'How stupid are you?' Ex-CNN anchor unleashes profanity-laced tirade on Trump fans

A former CNN anchor unleashed a profanity-laced tirade on his podcast while talking about a rift that has grown in MAGA world between the right-wing tech crowd of Silicon Valley and President-elect Donald Trump's base.

Don Lemon, who worked at CNN for nearly a decade until leaving in 2023, launched his rant on his YouTube channel on Friday as he cackled at the brouhaha that unfolded.

The rift emerged between two factions. On one side, tech allies such as billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — who have been tapped to slash trillions from the federal budget — are advocating for more visas to attract highly skilled foreign workers. On the other side is the MAGA base, which has opposed expanding H-1B visas, seeing it as a threat to American jobs.

"If you were taken by this whole tech bro DOGE thing — oh and also, you know, we're going to deport migrants —" Lemon began, before breaking out into a hysterical laugh.

Lemon asserts that the tech crowd supports people who come to America and then overstay their visas, believing them to be "good workers" and "good people." Furthermore, they can't unionize.

"And now they're figuring out without these people we cannot do our tech jobs! But guess who knew that? The tech bros knew that. The folks who are supporting Donald Trump. The folks who you want to put in charge of the DOGE already knew that," he said.

Lemon continued laughing as he noted farms have indicated they'd have to shut down after just two days without visa workers.

"After that, it's over! Oh my gosh I love this!" a hysterical Lemon continued laughing. "Now you're finding out you dumb f---ing idiots. Now you're just figuring this s--- out. You're so f---ing stupid and you deserve it. You f---ing deserve it because you're so dumb."

Lemon said he was "openly gloating" over MAGA "stupidity" and how they were "taken."

Lemon continued laying into Trump's fans.

"You have been co-opted because you are in a f---ing cult and you don't even realize it because you have stupid MAGA brain and you don't get it. How stupid and dumb are you?" he said.

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