Don Lemon Announces Comeback With New Show On X/Twitter

Marc Griffin
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Don Lemon has announced his comeback with a new show debuting exclusively on X/Twitter. The former CNN analyst released a statement on the site explaining his new endeavor. He detailed that his new program, The Don Lemon Show, will be honest and exist without “hall monitors.”

“I’ve heard you … and today I am back bigger, bolder, freer!” he typed. “My new media company’s first project is The Don Lemon Show. It will be available to everyone, easily, whenever you want it, streaming on the platforms where the conversations are happening. And you’ll find it first on X, the biggest space for free speech in the world.”

Shortly after his announcement, the official X Business account shared that they would be adding more talking heads to the platform. The account welcomed Lemon, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, and sports pundit Jim Rome.

Gabbard also shared a statement announcing her new contract with X/ Twitter. She discussed the perceived importance of having X/Twitter as an alternative to traditional news and as a means to promote “free speech.”

“Unfortunately, we live in a time where free speech is under attack,” she said in her video.

The politician also promised to “tell the stories and tell the truth about what’s happening here in our country and around the world, a truth that most often those in power don’t want us to hear.”

Gabbard swore off her former Democrat party in 2022 after she claimed it’s “now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”

Lemon’s announcement arrives 9 months after he was fired from CNN. At the time of his termination, Don hosted CNN This Morning with Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow. During the time, Don came under fire for allegedly creating “hostile work environments” for his co-workers. Lemon was also criticized for his infamous on-air interview with right-wing politician Vivek Ramaswamy.

He later discussed his shocking departure with ABC24 Memphis. Lemon doubled-down on his decision to challenge Vivek’s views, regardless if it cost him his job.

“I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots and insurrectionists and election deniers and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth, people who are fighting for what’s right, people who are abiding by the constitution,” he said at the time. “That would be a dereliction of journalistic duty.”

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