Kara Swisher says Elon Musk was 'bored' and 'irritated' by Don Lemon interview ... trends now
It's a been a tough couple of weeks for Don Lemon.
Last week his deal with X was pulled after a car-wreck interview with platform owner Elon Musk.
And now, Lemon's friend, business and tech journalist Kara Swisher, 61, who has interviewed Musk many times, has weighed in to say that the 52-year-old SpaceX boss was clearly 'bored' by his interaction with the former CNN anchor.
Swisher gave her damning assessment when she appeared on the second episode of The Don Lemon Show, now streaming on X.
Speaking to a visibly perturbed Lemon, 58, she said: 'He's easily bored…He was bored. So he got irritated that he had to play word games with you and then he got irritated that he had to pay you.
'And then he thought: 'Why am I paying this guy for this b******t.'
Kara Swisher appeared on the second episode of Don Lemon's new show on X where she weighed in on his train wreck interview with Elon Musk
The tech journalist did not mince words, telling Lemon that Musk was 'was bored and 'got irritated that he had to play word games' with the former CNN anchor during the interview
Lemon's partnership with X was canceled after the one-on-one sit down, with Musk calling the anchor, 'dull' and 'underwhelming'
Adding insult to injury she told Lemon: 'He wasn't listening to any of your points of view by the way. Any time you were making a point he was ignoring you, looking away.'
Earlier this week DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that the real reason that Lemon's partnership with X was over before it began was Lemon's outlandish demands for control and censorship of all news content, talent, and policy on the platform.
Lemon accused Musk of reneging on his commitment to free speech – though he has not been banned from the platform and instead simply won't benefit from the $10million marketing budget that he was demanding they supply to push his show.
And days after his controversial interview with Musk drew more than a million views, DailyMail.com has learned that his current episode has struggled to reach more than hundred thousand views after two days of streaming and despite relying heavily on material from that first talk.
Lemon claims that he's being 'shadow banned' and his material is being 'suppressed' even though it is readily available and streaming on X.
But if he was looking for a sympathetic ear in his friend Swisher, Lemon didn't find one.
Asked if she had any advice for him in his new gig, Swisher didn't sugar coat it saying: 'I think [this] is going to be really hard for you honestly. You've come from an industry, speaking of licking you up and down, where it's a very different environment for anchors.
In the wide-ranging grilling - which at times sounded more like a deposition than an interview - Lemon took issue with the Tesla CEO's stance on woke ideology, racism, trans rights and drug use
Musk later said he opted against moving forward with the partnership because Lemon's show turned out to be 'basically just CNN, but on social media
'You get really well paid, everything is brought to you and producers really run the show, even if you're very involved, so you have a lot of help.'
Cut loose by CNN and without the backup of X's significant budget Lemon today is very much on his own.
Swisher said: 'Everything you do has to be about you and your energy and motivation.'
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