Former CNN star anchor and journalist Don Lemon held his ground and kept his cool after English broadcaster and media personality Piers Morgan melted down while interviewing Lemon on his show “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Thursday.
Morgan became so frustrated he even resorted to name-calling.
Lemon was booked onto Morgan’s show to talk about free speech, but Morgan had an ulterior motive, trying to blindside Lemon with questions about “cancel culture” and whether that had anything to do with Lemon’s termination from CNN in April of 2023.
The discussion went off the rails after Morgan played a clip of the February 2023 “CNN This Morning” segment where Lemon controversially described former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s as being “past her prime.” Morgan asked Lemon — who was fired from CNN two months later — what he was thinking when he made the Haley remarks.
“Let me just say this,” Lemon kicked off as a signal of things to come.
“Just so the audience knows and I hope you don’t cut this out. When I asked you what subjects you wanted to talk about you said, ‘I want to talk to you about freedom of speech in america … not once did you that we’re going to talk about CNN or whatever. And had I known that I probably wouldhn’t have accepted this interview.”
The talk between the two went downhill from there.
“Did you invite me here to interrupt me or are you going to let me —” Lemon said, but he never finished the sentence as Morgan spoke over him, calling him “a complete d-ck.”
“I think you’re being a complete d-ck, if I’m honest with you,” Morgan said.
Lemon had a classy answer.
“Well, that’s very kind and respectful of you.”
“It wasn’t intended to be kind or respectful,” Morgan shot back bluntly, as he continued talking over his guest.
“I could respond in kind, but I’m not because I think I am, I think that I’m above that,” Lemon said. “I’m not going to do that, Piers, because that’s not who I am.”
But Morgan persisted in justifying in playing the controversial clip, saying, “I don’t understand why you’re playing the victim card when you yourself mentioned cancel culture.”
Social media viewers had enough of Piers. Some with a few insults of their own.
“A grown man acting that way is ridiculous. @piersmorganuncensored grow up!!,” wrote Holly on Threads.
Another added, “Piers is doing what YT men do. Then claims Lemon is behaving like a victim, when, in fact, he’s claiming to be victimized because Lemon doesn’t want to participate in his game.”
“Morgan is an untalented, irrelevant blowhard,” mused another.
Lemon wasn’t willing to back down from Piers. He then looked for the text messages on his phone where Morgan’s booker specifically said what the interview topics would be, but Morgan couldn’t care less.
‘What are you going to do, read out my team’s messages?” Morgan asked.
“It should be embarrassing. Yeah, I can read out your team’s messages … I’m prepared to answer your question and then I’m going to move on,” Lemon answered.
The disagreeable Morgan continued flinging insults, “No, really, you’re kind of exhausting. This sounds ridiculous.”
Morgan continued to berate Lemon over his unwillingness to talk about cancel culture, when Lemon seemed to have enough.
“Piers, I’ve given you your moment. Enough. I’ve given you your moment so you can go viral,” Lemon said.
Morgan continued talking over Lemon, then pretended he didn’t understand any of it. “Why have you done this weird reaction?”
“Piers, you’re embarrassing yourself,” Lemon told Morgan.
Even viewers who admittedly aren’t fans of Lemon were defending him.
“I really dislike Don Lemon but in this instance I am slightly on his side. Before guest agree to go on they are prepped on the topics. It’s perfectly reasonable for Don to feel ambushed here,” wrote one on X.
Another added, “Not a fan, but if it is as Don says it is, it was an ambush and not ok. IMO.”
“Could Morgan be more an insufferable tool?” this Threads user wondered.”
“Piers go back to England or whatever rock you crawled out from under you douschebag,” another declared.
People also took offense at Morgan’s name calling.
“I’d have just walked when he called him a d-ck. This is just disgusting,” this Threads user stated.
Another agreed, “Don should’ve got up and walked out….. simple as that.”
An X user called out Morgan, “The irony of Piers calling Don a ‘d-ck’ in that exchange is hilarious.
Lemon on Facebook later commented about Morgan’s tirade, “Piers Morgan embarrassed himself today.”
Watch the full video below with the back and forth beginning around the 40 minute mark.
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