The ABC exec who announced the network was scrapping “Roseanne” following a racist tweet by the show’s star says the decision to pull the plug on the hit sitcom “wasn’t that difficult.”

“It felt like a line had been crossed and we needed to stand by our values as a company,” Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter in a Tuesday interview.

“I think the swift, decisive action really spoke volumes and I think we're proud of what we did,” Dungey added.

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ABC’s top-rated comedy was abruptly canceled in May, just hours after its creator and star, Roseanne Barr, posted a tweet that said former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett was the offspring of the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood and the movie “Planet of the Apes.”

“Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” Dungey said in a statement at the time, announcing ABC was cutting ties with Barr.

The 65-year-old comedian apologized to Jarrett and the public, and deleted the tweet. But last month, Barr — a staunch supporter of President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE who also played a fan of his on her show — screamed of Jarrett, “I thought the bitch was white!” in a video posted on her YouTube page.

In another video, Barr denied getting canned over the tweet, instead saying her show was canceled “because I voted for Donald Trump, and that’s not allowed in Hollywood.”

Trump later accused ABC of a double standard in firing Barr, tweeting that while Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger "called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that 'ABC does not tolerate comments like those' made by Roseanne Barr," that Iger "never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC."

“It's not a secret that she has had a tendency in the past to be sort of outspoken and go off-book,” Dungey said of Barr, when asked if the Jarrett tweet was the last straw for the network. “We've had multiple conversations about wanting to keep the focus on the show and not to let some of the other stuff eclipse the show. So, in some ways, this was a last straw. But it was also such an egregious tweet that it felt like no matter what, there would have been some action that we would have taken.”

In June, ABC announced it was creating a “Roseanne” spin-off called “The Conners” — minus Barr.

The sitcom, starring the rest of the “Roseanne” cast, is poised to premiere this fall.

“The show is not about politics,” Dungey said. “People keep wanting to make it about red vs. blue, and we dealt with that very effectively in the first episode with Roseanne and Jackie's different political views.”

“The subsequent episodes are very much not about that,” she added. “It's a family comedy.”