CNN’s Don Lemon gave an OSCAR-worthy performance on air when he teared up after reading his “open letter” to President Trump in response to Trump’s tweet attempting to respond to charges from the widow of a fallen soldier who was killed in Niger earlier this month. Lemon is further politicizing the phone call from President Trump to the widow. Shame on him.
Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, said on “Good Morning America” that Trump’s condolence call made her “cry even worse.” She added that Trump “couldn’t remember my husband’s name.”
President Trump responded to Myeshia Johnson’s account on Twitter, writing, “I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!”
Johnson’s interview and Trump’s subsequent tweet led Lemon to write Trump an open letter, which read in part:
Your tweet this morning essentially called her a liar.
Mr. Trump, please stop it. Please stop!
Think of what Sgt. Johnson would want. You are putting his widow in the terrible position of having to fight for her dignity when she should be concentrating on taking care of herself, her health, her two children, and the one on the way.
I know you have children—and two daughters.
Can you imagine Ivanka or Tiffany in Myeshia’s shoes?
Having a fight with the commander in chief while they are pregnant and grieving?
If Myeshia Johnson is mad at you, take it.
Just as President Bush and others did.
Take it.
It’s part of what YOU signed up for when you decided to descend that escalator and throw your hat in the ring for president.
You’re commander in chief, the president of the United States of America, the greatest country on Earth.
Act like it.
Act like you know that you’re big enough not to have to win every fight or respond to every criticism.
Act like you know where the high road is.
Confident and secure people ask for help, and for forgiveness.
Insecure people think they know everything and need no help.
Lemon went on to call La David Johnson a “hero” and said that he is a “role model” to him as an “awesome soldier, a great man, and a great American.”
After Lemon read his open letter, he introduced a CNN panel but had to stop for a few seconds to compose himself after he appeared to be crying.
“Sorry, I’m sorry,” Lemon said.
