HOT TOPICS | Trump's MAGA Troops in DC...Coming to Your City Next?! - August 25th, 2025
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How did Don Lemon introduce the Freedom From Religion Foundation ad and First Amendment issues?
We start today with a lesson on the Constitution and democracy. So support for The Don Lemon Show comes from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Let's talk facts here. Across America right now, some politicians are trying to drag religion into public schools. And we're talking Ten Commandment posters in classrooms, school chaplains with zero clinical training. and vouchers that funnel public money to private religious schools, schools that often exclude LGBTQ students or kids who aren't Christian. It's real. It's happening right now. But the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fighting back hard. They've already scored a huge win. A federal court just blocked a Texas law that required public schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
That is what defending the First Amendment looks like. Freedom from religion, fights in court. in Congress, and in classrooms to keep education truly public and to protect our kids from religious coercion. Learn more at ffrf.org slash school or text my name, Don, that's D-O-N, to 511-511. Don't let anyone rewrite your rights. Go to ffrf.org slash school or text Don to 511-511. Message and data rates may apply. Good morning, everybody. You caught me trying to fix my other camera over here. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday morning. Thank you all for your well wishes. Am I feeling better? I mean, I'll be honest with you, marginally, still not great. I don't know if you guys ever had a summer cold. It's not the best thing.
And I got, I tried to get some sleep. I got a little bit. Yeah. 800 K. Thank you. Sally car. 801 K. So let's get, we need to get it to a million. We need to do it by. We could do it before the end of summer. That would be crazy, but we need to do it as soon as possible. Yes. I said a summer cold. I thought I had COVID. I did two COVID tests. Both of them negative. I did them like two days apart and still. So I don't know. I got something, some crud that is going around and it is not good. So, yes, I hope you don't have it. I'm told that my Wi-Fi is spotty right now. Do I need to go out and come back in? Is that what needs to happen? We'll figure it out. It's getting better. Is it better now?
Yeah, it's slowly. I don't know.
It was fine before we started it, and then once we started, it was choppy, and now it's getting better. Why is it always like that? Okay. Well, let me know. I think it looks fine to me on this end, but I see where it's frozen. I'm watching on YouTube, and I'm frozen on YouTube, but now it's better. Now I'm back. Am I good, Andy? Just want to make sure. It's still kind of bad, actually.
Still frozen on my end, yeah.
OK, so here's what I'm going to do then. I want to tell you what we're going to talk about is the craziness that's happening on the streets. And I saw a conversation this weekend that I want to show you. And that is from Face the Nation with Wes Moore talking about Donald Trump saying that he wants to put police on the streets of Baltimore. And so now he has gotten into it with the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, and I think he's met his match. But anyway, here he is on Face the Nation.
Why, though, are you so opposed to this deployment?
Well, there's plenty of reasons. One, it is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when it's costing over a million dollars a day in order to do this. The second, it's not scalable. You're not going to be able to do this in every single major American city, particularly when many of the cities that have the highest crime rates are the places that have actually deployed their National Guards to Washington, D.C. So who's going to go do the work in their cities? The third, it's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the Tenth Amendment. And for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.
The fourth reason is because it's deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard. As someone who actually deployed overseas and served my country in combat, to ask these men and women to do a job that they're not trained for is just deeply disrespectful.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Don Lemon introduce the Freedom From Religion Foundation ad and First Amendment issues?
0:14–11:01
2
What triggered the on-air exchange between Governor Wes Moore and Donald Trump?
11:01–13:11
3
Why does Governor Wes Moore call Trump's National Guard plan unsustainable and unconstitutional?
13:11–22:50
4
How did Trump characterize Baltimore and how does Don Lemon rebut those claims?
22:50–1:01:58