Don lemon has to respond to homophobic comments from, well, Nicki Minaj. There's an update. Here it is. So people have been asking me about, responding to Nicki Minaj's unhinged, [00:00:16] homophobic tweet about me. I usually don't respond to this stuff, but let me just say this Nicki Minaj stopped talking about for which you know nothing about this is out of your out of your depth, by the way, and you are a homophobic bigot. [00:00:31] You don't care about African Americans. You're not an African American. From what I know, you are reportedly an undocumented citizen, so you should be deported under Donald Trump's rules. And the other thing is that your family members, you have one family member who is reportedly a sex offender, [00:00:47] the other family member or your husband or whatever a sex offender is your husband, and one of them is reportedly a pedophile. And you have nerve to talk about me and what you think that I do? Nicki Minaj. [00:01:05] Get a life. Stop being a pick me. Put up the picture. Full mast. Some interesting and relevant. Things to note. One. The statement was offered in criticism. [00:01:27] And in opposition to the humanity of Don lemon. So let's be clear about the context of the statement. Okay, whatever that brother does in his own relationship [00:01:43] is his business as a consenting adult with another consenting adult. Period. We assume Nicki Minaj believed the same. In addition to that, her public about face. To embrace the standards or lack of standards of MAGA [00:02:04] has also been trending in the news. I think there's a connection. I will explain in a moment. Let me give you the background to how it started January 18th. A video posted online by Black Lives Matter. This was a Minnesota protest. [00:02:21] Minnesota protesters entering city's church in Saint Paul, where they said one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is the acting field director of the Saint [00:02:37] Paul Ice Field Office on Saturday. Lemon shared a video on his social media accounts of him interviewing protesters in Minneapolis. This was before they interrupted a local church service chanting, quote, [00:02:55] ice out and demanding justice for Renee. Good. I want you to keep that picture up, Jordan, because I've seen, governmental entities. I've seen. Moderate political individuals who have been duped and I've seen conservatives [00:03:14] or those on the MAGA right who are intentionally misleading this issue. They will post this and they will say, look, protesters have come to churches in order to target our fearless Ice [00:03:34] officers, and they are disrupting service. Damn lie, this government under the Trump administration decided as policy, as policy to rip away the sanctity of all [00:03:52] churches, all religious institutions, in order for their federal agents to have complete and unfettered access to them in order to violate the rights of people there. [00:04:07] That was Trump. So if there has been any disruption, please know the disruption came by way of the federal policy that has been enacted under Donald Trump today. Those who are protesting are not protesting the church. They are protesting the church. [00:04:24] And the policy that has been allowed and for some churches has not even been well opposed. It's a damn shame. And for those Christian evangelicals who are commenting, and you are now, somehow, [00:04:44] being self-righteous and moralizing against peaceful protesters, I want to remind you of you, of the Christian faith. It was Yeshua who went inside of a church, a synagogue, and flipped over tables there. Destroyed property. He wasn't protesting synagogue, per se. [00:05:02] He was protesting the policies that they were expressing. There's more. Put it up. So interesting enough, Easterwood was [00:05:20] not the church at the time of the protest, according to the Black Lives Matter, Minnesota Jonathan Parnell. He was not at the church at the time, but Jonathan Parnell is the church's pastor. Jonathan can be seen talking to protesters in the video, [00:05:39] quote, someone who claims to worship God. Teaching people in this church about God is out there overseeing Ice agents. Think about what we've experienced. End quote. A protester tells the congregation inside the church and the Black Lives Matter Minnesota Video. That is a relevant statement and a relevant point inside of a Christian [00:05:58] ministry that allegedly is dedicated to a particular human rights stand. Very relevant. There's more. Minaj decided to take this very serious subject matter. [00:06:15] She took it to X, her account, to slam the journalist over the video, writing quote de one. Sucking lemon is disgusting. How dare you! [00:06:32] I want that thug in jail. He would never do that to any other religion. Lock him up. She also included a photo of Chuckie in her post. Keep that up, Jordan. [00:06:47] I really would like someone who analyzes speech pathology to look at her text and look at the text of Trump. And give an analysis [00:07:04] of similar language context, usage of font and expressive verbiage. And the reason why I'm asking for that. This is a serious request. [00:07:20] I'm asking for it because the same hand may be behind them all. There's more. Despite backlash, the rapper doubled down, writing on X Monday lol. [00:07:39] And I purposely wrote it that way because I knew That would be the only way to get the suckers to post about it. They would have all collectively ignored the despicable behavior. [00:07:58] Despicable behavior. Displayed by Lemonhead. I'm glad they're angry. They're about to get angrier. Once again, who does this sound like? [00:08:20] Interesting enough, let's go to eight years ago. Put it out eight years ago. Nicki Minaj posted this online during Trump's first term. Quote I came to this country as an illegal immigrant at five years old. [00:08:40] I can't imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having my parents stripped away from me at the age of five. