CNN Tonight host Don Lemon was out of control as he raged against former Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) for not bashing President Trump’s Wednesday night address to the nation about the coronavirus crisis. At one point, Lemon was so infuriated that he told his guest that he wasn’t allowed to speak anymore. The triggering event? The White House had to issue a simple clarification about the travel ban from Europe.

“Listen, President Trump announced he was suspending travel from Europe to the U.S. CNN got clarification that it was about most foreign nationals, not U.S. residents. The President misrepresented the travel ban during his primetime address,” Lemon declared as if it was an intentional lie.

It almost seemed as though Lemon was upset that they couldn’t report that Trump was barring American citizens from coming home.

Kasich’s take was that the address was “fine” and walked Lemon through his evolution in how he came around to supporting the administration’s response to the crisis. “Listen, you said the President should stick to the script. I don't know if he stuck to the script or not. But whatever script he read was wrong because they've had to clarify it several times,” Lemon started to yell in response.

From there, Lemon began to scream about how terrible it was that the White House had to issue a clarification at all:

And I just got to say. If the President came out to calm people's fears, he didn't do a good job of it because they've had to come back and clarify it several times! And this has been going on long enough for them to get it straight! We need straight, accurate information from this President! And this administration! And we're not getting it! And I don't understand why you are tiptoeing around it! He came out, gave an address that usually -- that happens very rarely, and he doesn't get it right?!

Lemon became completely unhinged to the point of seemingly telling Kasich that he wasn’t allowed to speak unless he was going to bash the address (click “expand”):

KASICH: I'm going to -- first of all, he read it. And somebody that wrote this -- look, I don't want to get into that. He -- LEMON: Well, why not?! That's why you're here! To talk about the President’s address! KASICH: Can I finish now? LEMON: But, no, no, no, no, no! No, you can’t, John! KASICH: Let me talk. Let me talk. LEMON: John, because we’re here to talk about the President's -- KASICH: I can't talk?

After some more shouting from the unstable host and Kasich insisting that Trump struck the right tone by being serious, Lemon suggested that the address needing a minor clarification was the equivalent of saying “four plus four equals 85.” “I am serious. That doesn't mean that I'm right. The information he gave was not right. You have to come back and clarify several times, information that you gave,” he said.

Kasich explained that it’s not uncommon for clarifications to be issued after an address and then flipped the tables by demanding to know “what is it in the clarification that you thought was so terrible? Tell me what you thought.” Lemon couldn’t answer saying: “I didn't say I thought it was terrible!”

Lemon grew so infuriated that he started to bash Kasich:

I'm telling you that we are in the middle of a pandemic right now! We’re the middle of a pandemic and every time this President comes out, he gives inaccurate information! So, I don't understand why he would even come out and do it at all if he is going to confuse the American people even more! You don’t understand that? You’re a governor, I’m surprised you don’t understand that. If you’re not going to be accurate than why do it?

“98 percent of what he did was good. And what we wanted was a seriousness out of the President, to tell people that things are not good and they're probably going to get worse,” Kasich countered. He was eventually able to defuse the situation by talking about how they each wanted to focus on something different (with him touting the President’s serious attitude toward the crisis) and agree to disagree.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: