Former CNN host Don Lemon flipped out after Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” on his social media network X.
In a post on X, the company said it “decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show,” adding that Lemon’s show “is welcome to publish its content on X, without censorship, as we believe in providing a platform for creators to scale their work and connect with new communities.”
Lemon said Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that Elon Musk seemed averse to facts” during their interview.
“Hate speech on the platform is up. Do you believe that X and you have some responsibility to moderate hate speech on the platform, that you wouldn’t have to answer these questions from reporters about the Great Replacement Theory as it relates to,” Lemon said.
Musk responded, “I don’t have to answer these questions.”
Musk said, “I don’t have to answer questions from reporters. Don, the only reason I’m doing this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it. Otherwise, there would not do– I would not do this interview.”
Lemon said, “So you don’t think– do you think that you wouldn’t get in trouble or you wouldn’t be criticized for these things?
Musk said, “I’m criticized constantly. I could care less.”
Watch
Anchor Erin Burnett said, “Illuminating in so many ways.”
Lemon said, “The people who go and shoot up people, whether they be Latino people who live in Texas, or black people who are in a supermarket in Buffalo, or Jewish people who are, who are worshiping those people use the same rhetoric that they are tropes, that they’re either racist for Latinos or black people, or for Jewish people.”
“And I wanted to know if he, if he felt any responsibility as someone who has the one of the largest social media information platforms in the world quarter billion people a quarter billion people. I think it’s 455 or 500 million we can use a week.”
Lemon continued, “Great replacement theory as it relates to Jewish people. Do you think that–
He added:
“It doesn’t seem that he feels he has any responsibility with that because he seemed really averse to facts. That facts did not matter to him. It didn’t matter that he retweeted things that were offensive to people.”
X announced its “new content partnership” with Lemon for the show in January as part of its content offerings and to attract advertisers.
CNN fired Lemon after 17 years with the network.
Lemon’s ouster came after he apologized for on-air comments about then-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley not being in “her prime.”
READ: Tucker Congratulates Don Lemon on Surprising Career Shift
