SiriusXM talk show and podcast host Megyn Kelly took to roasting Don Lemon during her Thursday, March 14, show. Her comments mainly focused on his lost deal with Elon Musk’s X following a stormy interview with Elon. Kelly argued that Lemon should have shown some gratitude to Elon for the deal that could have brought back his career, and joked about his recent firing from CNN.
Joking about how things went, particularly in the context of his having been fired from CNN not too long ago as well, Kelly said, “Don Lemon got fired again already. He’s fired before he really got hired. It’s very hard for Don Lemon to keep a job.”
Continuing, Kelly speculated on why Elon would have considered a deal with Don Lemon, jokingly comparing the relative risk of Lemon’s X program to sending rockets into outer space. She said, “Amazingly, Elon Musk offered him a deal to post a new show on X, and Elon Musk is a risk taker so I guess he thought this would be a fun risk. Just as risky, I guess, as like putting spaceships into outer space because it really was just that risky, Elon.”
Then, getting a bit more serious, Kelly argued that Lemon’s bad news about his X deal came because he hadn’t been grateful to Elon for the opportunity, in her view, as shown by the tempestuous Elon interview. She said, making that point, “Don Lemon behaved like an asshole who was not grateful to Elon Musk for resurrecting his career.”
She did admit that it was a tricky situation Lemon was in, saying that he had to choose between treating Elon well and trying to prove that he’s a “hard-hitting” journalist. As she put it: “It’s very hard for Don Lemon in his position to both be a good journalist and be a good employee. You know, the man’s paying your salary, so you do owe him a level of respect and discretion, and at the same time you want to prove to us in your first interview back how hard-hitting you are, and those two goals are not aligned. So I don’t blame Elon for being mad at the way he was treated, which now Don is admitting it didn’t end well and Elon was pissed off when it ended.”
Continuing, she emphasized that Lemon chose poorly in what he did, saying, “The man that just resurrected your career! Show some gratitude! Ask him about how amazing X is doing and how it’s thriving notwithstanding all the doomsday predictions and whatever happened to loser Threads over on Facebook. Elon’s having a moment, but not in Don’s life and in his world, even though he just got this great opportunity.”
Concluding her takedown of Lemon, Kelly ridiculed the idea that he’s a “victim,” saying, “By the way, reportedly, he just got like a $25 million payoff from CNN for that firing… Then Elon reportedly cut him a multi-million dollar deal, which he f*cked up right before he even launched the show, and now he’s claiming that his free speech– you’re not the victim! You’re not the victim! You’re not a victim in any way.”
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