Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump's Iran War Crisis Keeps Getting Worse!
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at Five. Thank you so much for joining us. Make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up. It affects the algorithm. More people become aware of our channel here and our conversation. And we're going to have a good one today because the world has gone mad. And I think I'm not saying this. I'm not I'm not being hyperbolic, but I feel like Donald Trump can get us killed with what is happening right now. Donald Trump tweeted this out this weekend. And he said, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up into one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the effing, well, he said, fucking straight. Fucking straight, he said. You crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
Just watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. And again, this was on Friday. Uh, one of the holiest days of the year in the Christian faith, which is Easter Sunday. Okay. And then representative Yasmeen Ansari tweeted this out. She said the president of United States is extremely mentally ill and it's putting all of our lives at risk. The 25th amendment exists for a reason. We need to invoke it immediately. And then she put in, uh, to the, uh, a note to the white house. Okay. Joining me now is that Congresswoman Yasmeen Ansari. She served Arizona's third congressional district since 2025, and she happens to be the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress, and she serves on the House Oversight Committee.
Representative, thank you very much for joining. Thank you for having me. There are many people who agree with you. Why did you fill the need to tweet that?
Don, I have not been able to sleep at night for days on end now.
What happened in Donald Trump’s Easter weekend post threatening Iran’s infrastructure?
The war that Donald Trump has embarked upon in Iran, I believe it's been 28 days since it began. And his escalating rhetoric over the last week, over the last 48 hours, and even this morning when his statement got even worse during his press conference today, he said that by tomorrow night, he could destroy the entirety of the country of Iran. He's talking about a country of 90 million people. I don't know how anybody in this administration, no matter how sycophantic they are about Donald Trump, how they are not invoking the 25th Amendment, how they are not doing everything in their power to take him, you know, to remove him from office or do anything to even restrain him in the slightest. I mean, he is normalizing language that is essentially preparing us either, as he said yesterday, for destroying power plants, which are a war crime.
But the language today sounds like he's normalizing the use of nuclear weapons to me. And I am so alarmed. I am so terrified. I am just in I'm feeling things I've never felt before. And even as an American congresswoman, I feel so powerless because it doesn't seem that any Republicans are stepping up to do anything to stop this madman.
He did say this. I'm going to play it for you when he said about blowing the entire country up. This was at the beginning of his press briefing today. Here it is.
Well, at a level that nobody's ever seen before. The entire country can be taken out in one night and that night might be tomorrow night.
And then he said, as you said, they're going to focus on power plants and bridges and whatever, which is a war crime. He was asked about that. I'll play that later on in the show. But he was asked about that. And, you know, he didn't really have a good answer for it.
He doesn't care. I mean, they have normalized the use of war crimes. I mean, the first day of this war, they bombed a school and over 160 children were killed. And we are basically have brushed over it like nothing has happened. I led over 100 of my colleagues in asking questions of the Department of War about about this and got some nonsense three sentence response completely dismissing it. I mean, that happened on day one. They have already knocked out bridges. Last night they bombed a university that is equivalent to the MIT of Iran. They've killed thousands of civilians. The impacts across the region have been immense.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–2:01
2
What happened in Donald Trump’s Easter weekend post threatening Iran’s infrastructure?
2:01–5:21
3
Why did Rep. Yasemin Ansari call for invoking the 25th Amendment now?
5:21–9:04
4
How does Rep. Ansari describe the human cost and regional impact of the U.S.-Iran conflict?
9:04–22:21
5
What contradictions did Trump display in his press conference about the war and negotiations?
22:21–59:27
Speakers
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