ESPN’s Sage Steele is ‘saddened’ that airport protesters are disrupting everyone’s travel plans

Sage Steele missed her flight. (Courtesy ESPN)

Thousands of Americans took to the nation’s airports over the weekend to show their support for migrants who were denied entry into the United States because of an executive order issued by President Trump on Friday night. The protests obviously would cause some consternation for travelers who merely were trying to get from Point A to Point B, and among that group was ESPN’s Sage Steele, who apparently was trying to fly from Los Angeles to Houston for the Super Bowl.

Early Monday morning, Steele posted a photo of the LAX protests on Instagram and wrote that while she’s all for the peaceful protesters she’s saddened “to see the joy on their faces knowing that they were successful in disrupting so many people’s travel plans.”

(Via Instagram)

Steele’s comments drew a good amount of negative reaction on social media, some of them on the Instagram post itself. Others took to Twitter.

” Can you guys move out the way? I got a 3pm appointment.”
Sage Steele to the…