Panelists on Fox News show Gutfeld! mocked journalist Don Lemon for making a video that appeared to take shots at Melania Trump over her reaction to former President Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
On Tuesday, the former first lady posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, discussing the "horrible and distressing experience" of the attempt on her husband's life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. In the video, Melania Trump also questioned why the Secret Service did not arrest Thomas Matthew Crooks before he began shooting.
In response, Lemon, a former CNN anchor, shared a video of him pulling faces and rolling his eyes as he watched Melania Trump's video. Lemon posted the video to TikTok and YouTube but appears to have deleted it from his social platforms.
Lemon's video received huge backlash, with some social media users branding it "sick."
Newsweek has emailed representatives of Lemon for comment.
Speaking on his eponymous show, Greg Gutfeld described Lemon's video as: "A gruesome schtick from a callous p***k. Don Lemon rolls his eyes watching Melania agonize. Our video today comes from the destitute d*****bag known as Don Lemon who mocked a recent post from former first lady Melania Trump demanding answers to her husband's assassination attempt."
Gutfeld's show guests also took shots at Lemon.
Asked by Gutfeld what would happen if a Republican mocked President Joe Biden after "Joe was nearly assassinated, say by a set of stairs," commentator and Trump's former White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said: "That person would lose their job, but, oh wait, Don Lemon already lost his job. So he would have lost it a second time."
After 17 years, Lemon was fired from CNN in April 2023 after accusations of misogyny and misbehavior.
McEnany continued by saying that she used to love laughing at Lemon's CNN show, adding that with this latest video, Lemon has gone from "unintended satire to just being mean."
"I mean who does that," McEnany said of Lemon's video. "That was purely mean-spirited. She learned in live, real time, during a rally watching her husband that he had been shot."
Columnist and regular Gutfeld! panelist Kat Timpf added to the discussion, explaining that she found it hard to understand why Lemon would scoff at a woman describing her husband's assassination attempt "distressing."
"That shouldn't be controversial. I don't care who you are. If your husband is almost killed, I think that's fair to call that distressing," Timpf said. She added that she hoped Lemon was drunk when he made the video because "if he did that sober, that's so much worse."
Wondering what Lemon was thinking when he made the video, Gutfeld joked: "It's hard to read his mind when there's so little of it."
Dana Perino, who was White House press secretary under George W. Bush between 2007 and 2009, said Lemon's video proved that some people need producers.
"Now you realize why some people need a producer and they need handlers. Because left to your own devices you're going to do something like this that makes everybody mad and makes everyone realize how much he sucks," Perino said.
Rounding off the discussion, Gutfeld said: "If you left Don Lemon to his own devices, he'd end up in the ER."
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