Don Lemon is reportedly at risk of being canned from his co-host spot on CNN This Morning after making the ignorant, misogynistic declare on yesterday’s present that Nikki Haley, age 51, is not in her “prime.” 

A New York Put up story as we speak experiences that co-host Poppy Harlow walked off the set after Lemon’s inane outburst, and that “a CNN insider mentioned the most recent high-profile incident might lastly result in [head CNN honcho Chris] Licht squeezing out Lemon from the morning gig.”

And the New York Occasions quotes Licht as telling CNN staffers that he was “disillusioned” by Lemon’s remarks, and that they “had been upsetting, unacceptable and unfair to his co-hosts, and finally an enormous distraction to the nice work of this group.” 

So, if Lemon saying Haley will not be in her prime has put him on the recent seat at CNN, will there be any repercussions at MSNBC for Elise Jordan, who has urged that Donald Trump may very well be a . . . prime candidate for dementia? 

In a shameless pro-Biden protection on Friday’s Morning Joe, “MSNBC Republican” Jordan tried to pull the truth that Donald Trump’s father had “actually unhealthy dementia” on the finish of his life right into a dialogue of the relative well being of Trump and Joe Biden.

The phase started with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski cheerfully boosting Biden for getting a “clear invoice of well being” from his physician after his annual well being examination yesterday. Joe and Mika then mocked Trump’s White Home physician, Ronny Jackson, for having mentioned that Trump’s good well being, regardless of his questionable consuming and train habits, is defined by “genetics.”

MSNBC’s John Heilemann is a confirmed Trump antagonist. So it was shocking that he really defended Jackson’s declare about Trump’s good genes. Heilemann mentioned with the stress of the presidency, “the truth that the man made it out of 4 years of the presidency alive is an wonderful factor. Like, with that — if I had that eating regimen, that lack of train and people sleeping habits, I would be useless now, you recognize?”

Heilemann bolstered his case about Trump inheriting “extraordinary” genes by mentioning that “it’s true that Trump males lived to ripe previous ages.” That was apparently an excessive amount of for Jordan, who interjected to snipe: 

“Did not Fred Trump [Donald’s father, who lived to age 94] have actually unhealthy dementia on the finish, although?”

Jonathan Lemire appeared to wish to transfer on from Jordan’s determined try and recommend Trump might get dementia any day now. Fairly than responding to her, Lemire, as a substitute, instantly seconded Heilemann’s notions, observing that “each of Trump’s mother and father lived into their 90s.”

On Morning Joe, the talk over Trump longevity and dementia was sponsored partially by E*Commerce and Vrbo.

This is the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
2/17/23
6:31 am ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: President Biden obtained a clear invoice of well being yesterday, following a routine bodily examination at Walter Reid nationwide army medical middle in Maryland. In a memo, Biden’s private doctor wrote that he, quote, stays a wholesome, vigorous, 80-year-old male who’s match to efficiently execute the duties of the presidency. The medical evaluation famous that Biden had a small lesion faraway from his chest throughout a dermatology session. It was despatched off for a biopsy, and the outcomes are nonetheless pending. 

We let you know all of this so the we will, I do not know, make a journey down reminiscence lane.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, this can be enjoyable.

MIKA: Yeah! Why not, proper? It is all the time good.

SCARBOROUGH: Mm-hmm.

MIKA: This is Dr. Ronny Jackson after Donald Trump’s bodily, if that is what you wish to name it, when he was president in 2018.

REPORTER: Clarify how a man who eat McDonald’s and all of the Weight-reduction plan Cokes and by no means workout routines is in nearly as good a form as you say he’s in.

RONNY JACKSON: It is referred to as genetics. I do not know.

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, referred to as genetics. He went on to say, John Heilemann, that Trump had such nice genes, that if he did not eat badly, he’d reside till he was 200 years of age.

MIKA: Did he imply “dad denims?”

SCARBOROUGH: I suppose, I suppose the shock of it’s that, that, really, individuals within the Obama administration really vouched for this man for quarter-hour earlier than he began doing this. However once more, simply, the lies began rolling off of his tongue. And I suppose they’ve continued over the previous couple years.

JOHN HEILEMANN: I imply, look, I might say, simply to face up for, for the nice physician right here, on one level. I imply, you recognize, if you consider Trump’s eating regimen over the course of his life, you consider Trump’s — the best way he is taken care of his physique, if you need to use these phrases, “taking care” and “his physique” in the identical sentence. 

You concentrate on the stress of the presidency, you consider his sleeping patterns, you consider all of the issues we all know. I imply, the truth that the man made it out of 4 years of the presidency alive is an wonderful factor. Like, with that — if I had that eating regimen, that lack of train and people sleeping habits, I would be useless now, you recognize? 

There’s, there’s something to the notion that he does have some sort of extraordinary genes. It’s the case that the Trump males, traditionally, in his household, have, have lived to be, have lived to ripe  previous ages usually. So, I do not wish to give an excessive amount of credit score to Dr. Jackson. Clearly, you recognize, the dude is a whack job on a variety of ranges, however there’s something sort of wonderful about Donald Trump, that he is nonetheless on the market. That he is nonetheless erect. That he is nonetheless upright. It is like an unbelievable factor.

ELISE JORDAN: Did not Fred Trump have actually unhealthy dementia on the finish, although?

MIKA: Uhh.

JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, each of his mother and father lived to be of their 90s.

HEILEMANN: Sure.

MIKA: Okay.