The viral moment came as Lemon was interviewing a panel about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’srecent, profane blow-upat NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly in which he challenged her to find Ukraine on a map after he reportedly said, “Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?”
(Ukraine is at the center of President Trump’simpeachment trialfor alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.)
The guests on Lemon’s show, former Republican strategist Rick Wilson andNew York Timescolumnist Wajahat Ali, cracked themselves up with jokes about hypothetical Trump supporters after Wilson asserted that the president himself wouldn’t be able to find Ukraine on a map.
Wilson said that Pompeo “also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter ‘U’ and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.”
The quip caused Lemon to begin laughing as Wilson said Pompeo’s anger was, in part, a strategy to appeal to the “credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump.”
Ali joined in as he and Wilson imitated these Trump supporters, angry about “you elitists with your geography and your maps.”
The segmentreceived backlash from conservatives online, including the president himselfwho tweetedthat Lemon was “the dumbest man on television.”
Don Jr., 42, jumped in as well, saying he was speaking up for his dad’s supporters.
“[These] people make me sick!!!” hewrote in an Instagram postsharing the CNN clip.
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Since President Trump launched a political career, Don Jr. has become one of his most outspoken surrogates — often adopting the same divisive social-media style.
Last year Don Jr. published a part-memoir, part-polemic about his dad calledTriggered. The cover quickly became a meme for liberals online.
In New York City, copies of it were also trollingly swapped out with a new cover that readDaddy, Please Love Me.
For Thanksgiving last year, Don Jr.encouraged his followersto take video of themselves picking fights with non-conservative family members.
“Have some fun with this guys,” he wrote.
source: people.com
