Don Lemon has chimed in on the Morning Joe debate concerning whether or not individuals ought to “be civil” in the direction of President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration.
The previous CNN anchor blasted MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for his or her latest dialogue about “civility” in the direction of Trump and MAGA supporters. On Friday’s (January 10) Morning Joe, Scarborough and former RNC chair Michael Steele bought right into a heated debate after the previous praised Barack Obama for being pleasant with Trump at Jimmy Carter‘s funeral.
On the newest episode of The Don Lemon Present podcast, the previous CNN This Morning co-host referenced a remark made by The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser through the Morning Joe dialogue. Glasser warned towards an excessive amount of “civility,” evaluating it to Vladimir Putin’s rise in Russia.
“Do you guys perceive what she stated? Do you guys get what she stated?” Lemon stated, per Mediaite. “They’re attempting to make individuals civil, proper? And so they’re having these fights over this as a result of civility, when the entire structural cloth and nature of the society was deteriorating.”
“So while you see one thing like what occurred yesterday, individuals have a proper to be involved as a result of they go, effectively, in the event that they’re going to try this there publicly, what are they going to say and do behind closed doorways?” he continued. “In the event that they’re going to acquiesce seemingly like that publicly, then what does that imply within the broader sense of the construction of the material of our society?”
Lemon added, “You need to point out to the American people who this isn’t regular… grinning with somebody that you’ve got known as a fascist during the last couple of years and the final months. That’s not regular. People are bored with the conduct being normalized. Civility doesn’t imply befriending individuals or forgoing your morals and your ideas and your character.”
In November, Scarborough and Brzezinski confronted backlash after they revealed they traveled to Mar-a-Lago to satisfy with Trump following his 2024 presidential victory. Defending their choice, Brzezinski said, “Joe and I spotted it’s time to do one thing completely different and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump but additionally speaking with him.”
Lemon, who was fired from CNN in April 2023, went on to say, “If somebody disrespects my cherished one, I don’t need to smile of their f****** face! And so they’re going to understand it. Now, pay attention, you guys could possibly be proper. Barack Obama is an aesthetic man. However these are the exact same MAGA individuals who have known as, and Donald Trump has helped promote, calling Michelle Obama a person. I’m not smiling in your face should you’re calling my sister and my mom or my spouse or my girlfriend a person. F*** you!”