Lemon LIVE at 5 | Crisis in DOGE - February 6th, 2025
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Hello, everyone. Hello, Lemonheads. Hello, Lemon Nation. Welcome to Lemonhead Live. It's actually 5 o'clock where I am now, which is New Orleans, and I'm here to do some special Super Bowl coverage for you. There you see the members of my team, producers Nikki and Peter, who will be joining me to help us get through this broadcast, this stream. So let us know where you're streaming from. Welcome to Nikki and Peter, please, in the chat. And thank you for waiting for us, for your patience. My flight was delayed. My flight got delayed by – hi, everyone. Hello, elimination TA. My flight got delayed by three hours, so I ran over to a different airport in New Orleans – I mean, in New York – to actually make it here at this time.
So we're glad you could join us. We have a very big show for you. Interesting news, and I'll call it breaking news, because a member – a former member of Donald Trump's – excuse me, of Elon Musk's Doge Group – Has been forced to resign because of racist tweets and not just any member, not just any member. This is the one who is most important to the Doge project and getting the information, the government information that is needed. So there it is. A staffer resigns over his racist posts. We're going to talk about that. Also, there's a lawmaker. saying he is happy in that Elon Musk is being very transparent about what he's doing at Doge and what he's doing to our official government agencies. A lot of folks would beg to differ with that.
Also, according to CNN, Elon Musk's approval rating is not just down, right, producers? It is plummeting. And they are saying their words, not ours, is that Americans are growing tired of Elon Musk. And here's a new one for you. that I think you guys will find interesting.
Remember, it was supposedly Hamas that USAID and the Biden administration, they were supposedly getting condoms to, I think it was, at first it was $10 million, then it was $15 million, then it was $75 million.
It was $15 and then $100. And then $100, yeah. And now, according to this lawmaker, it is now the Taliban that is getting $50 million in condoms. We're going to fact check that for you. But I think you know where we all stand on that. So let's talk about this, Peter. And by the way, I'm going to go. I may drop out for a little bit because I'm in transit. And so you won't see my face, but you'll hear my voice. So let's talk about this, Peter. This one member, our former member who's been forced to resign, how did they find out he was a racist? Not just a racist. Remember we talked about eugenics on the show? Yeah. Sort of master race traits. He was an even bigger racist and bigot than most people think.
Absolutely. And this is why you should always delete your tweets or just don't be on Twitter at all because it must be for disaster. Nikki, if you don't mind, I don't know if Don just hopped off. Maybe he'll join us.
I think he's here, just in voice.
Excellent. I will read just a bit from the Wall Street Journal reporting, which is interesting. You'd think that Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal would not be in the habit of breaking news about Trump and Doge when it's extremely damaging, but it was in the Wall Street Journal. Quoting here, a staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday, has links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics. The 25-year-old employee, Marco Elez, resigned Thursday after the Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account. The deleted profile associated with Elez
who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures, advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a, quote, eugenic immigration policy in the weeks before President Trump was inaugurated. Quoting again, you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.
Who resigned from DOGE over racist social media posts and what did they write?
The account wrote on Twitter in September, according to a Wall Street Journal review of the archive posts, quote, normalize Indian hate.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–4:18
2
Who resigned from DOGE over racist social media posts and what did they write?
4:18–7:34
3
How were the racist tweets documented and which examples were highlighted?
7:34–26:43
4
What access did the DOGE staffer have to Treasury data and why is that concerning?
26:43–43:22
5
How is Elon Musk’s public favorability changing amid DOGE controversy?
43:22–49:59