Don Lemon just cannot seem to read the room. The disgraced former CNN anchor has taken his act to the streets of New York City with his new podcast, “The Don Lemon Show,” and the results are brutal. Instead of thoughtful conversations with everyday Americans, Lemon has been getting roasted on camera—often for the very sins that led to his firing in 2023.
The most viral moment came this week when Lemon approached a man in Manhattan for what was supposed to be a casual “man on the street” interview. Within seconds, the exchange turned ugly. “You’re a f—ing moron, dude,” the man said straight to Lemon’s face. The anchor tried to play it off with a smug, “Thank you. So are you,” but the man didn’t let up. “You’ve never heard anything I’ve had to say, and I’ve heard a whole bunch of what you’ve had to say,” he shot back.
Lemon asked why he would insult him, and the man’s answer was simple: “Because you’re big and think you’re something.” At that point, Lemon lectured the stranger about self-respect, but the man cut him down again. “I don’t need to defend that, ’cause it’s accurate,” he said. To make matters worse, another passerby joined in, calling Lemon “one of the biggest racists I’ve ever seen.” Lemon tried the old tactic of mocking the insult with self-deprecation, but it backfired as the man doubled down.
Fox News and the New York Post both picked up the footage, which shows Lemon visibly rattled when Israel came up in the conversation. The man accused CNN and MSNBC of lying about “genocide” in Gaza, insisting the networks protected Israel. Lemon, already flustered, tried to shut the discussion down, talking over the man and deflecting. For all his attempts at control, he looked weak and defensive.
And it wasn’t just one bad encounter. In other clips, Lemon was shot down by women in Baltimore and Dominican-born New Yorkers who told him they support President Trump deploying the National Guard to fix crime-ridden cities. Even a black Muslim man on his way to prayers in Baltimore told Lemon it would be “a breath of fresh air.”
Everywhere Lemon goes, it seems he hears the same thing: Americans don’t trust him, his network, or the propaganda he pushed. Yet he still acts shocked. Maybe Don Lemon doesn’t need more interviews—maybe he needs a mirror.
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