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‘People keep asking’: Don Lemon says he’s ‘serious’ about White House run

July 17, 2026 | | Print Article

Talk about hubris, fired CNN prima donna Don Lemon apparently believes he is presidential timber — and while he decries needing to “beg for money,” odds are good that Lemon understands the flexibility of campaign finance laws.

The left-wing ideologue appeared on an episode of the podcast Can’t Be Censored, hosted by Karman Wong and Travis Dhanraj, and claimed that people keep pestering him to run for president.

Dhanraj asked his guest if he has any “political ambition,” and Lemon went straight to the top.

“No, but people keep asking me if I’m running for president,” Lemon said. “And I don’t know. I might. I’m serious. I don’t know. I might, because people keep asking me to do it, or if I’m going to do it.”

“I look around, you know, and I see the folks who are, you know, possibly in the running, and some of them are impressive. Many of them — most of them — are not,” he continued. “And it seems, in this day and age, you don’t have to have a ton of political experience because our current president has none — had none. That’s very obvious.”

Lemon went on to say that Trump “could have done a better job if he actually listened to people, but he doesn’t, and he thinks he knows everything,” before adding that he “would be a really good president of the United States.”

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When Dhanraj pressed Lemon about being serious, he replied, “I’m being totally serious,” adding that it would take the people wanting him to run.

“What it would take is if I ran a political campaign, a presidential campaign, I would like to run it — and I don’t know if this is realistic or not — without having to beg for money,” he added.

Lemon is well aware of the notoriety a presidential campaign could bring, and in the world he exists in, this is as valuable a currency as cold hard cash. As for his chances of winning? That search can begin somewhere south of zero.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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