{"id":24703,"date":"2026-05-25T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/lemon-urges-reporters-covering-trump-have-some-dignity-and-a-backbone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:05:59","slug":"lemon-urges-reporters-covering-trump-have-some-dignity-and-a-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/lemon-urges-reporters-covering-trump-have-some-dignity-and-a-backbone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon urges reporters covering Trump: \u2018Have some dignity and a backbone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/AP26030861938629-e1769869995640.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Independent journalist Don Lemon on Thursday called on news reporters covering President Trump to &#8220;have some dignity and a backbone,&#8221; using former late-night host Stephen Colbert as an example. Lemon, on his podcast &#8220;The Don Lemon Show,&#8221; said that &#8220;all of the late-night shows are going dark&#8221; to praise Colbert ahead of the final episode&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/5893544-don-lemon-calls-for-press-dignity\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent journalist Don Lemon on Thursday called on news reporters covering President Trump to &#8220;have some dignity and a backbone,&#8221; using former late-night host Stephen Colbert as an example. Lemon, on his podcast &#8220;The Don Lemon Show,&#8221; said that &#8220;all of the late-night shows are going dark&#8221; to praise Colbert ahead of the final episode&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}