Megyn Kelly ridiculed former CNN host Don Lemon on Thursday for losing his deal with Elon Musk following a tumultuous interview, arguing Lemon should have been more “grateful” to the billionaire for “resurrecting his career.”

On SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly mocked, “Don Lemon got fired again already. He’s fired before he really got hired. It’s very hard for Don Lemon to keep a job.”

She explained, “Amazingly, Elon Musk offered him a deal to post a new show on X, and Elon Musk is a risk taker so I guess he thought this would be a fun risk. Just as risky, I guess, as like putting spaceships into outer space because it really was just that risky, Elon.”

After declaring that “Don Lemon behaved like an asshole who was not grateful to Elon Musk for resurrecting his career,” Kelly said:

It’s very hard for Don Lemon in his position to both be a good journalist and be a good employee. You know, the man’s paying your salary, so you do owe him a level of respect and discretion, and at the same time you want to prove to us in your first interview back how hard hitting you are, and those two goals are not aligned. So I don’t blame Elon for being mad at the way he was treated, which now Don is admitting it didn’t end well and Elon was pissed off when it ended.

She continued, “The man that just resurrected your career! Show some gratitude! Ask him about how amazing X is doing and how it’s thriving notwithstanding all the doomsday predictions and whatever happened to loser Threads over on Facebook. Elon’s having a moment, but not in Don’s life and in his world, even though he just got this great opportunity.”

Kelly concluded, “By the way, reportedly, he just got like a $25 million payoff from CNN for that firing… Then Elon reportedly cut him a multi-million dollar deal, which he f*cked up right before he even launched the show, and now he’s claiming that his free speech– you’re not the victim! You’re not the victim! You’re not a victim in any way.”

Watch above via The Megyn Kelly Show.