HOT TOPICS | Trump's Approval Hits New Lows—Is the MAGA Spell Breaking? - April 23rd, 2025
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What is it, Wednesday already? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Hot Topics. Thank you for joining us. You see, our scroll is back because, you know, not doing the thumbs up and stuff. I know you guys hate it. But anyways, welcome to the Don Lemon Show. So good to see you. Welcome to our hot topics. As I always say, please hit the like, hit the thumbs up. It affects the algorithm. More people become aware of our channel. The membership link is at the top of the chat and the subscribe button. is right next to the Don Lemon Show logo. So good morning, Lemon Nation. Thank you so much. Glad that you're here. Thanks for watching us on TikTok. So I see the folks are joining us on TikTok. Thank you so much. Smash the screen.
Welcome to the people who are watching us on Instagram Live and also who are watching us on Facebook Live as well. And so we appreciate all of you. I have some good news for you this morning. And It's good news. I mean, look, trouble don't last always. And good news don't last always as well. That's what people, you know, neglect to tell you. They'll say, hey, you know, chill out. Trouble don't last always. Good news don't last always either. So let's just, you know, it's, you know, you got to, you have your good days and you have your bad days. You have your good moments, you have your bad moments. You have your good relationships, you have your bad relationships. You have your good precedents and you have your bad precedents.
So here's the good news. is that, well, I can't believe I'm saying this. If he continues this way, at least the stock market and your 401k and your savings and all of that, that may be okay for the moment. As long as, you know, when people say, this is a, you know, it's a saying or a euphemism, taking your meds, you know what I'm saying? As long as he's taking his meds and listening to people like Scott Bessette and realizing that he screwed up the economy, that he screwed up this whole tariffs thing. And he is. He has realized it. And I'm going to show you why. Because he is losing support left and right. Mainly right. He is losing support on the right. He has blinked on tariffs. And we have the evidence to prove it.
I love I love. Evidence. I love proof. I love facts. I know that we are in a sort of anti-facts environment right now, but I love me some good facts and I love the numbers because they tell the story. As Bill Clinton says, it's arithmetic. And the arithmetic always tells you the story. So good morning. Day 94, a second Donald Trump presidency. And by the way, remember I told you I'm not going to bombard you with things just to tell you every single thing about the Trump folks. So as soon as if this sort of stabilizes as it relates to the economy and whatever, we're going to move on and we're going to do some other stuff. But I think it's important for you to be informed, okay? And I'm going to give you the stuff that's important.
Look, Signalgate was important. The stock market was important. You know, how he's negotiating with tariffs. Doge, that's all important stuff that affects your daily life. Not only your daily life, but it affects your future. It affects your children's future. It affects your family's future. It affects everyone's future. So that's why we've been Trump heavy. More Trump heavy than I would like to be. But you guys know that he takes over the zeitgeist, everything that's in the zeitgeist popular culture. He takes over sports. He's going to football games and MMA fights. And he's good. You know, the arts and like everything, the stock market. He probably wants to declare himself Pope next. I mean, I would not be surprised if there is a campaign to make Donald Trump the honorary Pope.
And trust me, before he leaves office, there's going to be a forever president initiative. Someone is going to introduce a bill or something to make him the forever president. You want to bet on it? Mark my words. Cheers. Mark my words. Mark my words. This is a Harlem mug. Mark my words. You think I'm wrong? Yeah, it's a Harlem. Someone says, cool, Cotton Club.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–8:14
2
Why does Don argue Trump is losing support from the right and business leaders over tariffs?
8:14–10:01
3
How did Trump's approval trend change in his first 94 days and what do the RealClearPolitics numbers show?
10:01–30:39
4
How did market pressure and Trump’s U-turns (tariffs/Powell) affect investor confidence?
30:39–57:41
5
What evidence does Don present from polls about public disapproval on the economy and cost of living?
57:41–1:13:08
Speakers
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