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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | Is MAGA Trying To End Us?

20 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the implications of Trump's recent tariffs?

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Good morning, Lemonheads everywhere. You know what that music means? It means that it's 10 AM on the nose.

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means it's time for hot topics 10 a.m eastern time here on the don lemon show on the don lemon channel thank you for being here um a little bit late this morning because of me um you see i'm not in my home studio but um yeah so i'm not in my studio so here's the thing um at city winery when uh we we started late one night because of security they were a lot of checking a lot of things going on there were um

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members of the Georgia, whatever, law enforcement. And so they were checking people. So we're a little bit late. And I said, you guys, you know, I hate starting late. I'm always on time. And the whole crowd went, what? I don't know about that. Hilarious. You guys know me far too well. So let me know where you're streaming from. Hit the like hit the thumbs up.

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Chapter 2: How is the MAGA regime impacting democracy?

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I'm glad you liked the little Richard little Richard is one of my favorite people just because he's like I am the originator and he does not take any well he didn't he's gone. Mr. Richard Pennington is gone but I love this. It's one of my favorite things that I own in life. So thank you for joining. Let me know where you are. Good morning. So wait someone is Are you seriously from the Ivory Coast?

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Ivory Coast person. Can you put that one up and see who that is, guys? There's someone on here from the Ivory Coast. That's crazy. Someone's on from Houston. Wow. Yacafi is from the Ivory Coast. That's crazy.

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Chapter 3: What are the health risks associated with RFK's MAHA plan?

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Hi, Baton Rouge, Michelle. Good to see you. Hollywood, Los Angeles. Hello, Don, no tariffs. Good morning, Don, no tariffs. The president just got a big blow, by the way, regarding his tariffs. I sent you the guys that, there it is. Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president. Did you see that?

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The decision does not affect all tariffs, Trump's tariffs, but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law. So that's some stuff. So when I said there, are they on the thing? Are they trying to end us? Meaning, are they trying to end democracy? And some folks believe in the health care industry and people who are suffering with medical conditions that they may be trying to end us.

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Chapter 4: How are ICE operations affecting American cities?

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Or as we will talk to a doctor, we'll discuss that. And we're going to talk to also a legal mind attorney to talk about democracy. Other things here in the United States. Well, Temecula Wine Country, hello. St. Louis is here as well. H-Town, which is Houston. Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all. Currently in Qatar. What? Dr. Peppermint Patties in Qatar? Well, amazing.

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Wichita Falls, I see, Ewing. Anyway, how was your week? How was your Friday going?

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Chapter 5: What is the economic outlook under the current administration?

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Harlem, my old home. I shouldn't say town because it's New York, my old home neighborhood. Harlem. I miss Harlem. I want to move back. I think I will. Brunswick, Georgia. Thank you. Hello, Juanita. Okay, so let's talk about what happened, because we got a lot to get to here. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there, as it was Smoking the Bandit. Do you remember that song?

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We got a long way to go and a short time to get there. Down the line. He's bound down, going down that show.

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Chapter 6: What are the potential consequences of a war with Iran?

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I don't know, that's what I remember from that in the red. Was it a Camaro or a Firebird or what was it, guys? So the White House insisted that President Donald Trump was visiting Georgia to promote the economy. But in the opening minutes of his rally last night, the president ranted about debunked claims of voter fraud. He screamed about transgender people.

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He spouted incomprehensible math related to lowering drug prices. The White House has long said that Trump plans to focus more on the economy ahead of the midterms. Aha, we'll talk about that.

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But recent months have been dominated by other issues, including deadly clashes during deportation efforts in Minneapolis, potential military action in Iran, racist AI videos, and his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Okay, let's talk about that. Because

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If you don't pay close attention, or even if you don't have to, not even close attention, and you will realize that Donald Trump always gives the game away. He is so transparent about what he's doing. And he's just like, this is what I'm doing. It doesn't hide it.

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Chapter 7: How do Trump's policies affect healthcare access?

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Just like Project 2025. You guys didn't believe it. The moment that he says, I don't know anything about anything, that means he knows everything about it. So but what he's doing, all of these things where they're saying, we're not talking about Epstein anymore. Like they knew that starting somehow this spring, they would have to get ahead.

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Well, actually, they wanted to start it a little bit later. But they thought they didn't realize how bad the poll numbers would be. And so now they're trying to get ahead of it. And that's one reason I believe, in my opinion, that they are pulling out of Minnesota, so to speak. That they're changing sort of their tactics and directives on ICE.

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don't want people seeing all of that they're um the folks who are still on the ground say they're not tear gassing as many protesters or at least they're not doing it in front of cameras but they're still rounding people up without due process that's the word from the ground and so they needed to change that so now they're like we're going to be calmer we're moving out okay

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And then they saw the economic numbers, and they saw the polling numbers, and they're like, oh, we got to get people to stop obviously talking about Epstein. We tried to get them to do it before, but now we got to say, so everyone say, I'm exonerated. It's over. Let's stop talking about it.

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Chapter 8: What strategies can voters use to influence the 2026 midterms?

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All right, and I'm gonna give you evidence to all of that. And let's make sure that people don't think Donald Trump is racist. We're gonna have a Black History Month thing. We're gonna invite the black people who love us, who kiss up to us, and the ones that people call sellouts. And that's a kind term for it, because I could say other terms.

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And you guys know, if you have some, if you know what I'm talking about, you can put them in the chat. So we'll invite those folks, and then we'll just get people on. We'll make sure that we get it out to MAGA, that Donald Trump is not racist, even though he shared a racist video depicting the Obamas as an eight. So all of the things.

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And so now they need to clear all of that so he could get out and go on his tour, his publicity tour, his change the program tour, his 2026 tour, midterm tour to try to get the public on his side, the Republican side. Because he knows if the Democrats take the House and the Senate, either one, especially the House, it's over for him. He gets nothing done.

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His folks start to have to face some ramifications and justice for the injustices that they have been perpetrating on the American people. And so that will happen when Democrats take over the House of Representatives and the Senate. It's over for people like Pam Bondi, for people like Stephen Miller, for people, for Kristi Noem, for Bovino.

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for any of the folks who are out there and the people and and for quite frankly the ice agents or anyone in this administration that has been following unlawful orders because your military code of ethics or conduct uh it will tell you you don't have to and you should not follow unlawful orders which is what the democrats were had been telling

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the the folks who are out there you don't have to do it and the folks were in the military and then they tried to jail them for it they tried to prosecute them for it and the grand jury said no So here is proof of what I'm talking about. Because I want you to watch this because Donald Trump is out on his tour.

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This is my evidence if they needed to get him out on this tour so that he could start weaving in what he calls the weave and connecting all these things in nonsensical ways. And then making sure that they get ahead of their racism by telling people, right, they're forecasting, foreshadowing it. They're gonna say that we're racist, but we're not.

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They're gonna say our policies are racist, but they're not. Even though you can see it with your own eyes, hear it with your own ears, and you know it with your own heart and mind. Here's Donald Trump. Tariffs, transgender people, and voter ID. Whatever.

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Tariffs! Can you believe it? He said tariffs. And I got to be before a court. Can you believe it? This is like men playing in women's sports. Transgender for everybody? I have a new one to add. Voter ID. The Democrats don't want to give us voter ID because they want to cheat. The only way they can cheat is if they... Look, we can stop them so easy. You know what they say?

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