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

Poppy Harlow — who could or is probably not 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 asserting her different cohost, Katilin Collins, being in Poland … Poppy stated, “Don has the time off.”

It was actually one second and in case you weren’t in search of it, you’d absolutely miss it. Clearly, the honchos at CNN did not need to make a giant deal in regards to the late choice for Lemon’s to sit out Monday’s broadcast … on the heels of his misogynist remark 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.

However, as we reported, his Monday absence was not pre-scheduled, and staffers came upon in a memo circulated this weekend in regards to the ‘This Morning’ lineup change.

It is unclear if Don’s skipping at the moment was his choice or his bosses. Nobody’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 perhaps 40s.”