Former CNN host Don Lemon unloaded on MAGA supporters in an expletive-filled rant posted to his YouTube channel.
Lemon known as supporters of President-elect Donald Trump “dumb f—ing idiots” and mocked their “silly MAGA mind,” throughout an episode of the Don Lemon Show.
“You are so f—ing silly and also you deserve it. You f—ing deserve it since you’re so dumb,” he stated. “Sure, I’m gloating over your stupidity.”
“You’ve been co-opted since you’re in a f—ing cult and you do not even understand it as a result of you may have silly MAGA mind and you aren’t getting it,” he added. “How silly and dumb are you?”
Final week the MAGA base splintered after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), shared their help for H-1B visas for expert laborers.
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However one other faction of the celebration, led by Steve Bannon, is towards H-1B visas. Bannon known as the visas a “rip-off” that “takes American jobs and brings over what primarily turn out to be indentured servants at decrease wages” on his “Conflict Room” podcast.
Trump sided with Musk and Ramaswamy over the weekend, stating his help for H-1B visas. Lemon weighed in, referencing Sriram Krishnan, who was named a senior adviser on synthetic intelligence by president-elect Donald Trump.
“So Krishnan’s appointment triggered an anti-Indian backlash on social media, notably given his previous advocacy for growing inexperienced card and immigration broadly,” he stated.
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“Oh no, immigration,” he mocked. “We won’t do the immigration, as a result of, you recognize, the immigration it triggers some folks. You understand what they’re saying in regards to the anti-immigration stuff, proper?” he laughed. “Who’s it to say that one of many jobs you could be in search of will not be a type of White jobs?”
Lemon was fired from CNN in April 2023 after a sequence of scandals, together with alienating feminine viewers and conservative audiences. Lemon, who was thought of one among CNN’s most overtly left-wing voices, has in contrast Trump supporters to Ku Klux Klan members, defended Antifa and fumed over folks not vaccinated towards coronavirus “taking on the area” in hospitals, amongst different news-making moments.
Most not too long ago, Lemon attacked Time Journal for choosing Trump as their Particular person of the 12 months, calling the selection a “joke.”
“In the event that they wished to make somebody Particular person of the 12 months, I don’t know, they might’ve executed it with any individual. They may have executed it to somebody who truly stood for democracy, who stands for democracy within the nation,” Lemon stated.
Fox Information Digital’s Brian Flood contributed to this report.