Don Lemon’s arrest Thursday night did not hit a sour note for the White House.
The White House celebrated the independent journalist’s arrest with a post on X, according the Mediaite.
The official White House account posted a photo of Lemon reporting on Minnesota anti-ICE protesters as they stormed a church service in St. Paul.
The post included a caption — “When life gives you lemons…” as well as a silver chain emoji.
“DON LEMON ARRESTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE ST. PAUL CHURCH RIOTS” was over a photo of Lemon.
Lemon, formerly of CNN, has state he was not a protester, but a journalist covering the protests in Minneapolis.
He has been working as an independent journalist he was fired by CNN in 2023.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X, “Early this morning, @FBI and @HSI_HQ partners arrested four individuals in connection to the January 18 coordinated targeting of Cities Church in Minnesota: Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy.
Fort, a Minneapolis-based independent journalist, live-streamed her arrest by federal agents.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote “more details soon” in her post on X where she announced the arrests.
Many have criticized the arrests as an affront to the First Amendment.
Journalist Chuck Todd wrote, “When the desire to ‘own the libs’ leads the executive branch to celebrate a blatant violation of someone’s Constitutional rights. And the media puppets celebrating this are proving they have no interest in protecting speech. They only want THEIR speech protected not the speech of people they disagree with.”
In a separate post, Todd wrote, “The fact the WH press shop wants to focus on this Don Lemon arrest shows you how much they want (or need to create) any shiny metal object to distract from this disastrous month and week Trump has had.”
Others also commented on the White House’s post:
