HOT TOPICS | Has Trump Declared War on Chicago...WTF Is This Fascist BS?! - September 8th, 2025
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Yeah, I heard it. Hello. Maybe I need some Z-biotics this morning. Good morning, everybody. How are you? Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. So good to see you on this Monday morning. I am in a new, I created a new studio in my home rather than the old one. I wanted to try something new coming out of the summer. So I hope you guys are doing. How are you? What is happening? How was your weekend? What did you do over the weekend? We had a very busy week last week. We had an eventful weekend as well. Uh, we're doing some new things. We're trying some live things and it's fun. I'm really, really, really enjoying it. I'm hoping you guys are enjoying it, um, as well. Also just check out, let's check out my new place. Andy, if you want us, you want me to do it or you want to do it?
I got that. This is our merch cam. You guys know we have some merch. There's the merch cam. You can put the merch cam up full Andy. Um, and anyway, this is my new fun studio. As you can see, remember I had the, um, my sheep in there before, um, And then you can check the side camera so that I'll say this is my how you doing camera over there. All right. My reaction camera, camera three, so to speak. So where do we start this morning? We're going to start with everybody hates. donald trump people are not happy with donald trump this morning and not happy with him at all he got booed over the weekend he did something really unhinged he is um doing some weird stuff as it relates to put out some some weird things on social media about declaring war and then he tried to walk it back it's
If you haven't seen it, it is disturbing. Let me get you through this. I'm going to take you through all of it this morning. I want to hear from you as well in the comments. Make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up. It does affect the algorithm. More people become aware of our program if you do that. So good morning, everyone. Welcome to Hot Topics. This is a Don Lemon show. As we start streaming with you today, let us know where you're streaming from. As always in the Trump era, there is major breaking news to report. Over the weekend, President Trump posted an AI-generated image on social media depicting himself as a military officer in the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now with the caption, quote, Shapocalypse Now.
now or shipocalypse now the play on apocalypse and chicago obviously uh dumb ignorant immature i cannot believe that we're in a position now where we have a president of the united states who would uh tweet something like that out like that out on social media and then defend it and then you have people defending him for it. It's really a sad state of affairs to have something like that.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–15:28
2
What happened on Truth Social that looks like Trump 'declaring war' on Chicago?
15:28–20:53
3
What legal limits exist on sending federal troops into cities like Chicago?
20:53–25:22
4
How do crime statistics in Chicago compare to recent decades despite Trump's claims?
25:22–36:35
5
Why are critics calling Trump’s meme and rhetoric a form of authoritarian gaslighting?
36:35–51:55
6
How did Illinois and city officials respond to the threat of federal troop deployment?
51:55–1:15:41
Speakers
6 identifiedMore from The Don Lemon Show
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