CNN is being dragged over a shocking remark by one of its commentators, suggesting the “MAGA movement” needs to be fumigated and removed like a “cancer.”
Bakari Sellers, a frequent CNN contributor, told a panel on “The Don Lemon Show” that an “exorcism” was needed to remove the nation of supporters of President Donald Trump, conjuring up the horror of the Holocaust with his thoughts of wiping out those who think differently than himself and other Democrats.
Bakari Sellers tells Don Lemon: The country needs a “fumigation” of MAGA.
Is this acceptable rhetoric from your panelists, @CNN? pic.twitter.com/yYu4ubBetx
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 7, 2026
Referring to former President Joe Biden as a “bridge” and a “palate cleanser,” Sellers claimed the mentally addled Democrat was “morally and ethically antithetical” to Trump.
“You know, Unlce Joe was the nice guy, the older white guy comes in and you wanna eat ice cream with him, right?” the former politician and author continued.
“What I think that that episode on our country’s history showed us is that we really need some fumigation,” Sellers shockingly suggested, with some members of the panel nodding in agreement.
“We need an exorcism, for lack of a better term. We need a more aggressive approach to go in and surgically remove the cancer that is the Donald Trump and MAGA movement,” he said.
Sellers, a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, was slammed on social media for his dangerous rhetoric, with many X users pointing out that Democrats accusing Trump and his supporters of being Nazis should look in the mirror.
“Fumigation”? Like with Zyklon B?
You know that thing about them accusing the right of what they’re doing?
Yah. This has literal Nazi overtones, from the party accusing the right of being “Nazis”.
— Kevin M. Nelson (@KevinMNelsonUSA) February 7, 2026
Imagine if Scott Jennings said this about Democrats.
There’d be an all out campaign to get him fired.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 7, 2026
Fumigation is what an exterminator uses to kill pests.
Is he equating MAGA Republicans to pests which need to be mass terminated?
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) February 7, 2026
People you disagree with must be ‘removed.’
I feel like there’s a name for this.
— Another Regular Dog (@Pupontheright) February 7, 2026
This kind of talk won’t rile up the mentally unstable, will it now @CNN?
— Leesa B. Sarcasm (@LeesaBaccellie4) February 7, 2026
“Fumigation”?
From the group that calls Conservatives Nazi’s?
The Left observe what can only be described as an Inverse Reality.
— _RTZ_ (@Shannon_RTZ) February 7, 2026
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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