WATCH: Nicki Minaj Demands Disgraced CNN Hack Don Lemon Be Thrown in Jail for Church Protest, He Responds Calling Her ‘Homophobic,’ Says She Should be Deported
Rap superstar Nicki Minaj has called out former CNN anchor Don Lemon as a “disgusting” thug who deserves to rot in jail after he livestreamed, and may have helped incite, an anti-ICE protest that crashed a peaceful church service in Minnesota.
On Sunday, Lemon livestreamed as activists crashed the service at Cities Church in St. Paul.
He repeatedly made comments implying he had advanced knowledge of what was going to happen.
Before the incident, Lemon is seen in his team’s own footage discussing the “secret operation” with activists, confirming they had the church’s address, and even instructing his staff not to reveal the location.
“We’re not going to give any of the information away,” Lemon says in one clip.
The former CNN anchor also acknowledges, “We don’t know what’s happening. We kind of do, but we don’t know how it’s going to play out, right?”
Minaj, a vocal Trump supporter and Christian with over 25 million followers on X, didn’t mince words in her post about the situation, writing, “DON ‘C-CK SUCKIN’ LEMON IS DISGUSTING. HOW DARE YOU? I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!”
DON ‘COCK SUCKIN’ LEMON IS DISGUSTING.
HOW DARE YOU?
I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!!
HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION.
LOCK HIM UP!!!!! pic.twitter.com/xoQBl9KDJY
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) January 19, 2026
By Monday evening, Minaj’s post had exploded with nearly 50,000 likes, over 7,000 reposts, and thousands of replies cheering her on.
The world is watching. pic.twitter.com/R9Ukb21oZP
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) January 19, 2026
Lemon fired back in a video posted to TikTok, calling Minaj a “homophobic bigot,” “unhinged,” “out of her depth,” and suggested she be deported under President Donald Trump’s immigration rules.
Don Lemon responds to @NICKIMINAJ, calls her post “unhinged” and “homophobic.”
Claims she is “out of her depth.”
This guy is so full of himself its unreal. pic.twitter.com/UmmdDHkK4U
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) January 19, 2026
Minaj was born in Trinidad, but is a legal U.S. citizen.
President Trump’s Department of Justice has announced possible charges against Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, a Civil War-era law aimed at protecting religious freedoms from interference.
On Monday, Dhillon appeared on The Benny Show to explain the legal implications.
BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.
The KKK Act makes it illegal to threaten, hurt, or intimidate people to prevent them from exercising their God-given rights.
HARMEET DHILLON: “The Klan Act is one of the most important federal… pic.twitter.com/GWnXAMtWc9
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 19, 2026
“The Klan Act is one of the most important federal civil rights statutes,” Dhillon said. “It makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens. Whenever people conspire to do this, the Klan Act can be used.”
She emphasized that the full force of the federal government would be brought to bear on such disruptions, drawing parallels to how the FACE Act has been used against pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.
“Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long time,” Dhillon warned.
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