{"id":33021,"date":"2026-06-11T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/tracy-morgan-slammed-for-insulting-teachers-making-minimum-wage\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:18:12","slug":"tracy-morgan-slammed-for-insulting-teachers-making-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/tracy-morgan-slammed-for-insulting-teachers-making-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Morgan Slammed for Insulting Teachers Making Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\"><a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/tracy-morgan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Tracy Morgan<\/a> is facing backlash for his disparaging comments about teachers while speaking with <em class=\"italic\"><a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2019<\/em>s Marcello Hernandez for <em class=\"italic\">Variety<\/em> and CNN\u2019s <em class=\"italic\">Actors on Actors<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">In a clip posted by <em class=\"italic\">Variety<\/em>, the conversation starts with Hernandez speaking in jest about getting in trouble at school for being mischievous and talking too much. Morgan defended his behavior at the time, saying, \u201cThey didn\u2019t understand you. You had a sense of humor. And they couldn\u2019t control that. God gave that to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">While Hernandez took the opportunity to point out that he is now \u201cgetting paid for mischief,\u201d Morgan followed up by taking a swipe at teachers who are \u201cstill making minimum wage,\u201d before taking a sip from his mug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cNo,\u201d Hernandez shouted with a seemingly uncomfortable laugh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cYou know how much them teachers probably making right now?\u201d Morgan asked, to which Hernandez responded, \u201cMan, not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">It\u2019s not hard to believe that any of those who work in elementary schools are not being paid what they deserve when you consider the students they are dealing with on a day-to-day basis, and <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/nea-today\/all-news-articles\/rising-cost-school-supplies-increases-burden-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the fact that these teachers are spending their own money on school supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Morgan added that he \u201ccan\u2019t stand teachers,\u201d while belittling their \u201cceiling\u201d in the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cI can\u2019t stand teachers,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know why? Because they have a ceiling. They have a limit. That\u2019s all they ever gonna be. Man, I teach my kids, sky\u2019s the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are a few responses to Morgan\u2019s remarks. <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Morgan is facing backlash for his disparaging comments about teachers while speaking with Saturday Night Live\u2019s Marcello Hernandez for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_crop,h_1082,w_1920,x_0,y_0\/g_auto:aoi_768_433_384_216\/sanity-new%2FGettyImages-2278546433_vfyvep","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}