CNN’s Don Lemon has no regrets about calling President Donald Trump a racist. Lemon used the term to describe Trump on his “CNN Tonight” show in January, following reports the president had called Haiti and some African nations “shithole” countries. “The president of the United States is racist. On Friday, Lemon told an audience at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology Summit in New York it was his “obligation as a journalist” to have done so. “It’s tough when you have more respect for the office than the person who’s sitting in the office,” Lemon said.

Source: Huffington Post May 05, 2018 07:06 UTC