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subscription to Victor so Elon Musk was brought Don Lemon on to X as a show and he seems to have hired him and then immediately fired him and

they seem to have gotten into some sort of spat and I was wondering your take on their

interaction.

Well I mean Don Lemon was rejoicing when Donald Trump was kicked off Twitter.

And remember he gave us those sanctimonious lectures and sermons that private entities had the right to do whatever they wanted.

So we never thought the boomerang would hit him and that's what Elon Musk did.

He said, you know what? I thought maybe I'd give you a chance you were

down and out you were a CNN former person that had zero audience so I thought

you'd come on here and maybe you can interview people like me and get some ad revenue and have your show.

And Don Lemon reportedly, you know, as part of his demands, he wanted what a five million dollar bonus he wanted a

Tesla pickup he wanted his boyfriend or, to go to Vegas.

So part of the narrative or the backstory was that these people at CNN because they had this name CNN,

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