Don Lemon’s Absence Gets Very Brief Mention by CNN Cohosts

Don Lemon‘s absence from the “CNN This Morning” desk almost received misplaced within the sauce on the prime of the present Monday … which could possibly be extra writing on the wall for his time on the community.

Poppy Harlow — who might or will not be in her “prime,” in response to Don — opened the present with Sara Sidner sitting subsequent to her and ran down the large breaking story about President Biden‘s shock go to to Ukraine.

Sandwiched between that information and saying her different cohost, Katilin Collins, being in Poland … Poppy stated, “Don has the day off.”

It was actually one second and should you weren’t searching for it, you’d absolutely miss it. Obviously, the honchos at CNN did not wish to make a giant deal concerning the late determination for Lemon to sit out Monday’s broadcast … on the heels of his misogynist comment final Thursday about Nikki Haley.

Now, Don additionally had Friday off — that was scheduled previous to the Haley comment — and he spent it lounging on a Miami seashore … seemingly not having a care on this planet.

But, as we reported, his Monday absence was not pre-scheduled, and staffers discovered in a memo circulated this weekend concerning the ‘This Morning’ lineup change.

It’s unclear if Don’s skipping right this moment was his determination or his bosses’. No one’s spilling that tea simply but … because the fallout continues from Lemon saying Haley was “not in her prime” on the age of 51 — as a result of, as he put it, Google says a lady’s prime is in her 20s, 30s, “and maybe 40s.”