HOT TOPICS | Trump Freezes Federal Aid & Raids Continue - January 28th, 2025
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What is the immediate impact of the Trump administration's freeze on federal aid?
Good morning, everyone. So glad that you're here. This is our Hot Topic Show. We are live on the Don Lemon Show, our Hot Topic Show that we do at 10 a.m. Eastern time every single day. Today, we have so much news, we are a bit late, and we're so glad that you could join us. Guys, good morning. But I gotta ask you, why so mean? Why do they have to be so mean and so nasty? You know how Donald Trump loves to call people, you're a nasty woman. You're a nasty person. Nasty. Is everything he says, is he just telling on himself? Is he actually just revealing what's inside of him, his true nature? Why so nasty? Why does everything have to be so mean? Say what you want about Joe Biden, Barack Obama. You can feel everyone.
They weren't mean and nasty. You know, people called Barack Obama the deporter in chief. Okay, a lot of people didn't like that he deported so many people. He deported more people, I believe. As of this point, maybe Trump will pass him, surpass him. But he deported more people. In his presidency, I think that anyone in history, but it wasn't cruel in your face. Why so nasty? Why so mean? So revealing of your character and your nature when you're just disgusting and people are taking glee in it. I find it just gross. I hate to come on and talk about it because that's what he wants. He wants you to talk about him. Talk about me, me, me, me, me. Let's do it so you can talk about me. But at least if you tune into this, you can take it in doses and then go away from it.
But we have to report on the news because it affects so many people. It's just fucking gross. They're just so nasty. You want to talk about nasty people? You want to talk about inhumane, the inhumanity of it all? You want to talk about seeing people as things, as aliens?
This is what's happening in this country right now. I want to know what, look. At this point, Donald Trump thinks he's a king. And guess what? He is behaving as such. And people are treating him as such. And Democrats are just like.
What are you doing, Democrats? What are you doing, never Trumpers? What are you doing, people who have a heart? Where are you? Just standing back and standing by? This is going to shock some people, but I have to give him a compliment. He sure hit the ground running. And he's doing what I told you he would do, is there would be a barrage of news every second, every tweet, every second, everything. Now he's doing it through executive orders. And at breakneck speed and the scope of his executive orders have meant what it's meant. It hasn't been two weeks and we're already facing a constitutional crisis, a constitutional crisis, a dilemma. for this country. Because late yesterday, in addition to everything he has already done, this is the mean part of it.
Trump declared that he and the monarch part of it, that he, not the legislative branch anymore, no longer the legislative branch, which is how our constitution works, that he now has control over the government's purse strings. I want to explain, because this is the, I'm getting to the mean part, okay? And I'm going to give you examples of the mean part. And remember, all of the evangelicals, all of the Christians, all of the do unto others as you would have them do unto you people. America is a, you know, let's abide by the Constitution. The people who carry the Constitution around in their breast pockets. people who have the Constitution in their desks or in their briefcase or they are constantly talking about the Constitution and the thing that they would like to be the Constitution, which is the Bible, they certainly aren't abiding by the Bible or the Constitution.
It's hypocritical bullshit. Neither of those things. Neither one means anything to you. It's a lie. It's hypocrisy. Last night, the Office of Management and Budget told the federal agencies to, quote, temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or distribution of all federal financial assistance effective at 5 p.m. today. Is the cruelty the point? The MAGA folks are celebrating, but the people who are affected by it, guess who it's going to be?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the immediate impact of the Trump administration's freeze on federal aid?
0:14–25:47
2
Which federal programs and services are likely halted by the OMB memo?
25:47–29:58
3
Who will be most affected by the federal grant pause — red states or blue states?
29:58–37:42
4
How could the freeze affect student financial aid, clinical trials, and research grants?
37:42–1:04:02
5
Is the White House action legally constitutional and how are lawmakers responding?
1:04:02–1:12:02