Following an embarrassing segment Tuesday on his show CNN Tonight that deemed Kanye West to be a mentally ill “attention whore” representing “what happens when negroes don’t read,” Don Lemon appeared on Thursday’s The Situation Room and again showed an insensitivity to mental illness, diagnosing West as a disturbed captive putting on “a minstrel show him in front of all these white people” at the White House.

Lemon failed to notice the irony as he stayed in the gutter, suggesting that Kayne’s mother was “rolling in her grave” at her son’s behavior, that he “needs a hug,” and that the press should stop talking about him. Of course, this took place in a nine-minute-and-36-second segment on....Kanye.

When host Wolf Blitzer gave Lemon the floor, the so-called CNN anchor claimed that he has “no animosity for Kanye West” and that he’ll “be honest” even though “I may get in a lot of trouble for it.”

Lemon opined that he “actually feel[s] bad for him” because “[w]hat saw was a minstrel show him in front of all these white people — most white people — embarrassing himself and embarrassing Americans, but mostly African Americans because every one of them is sitting either at home or with their phones, watching this, cringing.”

Lemon explained that he “couldn’t even watch it” because it was “so hard” watching President Trump “exploiting someone who needs help, who needs to back away from the cameras, who needs to get off stage, who needs to deal with his issues and if anyone around him cares about him...they need to grab him, snatch him up and get Kanye together because Kanye needs help.”

The bloviating CNNer continued by longing for the days of the Obama administration when more desirable celebrities like Common graced the White House (click “expand”):

And this has nothing to do with being liberal or a conservative. This has to do with honesty and we have to stop pretending, sitting here on these CNN panels or whatever network panels, and pretending like this is normal and let's have this conversation about Kanye West. Who cares? Why are you sending cameras to the Oval Office for Kanye West? Did you send cameras to the Oval Office and carry it live when Common visited the White House? Common visited the White House and did a beautiful poem, spoken word, talked about how black people are kings and queens, how we need to rise up and do better. He didn't disparage anybody. He didn't speak in non-sequiturs. He didn’t do anything awful and, you know, the only people who criticized him, the only people who really covered it were Sean Hannity and his band of hypocrites who are now — who are now applauding Kanye West, the same people that many in that group called the n-word because of Taylor Swift and because of George Bush and now all of a sudden, he is the person who represents the African-American community? He doesn't.

The hypocrisy was stunning as Lemon demanded “[w]e...take the cameras away from Kanye and from a lot of this craziness that happens in the White House” while, based on conversations with a friend of the rapper’s late mother, she’s “rolling over in her grave” and would be both “embarrassed” and “terribly disturbed.” He also threw in the low blow that he’s “not been the same since his mother died.”

Blitzer tried to interject, but Lemon kept plowing along, including a nonsensical take about how we shouldn’t discuss hydrogen as an alternative energy because of the Hindenburg (click “expand”):

LEMON: He needs someone to help him and to guide him and he needs a hug more than anything. Kanye, back away from the cameras. Go get some help and then come back and make your case. Nobody — if you want to be conservative, if you want to support Donald Trump, that is your business. But as you're doing it, have some sense with it. Make sense. Educate yourself. BLITZER: You know, Don, we just played a one-minute clip of that exchange but it really went on for more than half an hour, if you watch the whole — LEMON: Talking about hydrogen — the last time we really talked about hydrogen, seriously? Oh, do you remember that, the Hindenburg. So Kanye, come on, man. Stop embarrassing yourself. It's not even that. We're doing it because everyone wants to watch him. We're watching someone's demise in front of our eyes and the President as well. The office is sacred. Can you imagine if President Barack Obama had Kanye West or any rapper or any person entertainer in the Oval Office who said M.F., can you imagine — everybody's heads would be exploding. Not just over at Fox News, not just the conservatives. Everybody's heads would be exploding saying: “What's happening?” And this is not the first time that Donald Trump has denigrated that office. He brought Ted Nugent in who said some very disparaging things about the former President and you — Google it and you'll see, had him there in the Oval Office. So this is not the first time that he's had someone that denigrates that office that didn't live up to the respect of that office in there and today was another example of — he is disrespecting the Oval Office more than Kanye did because he invited Kanye in and exploited it.

Chief political analyst Gloria Borger and The Washington Post’s David Swerdlick did nothing more than assert awe toward Lemon’s unglued tirades.

Lemon even asserted at one point that he’s “sorry to hog this panel, but this has gotten me,” which is that celebrities like Kanye and wife Kim Kardashian shouldn’t be given attention, while seeing no issue with other celebrities (read: liberal ones) continuing to be recognized.

Again having no self-realization, Lemon demanded the press focus on missing Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi and those affected by Hurricane Michael while continuing to rant on and on about Kanye.

“We're going to focus on that right now, guys. Thank you very much. Don Lemon telling us how he really feels,” Blitzer gushed in his conclusion.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on October 11, click “expand.”