NBC Reporter Fired For Wearing MAGA Hat While Covering Trump Rally

A local NBC reporter got excited at his chance to cover a Trump rally…

So he wore his MAGA hat.

Now he’s looking for a job.

According to Fox News:

James Bunner, a multimedia journalist for NBC affiliate KTTC-TV in Austin, was fired Friday, reportedly for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat while covering President Trump’s rally in Rochester on Thursday.

Pictures of him started popping up on Twitter, because apparently the other “reporters” had a hyuge problem with it.

Whyyyyy? pic.twitter.com/KLgnFFULFC

— Mark Vancleave 📹+📷 (@MDVancleave) October 4, 2018

The station’s news director said the decision to terminate him wasn’t based on politics, it was totally based on dress code.

Noel Sederstrom, the station’s news director, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the station’s policy does not allow staff members to wear apparel from political campaigns while covering stories.

…ok. But is a dress code violation an immediately fireable offense?

And would they have immediately fired someone for wearing an Obama shirt to an Obama rally? I’d HOPE that the standard would be the same for everyone.

the reporter had ALSO uploaded pro-Trump content to his personal social media.

Bunner had uploaded a video of himself appearing to celebrate while dancing in a newsroom on Trump’s inauguration day.

“Me watching the Trump inauguration,” he wrote in the description.

That video has since been deleted.

The news director again said this has nothing to do with it.

Sederstrom told BuzzFeed News that Bunner was fired for wearing the hat during Thursday’s rally, not because of the political views displayed on his social media pages.

Hmm..

What a bummer.

But if his hat WAS against dress code… was the firing warranted?