Overview
- Lemon labeled the president a “gross, bigoted, racist piece of s–t” during The Don Lemon Show episode released Friday.
- He urged journalists to call out the rhetoric more forcefully, citing job insecurity and corporate pressures that he says temper coverage.
- His critique followed two presidential broadsides earlier in the week at a televised Cabinet meeting and an Oval Office photo op targeting Somali migrants and Somali Americans.
- Trump was quoted describing Somali migrants as “garbage,” saying they “contribute nothing” and should “go back to where they came from.”
- Lemon tied the language to past “sh*thole countries” rhetoric, called it beneath the presidency and “disqualifying,” and noted most Americans have immigrant roots.