Don Lemon Has Shown That Elon Musk Is An Emperor Without Clothes

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readMar 20, 2024

Now who would have thought?

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Don Lemon isn’t very popular in the Black community.

The antipathy from some African-Americans towards Lemon does run deep and there’s a feeling that folks are somewhat reluctant to forgive the man for his past sins.

To some, the view is that he isn’t Black enough and to white society, he is probably seen as too Black.

When our protagonist had his spat with Donald Trump, his race was definitely on the agenda and when he interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy, the egregious Republican thought the interviewer was going to let him get away with spouting bare faced lies and Lemon’s instant rebuttal took his former employers by surprise and they wasted no time in sacking him.

Lemon had built a brand strong enough to strike out on his own and this was certainly reasoning behind starting his own show, where famous individuals are interviewed on a number of subjects, closest to their hearts.

And it is against the backdrop of Lemon’s reinvention that an interview was conducted with the wealthiest man in the world and the owner of the platform which was formerly known as twitter.

Elon Musk is worshipped because of his obscene wealth and that alone, in the eyes of billions of…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible