Ex-CNN host Don Lemon stands by calling Trump supporters “dumb f—ing idiots,” telling “butthurt” critics “too f—ing bad.”
At the start of his YouTube show Tuesday night, Lemon addressed the backlash he received after calling MAGA supporters “stupid and dumb” in an expletive-filled rant days earlier.
Though he insisted that he was reacting to people who had a “racist” response to President-elect Donald Trump appointing Sriram Krishnan as a senior advisor on artificial intelligence, he went on to further attack Trump supporters.
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“So, as always, everybody gets all butthurt! I’m not referring to all Trump supporters,” Lemon said. “I’m talking to the MAGA-brained people who will say and do anything to make excuses for any behavior that Donald Trump does, any bad behavior that the MAGA movement does.”
He continued, “So yes, I stand by my words! And if you don’t like what I said, then too f-ing bad, I don’t care!”
Lemon also …