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror and panic these kids feel right now? [00:09:00] End quote. Jordan, I want you to go back to the first post by Nicki Minaj that started this whole thing of her attempting to degrade the humanity of John Lennon. I'm going to read it again for parallel context. [00:09:18] Nicki Minaj says in all caps as traditional to Trump's style, Don sucking lemon is disgusting. How dare you? [00:09:34] I want that thug in jail. He would never do that to any other religion. Lock him up. I'll let you decide. Other conservative news. Conservative issues. [00:09:52] Conservative pundit taking issue with Don. So video clips of the incident. So video clips of the incident circulated widely online. Now, remember, Don, is there letting you know what's happening. He's a messenger, at the at the, absolute utmost level [00:10:12] in order to, give you the experience without you having the experience. Okay, so video clips of the incident circulated online, widely fueling outrage among conservative commentators. [00:10:28] Got em whipped up all they see. Red meat, Don lemon. They they want to get. They've been wanting to get Don lemon off air since he, was on air. Now that he's not even technically on air. They're still trying to get him off air via social media. [00:10:44] It's insane. So the MAGA voice account called for him to be investigated by the FBI. What? And the Department of Justice. [00:10:59] While influencer Ben Johnson claimed the journalist's actions amounted to, quote, not just an obscene violation of the Face act, it's likely a hate crime. End quote. Johnson and others referenced the Freedom [00:11:17] of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, which makes it a federal crime to use force intimidation or obstruction at reproductive health facilities and places of worship. [00:11:35] Right wing figures, including Matt Walsh and Baptist minister Paul Chappelle, echoed similar calls. Quote, we condemn the actions of Don lemon and a group of activists who stormed city's church today [00:11:53] in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in clear violation of the Face act. Chappelle wrote, quote, Christians everywhere should demand that the Department of Justice arrest those who participated. You know who's immune to the Face act. [00:12:11] The federal agents who raid churches. They're immune from prosecution, given the protection. That the church no longer has. Only by way of Trump's policy in the administration. [00:12:31] Put it up. Minaj celebrated this project with a prayer. With prayer hands and American flag emojis. Prayer hands. An American flag emoji. [00:12:53] Now we have a lot of things going on in this country. We have people who can barely make ends meet, and they voted for this administration reluctantly. So we have individuals who now cannot afford a higher education. [00:13:08] Why? Because the Trump administration has either a made it damn near impossible to pay back his student loans, so you don't have as many options for your future education. And two, they have decided to rip away the very programs that would hinder, [00:13:24] the oppressive elements of where you were born. So now you have a Department of Justice who has been given the task. Out of everything that's happening, [00:13:40] from the Epstein saga to investigations of human sex trafficking and everything else that the federal government, via the DOJ is involved in, they now are going to investigate [00:13:58] the people at the church. According to the quote. All right. The DOJ quote, I just spoke to the pastor in Minnesota whose church was targeted. End quote. That's what Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X Sunday, quote, [00:14:17] attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law. If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, this Department of Justice will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes [00:14:33] and ensure that the rule of law prevails. Bondi's post continued assistant Attorney general for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon likewise said they are investigating the incident. [00:14:54] Man, we've come a mighty long fall from the civil rights protests in the 60s. We just celebrated King's birthday. It's a big deal here in Atlanta. From children wearing Stacey Adams dress shoes. [00:15:16] Suit on the young men. Dresses on the young women. Attempting to integrate all white schools in the South. Because they wanted to have access to what their parents tax dollars [00:15:36] were already paying for. Now, the same laws that emerged out of that great evil known as racism, that policy that emerged from that in order to correct or create course [00:15:54] correction for this nation, those same policies are now being utilized. To protect the interest of the institution rather than the interest of progressing a diverse country. [00:16:16] All right. Sharing thoughts here. Well, first, Nicki Minaj is a buffoon. Okay. W w what would don do that? And he's right. I'm with Remy Ma. Probably does have a ghost writer. Doc. You're on to something. [00:16:31] Okay. Probably was written by somebody close to or inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This filth and just nonsensical nonsense. I like rap because there's so many intelligent ones out there. They're telling stories. They're educating us. [00:16:46] They're not just entertaining us. I love it, but she's Pastor Prime and she's off her rocker. And as far as the conservatives who are crying and begging for Don lemon to be prosecuted and persecuted since he was inside the church reporting, [00:17:05] where were they? Were they calling for concerned citizens, to be prosecuted for radicalizing Dylann Roof when he shot up that Charleston, South Carolina, church? Is that what they were doing then? I don't think so. We didn't hear a word from them. [00:17:20] They said nothing of the Council of Conservative Citizens. They just thought it was just one lone wolf kid and nothing to see here. So listen, nothing's off limits. If you want to behave a certain way. I don't understand why you wouldn't invite people in. That was a hell of a congregational get together. [00:17:39] Let's talk about it. You don't want to talk about it now. He's got to go to jail, okay? Yeah. It's insane. You know, if you said nothing when the administration made a policy that you have no rights of privacy in your house of worship, [00:17:57] in your place of faith that you go to when you said nothing there, they made your house of worship. They made the place where you express your faith on limit, not off limit for this, because you chose not to stand up for the greater humanity [00:18:15] that you exist to stand up for. It's a damn shame. All right. We'll bring you updates as they come.