Don Lemon is eating his words after some comments he made didn’t age well.
The Hill reported the 56-year-old CNN anchor claims he regrets making comments about women in their “prime.”
Referencing Republican presidential candidate, Nikki Haley, Lemon didn’t like the fact that she is throwing herself back in the ring for a presidential run.
“This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s t
he wrong road to go down,” Lemon said. “She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime,” he continued. “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry. A woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”Haley is 51-years-old. After receiving backlash, the CNN This Morning co-host apologized for his commentary via Twitter, saying his comments were “inartful.”
His female cohosts, as well as people online, immediately jumped to Haley’s defense. Fans of the politician and the Republican Party put Lemon in the hot seat.
The former South Carolina politician’s team caught wind of the comments and chimed in, sending an email to CNN directly. “Liberals can’t stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job,” Haley wrote. “By the way, it’s always the liberals who are the most sexist.”