Don Lemon is back.
The former CNN anchor on Wednesday answered Elon Musk’s call to launch a new digital show on his platform — and has announced he’ll return to media on X.
“I’ve heard you… and today I am back bigger, bolder, freer! My new media company’s first project is ‘The Don Lemon Show,'” he shared on Instagram.
“It will be available to everyone, easily, whenever and wherever you want it, streaming on the platforms where the conversations are happening. And you’ll find it first on X, the biggest space for speech in the world,” he wrote.
Musk made it known he’d want veteran anchors — like Rachel Maddow and Lemon — to consider bringing shows to X, formerly known as Twitter, back in June.
“It’d be great to have @maddow, @donlemon & others on the left put their shows on this platform,” Musk tweeted.
“You will receive our full support. The digital town square is for all,” the Tesla mogul added.
Lemon took the bait — and he seems to be on a similar path as news peers such as Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo, who all preached similar “bigger, bolder, freer” messages when they made their respective comebacks after each getting ousted from their respective networks.
Kelly — who was axed from NBC, after joining the network as a morning host from her lucrative Fox News gig — vowed to never return to mainstream media when she launched her Devil May Care Media in 2020.
She has since gone on to find success with the “Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, and via her YouTube Channel. (She was rumored to be making $15 million at Fox News, and reportedly walked away with $69 million after getting the boot from NBC News.)
Cuomo launched his “Chris Cuomo Project” podcast by shouting “free agent!” from the rooftop. He even sells merch with that phrase on his site, and he has since landed at burgeoning network NewsNation.
Carlson launched his own show on X last summer after his departure from Fox News.
“We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave,” he said at the time.
He has since developed the Tucker Carlson Network, a new streaming platform he founded because “news coverage in the West has become a tool of repression and control.”
In Lemon’s case, he says, “I know now more than ever that we need a place for honest debate and discussion without the hall monitors. This is just the beginning so stay tuned.”
Lemon was stunningly booted last April after 17 years at CNN by former CEO Chris Licht, who was later ousted from the news network himself.