The Trump Bump Is Over

Poor Don Lemon.

He has a new book out about “racism.” No one is watching his show anymore though.

Time:

“Don Lemon, host of CNN’s Tonight with Don Lemon, has become a familiar voice of the day’s news. In his new book, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism, Lemon weaves little-known moments in American history such as Louisiana’s 1811 German Coast Slave Uprising and its brutal suppression with his own life story, the Baton Rouge-born youngest and only son of a close-knit family family which urged him to push against the constraints on Black life. The book ends with predictions about the American future, a suggested reading list and what to watch homework. …

Why this book—a social commentary about racism—now?

I just didn’t want to write a book that was about Trump, [that] in some way capitalized on what he was doing. Every day in the news I was covering what he was doing and that was enough of a release for me to be able to get it off my chest.

But, there wasn’t enough of a release for the indignities that we saw George Floyd suffer on camera, and what we were finding out about the details of Breonna Taylor, and about what happened in Charlottesville [in 2017]. …”

If memory serves, we went to Charlottesville to support the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson monuments in Lee Park and to oppose the Left’s war on American history.

Charlottesville had nothing to do with “racism.” We’ve been absolutely vindicated by subsequent events as the same insane people who opposed us in Charlottesville spent all of last summer rioting and canceling everything from the Washington Redskins to Aunt Jemima to neutering Mr. Potato Head and toppling statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and dragging them in the dirt.