Gobert’s post was soon viewed 9 million times and liked “only” 16,000 times. Above all, he triggered the ire of his followers, who competed in ingenuity to make him understand that this tweet was not the most informed in their opinion.
