HOT TOPICS | The Beginning of the End? - April 25th, 2025
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Happy Friday! And we're on. We're off to the races. Good morning, everybody. How are you? Wow. I said we were just singing, is everything awful or is everything awesome? It's kind of awful. And there's a lot. There's like, we have a lot of like... Men behaving really, really badly. I was just looking at some of the headlines and like George Santos. Remember that guy going to court? The Justice Department wants him to get, I think it's like seven years. It's just crazy. Anyways, happy Friday. Where are you streaming from? Hello, hello, hello. Everything is awful. Awfully, awesomely awful, someone said. Where are you? I'm in New York. Good morning, Pennsylvania. Hi, Linda. So, yeah. Someone said Tony Busby totally sleaze.
What is going on? You guys are in the chat already, like, just going at it. George with his Botox. My goodness. Hello. You guys were waiting. So many people waiting. My goodness. So, yeah. yep i love your i love your um your photo there courtney wade hello love it st louis amanda belcher hi hi hi well you guys are all in it so just let me shout some people out this morning goodness gracious maryland uh black diamond and pearls a key affair is in south carolina Good morning, Don. Looking radiant and ready. Good morning. I missed the name. Back it up, please. Gail Burris, Waycross, Georgia. Good morning. Robin Foose, Pennsylvania. Yeah. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, TikTok. Good morning to Mrs. Macamoon.
Looking radiant and ready. Thank you very much. Hi, Venetia Marshall. Good morning, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm going to have to go to Baton Rouge. I got to go there and... take care of some stuff. So anyways, I'll let you know about that later. We'll talk about that. But good morning, everybody. I'm so glad that you are here. It is Friday and you guys are really engaged this morning. I'm so glad. So listen, I want to tell you guys, make sure you hit the thumbs up, hit the like button, hit that thumbs up. It's really important to us. And you know what's very important is that you subscribe. So make sure that you have hit that subscribe button It's right there, pardon me, near the Don Lemon Show logo. So make sure you hit that subscribe button.
It's very important to us. And also become a member. And the membership link is at the top of the chat. And then we'll also put a thing up after we're going. We're trying to figure out who our Sarah Lemon should be after that. So we'll have you hit the thumbs up, okay? So welcome in, welcome in, welcome in, everybody. Ah, nice stretch. Did you get a good sleep? California gloomy today. Joan Hanson, why is California gloomy? It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Well, it's always sunny in California, supposedly. Supposedly. So no, am I wrong? Sleep. What's sleep? Tell me about it. Tell me about it. Fort Lauderdale is here. Tough choice for sour lemons. Yeah, we'll tell you about the sour lemons. Okay, let's get to the show because I think it's really important what's going on.
We have, there's a tale of three alleged predators. Okay, let's start off this way. And I'll tell you, this is what, there's a tale of three alleged predators, one in the White House, one in the Pentagon, one in Hollywood, all of them bracing for a world of hurt. Okay, that's what we're going to talk about this morning. We're talking about Donald Trump, Pete Hexeth, and Shannon Sharp. But this is how I would frame it, because I'm a man of a certain age. How did it go? Once upon a time, there were three little boys who went into television. Two in Washington. The other, I don't know, where is Shannon? In California. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy.
And then they were all in Los Angeles. And then there were like one in San Francisco, two in Los Angeles. And after like Farrah Fawcett left, whatever. You guys know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah. I think it was like two in Los Angeles, the other in San Francisco, whatever it was that happened whenever Farrah Fawcett left. Anyways. So, yeah. So these guys are not angels, allegedly.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–10:28
2
What is the 'tale of three' public figures Don Lemon frames at the start of the episode?
10:28–18:00
3
What are the latest allegations and timeline around Shannon Sharpe's stepping away from ESPN?
18:00–19:45
4
What new reporting links Shannon Sharpe to prior settlements and alleged choking incidents at FS1?
19:45–20:48
5
What do Reuters polls and Project 32 suggest about Donald Trump's early approval ratings?
20:48–29:30
6
How did Don Lemon explain the 'date your wage' clip and the emergence of the race-play text messages?
29:30–1:08:48