Overview
- On Friday’s episode of The Don Lemon Show, the journalist called President Trump a “gross, bigoted, racist piece of s–t” and said the Somalia comments are disqualifying for the presidency.
- Lemon argued that reporters hold back because of job insecurity and corporate pressures, which he said blunts necessary pushback against the president.
- Trump delivered the anti-Somali remarks at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday and in an Oval Office appearance Wednesday, saying Somali immigrants “contribute nothing” and should “go back to where they came.”
- HuffPost reported the outbursts followed the administration’s halt to all asylum decisions after a shooting that wounded two National Guard soldiers, alongside plans for targeted immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
- Mediaite, TheWrap, and HuffPost published Lemon’s critique, highlighting his condemnation of Trump’s language toward Somalia and Rep. Ilhan Omar.