One-time star CNN anchor Don Lemon is in a wild confrontation with Nicki Minaj after the rapper used a homosexual slur whereas calling for him to be imprisoned for livestreaming anti-ICE protesters as they stormed a Minnesota church service.
Minaj referred to as the overtly homosexual ex-CNN anchor “DON ‘C—Okay SUCKING LEMON” in an X tirade Monday, labeling him “DISGUSTING” for livestreaming the raid that interrupted a Sunday service.
“HOW DARE YOU? I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!” the “Anaconda” rapper posted together with a picture of Chucky the doll from the horror film franchise.
Lemon hit again on TikTok, calling Minaj “unhinged” and “homophobic” and suggesting she was being hypocritical given her personal immigration historical past.
“Nicki Minaj, cease speaking about s–t for which you understand nothing about. You’re out of your depth, by the way in which, and you’re a homophobic bigot,” Lemon stated.
Lemon additionally stated that Minaj — who’s from Trinidad and Tobago and revealed in 2024 that she is just not a US citizen — needs to be “deported beneath Donald Trump’s guidelines.”
“You don’t care about African Individuals and also you’re not an African American,” he shot again.
He then took intention at Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, for being a registered intercourse offender and her brother, Jelani Maraj, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail for raping his stepdaughter.
“Nicki Minaj, get a life. Cease being a ‘decide me.’ It is best to have put a pick-me doll on that rattling tweet as a substitute of a Chucky doll, since you are nothing however a decide me. And I decide. I select to not decide you. And so ought to black individuals, and so ought to homosexual individuals. [They] shouldn’t purchase your music. Clock that,” he stated.
Minaj, 43, later stated she “purposely” made the put up about Lemon, 59, so abrasive as a result of “that may be the one strategy to get the c—ok suckas to put up about it.”
“They might’ve all collectively ignored the despicable conduct displayed by Lemon head,” she posted, promising “they’re about to get angrier.”
Lemon obtained widespread criticism for livestreaming the raucous church takeover by dozens of protesters — after which hiding behind the First Modification as a journalist regardless of a video he filmed of himself admitting he knew of the anti-ICE mob’s plans prematurely.
The Division of Justice warned Lemon he’d been placed on discover over allegations and stated they’re investigating the demonstration.
“A home of worship is just not a public discussion board in your protest! It’s a house protected against precisely such acts by federal prison and civil legal guidelines! Nor does the First Modification shield your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Division’s assistant lawyer normal for civil rights, chided Lemon on X.
“You’re on discover!” she wrote, noting in a follow-up put up that the FBI has been “activated” and accusing the protesters of “desecrating a home of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”
The protesters descended on the church searching for the resident pastor, David Easterwood, whom they accused of moonlighting because the performing native discipline workplace director for ICE.
The pastor’s private info seems to match that of the David Easterwood recognized in courtroom filings because the performing director of the ICE St. Paul discipline workplace, in line with ABC Information.
