CNN’s Don Lemon Absent From Morning Show After Making Sexist Remarks About Nikki Haley

Ben WilsonFebruary 17, 2023

Don Lemon was absent Friday CNN This MorningThis was just a day after CNN anchor Nikki Haley claimed that she is not the presidential candidate. “in her prime.”

“Don has the day off,” Kaitlan Collins, co-host of the broadcast, said the following: Lemon was criticized for saying that Haley, who has announced her presidential campaign this weeks, is too old. “a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

“I’m just saying what the facts are. Google it,” Lemon juice added.

Lemon’s comments place pressure on Washington Free Beacon Chris Licht, CNN CEO and Man of the Year, will fire Lemon New York Post reported.

Licht stated that there will be “recourse” If Lemon keeps saying it, “stupid things” On air, a source revealed to the Post. The source also stated that “Chris isn’t happy” And “Don knows it can’t happen again.”

Lemon’s “remarks were upsetting, unacceptable and unfair to his co-hosts, and ultimately a huge distraction to the great work of this organization,” Licht said to his staff during an inter-departmental call: a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/media/cnn-don-lemon-apology.html”>according The New York Times.

On Thursday, Haley tweeted that Lemon’s comment was misunderstood. “it’s always the liberals who are the most sexist.”

Lemon tweeted his “regret” Thursday afternoon

“The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant,” Lemon wrote.

He also said that “a woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally.”

These comments aren’t the first controversies on the show’s months-old morning program. Lemon, who was upset about Collins’ interruptions in December, yelled at Collins off-air, leaving Collins “visibly upset,” Source Telled The Post. Lemon had an argument with his hosts a week before over differences in compensation between the men’s and womens soccer teams.