Singing legend Gladys Knight performed the National Anthem at the Super Bowl last night, but it didn’t come without CNN’s Don Lemon questioning her decision to do so. Knight stopped the obvious attempt to shame her for performing the Anthem dead in its tracks:

Boom.

Gladys Knight SCHOOLS Don Lemon after he tries 2 grill & scare her into not singing the Anthem at the #SuperBowl “growing up we sang the nat. anthem & we said prayers at school” “It’s about respect..there are so many that have died for our great country even in my family” pic.twitter.com/v6X2bAgLST — Melissa A. (@TheRightMelissa) February 4, 2019

Watch how @donlemon tries to scare her by implying she could lose her career. So sick. This is how the left is trying to bully everyone into submitting to their hatred. They will make sure they destroy your career & your livelihood unless you bow down to their divisive ideology — Melissa A. (@TheRightMelissa) February 4, 2019

FBN’s Charles Payne rolled his eyes hard at Lemon:

This is amazingly sad and pathetic. Asking Gladys Knight if she's worried about losing her career for singing the national anthem at a venue were 75% of participants a Black millionaires. https://t.co/NxutGK4j55 — Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) February 4, 2019

She's lived the progress all Americans should all be proud of and understands how far we still have to go. The national anthem of the United States represents both sides of story. — Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) February 4, 2019

Bingo! Knight earned another round of applause for that:

Thanx so much for sharing this. What an amazing woman. And boy did that jackhole embarrass himself. Lastly, I'm always gratefull to those real journalists who job it is to suffer @CNN so they can bring us these clips. — Peter DeGiglio (@PeterDeGiglio) February 4, 2019

Clearly he is disgusted by the response. Go Gladys! — Jennifer Pruitt (@jmpnc7) February 4, 2019

Gladys Knight walked alongside Dr. King…. Not surprising that she has knowledge, truth, and ability to see positive outlooks in life… Don Lemon please take notes and quit with the scare tactics! https://t.co/YD6zWJA03O — Mason Young (@Mason_Youngg) February 4, 2019

Only respect for Gladys Knight on this one https://t.co/hqJR18bS6f — Brad Ritchie (@bbbbritchie) February 4, 2019

Looks like Gladys is leaving Don with a few spank marks. Good job to days on a row. https://t.co/ziqSw8LQHZ — DanoC (@VegasDanoc) February 4, 2019

Will Lemon have any thoughts about another person who participated in the pre-game activities?

Notice he didn’t ask Representative Lewis who participated in the coin toss. Is Donny being sexist? — Mike Parker (@MJP1313) February 4, 2019

#Crickets