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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | MAGA War Over Donald Trump's Iran War!

09 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the growing rift inside the MAGA world regarding Trump's Iran war?

16.012 - 42.711 Don Lemon

Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. Thanks for watching. How's your day going? My day's going a little bit better. The jet lag is wearing off because I've been doing so much traveling. So, yeah, someone said 5.08. Yeah. And we would have been at 5.00, except we were watching this. This is in Doral, Florida.

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43.4 - 63.585 Don Lemon

and the president is giving, Donald Trump is giving an update on everything. He's talking about the war, he's talking about the state. Look, Donald Trump is a whiny little bitch. I mean, he is just like whining over everything. He was just whining moments ago about

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Chapter 2: How are prominent right-wing voices reacting to the escalation of conflict in the Middle East?

64.358 - 84.223 Don Lemon

The Democrats not standing up during the State of the Union. Now, I don't understand why. That was a week ago. Does anybody care anymore? The opposition party never stands up. They wouldn't stand up, they said, for some heroes or someone. I forget who he's talking about. They never stand up for that. And maybe they're not standing up, too, because you're using them as props.

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84.676 - 94.678 Don Lemon

and they don't wanna be a part of it, which is understandable. So this is what I'm talking about. This is why I say he's one. Let's just see, we're gonna pick it up. I don't know, this is live. He's in Doral, Florida.

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Chapter 3: What are the implications of rising oil prices due to the conflict?

95.239 - 96.462 Don Lemon

And so just listen.

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97.243 - 116.491 Donald Trump

They were sort of neutral. But they weren't doing it. All of a sudden, they're getting hit with missiles. And they could have gone one of two ways. They could have gone toward their side, like, we're with you. Or they could have gone with our side. And they really went with our side. And they've helped us. And they've been a big force. But they got hit.

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116.511 - 132.647 Donald Trump

But they were going to be hit with us had we not done the B2 raid. And have we not done this one where we said, nope, it's time to go in. We have to go in, have no choice. Number one, if we didn't go in, they would have come in after us because I see the Democrats trying to justify it.

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Chapter 4: How does public opinion reflect Trump's handling of the Iran conflict?

132.787 - 145.546 Donald Trump

And they're failing because the voter on the street is saying, you've got to be kidding. But I see where they're going. They're always saying, no, no, there was no reason. Well, I'll give you the best reason of all. Let me just say this.

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145.707 - 166.422 Don Lemon

The voter on the street who I talked to, and if you're looking at the polling on this war, the voter on the street doesn't want it. He's lying right there. God, this man, I don't understand how anybody can support or believe this man. If my own father lied this much, I'd be like, Dad, I don't know when to believe you because you rarely tell the truth.

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167.363 - 176.918 Don Lemon

You said you were going out for some milk or a pack of cigarettes, and then you didn't come home for 20 years. That's Donald Trump. All right, let's just see what else. Let's go. Listen, listen, listen.

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178.771 - 183.097 Donald Trump

20%, maybe 22%, 23%, but the rest are going very quickly.

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Chapter 5: What are the arguments for and against U.S. involvement in the Iran war?

184.018 - 203.243 Donald Trump

And the missiles have been largely knocked out. The drones have been knocked down, and we're hitting where they make the drones. We know them all, and we're knocking the hell out of that now where they manufacture the drones. A lot of work, a lot of brilliant work, but we're going to have a much safer world as soon as it's finished, and it's going to be finished pretty quickly.

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203.577 - 230.523 Donald Trump

With the help of our House Republican majority, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history. And we have to be talking about it. And with the great, big, beautiful bill, we delivered no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And we did something else which is great that nobody ever talks about, Tom, and we have to talk about it.

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231.004 - 235.328 Donald Trump

We made interest on auto loans fully deductible. That's never happened.

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235.689 - 236.029 Don Lemon

OK.

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236.309 - 239.253 Donald Trump

We've never had that. You know, rich people always get deductions.

239.273 - 240.634 Don Lemon

OK, that's good. That's good.

Chapter 6: How does the MAGA coalition's stance on foreign wars appear to be changing?

