HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump Is Profiting Off the Presidency - May 27th , 2025
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What is Don Lemon introducing at the start of today's Hot Topics episode?
It is, oh shoot, it's almost Monday morning. It's not. Oh, that's some good news. I just realized it's Tuesday. We get a short week, right? It is Tuesday morning, Tuesday, May 27th, 2025. Now I thought, I actually felt all week and I'm like, we're in June, we're in June, we're actually not in June. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Lemon Nation. Hello, Lemonheads. Hi, I'm in Virginia, says Christy Patterson. Thank you, guys. Let me know where you're watching from. Did you have a great weekend? How was your Memorial weekend? We don't really say happy Memorial weekend. We just kind of, you know, Memorial Day. You just commemorate it. You mark it. But for some reason, Donald Trump says, happy Memorial Day.
Good morning from Kansas. Hi, Pamela in Kansas. Hello, everyone. Thank you. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. This is Hot Topics. OK, so let me just tell you guys this. You know how I always tell you, by the way, make sure you hit the thumbs up. Do that immediately. I'm not going to say I'm going to go up. You guys don't do the thumbs up right now. I'm leaving. I'm out of here. OK, I'm out of here. Now, make sure you hit the thumbs up. Make sure you hit the like, the thumbs up, subscribe, and become a member. Now, you guys know. That summer, we have the summer doldrums. And I believe that we are headed right into the summer doldrums where people sort of just zone out and they want to be outside. They want to be at the beach.
They want to barbecue. They don't really want to go to work. You want to have summer Mondays. You want to have summer Fridays. You're like, why do we have a five-day work week? We should have a four-day work week. And then we go to a four-day work week. You're like, we should have a three-day work week. And then pretty soon, you know, I feel you. I don't want to work at all. I just would like to be, you know, sit on my rump, my rump shaker. And do nothing. But unfortunately for me, fortunately for you, I have to work. Hello, Brooklyn, Marielle. Good to see you. So, all right. Hi, Dallas. Hello, Mr. Jerome. Hello, Virginia, Imani. So glad that you guys are all here. So what do I want to talk about this morning? I want to talk about what is going on.
Because we get so, there's so much, let me just say, there's so much talk about, this is what Democrats need to do. Right. And they do. Democrats need to fix their house, the foundation. They need to go back to the foundation and start rebuilding. OK, that's a thing. That whole Joe Biden thing. We know, as I've been saying, we know Joe Biden is an old man. OK, we got it. We got it. He's old. We knew that. So why do we keep going over and over that? When you have someone who is in office right now, do you guys know how much money? The Trump family, Donald Trump and the Trump family, do you know how much money they have made? off of this presidency. Now, that's not, I'm not talking about the first time. Like there's been analysis after analysis after analysis the first time.
And so we can all go back. Oh, hello, Antoine Duplessis from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Oh my gosh, Antoine, do you remember Duplessis Cadillac? Yeah. Back in the day in Louisiana. So we can go over how much money Donald Trump made last time. But for me, that's almost in the same category as what Joe Biden did when he was in office. So the last time he made it, he's already made he made that money. America should have known better. Can't get it back. You allowed him to be a grifter the first time. So what I'm trying to get you to understand is what is important right now. What's important right now is how much money he's making, the profiting, the grifting that is going on right under your nose while all weekend he tweets out or posts things about Vladimir Putin and about what's happening in America and all this stuff in all caps.
And everybody at the news meeting is going, oh my gosh, look, he said this about Vladimir Putin. Oh my gosh, look, all caps. Wow, he did this. He's saying this about the Democrats and the border. He gave the speech at West Point. He did this. In the meantime, I'm just going to give you a little bit
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is Don Lemon introducing at the start of today's Hot Topics episode?
0:12–8:35
2
How does the show frame concerns about Democrats and Joe Biden's age vs. Trump's profit-making?
8:35–21:22
3
What evidence is presented that the Trump family is profiting from the presidency via crypto?
21:22–29:32
4
Which foreign deals and Middle East investments are tied to the Trump Organization?
29:32–35:30
5
How did the White House respond to questions about Trump coin dinners and alleged pay-to-play access?
35:30–59:27
Speakers
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