Former CNN anchor Don Lemon had previously defended the trans-identifying community, but he undermined that activism when he used the term "trans" as an insult.

Lemon was being interviewed on the “Clip Farmers” podcast when they started mocking the ladies of MAGA. When they arrived at former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, he unleashed the T-word.

'I thought that you couldn't tell if someone is trans. Can't be all about identity and then use it as an insult.'

"I think she looks trans," said Lemon to the shocked hosts.

"Let’s end on that note," said one of the podcast hosts.

"She looks clockable," he added, which is a term to deride trans-identifying people who do not pass for the gender they choose.

The video was widely circulated on social media, where many lambasted Lemon over his comments.

"Don Lemon commenting on how women look? Peak absurdity," replied Charles Gasparino.

"Don Lemon is unbearable to listen to. No wonder he’s been fired from every company he’s been lucky enough to get hired by and had to start a YouTube channel of his own and it’s awful too," read one response.

"I thought that you couldn't tell if someone is trans. Can't be all about identity and then use it as an insult. Funny," said another detractor.

“Asking Don Lemon if a woman is hot is like asking a vegan to recommend a good steakhouse," joked another user.

Lemon had characterized conservative bans on pornographic books in public schools as transphobic in comments from 2023.

“So let’s just be real. These book bans are rooted in anti-blackness and transphobia and queerphobia,” he said at the time.

He also criticized bills restricting drag shows and defended trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney during the Bud Light woke controversy.

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Megyn Kelly reminds America: Jimmy Kimmel wore blackface — yet she was the one canceled

Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension from ABC for his vile comments regarding Charlie Kirk after his passing began a free-speech discussion on the left — but Megyn Kelly isn’t buying it.

“I think I’m in the minority, but I’m totally in favor of what Brendan Carr did last week. 100% in favor,” Kelly tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“They have to feel our pain. Why, whenever we’re in control, do we take the high ground only to get beaten to a pulp again once they’re back in control, and we continue to say, ‘Oh, these are our principles. We’re going to live them in order to make clear to everybody we really hold them,’” Kelly explains.

“And then they just get used against us,” she adds.

Now, people on the left are losing their minds over censorship, big government, and free speech.

“You and I haven’t moved at all on our principles,” she tells Glenn. “We hate lawfare. We hate government censorship. We don’t believe hate speech is problematic. It’s perfectly legal. It’s constitutional. It’s kind of why the First Amendment was invented.”

“However, it’s the left that’s drifted from those principles, not us. And now the question is, how do we wrestle the country back to stasis — back to the old stasis prior to the left losing its mind? And I am really just firmly of the belief now that they must be brought to heel. Again, not with physical violence, but with the same tactics in terms of policy and approach in governing that they use against us,” she explains.

And while Kimmel wasn’t even fired, she can’t think of anyone who deserved the warning more.

“Those tears out on that stage were for him. What a joke. That crying, whiny baby. He has celebrated everyone on the right’s cancellation. He danced on our professional graves, and he has the nerve to want us to feel sorry for him because he had a five-day paid vacation,” Kelly says.

“When I got canceled at NBC for literally asking a question about blackface Halloween costumes ... and why, when I grew up in the 70s and 80s, you could wear those like if you wanted to honor Diana Ross or Michael Jordan and not get canceled, but clearly in, you know, the 2000s, things had changed. And that was my question,” she explains.

“It got me canceled at NBC. Did Jimmy Kimmel at the time come out and say, ‘You know what? This is BS. I’ve got to admit, I wore blackface many times.’ Jimmy did, not me. ‘That I’ve worn it repeatedly as Karl Malone. I wore it as Oprah in a fat suit,’” she continues, noting that Kimmel was openly “mocking black people.”

“He didn’t say a word. He let me twist in the wind. ... Why should any of us feel sorry for him? He’s totally pro the cancellation of anybody whose politics he doesn’t share,” she says, adding, “so I’m thrilled he felt some pain last week.”

