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Mike Nellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
793 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I'm Italian, so I'm barely white.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

But still, like what?

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I will say with Obama, though, like some of the challenge that we're in right now is we gave so much power to the executive.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

after 9-11 under George W. Bush for Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

And then Obama extended that to Yemen and other places with drone strikes.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

And it's the same justification that Trump uses to blow up boats in the Caribbean.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

And I think we need Congress to step in and reassert its war powers and its authority here.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

Because if Donald Trump can just remove a foreign leader in Venezuela without even telling Congress about it, that's too powerful of an executive, period.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

And so what's wrong with white people?

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I don't know.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I love them.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I'm one of them.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I'm among them.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

But I don't know.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I'll tell you a funny story.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

When my wife and I got pregnant seven years ago with our son and we got the test back saying he was a boy and we were joking about how we were trying to raise a white man.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

We were like, oh shit, what are we going to do?

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

We got to raise this white boy, make him good.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

So I'm going to try to just make him not be somebody that would invade a foreign country on a whim.

The Don Lemon Show
LEMON DROP | Dear White People, WTF?!

I mean, it's just, yeah, it's entitlement.