Uh, no. Lemon got fired for being a sexist jerk once too often. He had no brand outside of CNN. People watched him because he was on CNN, not the other way around.

Musk is a different kind of jerk. A guy who thinks too highly of himself because he's been so ultra-wealthy for so long that there is noone to tell him when he's full of it.

Since I don't like either of Lemon or Musk, I watched parts of the interview with no favoritism. Musk came out on top in that interview. Lemon seems not to want to understand what censorship is, nor what freedom of speech means. Which is why he fit in really well at CNN for so long. Musk is far from a free speech abosolutist, but in the land of the blind social media, the one-eyed tech lord is king.