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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Everything is Out of Control!

12 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the current status of the ceasefire deal with Iran?

0.031 - 12.509 Don Lemon

There's a ceasefire deal in motion right now and the whole world is watching to see if it holds. Is it really a ceasefire? I don't know. Some people are wondering about that. The Strait of Hormuz is still shut down and the pressure is building by the day.

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Chapter 2: How is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz impacting global tensions?

12.87 - 41.716 Don Lemon

Trump is going after his own MAGA influencers and that says a lot about where things stand inside that coalition. And Melania is denying any connections to Epstein, a story that is far from over. It's a full show, let's go. Today we're gonna talk about something that is so richly, cosmically deserved, the schadenfreude of it, that I almost feel bad about how much I'm enjoying it.

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44.82 - 53.494 Don Lemon

Almost, not quite. I'm actually kinda relishing, because it's the horrible people. We're talking about Tucker Carlson,

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Chapter 3: What is Donald Trump's latest criticism of his former supporters?

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Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Nick Puentes, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, excuse me, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, darling of the MAGA, she's the MAGA maven. And we're talking about the man that they built They built this man, the man that they really worship, the man that they handed a microphone and they said, here, take everything, Donald J. Trump. You just take it.

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We love you. Remember Tim Scott? We just love you.

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Chapter 4: Why did Melania Trump deny her connection to Jeffrey Epstein?

82.399 - 100.923 Don Lemon

Because yesterday evening, the President of the United States posted a 482-word unhinged, rambling, deeply personal attack on every single one of these people and more. He called them stupid. He called them losers. He called them nut jobs. He said that they had low IQs.

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Chapter 5: What does Trump's tirade reveal about his relationship with MAGA influencers?

101.444 - 116.64 Don Lemon

He said that they have third-rate podcasts. And then this is my personal favorite, okay? My personal favorite is that Donald Trump said that he doesn't return their calls anymore because he's too busy on the world and country affairs.

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117.43 - 149.165 Don Lemon

You just screwed up the whole world, the economy, because you weren't maybe busy enough trying to read and understand world politics and diplomacy and foreign affairs that you just screwed the world's economy. He's too busy working on the world and country affairs. A man who spent 482 words posting about podcasters is too busy for phone calls. He just showed how stupid he is.

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149.827 - 168.332 Don Lemon

I'm too busy to call them back, but I can write this whole long epic soliloquy about how much I hate them and how stupid they are. Okay. Now look, Before we go any further, I need you to understand this, and I mean understand it plainly.

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Chapter 6: How has Trump's rhetoric escalated tensions in the Middle East?

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I want you to hear me, okay? I am not here at all to defend any of these despicable people. Not Tucker, not Megan, not Candace, not Alex Jones, not Nick Fuentes, not Marjorie Taylor Greene, none of them. These are not good people. They have never been good people, and I want you just, you know, think about, I'll get back to that. We're gonna come back to that.

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190.82 - 213.52 Don Lemon

What you are watching right now is not a redemption arc. This is not moral courage. This is not like the good guys are finally standing up and realizing it. If they wanted to be that, they would have done that in 2024 and said, no, no, we're not going through this, okay?

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Pardon me, this is a group of grifters who built their entire careers on this man finally getting exactly what everyone else has been getting for years.

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Chapter 7: What implications does the current situation have for U.S.-Iran relations?

225.465 - 258.65 Don Lemon

Now they're finally understanding it. The chickens are coming home to roof and they is ugly. All of them, ugly. They're getting their comeuppance. The bill has come due. And I want them to pay every single cent of it with tariffs on top of it. A toll with the tolls, the amount of money that you have to pay to get through the harmless straight right now. Yeah. But try to justify the war.

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258.69 - 278.091 Don Lemon

But with, I mean, he tried, I think the other night, but he had no, nothing concrete. that he gave the American people, that he gave anyone, even foreign countries. He gave no credible reason for this war. And I don't think he did anything to help his poll numbers.

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278.232 - 292.512 Don Lemon

If that's what he thinks this is gonna do, this is gonna get the public on his side, and that somehow they're gonna get some justification, I think he's wrong. Now, he could come out and say, we have an agreement,

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Here's the difference today. Now, this is a very important context before he starts speaking.

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Chapter 8: What are the potential consequences of Trump's actions on international stability?

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It's important that we point this out. Today is the deadline he gave them. Hey, where's the where's the team of tweet that he put up? If if you're if you don't have a tweet, if you have it, please, if you don't have it by Tuesday, we're blowing up your bridges. We're blowing up your build. Like, first of all, you know, we've all pointed out that's illegal right there.

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Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day. There will be nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastard. Keep in mind, he put this up on Easter.

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Now, I myself, as an atheist, I don't care about Easter, but this is the guy who claims to be the top Christian in the country who's got people in his office praying around him and holding his shoulder, who has a faith advisor in Paula White, who's a lunatic. And then on Easter, this is what he puts up. There'll be nothing like it.

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Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. You can't do that. You can't blow up power plants and bridges. That's against Geneva and Hague Convention.

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352.322 - 365.766 Don Lemon

We're in a worse place than we were before this happened. And he is, as everyone said, and I'm sure you did too, that he's going to try to claim some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat.

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Well, Donald Trump played all the cards he has to play. It doesn't get worse than genocidal threats.

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And so he wasn't going to actually be able to deliver on it, thank God, on wiping out a whole civilization because that would have required a nuclear weapon, which if that happened, we would all be dead right now instead of having this debate about what actually, who won or who lost out of this war. But Donald Trump lost this war already.

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It's just a fact because the reality is he created a pretext, or he used a pretext to go into Iran by saying that they were on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, even though he bragged days, weeks before on the State of the Union that they had obliterated Iran's capabilities. And so now we see this 10 point plan that Donald Trump himself said yesterday was workable.

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He said Iran's plan was workable. And Iran, of course, claimed victory because their plan is going to make Iran great again. They're going to be richer and more powerful than they were before. Yes, they've had some leaders who were killed off. Yes, they had some Navy losses and some military losses.

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