Former CNN host turned unbiased journalist Don Lemon unloaded on President Donald Trump’s current xenophobic tirade in opposition to Somali immigrants whereas additionally providing up some criticism of mainstream media’s protection of all of it.
“It’s racist, it’s vulgar, it’s beneath the dignity of the White Home, it’s sexist,” Lemond mentioned on Friday’s episode of his Substack present. “And fairly frankly, it’s simply gross and Donald Trump looks like a gross, bigoted, racist piece of shit.”
Lemon and his visitor, White Home press veteran Tommy Christopher, had been discussing the dearth of outward journalistic resistance in opposition to the president every time he goes off on certainly one of his offensive tangents.
“I believe the journalists are in a extremely powerful place proper now,” Lemon mentioned. “I believe CNN has the very best journalists on the planet, however I believe it’s a troublesome place proper now as a result of I believe folks in any respect the networks are involved about how a lot they push again.”
Lemon added that journalists’ concern of jeopardizing their job safety by calling out the president on his fiery remarks can have an effect on the “high quality and the content material.”
“Why doesn’t it get known as out? I believe it could be known as out much more if folks weren’t afraid to criticize this president,” he mentioned.
The president went on a collection of anti-immigrant assaults this week after his administration halted all asylum choices following the taking pictures of two Nationwide Guard troopers in Washington, D.C. He has singled out Somali immigrants, whom he claimed “contribute nothing.” He has additionally mentioned, “I don’t need them in our nation.”
Whereas the suspect within the taking pictures was from Afghanistan, the incident has fueled additional offensive rhetoric in opposition to Somali refugees amid the Trump administration’s plans to launch a focused immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.
“Look how unhealthy their nation is. It’s not even a nation. It’s simply folks strolling round killing one another,” Trump mentioned throughout Wednesday’s Oval Workplace press convention. “These Somalians have taken billions of {dollars} out of our nation. They’ve destroyed Minnesota.
“We will go by hook or by crook, and we’re going to go the unsuitable approach, if we hold taking in rubbish into our nation,” Trump mentioned whereas launching a verbal assault in opposition to Somali refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)
On his present Friday, Lemon known as Trump’s phrases “disqualifying to be a president of america.”