‘Is This A Joke?’: Don Lemon Struggles To Process Trump Becoming Time Magazine’s ‘Person Of The Year’

Former CNN host Don Lemon struggled to comprehend Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time Magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.”

The magazine has awarded the president-elect with this title for the second time, the first being after he defeated former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. Lemon questioned whether or not the public is “being scammed” as there is no possibility that Trump could be eligible to be given this title.

“Now when you think about what encompasses ‘Person of the Year,’ just because you are elected President of the United States does not mean you should be ‘Person of the Year.’ Time Magazine, what are you doing?” Lemon asked. “Let me ask you Time Magazine, what do you say to the women who I guess still read Time Magazine? … What about the women who are on that list? I’m sure some of them will have dealt with issues that women have to deal with, like discrimination in the workplace, , all kinds of things? You have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated assaulter, you have someone who inspired an insurrection, you have someone who without a doubt, the evidence is there, tried to overturn a free and fair election. You had someone who had multiple criminal counts and found guilty on multiple criminal counts.”

“And you name ‘Person of the Year.’ Is this a joke? Did we get something wrong? Did someone scam us? Are we sure about this, producers?” Lemon continued. “There is a convicted felon on the cover of Time Magazine as ‘Person of the Year.’ Maybe we’re being scammed. Did someone put out a fake tweet or something about this?”

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