Former CNN host and independent journalist Don Lemon claimed in a new interview that he’s “serious” about possibly running for president in the 2028 election — and insisted he’d a “really good” commander-in-chief.
Lemon made the eyebrow-raising declaration on “Can’t Be Censored” podcast hosted by Karman Wong and Travis Dhanraj, insiting that everyone wants to know if he has White House aspirations.
“Do you have political ambition? Is that true?” Dhanraj asked on Wednesday’s show.
“No, but people keep asking me if I’m running for president,” Lemon answered.
“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.”
Lemon, 60, argued that experience isn’t necessarily a requirement to be commander-in-chief, citing President Trump’s lack of a political background prior to his election win in 2016.
Lemon went on to bash Trump, claiming the president “could have done a better job if he actually listened to people, but he doesn’t and he thinks he knows everything.”
“But, um, I actually think I would be a really good president of the United States,” he continued.
Lemon said that for him to spearhead a presidential campaign, he would have to do it “without having to beg for money” and that he doesn’t “know if this is realistic or not.”
The former CNN host was axed from the network in April 2023.
Since then, he has rebranded and established himself as an independent journalist and hosts “The Don Lemon Show” on YouTube and other platforms.
He was infamously arrested in January for joining a group of anti-ICE activists who stormed a Sunday chuch service in Minnesota.
Thirty-nine people, including Lemon — who claimed he was acting in his capacity as an independent journalist — were charged with federal civil rights violations.
