The Worst of Don Lemon (Post-Arrest Edition)

Geoffrey Dickens
January 30th, 2026 12:10 PM

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On Friday, it was reported that Don Lemon was arrested for his part in the invasion of a St. Paul, MN church. The notoriously leftist Lemon (he’s a multiple winner of MRC’s Worst Quote of the Year) was so biased that he actually got fired from CNN. 

For a look at the worst of Lemon’s time at CNN see here. 

Since Lemon was canned from his CNN show, he has continued his horrible ways as podcaster. 

The following are just some of the worst outbursts from his post-CNN career: 

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Don Lemon After Invading Church: That Type of Christianity Comes from White Supremacy

 

 

“There is a certain degree of racism there and there’s a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they’re entitled and that — that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy…It’s religious freedom, but only if you’re a Christian and only if you’re a white male.”
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon on the I’ve Had It podcast, January 19, 2026.

 

Don Lemon to ICE Agents: F**k Off, You Dumb Jack-Booted Nazis! 

 

 

“F**k off, ICE! F**k all the way off! You are low-life losers. And you feel empowered by your dear leader, Donald Trump….You are treating people in an inhumane way and you don’t even understand why because you’re too dumb to figure it out. You are the poorly educated that Donald Trump loves….You’re out there doing his bidding, doing things that are illegal, doing things that are unconstitutional, doing things that are inhumane, like killing someone….You are fat fuck losers who just crawled out of a trailer park from some Proud Boy meeting….You are thugs, jack-booted thugs….You stupid, dumb, ignorant, poorly educated, Proud Boys, Nazis marching through.”
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon on The Don Lemon Show podcast, January 9, 2026.

 

Can’t Excuse Kirk’s “Behavior,” Most of Political Violence Is Done by Right-Wingers 

 

 

“I want Charlie Kirk to be okay. But, no one is excusing Charlie Kirk’s behavior and what he’s done and what he stands for. And, a lot of that political violence, if not most of it — it happens on both sides of the aisle—but a lot of that political violence comes from the right….The MAGA right can say what they want, but most of the political violence, especially the shootings, have been done….by young, white men who are usually right-wingers, and some of them far right-wingers.”  
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon on The Don Lemon Show podcast, September 10, 2025.

 

Lemon Defends His Fellow “Fascism” Fighters Against Racists Like Megyn Kelly and Trump

 

 

“She [Joy Reid] was a strong opposition to the fascism that she, as a smart woman, saw coming. It made people uncomfortable, it made the media bosses uncomfortable, and they said, ‘you gotta get rid of her.’...Tiffany Cross, who used to call Megyn Kelly out for what she was, a racist, bigoted you-know-what. And instead, what happened? She got fired because someone said, ‘you gotta get rid of that because we don’t want you saying that about someone like that.’...Megyn Kelly, as offensive as she is, they’re comfortable with her. Number one, because of what she looks like, she’s a blonde white lady. She’s racist, she spouts racist things, she says things that they think and they would not dare say for themselves. Same thing with Donald Trump.”
— Former CNN host Don Lemon on The Don Lemon Show podcast, April 17, 2025.

 

Don Lemon: “Hatred and Bigotry” Is What Makes the “MAGA Wheel Spin”

 

 

“There’s a reason that there’s so much hate going around. There’s a reason that there’s so much anti-Semitism and so much racism going around….You can place it at the feet of one person [Donald Trump] who didn’t start this but certainly exacerbates it and foments hate and bigotry…. The racism. The bigotry. The anti-Semitism. The transphobia. The homophobia. It certainly does happen on one side more than the other….That’s the thing that makes the MAGA wheel spin. That’s the motor. That’s the axle. Is hatred and bigotry.”
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon discussing the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion as aired on his podcast The Don Lemon Show podcast, April 14, 2025.

 

Don Lemon: You Cannot “Be Black” and Be “MAGA” 

 

 

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon: “I see a black MAGA person who is carrying Donald Trump’s water and they know that he’s lying, it is the shortest line to the front….If you become a black MAGA person, it’s like, ‘Whoa, let’s book this person. Let’s put him on television. Let’s promote!’”
Host Bill Maher: “So you don’t think you can be a sincere black MAGA person?”...
Lemon: “I don’t think that you can be a rational MAGA — be black and be a rational MAGA person. I think you can be black and be a Republican.”
Maher: “I think they would find that very insulting.” 
Lemon: “Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting.”
— Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, March 16, 2025.

 

Mocking MAGA Voters: “You’re So Fucking Stupid!”

 

 

“Just as if you try to get rid of the migrants and some of the folks who come here, quite honestly illegally, then you can’t —  then folks, in the farming industry, in the service industries  and in any other industries they won’t be able to do their jobs. Some farmers say without these workers they have about two days that they can run their farms and then after that it’s over! Oh my gosh, I love this! Now you’re finding out, you dumb fucking idiots! Now you’re just figuring this shit out! You’re so fucking stupid, and you deserve it! You fucking deserve it because you’re so dumb….Yes. I am gloating over your stupidity and how you were taken.….You have been co-opted because you’re in a fucking cult and you don’t even realize it because you have stupid MAGA brain, and you don’t get it. How stupid and dumb are you?”
— Former CNN host Don Lemon on his YouTube channel, December 27, 2024.

 

We Should All “Lower the Temperature,” Now Let Me Raise It On “Hitler” Trump

 

 

“We should all be trying to lower the temperature….but for Donald Trump and his folks to say — and J.D. Vance — to say that it’s Democrats who are causing this….He’s [Trump] called everyone who works in this building the ‘enemy of the people.’...If Donald Trump wants people, wants Kamala Harris and others to say — to stop saying that he is a threat to democracy, then he should stop threatening democracy. Perhaps he shouldn’t be overturning, trying to overturn elections, overthrow the government and inciting insurrections.”
— Former CNN host Don Lemon on CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront, September 16, 2024.

 

As If Lemon’s “Corporate Overlords” Stifled His Leftism at CNN? 

 

 

“I’m happy to be in an independent space where I don’t have to worry about the corporate overlords now, where I can stand up for democracy, where I can say who I’m supporting. And I’m on the side of democracy, and I’m on the side of people who are going to — someone who’s gonna help our people. I’m not on the side of Project 2025, I’m not gonna pretend to put these two campaigns on equal footing.” 
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon on his official YouTube channel, July 28, 2024.

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