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Liberals conveniently forget how many people they've canceled in the last decade

Liberals are up in arms about Jimmy Kimmel's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" getting suspended by broadcaster ABC, claiming conservatives have been hypocritical over the ordeal.

Kimmel found himself in hot water after claiming that Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was of the same political tribe as Kirk, saying, "The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

'Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?'

Even President Barack Obama has spoken out about Kimmel, saying on X, "After years of complaining about cancel culture," the Trump administration has "taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like."

However, the liberal elites and their late-night mouthpieces have seemingly forgotten about the high-profile cancellations that have occurred in recent years, especially those involving people on the other side of the political spectrum.

For instance, Roseanne Barr had her iconic 2018 comeback stymied over what were considered by the media to be "racist tweets."

Barr's show "Roseanne" had a thunderous return to the very same airwaves as Kimmel on ABC, but even though she had the most-watched show of the year, she was still booted from her own creation.

Barr even responded to President Obama's post on Thursday, saying, "Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?" referring to the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.

The comedian is just one of many personalities who lost their jobs as a result of their speech.

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Who can forget that Gina Carano, also employed by Disney, was fired in February 2021 after she made posts online that mocked the use of pronouns while also criticizing COVID-19 policies?

She was promptly kicked from Disney's "The Mandalorian," with studio Lucasfilm saying, "Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."

Tucker Carlson was famously fired by Fox News in April 2023 for what some say was a result of his hammering of the January 6, 2021, investigations. However, Carlson claimed his firing was a requirement of the $787.5 million settlement Fox had agreed to with Dominion Voting Systems.

Another conveniently forgotten cancellation from the left was Alex Jones, who was simultaneously taken off of every major platform in 2018. YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and Facebook all took Jones' Infowars off their sites for allegedly promoting violence and hate speech.

Jones' take on Sandy Hook, Comet Pizza, and the Parkland, Florida, shootings were cited as reasons for removing Jones not from just radio stations, but from entire platforms that are meant to be public for all.

J. K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot, 2025. Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage

Author J.K. Rowling was blacklisted from a reunion for her own project in 2021 over her unwillingness to accept males as females. She was also banned from certain "Harry Potter" projects for the same reason.

Almost every star of "Harry Potter" has condemned Rowling's comments and views, which have amounted to, essentially, not wanting trans-identifying men to be allowed in women's spaces.

Liberals certainly did not shed any tears for Megyn Kelly when she was fired by NBC in 2018. The morning show host dared to say that if a non-black person wanted to dress as a black character for Halloween, it should be allowed.

"Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character," she said, per the Associated Press.

Leftists did not defend Kelly then and treated the situation as if she had been advocating for the mockery of all black people.

Last but not least, BlazeTV's own Glenn Beck departed from Fox News Channel in 2011 at the behest of Media Matters. In fact, not only did the activist group proudly claim the victory, but executives openly said they would monitor whoever replaced Beck.

"We monitor Beck's 5 p.m. show on Fox. Whoever is in at 5 p.m., we’re still going to monitor,” said Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt.

Though Beck was drawing in more than 2 million viewers per show at the time, Media Matters targeted the show's advertisers, which eventually caved.

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'Exactly what he wanted': Charlie Kirk's widow is taking over as CEO of Turning Point USA

Erika Kirk, the widow of assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, stated shortly after her husband's death, "They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love. But they should all know this: If you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea — you have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country."

'We will not surrender or kneel before evil. We will carry on.'

"You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife," continued Mrs. Kirk. "The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry. To everyone listening tonight across America: The movement my husband built will not die. It won't. I refuse to let that happen."

Megyn Kelly, one of the fallen patriot's friends to guest-host "The Charlie Kirk Show" in Phoenix this week, revealed on Thursday with the show's executive producer, Andrew Kolvet, that Kirk's widow will take a leading role in fulfilling Charlie's mission — as CEO and board chair of Turning Point USA.

"This is exactly what he wanted," said Kolvet.

"It had to be, right?" said Kelly. "I don't think anybody would accept a leader of the organization who they didn't feel completely understood Charlie and would be 100% dedicated to fulfilling his vision for where this group is going."

