During Don Lemon’s YouTube New Year’s Eve 2025 live special, former CNN colleague Jim Acosta joined remotely from Hawaii, appearing drunk. Despite Lemon’s ban on politics or mentioning Trump, Acosta joked about being “so hammered” that even Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has been criticized for alleged drinking issues by liberals, would tell him to pace himself.
Continuing his drunken attempts at comedy, he quipped that Marjorie Taylor Greene was making sense. Lemon laughed and called him out for having “politics on the brain.” Acosta admitted the tough year drove his drinking.
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