Don Lemon sparks fury with wild rant calling white men ‘broken’ – despite being married

Don Lemon lashed out at white men in an unhinged rant on his latest podcast episode as he blamed them as the cause of mass violence ‘nearly every single time.’

The 59-year-old former CNN host – who is married to a white man – was discussing the recent decisions to send federal troops to Democrat-run cities and cases of gun violence when he launched into the tirade. 

Lemon asked: ‘White men, are you okay? You’re sending troops, National Guard to cities. You keep talking about ooh, Chicago and black on black crime. I wanna’ know: White men, are you okay?’

‘That is the real issue here. Because this country keeps waking up to bodies in the pews, blood on the floor, gunfire in public places and the faces behind the trigger looks the same nearly every single time. This is just the truth, I don’t care if you get mad about it.’

The host said he was wondering if there were something truly ‘cracked’ with white men, a question he has pondered before back when he was still a CNN employee.

‘So let’s say it plain right here: white men, something is broken, something is cracked deep inside when so many of you believe the answer to fear, to loss, to change is violence. Are you listening to me? I hope I’m saying it loud enough for the people in the back.’

Lemon was branded as a racist to many reacting to the clip, as well as a hypocrite.

‘So much of Don Lemon’s life is centered around the idea that white men suck,’ wrote conservative commentator Jesse Kelly on X. 

Don Lemon lashed out at white men as a whole on his podcast, saying they are the cause of mass violence ‘nearly every single time’

The 59-year-old former CNN host – who is married to a white man – was discussing both the recent decisions to send federal troops to Democrat-run cities and cases of gun violence

Brigitte Gabriel asked: ‘Don Lemon is now blaming white men for violence in America. How is this not considered racism?’

One account also pointed out: ‘Don Lemon, whose husband is a white man.’

Lemon, 58, tied the knot with Tim Malone, 40, last year at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.

The ceremony took place half a decade after they got engaged and on the same day as his fiancé’s birthday.

Alleged sex pest broadcaster Matt Lauer, fired CNN boss Jeff Zucker and actor Alec Baldwin were among the illustrious attendees. 

Their intimate ceremony comes eight years after the pair first started dating after meeting at Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton, New York.

It was previously reported that Don’s axing from CNN in April 2023 caused ‘arguments’ between the lovebirds.

Lemon, 58, tied the knot with Tim Malone, 40, in 2024 at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City 

The veteran anchor was sensationally sacked amid a furious controversy over his ‘sexist’ and ‘misogynistic’ behavior.

While Don’s axing has reportedly caused friction between him and his partner, an insider said at the time that Tim was sticking by the former CNN anchor and ‘knows that he is not misogynistic.’

‘[Tim] says that [Don] is just gay with a very dry, harsh and sarcastic sense of humor,’ they said at the time.

In fact, once the pair overcame the shock of Don’s sacking, they began to get ‘excited’ about the prospect of having more time together.

‘To be honest, they are actually kind of excited that Don gets to be home with their dogs now, as their dogs are their life,’ they added. ‘Tim has said that now Don gets to play house-husband.

‘Tim says that Don was not happy there for a while and that he was worked to the bone. This is a much needed break for him.’

This is far from the first time Lemon has blamed white men for society’s ills. 

In 2018, speaking with his now fellow-CNN exile Chris Cuomo, he said: ‘We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.’

Cuomo, a white man who is the son of one Democratic governor of New York and brother to another, looked on impassively as Lemon carried on. 

‘There is no travel ban on them,’ Lemon said. ‘There is no ban on… you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no ‘white guy ban.’ So what do we do about that?’

Cuomo told Lemon he was ‘making the right point.’ 

The pair were discussing the fatal shooting of two black shoppers in Kentucky in 2018, in what has been classified a hate crime.