Ex-CNN host Don Lemon stands by calling Trump supporters “dumb f—ing idiots,” telling “butthurt” critics “too f—ing bad.”
At first of his YouTube present Tuesday evening, Lemon addressed the backlash he acquired after calling MAGA supporters “stupid and dumb” in an expletive-filled rant days earlier.
Although he insisted that he was reacting to individuals who had a “racist” response to President-elect Donald Trump appointing Sriram Krishnan as a senior advisor on synthetic intelligence, he went on to additional assault Trump supporters.
Ex-CNN host Don Lemon doubled down on his rant in a YouTube video Tuesday. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)
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“So, as always, everybody gets all butthurt! I’m not referring to all Trump supporters,” Lemon stated. “I’m talking to the MAGA-brained people who will say and do anything to make excuses for any behavior that Donald Trump does, any bad behavior that the MAGA movement does.”
He continued, “So yes, I stand by my words! And if you don’t like what I said, then too f-ing bad, I don’t care!”
Lemon additionally known as out the “hypocrisy” of Trump supporters attacking him for his language whereas defending their “cult leader.”
“This is how messed up you are. You have a higher expectation of me, an independent journalist, a former cable news host, than you do for the person who sits in the Oval Office. Because his mouth is worse than mine,” Lemon stated.
Lemon insisted he was not referring to all Trump supporters throughout his rant. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Pictures for WarnerMedia)
He added, “He calls everybody dumb. He calls Black women dumb. He’s called me dumb. He calls people stupid. He’s called Kamala Harris stupid. He’s called her names. And he’s used profanity against athletes. He called them sons of b—hes. He calls people out on their names all the time. And you love it. But when someone says the truth about you, you get all butthurt! And you get all in your feelings!”
In his authentic video, Lemon known as supporters of President-elect Donald Trump “dumb f—ing idiots” and mocked their “stupid MAGA brain.”
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“You’re so f—ing stupid and you deserve it. You f—ing deserve it because you’re so dumb,” he stated. “Yes, I am gloating over your stupidity.”
Lemon known as Trump supporters ‘stupid and dumb’ and in contrast them to cult followers. (Picture by Leigh Vogel/Getty Pictures for Congressional Black Caucus Basis | Picture by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
“You’ve been co-opted because you’re in a f—ing cult and you don’t even realize it because you have stupid MAGA brain, and you don’t get it,” he added. “How stupid and dumb are you?”
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Fox Information’ Kendall Tietz contributed to this report.
