TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Poppy Harlow leaves CNN set after Don Lemon mansplains about women

An exchange on CNN this morning ruffled the feathers of the two female hosts after Don Lemon claimed Nikki Haley wasn’t in her prime.

Lemon was responding to Haley calling for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75.

He said that the age talk made him uncomfortable and then claimed that a woman is only in her prime when she’s in her 20s and 30s.

That didn’t sit well with Poppy Harlow, who happens to be 40 years old, and she shot back at Lemon, asking “What are you talking about…wait…prime for what?”

Here’s a short version of the exchange with a few hilarious edits:

Here’s a longer version…

 
A couple of hours ago the New York Post reported that after the exchange, Poppy Harlow left the set and went to the bathroom. Kaitlin Collins followed her in there. According to sources, Harlow was furious:

Don Lemon’s acidic behavior has turned the stomach of another co-anchor.

A furious Poppy Harlow walked off the “CNN This Morning” set Thursday following a tense exchange with Lemon after he said GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was “not in her prime,” The Post has learned.

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Harlow took a “well-timed” bathroom break and was followed into the restroom by co-host Kaitlan Collins — who recently had her own run-in with Lemon.

The tense relationship between Lemon, Collins and Harlow has “been smoldering for months,” the source said.

However, CNN boss Chris Licht seems content to keep rolling out the troubled trio.

CNN did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Lemon didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Harlow did not comment. But a source close to the veteran anchor quipped: “As a woman in her prime, Poppy Harlow does use the bathroom, including on Thursday mornings.”

Collins did not return requests for comment.

Harlow, 40, came back to finish Thursday’s program but had looked stunned on the air when Lemon went on his head-scratching diatribe over Haley calling for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75.

Lemon wasn’t just ‘mansplaining’, as the left likes to say, he was ‘gay mansplaining’. Heh.

After an exchange like this from Lemon it doesn’t surprise me that their ratings are in the tank. He really should have been fired a long time ago and replaced with someone who isn’t a hardcore leftist.

But hey, Chris Licht promoted him to a morning show and look how wonderful it’s playing out.


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