Former CNN anchor Don Lemon may have focused on being an independent journalist after being fired from CNN in 2023, but he might have even more ambitious plans in mind for the future.
On the March 29 episode of the podcast “Pod Save America,” Lemon discussed his potential political future with guest host Alex Wagner, and a presidential run was discussed.
“Do I ever think about it? Yes. Could it happen? Yeah, it could happen if the opportunity presented itself, the right opportunity presented itself,” Lemon said. “Look, if I wanted to … I know people are going to think I’m crazy, this is going to be the headline and people are going to laugh about it, I think I could be president of the United States.”
“Look, why can’t I think about running for office? Why can’t I think about being President of the United States?” he also said. “Did anybody think Barack Obama, as he says, this guy with a funny name, from a mixed background, did anybody ever think that he would become president, that he had that aspiration? I don’t have an aspiration to become president, but I do think that I could run this country a lot better than Donald Trump.”
Lemon also said that his race would make things more challenging for him as a candidate.
“I’m not a white man and the rules are different for me,” he said. “And so just like the rules, I believe, sadly are different for women. They’re different for Hillary Clinton, for Nikki Haley, they’re different for Kamala Harris, they’re different for Alex Wagner, and white men get away with way more than women or Black people or any minority.”
Watch the episode of “Pod Save America” below.
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