The web was on fireplace final week after former President Barack Obama seemingly had a chuckle with Donald Trump on the funeral for late President Jimmy Carter earlier this month.
Although many have speculated on what the pair have been discussing, one individual specifically was wholly irate on the change: former CNN host Don Lemon.
The journalist initially took to his YouTube channel to deal with “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s phase that aired on Friday (Jan. 10) about the way to act round Trump.
Scarborough and Brzezinski, who’re longtime critics of the President-elect, additionally met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November.
“It’s a must to point out to the American people who this isn’t regular … grinning with somebody that you’ve referred to as a fascist over the past couple of years and the final months. That’s not regular,” Lemon said.
“People are bored with the conduct being normalized. Civility doesn’t imply befriending individuals or forgoing your morals and your rules and your character. If somebody disrespects my cherished one, I don’t must smile of their f****ng face!”
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Lemon directed his ire towards Obama for speaking with Trump as they sat subsequent to one another at Carter’s funeral. All through Obama’s consecutive presidential phrases, Trump repeatedly demanded to see Obama’s beginning certificates to show that he was a U.S. citizen.
“Folks had many, many questions…How might Barack Obama, the person who confronted vicious, racist conspiracies for years due to Trump, act so buddy-buddy with him? Does he not bear in mind birtherism?” Lemon requested.
The journalist additionally defined that Democrats referred to as Trump “a fascist, an autocrat, a risk to democracy for months,” and that Obama’s pleasantries with him contradict this stance.
Obama beforehand said in October {that a} second Trump presidency could be “harmful” and that “In politics, a great rule of thumb is: Don’t say you wish to do something like Hitler.”
Nevertheless, after Trump gained the presidential election in November, Obama and his spouse Michelle urged Individuals to return collectively to have a easy political transition.
“That is clearly not the result we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on an entire host of points,” the joint assertion learn.
“However residing in a democracy is about recognizing that our standpoint gained’t all the time win out, and being keen to simply accept the peaceable switch of energy.”