Don Lemon Throws a Temper Tantrum Over Trump Being Named TIME’s Person of the Year

LEMON: “Now, if they wanted to make someone person of the year, they would have made someone who — and my God, I’m sure he loves this, right? If they wanted to make someone person of the year, I don’t know, they could have done it to — with any person, people who — they could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country. Now, you think about what encompasses person of the year. Just because you are elected president of the United States does not mean that you should be person of a year. What — Time Magazine, what are you doing? Let me ask you, Time Magazine, what do you say to the women who, I, guess, still read Time Magazine, or the women who are — don’t they do like a whole TIME 100 thing or something, which, you know — what about the women who are on that list? What about that? I’m sure some of them will have had dealt with issues that women have to deal with, like discrimination in the workplace, SA, all kinds of things. You have someone one on the cover of your magazine who is in 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 have someone who had multiple criminal counts and found guilty on multiple criminal counts. And you name them person of the year. Is this a joke? Did we get something wrong? Did someone scam us? Are we sure about this, producers? There is a convicted felon on the cover of Time Magazine as the person of the year. Maybe we’re being scammed. Did someone put out a fake tweet or something about this?”