Nicki Minaj makes crude, homophobic remarks about journalist Don Lemon, who was arrested for overlaying an anti-ICE protest.
Conservative commentator Katie Miller shares a clip of Minaj’s remarks, showing to endorse the homophobic language.
Lemon defends his reporting, stating he was merely chronicling the protest and had no affiliation with the group.
Nicki Minaj is taking her homophobia from social media to the actual world.
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MAGA commentator Katie Miller celebrated Don Lemon’s arrest by posting a clip that included a homophobic insult aimed on the former CNN host.
Stephen Miller’s spouse, a outstanding determine in conservative media, rapidly took to social media after information that Lemon was dealing with federal costs related to his protection of an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. She shared footage from an interview with rapper-turned-MAGA determine Nicki Minaj, through which the 2 appeared to snort together with a crude comment directed on the overtly homosexual journalist.
“You referred to as for Don Lemon’s arrest over his church stunt in Minneapolis; he’s since referred to as you racist, unhinged, homophobic, and out of your depth,” Miller requested. “Something you’d wish to say to Don Lemon?”
“c***sucker, cease,” Minaj replied, inflicting each girls to giggle.
The clip was posted shortly after reviews on Jan. 30 that Lemon had been taken into custody the evening prior for overlaying a Jan. 18 protest. The demonstration interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, the place protesters accused a pastor of cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Previous to his arrest, Lemon has maintained that his presence on the protest was protected by the First Modification, saying he was there to doc occasions, not to participate in them. His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, sharply criticized the arrest, calling it an “unprecedented assault” on press freedom.
“As an alternative of investigating the federal brokers who killed two peaceable Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Division is devoting its time, consideration, and assets to this arrest, and that’s the actual indictment of wrongdoing on this case,” Lowell added.
His arrest got here simply days after a Justice of the Peace decide dismissed the federal government’s preliminary try and prosecute Lemon, citing inadequate proof. Addressing the controversy in a video posted to social media, Lemon pushed again in opposition to his critics and defended his reporting.
“The MAGA administration and the faux information MAGAs are dropping their minds over one thing that’s not even true.”
“I had no affiliation with that group,” he continued. “I didn’t even know they had been going to this church till we adopted them. We had been there chronicling protests. As soon as the protest began within the church, we did an act of journalism—reporting on it and chatting with the individuals concerned, together with the pastor, members of the church, and members of the group. That’s it.”
As for Lemon’s back-and-forth with Minaj, her disdain for the reporter additionally began from his protection of the Anti-ICE protests.
“DON ‘C**Ok SUCKIN’ LEMON IS DISGUSTING. HOW DARE YOU? I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!!” she tweeted on the time. “HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!” She added an image of a Chucky doll to her publish.
The overtly homosexual journalist, who married his longtime accomplice Tim Malone in 2024, responded to the rapper in a press release to TMZ, saying, “I’m not stunned Nicki Minaj doesn’t perceive journalism and is weighing in on issues which can be above her capability. Nonetheless, the extra applicable picture for her publish is a ‘Decide Me’ Doll.”