241.635 - 260.854 Don Lemon

The price of cars up. We showed you all of this. But the thing is is that people who are listening to this and they're listening to Fox News, they're going to believe all of this bullshit that he says. And that's the problem that we have. in this country, especially with the media right now, especially with the time that we're in, is that people are in their silos. With siloed media.

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261.175 - 285.641 Don Lemon

People are in their silos and they don't listen to facts in many instances. And for decades now, people have been sitting in front of the conservative media. Fox News did so well that all the other things started popping up like Newsmax and what's the other one? OAN or something like that. News Nation.

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285.942 - 314.263 Don Lemon

All of them started popping up, the conservative ones, because they want to draft off of this, not having to rely on facts, just to be able to give Donald Trump's sort of lunatic, far right wing side. It's unbelievable. Anyone who is listening to this president over the last couple of days about this war knows, anyone who has any brains, any logical person,

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315.425 - 317.649 Don Lemon

Understands that Donald Trump doesn't have a rationale for this.

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Chapter 7: What role does Israel play in influencing U.S. foreign policy towards Iran?

319.352 - 339.346 Don Lemon

We had to do it because Israel was going to attack and they were going to attack back. So we had to subvert that. We had to stop that from happening. That means that the imminent threat then was Israel. So you're saying that we did this because of Israel. And then they tried to take that back. And then they said, well, there was someone who was in the mullahs.

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339.466 - 359.784 Don Lemon

They were going to go after Donald Trump, so we had to take him out. But who is it? Well, we can't tell you who that is. And then they said, oh, we're going after, they were about to have a nuclear weapon. None of the intelligence says that. No imminent threat. No imminent threat to Trump. No imminent threat to Israel.

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Chapter 8: How might the current conflict affect Trump's approval ratings and the upcoming elections?

361.246 - 381.471 Don Lemon

It wasn't imminent that they were going to have a nuclear weapon. As a matter of fact, just months ago, when they did the war before that, the 12-day war, they said that they had knocked out Iran's nuclear capabilities. And then on and on and on. So we're doing that. We're going for regime change.

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381.491 - 392.361 Don Lemon

And then he says, they say we're going, it wasn't regime change, according to Pete Hexeth, but then the regime did change. And then Donald Trump is saying to reporters, it was because of regime change.

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393.86 - 415.485 Don Lemon

And none of these make sense because there's no imminent threat for any of it, especially since Donald Trump said the other day, well, I guess the worst case scenario is that we put someone in there that's worse than the person that we took out. And over the weekend, just yesterday, the council voted to do what? Put in a hard line, someone who is harder lined than Ali Khamenei.

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415.505 - 437.18 Don Lemon

And that was Ali Khamenei's son. So... None of it makes sense. And that's why he has to get in front of the cameras and lie the way he lies. As a matter of fact, he just did it moments ago about the regime change in Iran, saying, we don't know who the new regime is going to be. We do. They voted on it just yesterday. It's been breaking news everywhere. Here it is. Here's the lie. Roll the lie.

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437.721 - 454.819 Donald Trump

But think of it. We knocked out 46. It actually took three and a half days. Their terrorist leaders are gone. We're counting down the minutes until they... will be gone. Think of it. We had leaders, and they're gone. Then we had new leaders, and they're gone.

455.22 - 466.02 Donald Trump

And now nobody has any idea who the people are that are going to be the head of the country and will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated, as

469.392 - 482.644 Don Lemon

Okay, so there you go for that. And then there is breaking news on top of that, on top of the war, that some people were wondering how long this is, not some people, everyone is wondering how long this is going to last, okay?

482.684 - 502.513 Don Lemon

This morning with John Heilman, when we were on, we were trying to figure out what does Donald Trump care most about, saving numbers, saving face, excuse me, and his poll numbers, or continuing to go on to fight this war? Like, which one does he care about the most? not being called a taco, and tacoing on the war, perhaps.

503.214 - 523.909 Don Lemon

Because in an interview with CBS News, this was this afternoon, President Trump said that the, I was right the first one, Trump, said that the US war with Iran could almost be over. And this is a quote from, this is from Weijia Jiang. She said, The war is very complete, pretty much, the president said, speaking at his Doral, Florida golf club. That's where he is right now.

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