The Don Lemon Show
HOT TOPICS | MAGA Tries to Justify Another ICE Shooting. WTF Is Wrong With These People?!
26 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What happened in the recent ICE shooting involving Alex Pretti?
Good morning, everybody. Good morning. How are you? I was hesitant to say good because I'm not sure how good it is. I think it's, look, it's good in the sense that we are alive and especially considering that sadly this man is not alive, okay? And so I say that with trepidation and with a heavy heart. And so I hate to be a bummer. I hate to be a Donnie Downer this morning.
But I have been watching everything this weekend. As you guys know, I went live on Saturday and Sunday. I wanted to stay live for much longer, but I just did not have the bandwidth. And it was just, it was awful. Not only was it hurting my soul, I felt it was killing my soul. It is so disgusting to see what happened. And then we're going to pay tribute.
Chapter 2: How is the narrative around Alex Pretti being manipulated?
You know what? I didn't... Guys, do we have a picture of Alex Freddie? Let's find it. Sorry. I don't know if we thought about it in all of our research this morning. But I just want to pay tribute to him And also, I think what they did too, if you can find, is that they gave him the military sort of official going away. I think that was, I saw that this morning.
And then him delivering that to the sort of last rights kind of thing to someone, I believe it's in the hospital. But anyway, we'll get that up. Because there was just so much that we had. But I just, where do I start, y'all? Where do we start with all of this craziness? Because this administration is something else.
These are lawless, soulless people going on television, lying about this man and calling him all kinds of domestic terrorist areas.
Chapter 3: What evidence contradicts claims made about Alex Pretti?
I mean, just the model citizen, a vet, worked with VA, with veterans, and liked to hike and mountain climb. And everyone says he was just a good dude. And I saw an interview with one of the doctors
Last night on my friend Stephanie Ruhl's show, she did a special on MSNOW and had someone who knew him, a doctor from the hospital where he wanted to counsel veterans and people who had been hurt and injured and families whose family members had paid the ultimate price or made the ultimate sacrifice. And this man was not violent. He was not a terrorist. He wasn't a domestic terrorist.
He wasn't any of those things. And to hear these fucking assholes come on television with a face full of fucking makeup, too much lipstick and makeup and eyeliner and fucking mascara and hair weaves and extensions. And like, well, he was, he shouldn't have been there. It's like, shut the fuck up. Shut up. And that stupid little gnome. Well, that was Christie.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the ICE shooting on public safety?
No, I was talking about, but the stupid little gnome of a, whatever his name is saying that the ice agents were the victims. Fuck off. You little Gestapo. Are you kidding me? None of the evidence shows any of the shit that you're talking about. And these people spent all weekend, which should be frustrated.
I don't know why Donald Trump, Donald Trump, you need to fire these people because they are incompetent. They spent all weekend going on shows, contradicting them, contradicting the video and the evidence that's out there and spending all their time on social media. What is wrong with you people? If I were the president of the United States, I'd fire all of them. Gone. Goodbye.
Because I know, President Trump, this is not the narrative that you want. Now, I think that you wanted people out there, but you've lost control of this. No one is on your side.
Chapter 5: How do political leaders respond to the ICE shooting incident?
Even the folks who are saying that to the pollsters or whatever, they don't even believe that shit. There's no way you can believe that shit. All of a sudden, now you don't care about the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not sacrosanct anymore because this man was a law-abiding Second Amendment right to carry in the state of Minnesota. And so now it's like, oh, the second amendment.
What the fuck about Kyle Rittenhouse who shot people and got away with it? Well, he had every right to do it. He wasn't even legally carrying the thing. He had an AR-15 strapped to him. But all of a sudden now it's like, oh, well, you know, he came and he was, everything you're saying is bullshit.
And the fact that you're not allowing people, the local people and the state people to investigate says a lot about how you know you're lying and you know that this was wrong. I don't care. It's like the Rene Good video, which was a Rorschach test for, I believe, between sane people and idiots and crazy lunatics who are like, oh, look, he's standing in front of the car.
He's not standing in front of the car. And first of all,
Chapter 6: What role does media play in shaping the narrative of the incident?
Say her name too, Renee Good, Renee Nicole Good. He's not supposed to be in front of the car. If they were properly trained, he wouldn't have his ass there. And still, same thing, blocking the investigation. It is outrageous. Don't worry, my camera will come back. It is outrageous. Outrageous. People, Democrats, it is time for you to step up and not be mealy-mouthed.
Stop doing all the stupid cable things and trying to be badasses. Get out there on the front lines with the people. Do something. Start an investigation. Start investigating anyways, even if you can't. Go to the scene.
Chapter 7: What actions should citizens demand from their leaders after this incident?
Talk to the people. Do it. Do it. Do it. This is your moment. And not because, I'm not saying this because you're Democrats, I'm saying it because you're the ones who are on the side of justice right now. You're the ones who are not the hypocrites right now. Just have a backbone and stand up to these people. Everybody, the media, stop allowing these people to lie on television.
My friend, Dana Bash, I love you. Be a Dana Bash. Don't be one of those people who are like, well, there's both sides and I want to hear this. Can we put somebody on who's lying and just let them talk the entire time? Fuck no, don't do that shit. That's what got us in the first place.
Chapter 8: How can we hold law enforcement accountable for their actions?
And by the way, I love Dana Bass, but I'm not so sure about the industry from which she is working in right now, including the network, because they are the ones that facilitated this whole shit by putting people on television and allowing them to spout lies about the insurrection, about...
vaccines, about an election that wasn't stolen, about all kinds of shit, about saying that Black people got their rights, dumbass Vivek Ramaswamy. And I have something to say about those folks as well. Because of the NRA. The NRA wasn't even around for the Civil War, you dumbass.
And there's a whole nother thing about all of these Indian people like Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley. And then there's another one who's like the assistant AG. I forget her name. She's tweeting all weekend. You are never going to be racist enough. You're never going to be belligerent enough.
You're never going to be any of those things enough for these white folks in MAGA to accept you. They're just not. They're just never, you're never going to cozy up to MAGA enough.
There is nothing that you can, never going to betray your race or black people enough who you should be thanking every single day that you were able to get your rights and you're able to be in America with the rights and accomplishments that you are instead of talking shit about black people and trying to arrest them, black and brown people in the streets.
You're never going to be any of that for MAGA to accept you. You're never going, whiteness is not a club that you're ushered into. You were born into that club. So you can forget it. Anyway, I digress. It's time for people to stand up and the media to stand up against these people. Stop being afraid to go to the scene.
Stop being afraid to put people in the scenes of these protests because you want to cozy up to Donald Trump because you are condescending and acquiescing to this administration. They're lawless. The way to stand up to these people is to stand up and fight back and question them. And not, we need to give room. We need to make room for the right. Fuck that, are you kidding me?
Those are the people, that's why we're in this predicament right now. That is why we're in this predicament right now, is because of shit like that. So while I love my friend, Dana, who did a great job, but the industry she works in right now, the corporate media, I think that you are in large part responsible for allowing this to happen, for giving a platform to those people.
That is my humble opinion. Not even humble opinion, I came from that system, and that's part of the reason that I am gone is because I question what is our policy? What is our protocol on liars? And people who are coming on our platforms just to lie to the American people, it is a privilege to go onto these platforms. It is not a right. You don't have to invite these people on.
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