Don Lemon isn’t backing down, and this time, he’s putting Megyn Kelly under the microscope. After Kelly’s controversial comments about Joy Reid’s firing from MSNBC, Lemon, 55, took to his YouTube show to call out what he sees as a pattern of hypocrisy and sexism.

He didn’t hold back, saying someone had to “stand up” to Kelly’s remarks and expressing disappointment in her response to his initial criticism. When Kelly dismissed him as someone “trying to get press,” Lemon fired back, calling her reaction “weak” and challenging her to support all women, including Black women and those she disagrees with.

Kelly, 54, had taken to X to mock Reid’s firing, referencing an old clip where Reid criticized “White women tears.” “Who’s crying now, Joy? Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television,” Kelly wrote. That was enough to set Lemon off, and he made his feelings clear.

“Go f— yourself,” he said on his show, before reminding everyone that Kelly herself was once ousted from NBC after defending blackface on her short-lived talk show. “The worst person from television was fired from NBC and the Today show a few years ago, and that was Megyn Kelly,” he added, making it clear he wasn’t about to let her comments slide.

But Lemon wasn’t done. On Wednesday’s episode, he doubled down, pointing out that Kelly constantly brands herself as a champion of women while taking shots at them whenever she gets the chance. He brought up a recent moment from The Megyn Kelly Show where she called CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “a cold-hearted bitch” and told her to “smile more.” That struck a nerve for Lemon, who pointed out how often women are told to smile by men, implying Kelly was reinforcing the very sexism she claims to oppose. He even played clips from The Simpsons and viral TikToks to drive home how ridiculous and outdated that kind of thinking is.

And then came the moment where Lemon nearly flipped Kelly’s own words back on her. “Megyn, okay, I’m just saying maybe people would like you, and the women would like you more, if you weren’t such a… what you said about my former colleague?” He let the audience fill in the blank, making it clear that Kelly’s history of attacking other women isn’t going unnoticed.

This clash isn’t just about Joy Reid’s firing—it’s about a larger pattern of media figures using their platforms to tear others down while claiming to stand for something bigger. Lemon saw what he believed was hypocrisy and decided to “hold up a mirror,” and if Kelly responds, this battle might be far from over