HOT TOPICS | Don Lemon on Club Random with Bill Maher, MAGA TRIGGERED! - March 17th, 2025
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Good morning, Lemon Nation. Good morning, Lemonheads. How are you? What a weekend. Sometimes you have to just laugh to keep from, I don't know, crying. Who knows? But I got a lot to talk about because, welcome, let me know where you are watching us from, where you're streaming. I'm glad that we're here. You heard the music. You know it's time to get to the TVs or the phones or the laptops or whatever. Thank you, American Struggle, already gifting memberships. So welcome to all of our new members this morning. Wow, and you guys are active in the chat. I love it. Lots of engagement. You're watching Hot Topics on the Don Lemon Show, 10 a.m. Eastern Time, every weekday. So welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all.
Welcome to D.C., Oklahoma, Wisteria. Everybody is here. Where do I start? Where do I start? Because I don't know if I should start with the MAGA folks getting all triggered and bent out of shape. about something that I said about MAGA and Black MAGA and over the weekend on Bill Maher. Did you see it? If you didn't, then you need to click on it and you need to watch it. Hello, Huntsville, Alabama. And Donald Trump doing something that is the most authoritarian thing that he has ever done. It should be frightening to everyone, even if you are a Donald Trump major MAGA supporter, this should be concerning to you because one day there's going to be a Democrat that's back in the White House or a Republican that is not so MAGA.
And they may go in and overturn Donald Trump's pardons of all of those January 6th criminals, insurrectionists, treasonous traitors. And then how are you going to feel about that? Just remember the tables are always turned. So guys, look, I thought about not even addressing this whole Bill Maher thing, but it just sort of chaps my hide sometimes. When the people who claim not to be snowflakes and facts don't care about your feelings, when they get all ticked off and then they end up proving the point. When you look at their comments and their responses, and you know, I'd love to show evidence. And then when you go back and look at the evidence, they turn out to be just as outrageous, bigoted, racist, maybe even more so than I give them credit for.
So I didn't give them a little credit for a lot of things that most of them, if not all of them. Right. So thank you for your support. Make sure you become a member. Like, hit the thumbs up, like and subscribe. It affects the algorithm and more people become aware of our of our giant, bigly, hugely growing channel network here. Lemon Media Network, the Don Lemon channel, the Don Lemon show on the YouTube. OK, so let me just tell you about some things and then I'm going to get to those. MAGA trolls, haters, fake feign outrage, all of that. They love to feign outrage. Oh my God, I can't believe it. And then they say the most hideous things about people. And guess what? I'm not in corporate media anymore. So I am free to tell them about themselves.
and to tell them exactly what they can do. Because it's always the same people, and it's never the rational ones. They're always telling on themselves when they're complaining about someone else putting up a mirror to them. So good morning, my friends. Welcome to the Donald. Listen to what I said to you, about to say to you. This weekend, Donald Trump, seriously, I'm not kidding. I'm going to show you the evidence. All but declared himself a dictator. He is now operating as a king, and that is pure and simple. Even if you have an election again, if we do have an election again in 2028, American democracy, I believe, as we know it, is dead. I believe we're already in a dictatorship. I told you that before.
Why do I say it? Because this morning, 1230 a.m., without offering any evidence, Donald Trump announced pardons signed by Joe Biden were, quote, void, vacant, and of no further force in effect because they were allegedly signed with an auto pen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about them. That's what Donald Trump is saying.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:14–5:03
2
What triggered Don Lemon's response to the Bill Maher Club Random clip and online MAGA outrage?
5:03–18:02
3
How did Don Lemon explain Trump's midnight pardons claim and its legal precedent?
18:02–37:09
4
Why does Don say we may be at a 'point of no return' for constitutional norms?
37:09–41:52
5
How did the White House respond to the court order about turning migrant flights around?
41:52–59:55