Former CNN, anchor Don Lemon, is facing more setbacks after Elon Musk cut short his doomed venture into new media on X.
Now Lemon, along with Matt Lauer, the once-beloved host of “Today,” is plotting yet another attempt to revive their fading careers.
“Matt thinks he’s the best thing that ever happened to network TV, and Don is equally resplendent in his own mind. They’ve been talking about collaborating because, as they like to say, brilliant minds think alike,” said an insider to In Touch.
They plan to emulate former FOX News star Tucker Carlson by launching an “edgy and totally uncensored” program.
The only problem is that they have been trained and indoctrinated by one of the world’s biggest propaganda machines, so it would be interesting to see how they could come anywhere near Carlson’s success.
The duo believes they can become the new “kings of all media” and win back public trust.
“They’re pitching all over and bragging their ideas are getting good feedback,” the source said.
However, Lemon’s exit from CNN and failed new media ventures signaled that no one was buying what he was selling.
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Elon Musk has cancelled Don Lemon’s new show on X… To be honest, I didn’t even know Lemon was supposed to get a new show until now, but I am glad it’s been cancelled. Lemon is a toxic propagandist parasite.
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) March 13, 2024
You will NEVER be Tucker Carlson, Don!pic.twitter.com/HjFhKhQwxH
His association with CNN has become like a dark cloud that will follow Lemon forever.
Lemon’s attempt to pivot to new platforms like X, which fell flat on its face, showed the public still hasn’t forgiven him for years of lies and anti-Trump bias.
However, he doesn’t need the money despite Lemon’s career nosedive.
Earlier this year, CNN agreed to pay the host a whopping $24.5 Million following his ouster.
The Wrap reported that CNN will pay Lemon the huge amount surrounding his ouster from the network.
According to unnamed sources, this is the sum Lemon would have received had he completed the remaining three and a half years at CNN.
Lemon was removed from his primetime show to co-host “CNN This Morning” alongside Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow last year after he said Republican candidate Nikki Haley “isn’t in her prime, sorry.”
Just days later, Lemon was dismissed by CNN.
He contended:
“I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.”
In a letter interview, Lemon said:
“[CNN] did not want me to be a part of [their plans for the network], and I think that has, from what has played out publicly as it relates to CNN, as it relates to management, and what they’re doing now, I think that it’s obvious that they didn’t want me to be a part of that.”