Kirk's chief of staff, Michael McCoy, said, "She's our retribution."

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Erika Kirk, the founder of the nonprofit Everyday Heroes Like You and the mother of the late CEO's two children, will helm an organization that has a presence at over 3,500 American schools, over 2,000 TPUSA student groups, and over 800 TPUSA faith groups. Kolvet recently indicated that TPUSA has been inundated with well over 37,000 new chapter requests.

According to its tax filings, TPUSA's revenue for the fiscal year ending June 2024 was $85 million.

The TPUSA board indicated that Erika Kirk's election was unanimous.

"All of us at Turning Point USA have a special role in carrying Charlie Kirk's mantle and completing his vision of bringing us all closer to our Lord and fostering a prosperous country for generations to come," the board said in a statement.

"As Charlie always said, 'We have a country to save.' We will not surrender or kneel before evil. We will carry on," continued the board. "The attempt to destroy Charlie's work will become our chance to make it more powerful and enduring than ever before."

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‘Raw courage’: Megyn Kelly remembers Charlie Kirk

Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly were holding on to hope that the shooting of Charlie Kirk was not fatal while in the middle of recording an episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

But it was during that episode that they got the horrific news: Their friend was assassinated at just 31 years old.

Days later, the news is no less shocking.

“I still don’t feel like I have my arms around it,” Megyn tells Glenn. “I don’t feel like I’ve totally digested the fact that he’s gone and the way in which he was taken. You know, Charlie truly was such a larger-than-life figure.”

“We say that term, but it was true about him. At 6’5”, he truly seemed larger than most of us. And he was, in his gifts and his tirelessness and just knowing exactly where the seam in every story was. And his raw courage,” she continues.

“You'd look at Charlie and you’d think, ‘Now that’s true courage,’” she adds.

Charlie said what others were afraid to say, and he said it with a kindness that softened even some of the more radical leftists on college campuses.

However, he was also widely misunderstood.

“He took a lot of slings and arrows for it and was demonized for being all the terrible things as opposed to people taking him on and saying, ‘Does he have a point?’” Megyn says.

“Megyn, how do we process this? How do we surface from this?” Glenn interjects.

“I think, as with any loss, we all have to go through the denial and the bargaining, you know, like I’m still refreshing my X account like hoping somehow there’s a reversal, you know, like somehow it was all wrong. Somehow we got it all wrong,” she answers.

“That’s a natural reaction when you’ve had a sudden loss in particular. And anger’s completely appropriate now, too,” she says, adding, “It’s completely appropriate.”

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Conservatives rally to Trump’s defense

On Thursday the Wall Street Journal released a story which purports to show that Donald Trump wrote Jeffrey Epstein a raunchy 50th birthday greeting for a book Ghislaine Maxwell put together. Trump has strongly denied the reporting and has threatened to sue the outlet.

Conservatives are rallying to Trump’s defense, calling the reporting into question. Vice President JD Vance laid into the Journal, saying, “Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bulls**t. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it,” in a post on X.

'This is not how Trump talks at all. I don’t believe it.'

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Vance further called on the Journal to provide the actual proof: “Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?”

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also called the report into question. In a post on X, Kirk said, “This is not how Trump talks at all. I don’t believe it.”

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After the Journal’s report was published, Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec cast doubt on any link between Trump and Epstein’s sordid schemes. Posobiec said in a post on X, “If Trump was in the Epstein files it would have been released a decade ago and there wouldn't have been any need to make up a fake Russian hooker dossier.”

In a different X post Posobiec also questioned the Journal’s reporting: “Trump doesn’t talk like this at all. And this was several years before Epstein was originally arrested.”

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Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly also doubted the voracity of the reporting, stating on X, “This is the dumbest attempted hit piece I’ve ever read.”

While mainstream media outlets are continuing to find ways to try and tie Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, conservatives are not buying it. After the Russia collusion hoax, baseless impeachments, and more from Trump’s initial run for president, conservatives are openly calling “bulls**t” on the media’s reporting as they rally to Trump's defense.

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