Don Lemon

He is the son of Katherine Marie (Bouligney) and Wilmon Lee Richardson. His father was an attorney, who was part of a lawsuit to desegregate Baton Rouge's public transportation in the early 1960s; it was successful. Don was born under the surname of his mother's then-husband.

[on President Trump's tweet on Mika Brzezinski's bleeding from a face-lift] I have heard and said the phrase 'This is not normal, so many times and I'm sick of hearing it and I'm sick of saying it. What the president did today was flat-out gross and disgusting. Saying it was juvenile would be insulting to children. If your children said or tweeted what he said, you would discipline them. Any employee would face some very serious consequences. And for anyone out there, any of you attempting to defend what he did, you're an enabler.