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- Don Lemon criticized outgoing White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tuesday night.
- Lemon addressed McEnany’s refusal to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
- “Do you know she worked for — girl, bye,” Lemon said, referencing McEnany’s stint as a CNN commentator. “Girl, bye! Buh-bye.”
- “[Trump’s] press secretary is acting like the election didn’t even happen, acting like she’s not about to be out of a job.”
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CNN anchor Don Lemon lost whatever modicum of patience he had left with White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during his monologue Tuesday night.
Lemon took issue with how McEnany has continued to deny President-elect Joe Biden as the rightful winner of the 2020 election as well as her consistent media criticism.
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“Do you know she worked for – girl, bye,” Lemon said, referencing McEnany’s time as a CNN commentator. “Girl, bye! Buh-bye.”
He lamented how McEnany “is acting like the election didn’t even happen, acting like she’s not about to be out of a job.”
“So much disinformation coming from the podium,” Lemon continued. “It’s every day.”
On McEnany's persistent suggestions on what the news media should actually be covering, Lemon described those comments as hypocritical given her history at the network.
McEnany began appearing on CNN as a law student, and was highly critical of Trump as a candidate in 2015, calling one of his comments "racist" and "not the American way."
Lemon also asked why White House officials like McEnany "act like they're living in an alternate reality, and universe?"
"You used to sit here on the set with us. I think we got it," Lemon said. "When you sat here with us, you thought we had it. You were happy to be here. But now we don't know what we're doing? Girl, bye."