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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was clearly upset by the news of President-elect Donald Trump being named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
In the Thursday recent episode of “The Don Lemon Show,” shared on his YouTube channel, Lemon showed the cover featuring Trump and expressed his disapproval of the magazine’s choice in an impassioned outburst.
“They [Time] could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy,” Lemon, who is trying to remain relevant after his ignominious departure from CNN, complained.
Immediately afterward, Lemon appeared to contradict himself by saying that Trump was democratically elected, but that still did not qualify him for Time’s award.
“Just because you are elected president of the United States does not mean that you should be ‘Person of the Year,’” he said.
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“Time Magazine, what are you doing?” Lemon demanded to know.
At that point, Lemon began to rant about all of the lawfare employed against the president-elect, which included some guilty verdicts even though legal experts have legitimate questions about both of those cases, before asking, “and you name them ‘Person of the Year?’”
“Maybe we’re being scammed,” Lemon tried to reason.
This week, Time posted to its website how the staff chooses individuals for the title.
“For 97 years, the editors of TIME have been picking the Person of the Year: the individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months” it said.
Trump’s resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris likely signals the beginning of the end of the influence of aged leaders like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California over Democratic politics.
Pelosi, “who for decades reigned as kingmaker in her party, facing the prospect of having her status as a power player in the party unceremoniously stripped away on the back of” Harris’ defeat.
The shocking decline occurs just months after her key involvement in efforts to push President Joe Biden out of the race.
During Harris’s concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday, the 84-year-old Pelosi was clearly emotional and engaged in a heated exchange with fellow Democratic insider and former DNC boss Donna Brazile.
As the blame game intensifies in the wake of the vice president’s surprising defeat, Pelosi finds herself at the center of the accusations.
“The influences of a [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer or a Pelosi or a movie star or an Obama deciding to anoint somebody—those guys are gone,” business investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary said this week.
“In four years, they won’t have that kind of influence,” he added in a thinly veiled reference to actor George Clooney, who famously and publicly called on Biden to end his reelection following a disastrous debate with Trump.
Some Republicans are directly attributing the significant Democratic losses—from the top of the ticket to the Senate flipping red and the House still in contention—specifically to Pelosi.
“You’ve got to blame Nancy Pelosi,” former GOP House Speaker and fellow Californian Kevin McCarthy said during a Fox News interview this week.
Most people agree that Pelosi played a significant role in Biden’s July decision to drop out of the race just months before Election Day.
As if to signal her decline, Pelosi was hospitalized after falling on a trip to Luxembourg on Friday.
“While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,” Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement.
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals. She continues to work,” Krager added in the statement.
