President Donald Trump often watches the late-night Fox News Channel lineup, but sometimes tunes in CNN for “hate-watches,” especially host Don Lemon, to get riled up, according to The New York Times.
In a lengthy profile posted Saturday written by correspondents Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush and Peter Baker, the Times broke down some of the president’s TV watching habits, including his ritual after nightly dinners at the White House.
According to the White House reporters, when guests leave, “the remote control comes back out.”
“He is less likely to tweet at this hour, when the news he would react to is mostly recycled from hours earlier,” they wrote. “But he watches [Jeanine] Pirro and fellow Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, and sometimes ‘hate-watches’ CNN to get worked up, especially Don Lemon.”
Lemon — whom Trump once drubbed as the “dumbest person in broadcasting” — has been sharply critical of Trump. Mediate on Sunday posted examples including remarks in September, when he told Wolf Blitzer that Trump needs “a history lesson” on race relations, and that Trump used racist rhetoric.
Lemon also once compared Trump’s behavior in a speech to a “child” while describing him as “unhinged.”
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