Don Lemon Claps Back At ‘Pick Me’ Rap Diva’s Vulgar Attack Over ICE Church Protest Coverage

“I’m not surprised Nicki Minaj does not understand journalism and is weighing in on matters that are above her capacity,” Don Lemon said.

Former CNN host Don Lemon dug into MAGA ally Nicki Minaj after she attacked him over his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a church in Minnesota, amplifying right-wing calls for his arrest.

“I’m so glad that I had never been a Nicki Minaj fan. I don’t know her music,” Lemon told left-leaning podcaster Jennifer Welch Monday. “There is nothing on my playlist that’s ever Nicki Minaj and there isn’t going to be because she is an ignorant ‘pick me,’ and I choose not to pick her.”

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon put Lemon “on notice” in a post announcing that the DOJ will pursue charges against anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a service Sunday at Cities Church in St. Paul, over speculation that a pastor at the church has connections to ICE.

Dhillon accused Lemon, who had reported on the protest, of “being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy,” in an interview with right-wing influencer Benny Johnson Monday, threatening to invoke the Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, to charge the journalist.

The law prohibits groups of people from gathering with the intention of violating citizens’ constitutional rights. Lemon disputed Dhillon’s accusations on Welch’s show.