Don Lemon calls Black gay MAGA supporters ‘self-hating, naive, pick-mes’
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Don Lemon has spoken out against Black and gay MAGA supporters.
Speaking on his YouTube show LEMON DROP, the gay journalist said he cannot understand how members of either community can back a political movement he says does not believe they deserve equal rights.
“I can’t see how gay people can be part of a party that doesn’t even believe that they should exist,” Lemon said. “That doesn’t believe that they are deserving of the rights of every American.”
Speaking about Black MAGA supporters, he said: “I cannot understand how anyone could be Black and be a MAGA supporter right now with what has happened with voting rights in this country.”
“Self-hating is one term that I would use for it. Naive is another. And then, a milder term would be, ‘pick me’.”
In January, Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles in connection with an anti-ICE protest that had disrupted a church service in Minnesota.
He pleaded not guilty in February, with charges stemming from his coverage of the protest.
A federal magistrate judge had previously rejected prosecutors’ initial bid to charge him.
Lemon made headlines at the start of the year after Nicki Minaj hurled homophobic insults his way.
He responded on TikTok, saying: “You are a homophobic bigot.”
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