Monday on his eponymous YouTube show, former CNN host Don Lemon went into the ugly, vile depths of political rhetoric with a torrent of hatred toward the Charlie Kirk memorial service, quoting from his own book published last year to call it “white nationalism wrapped in religious nationalism” imbued with false, “performative” Christianity, and a tribute to Americans of the past who glorified slavery.

All to celebrate a man Lemon deemed an unrepentant racist who said “racist shit” and created “a movement claiming divine permission to rule” with “domination” and deny “their sexual diverse children’s right to exist.”

Lemon even predicted his hateful, vile comments spanning some 79 minutes would draw blowback, but nonetheless argued he had a special right as a black man given America’s past to call out those as false Christ followers while arguing Erika Kirk was seemingly the only person there channeling Jesus.

Lemon began with his pious rhetoric quoting his own book to describe the memorial:

He continued by quoting his book, invoking the weird line about trans kids (click “expand”):

“[Evangelicals are] taking a familiar page from the time-worn authoritarian playbook. It’s not about faith, it’s about control. Get into people’s heads”....”You hear it in there, that unmistakable riff of footsteps in the dark, but it is a whole new jam. That’s how you persuade people to vote against their own interests in extreme self-sabotaging ways. That’s how you get decent intelligent people to vote against their right to health care, their family’s economic well-being, and their sexually diverse children’s right to exist. I know how that feels. I know what it’s like to need God so desperately, you’re willing to listen to anyone who seems qualified to connect you to Him. There was a time when I begged God to extinguish that part of my spirit that made me my authentic self. Please make me not be gay. I ache for that little kid I was, the little kid” — Eduardo — who I wrote about earlier in the book — “was, and the millions of little kids who prayed that self-loathing prayer before and after us. All we can do now is stand up for the children of tomorrow and do our best to push this democracy towards a truer, more useful definition of religious freedom.” And these are the things that they said Charlie Kirk stood for. He was a man of faith. And the reason that — that struck me so is because I got a text from a friend who said, I am a black woman. My — the person who — who babysits my child is a black woman from Jamaica. And she says Charlie Kirk was a person of faith. And I say to them, okay, so what does that mean, a person of faith? How does a person of faith act? How does a person who really believes And what God and the Scriptures say, the true meaning of it — not the distorted meaning — how would they treat the least of these?

He then dispatched with the dramatic reading of a year-old book and directly called out the Kirk memorial service as not Christian and rather dangerous. Take note of how much Lemon emphasized he has a “First Amendment right ot tell you the truth” and his hot takes are not in dispute. Incredibly, he lecture those who disagree with him to “removed the filter of ideology from your Eyes and your spirit” (click “expand”):

It grew even worse as he compared the worship-filled memorial in Glendale, Arizona as “performative patriotism” and false Christianity seeing as how it was in tune with slave owners and Jim Crow supporters:

Showing how much he knew his comments were incendiary amid a surge in far-left political violence, he waved the First Amendment as a blunt-force object to argue he wasn’t being “disrespecting” Kirk’s memory or those there.

It was also here he praised Lemon while seconds later arguing the “religion” of attendees and speakers was “religious nationalism,” which “demands control,” “control[s] women,” “subjugate[s] women,” and “enslave[s] people” through “a tainted interpretation of Scripture”:

Later, he seethed about the right and the version of Christianity proclaimed Sunday as “Christian nationalism all wrapped up in an American flag with a Bible” filled with “hypocrite[s].”

He then turned to Kirk himself, calling him a “racist” who spewed “racist shit” and “bullshit about brain processing power”:

Again predicting the blowback, this racial supremacist screeched he’s “not being disrespectful” because “I’m just telling you who you are” and “the Memorial service is over.”

Along with praising Candace Owens, he urged Americans to not “be afraid” to be as direct (read: incendiary) as possible with black Americans seemingly having extra free speech superpowers (click “expand”):

I’m not being disrespectful. I’m just telling you who you are. That’s what you said. So let’s stop it now. The memorial service is over. And so people, you have a First Amendment. Speak your mind of how you feel about Charlie Kirk, and speak your mind about how you feel about this administration, because and MAGA, because there are people in the MAGA movement, thank you very much, Candace Owens who are using or have used, who are using Charlie Kirk’s death for their own political and professional expedients. And she’s not the only one. There are others who are saying the same thing. So, don’t be afraid, America, to speak your truth. You have a First Amendment right under the Constitution, and especially, let me be clear, especially you, black people, you have the right because of your and our unique relationship with this country, more unique than anybody else. The only group of people who did not come here voluntarily and who helped to build this country for free, and are still not reaping the rewards and the benefits that you deserve, that others reaped on your back.

Because Lemon’s pettiness knows no bounds, he argued there was too much trash left behind to deem the hundreds of thousands who showed up true Christians:

He closed with one more childish pot shot, arguing he has been the true follower of Charlie Kirk’s message about free speech:

[F]or someone who said they’re a free speech absolutist, and they believe in free speech and the First Amendment, and they — there is no hate speech, and the only way to counter hate speech or whatever is more speech. That’s what I’m doing right now. So if anything, wouldn’t I be honoring Charlie Kirk?

To see the relevant transcript of The Don Lemon Show from September 22, click here.