{"id":2389641,"date":"2025-01-13T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-accuses-morning-joe-hosts-of-forgoing-morals-with-trump-meeting-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:43:14","slug":"don-lemon-accuses-morning-joe-hosts-of-forgoing-morals-with-trump-meeting-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-accuses-morning-joe-hosts-of-forgoing-morals-with-trump-meeting-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon accuses Morning Joe hosts of \u2018forgoing\u2019 morals with Trump meeting &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-lemon-accuses-morning-joe-hosts-of-forgoing-morals-with-trump-meeting-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389641&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Don Lemon, a former CNN host, criticized the hosts of MSNBCS &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; Joe Scarborough and mika Brzezinski, for their recent\u200b meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate. He accused them of abandoning their morals and character by smiling \u200bin Trump&#8217;s presence.Lemon&#8217;s comments\u200d also echoed his earlier critique of former\u2063 President Barack Obama&#8217;s behavior during a funeral for Jimmy Carter, where \u200cObama shared a laugh with Trump, which Lemon suggested raised concerns about Obama&#8217;s judgment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Don Lemon accuses Morning Joe hosts of &lsquo;forgoing&rsquo; morals with Trump meeting<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1932543\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Ex-CNN host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/don-lemon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Don Lemon<\/a> accused the hosts of MSNBC&rsquo;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/morning-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Morning Joe<\/a><\/em>  of &ldquo;forgoing&rdquo; their morals and character after they visited President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago, arguing they did not need to &ldquo;smile&rdquo; in his &ldquo;f***ing face.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Lemon&rsquo;s criticism of co-hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-scarborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Scarborough<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mika-brzezinski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a> came after he also criticized former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3282848\/obama-trump-bromance-sign-democratic-acceptance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Barack Obama and his viral laughter<\/a> with Trump at former President Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s funeral, saying people &ldquo;have a right to be concerned&rdquo; over Obama&rsquo;s behavior. He added that people such as Scarborough and Brzezinski, who deemed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">president-elect<\/a> as &ldquo;fascist&rdquo; in the past, should not be &ldquo;grinning&rdquo; with the same person they repeatedly warned the public about.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Folks are tired of the behavior being normalized,&rdquo; Lemon said on <em>The Don Lemon Show<\/em>. &ldquo;Civility does not mean befriending people or forgoing your morals and your principles and your character. If someone disrespects my loved one, I don&rsquo;t have to smile in their f***ing face, and they&rsquo;re going to know it!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0y8Q8XOTpY?si=loIUvlgLQH_X0MlW&amp;start=1302\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>In directing some criticism toward Obama, Lemon argued that the 44th president is &ldquo;a classy man&rdquo; but that his socializing with Trump at Carter&rsquo;s funeral came after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crybaby-celebrities-melt-down-after-trump-win\/\" title=\"Crybaby Celebrities Melt Down After Trump Win\">president-elect &#038;ldquo<\/a>;has helped promote&rdquo; the claim that Obama&rsquo;s wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, is a man. Lemon then said if he had been in Barack Obama&rsquo;s place, he would not have been &ldquo;smiling in your face,&rdquo; and instead would have just &ldquo;mind my business&rdquo; at the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&rsquo;s tirade is the latest in a flurry of insults directed toward Trump supporters at the end of 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F6-vtnT2upQ&amp;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">accusing them of being in &ldquo;a f***ing cult&rdquo; <\/a>without realizing it due to having &ldquo;stupid MAGA brain.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Morning Joe<\/em> co-hosts have repeatedly defended their meeting with Trump following the election, arguing that it was done &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3251339\/msnbc-morning-joe-continues-to-defend-mar-a-lago-visit-as-backlash-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">to have an off-the-record comment<\/a>&rdquo; with the incoming president and that other media outlets have done the same. Scarborough has also argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3234559\/joe-scarborough-spends-show-defending-trump-meeting-amid-backlash-legacy-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">there is &ldquo;a massive disconnect&rdquo; between social media and &ldquo;the real world<\/a>,&rdquo; and he <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">received multiple phone calls<\/a> from people telling him they &ldquo;understand&rdquo; why he and Brzezinski met with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who previously worked as Trump&rsquo;s United Nations ambassador, joked that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3235048\/haley-mocks-morning-joe-hosts-after-trump-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the two co-hosts did not suddenly see &ldquo;the light&rdquo; with their decision to meet with Trump<\/a> and instead met with him out of fear of losing their ratings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1932543\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1932543\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lemon criticizes Morning Joe hosts for meeting Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2389642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Don-Lemon-Angry-scaled-1024x724.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[36966,41580,34242,32171,45243],"class_list":["post-2389641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-don-lemon","tag-media-ethics","tag-morning-joe","tag-political-commentary","tag-trump-meeting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Don-Lemon-Angry-scaled-1024x724.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389645,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389641\/revisions\/2389645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}