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Former NCS anchor Don Lemon has added himself to the listing of excessive profile figures hinting at a presidential run in 2028.
Lemon, who was abruptly fired from the community in April, 2023, told Can’t Be Censored podcast hosts Travis Dhanraj and Karman Won that he is perhaps critical about operating for president in 2028.
Dhanraj requested Lemon whether or not he has political ambitions, to which Lemon responded: “No, but people keep asking if I’m running for president, and I don’t know; I might. I’m serious. I don’t know; I might because people keep asking me to do it, or if I’m going to do it.”
Lemon went on to say that he’s not impressed by the general public who’re serious about operating, and that this present day, citing President Donald Trump, folks don’t want vital political expertise to run.
“I actually think I would be a really good President of the United States,” the previous NCS anchor informed the podcast hosts.
Lemon was let go from NCS in 2023 following a collection of tense occasions on the community and in his private life.
He had run his personal flagship present Don Lemon Tonight for eight years, earlier than being placed on a panel present with different anchors. After that, colleagues began to complain of behind-the-scenes altercations and uncomfortable feedback made on air, per People reporting.
Since leaving the community he has began his personal media firm, Lemon Media Network, the place he has accrued 1.4 million YouTube subscribers, 2.8 million Instagram followers and a couple of.4 million followers on TikTok.
Lemon, who was one in all broadcast information’ first overtly homosexual Black anchors, has additionally been an outspoken activist since leaving NCS. He is presently awaiting trial over charges for filming an anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) rally at a church.
Don Lemon chatting with the media after being charged by Lemon with civil rights crimes over protection of immigration protests in Minneapolis, on January 30. (AFP/Getty)
The information anchor mentioned he was arrested in the midst of the night time for “something that I have been doing for the last 30 years and that is covering the news”.
The protestors whom he was masking interrupted a Minnesota church service in January after accusing the pastor of working with ICE. Lemon, alongside different journalists, was current to cowl the protest, after which charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and interfering with spiritual freedoms.
This just isn’t the primary time he has teased a presidential run. When talking on a panel on the Harry Evans Truth Tellers summit in London in May he informed panel host Kara Swisher that he would consider entering politics.
Another former NCS contributor, Tucker Carlson, has additionally been talked about in terms of who may run within the 2028 presidential election. If he had been to run, it’s unclear what celebration he would run beneath, as he has mentioned he cut ties with the Republican party resulting from his public disagreements with Trump.
Trump is a former media determine, having run The Apprentice on NBC for 13 years, and an everyday function throughout movie and TV within the early 2000s. President Ronald Reagan and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had been additionally media figures earlier than operating for workplace, having each been actors.