Ditzy Don Lemon's colleagues told me everything. Here's why Trump REALLY arrested the Sour Puss: KENNEDY

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Ditzy Don Lemon, turn in your microphone! Shutter the podcast studio! Deactivate the X account (wait, you already did)!

I hereby revoke your privilege to call yourself a journalist.

This time, you've gone too far.

For a guy who speculated that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was sucked into a 'black hole', tipped off fabulist Jussie Smollett that police were on to him and declared women in their 50s 'not in their prime'… that's saying a lot.

On January 18, the disgraced CNN flotsam embedded himself with a group of anti-ICE radicals in Minnesota – the epicenter of the backlash against Donald Trump's mass deportation bonanza – and filmed himself conspiring with the bubbleheads to storm a Southern Baptist church in St Paul.

'These are resistance protesters,' he livestreamed from a freezing parking lot. 'They're planning an operation we're going to follow them on. I can't tell you exactly what they're doing, but it's called Operation Pull-Up.'

Operation Pull-Up?

That makes sense, the whole idea stunk.

On Sunday, the disgraced CNN reject embedded himself with a group of anti-ICE radicals in Minnesota

And there was bold Lemon, sticking his microphone into the face of gobsmacked Pastor Jonathan Parnell

'You'll see it live. These operations are surprise operations, again I can't tell you where they're going,' he 'reported' breathlessly.

Geez, Don. It seems like you were very close to the action here. Is this a sting to expose a shadowy cult, a right-wing militia or… lizard people?

Nope. It was an ambush of Sunday worshippers at Cities Church. Apparently, this House of God had it coming because the Dirty Diaper gang discovered that one of their pastors also worked for ICE.

So in the rioters rushed, chanting BLM slogans and making young children cry. And there was bold Lemon, sticking his microphone into the face of gobsmacked Pastor Jonathan Parnell, delivering Don's CliffsNotes on free speech.

'There's a Constitution and a First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest,' Lemon blathered.

What Dumdum Don failed to realize is the freedom to worship is also enshrined in the First Amendment, and – by law – interfering with someone's churchgoing 'by force, threat of force or physical obstruction' is potentially illegal.

Here's assistant attorney general for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon last week: '[Lemon] went into the facility, and then he began, quote, unquote "committing journalism," as if that's a sort of shield from being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy. It isn't.'

You know what they say: when life gives you Don Lemon, just squeeze him out of the shot.

In response to the criticism, Lemon quickly super-sized his Minnesota idiocy by doubling-down and accusing the good people of Cities Church of – you guessed it – racism.

'I think people who are in religious groups like that — it's not the type of Christianity that I practice — but I think they're entitled, and that entitlement comes from white supremacy,' Lemon said Monday on a fellow moron's podcast.

Hot take there, Tabasco! 

One of the painfully patient worshippers at Cities Church on Sunday, who at least tried to engage Lemon in debate, summed Don Lemon perfectly. 'You are not a journalist,' he said in desperation.

That man spoke for all people with good sense.

'These are resistance protesters,' he livestreamed on Sunday from a freezing parking lot 

So in the rioters rushed, chanting BLM slogans and making young children cry

But then things took a dramatic, frankly disturbing, turn on Friday. 

After the Trump administration tried and failed last week to secure charges against Lemon for infringing on the rights of people to participate in a religious service, the CNN reject was arrested by federal agents on Thursday night.

The Sour Puss's lawyer, Democrat legal retread Abbe Lowell (the same knob who represented Hunter Biden, go figure) said Lemon was taken into custody in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards. 

Lowell argued that Lemon's church assault 'report' is protected by the First Amendment. 

Oh, the irony! 

Ok, lets everyone take a breath.

America is swerving into dangerous territory when the federal government is deciding who is and who isn't a journalist - and slapping handcuffs on them.

Do I think Le Lemon is the second coming of Walter Cronkite? Heck, no. 

But there are a ton of 'journalists' out there that I'd like to banish to the trash heap of history, but their unconsumable drivel doesn't make them arrestable. 

Do I think Lemon's journalism - no matter how stupid, biased and maddening it is - is Constitutionally-protected against government retaliation? Yes, it actually is.

The Amendments were written to only protect the things you adore. They're really intend to safeguard things you may abhor.

I've met Lemon plenty of times. The guy doesn't ooze Wolf Blitzer vibes. Behind the broad smile and obsequious butt-kissing is a crappy actor, perpetually playing the part of sanctimonious twit.

An acquaintance of mine who worked with Lemon at CNN was creeped out by his obsession with Trump. Lemon, he says, would go on for hours dissecting Trump's personality traits and contemplating – without resolution – how anyone in their right mind could vote for such a ghoul. 

Lawyer Abbe Lowell (the same knob who represented Hunter Biden, go figure) said Lemon was taken into custody in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards. (Pictured: Lemon with Busta Rhymes on Thursday)

The former CNN'er said Lemon, 'assumes his POV is the only one. His lack of perspective is disconcerting. It's ultimately what got him fired.' Well, that and a history of alleged sexist remarks to female colleagues.

But all that is my opinion. 

I wouldn't like to imagine what would happen to me and my Fox News buddies if President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ever seized the reigns of the Justice Department. 

Look, Lemon's career lives and dies on the support of his audience. Let the free market pass judgement on his rotten broadcasting, not the government. And I pray that a jury - if this chilling case even makes it that far - will agree.

I last saw Lemon at 2024 DNC in Chicago after he blew it with CNN and I asked where he was going to land. He told me he was headed to the Land of Misfit Anchors on YouTube. Little did I know that it would end up in his assault on the St Paul faithful.

The sad truth of his arrest is that being grabbed by Trump may be the best thing to happen to Lemon's career in years. 

Now, he's made more than lemonade of a bad situation: he's a martyr.