CNN anchor Don Lemon declared a woman’s prime is in her 20s, 30s or “maybe her 40s” on Thursday’s “CNN This Morning.”
The comment, which gobsmacked his female co-hosts, was in reference to 51-year-old presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s recent claim that people over the age of 75 wishing to serve in the White House should have to prove mental competence. Her potential opponents in 2024, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, are 76 and 80, respectively.
“Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry,” Lemon, 56, said on air Thursday morning. ” A woman is said to be in her prime in her 20s, 30s and maybe 40s.”
Co-host Poppy Harlow, 40, asked quizzically “Wait … prime for what?”
The show’s third host, 30-year-old Kaitlan Collins, listened silently.
“If you google ‘when is a woman in her prime,’ it’ll say 20s, 30s and 40s,” Lemon continued. “I’m not saying I agree with that.”
Harlow sarcastically celebrated she’d barely made it in under the wire, according to Lemon’s logic, then pushed for an explanation.
“Are you talking about prime for child-bearing or are you talking about prime for being president?” Harlow asked.
Lemon doubled-down on his claim.
“Don’t shoot the messenger,” he said. “I’m just saying what the facts are.”
Social media jumped on Lemon’s statement, prompting a quasi-apology that didn’t go over well, either.
“The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it,” he tweeted Thursday afternoon. “A woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.”
As several Twitter users noted, Lemon’s “regret” tweet didn’t include the word “sorry” and made no mention of Haley, who shot back at Lemon on Twitter.
“To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+,” she responded.
CNN has not responded to a request for comment.
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Don Lemon…once a ****, always a ****!
Pity the gals either side of him, didn’t DO more about what he said!
Another Sour Lemon immature man showing how inexperienced in love making with secure older women, who thinks that NEITHER the content of woman’s character NOR the color of the skin counts so mcuh as the amount of stretch marks on her body and wrinkles on her face, both born of the anxiety of having to live Liberal as a life concept. The fact is that really beautiful women with the capability to live clean, peak out Physically in their mid-fiftites, many more attractive that they were in their 20s and thirties, and then as the bloom slowly comes off the body of the rose, it is more than compensated in the wisdom to use the knowledge of their life experiences to delay the onset of rapid pruning of the body and Biden’ing of the brain. Most also learn early the benfits of how to delay the immediate gratifications in order to get the long term benefits, neither I am certain being concepts of the kind of Women that Lemon taught himself to lust after and image in action whose only goal in life is to get the booty off the cutie as their prime manly duty, who get too soon old and too late smart, and much less deserved love out of life partners.
I guess all it takes to bring the feminists to life is a lemon. I hope he gets fired over it. Actually, I hope he gets fired over anything or nothing.
Whine,whine, whine. Engage brain before putting mouth in gear. Oops, obviously no brain to engage. This clown has made so many offensive statements, it’s time to fire his _ _ s
When he was on about ;Google their prime;, i DID.
THAT IS IN relation to women’s fertility. NOT THEIR MENTAL Acumen!
Lemon knows so little about women that he had to use ‘Google’ as his research source on the topic. How pathetic…
Just another liberal idiot proving he doesn’t believe most of what he says. If you ask Lemon what he thinks about Harris being vice president, he would undoubtedly give some glowing answer about how great it is. Liberals have proven over and over again they don’t believe their own B.S.
OR Maxine watters, nancy pelosi, Warren. O R ANY OF THE Other 50% + of those in congress, 65 and older!