Lemon LIVE at 5 | Musk vs. Bessent: MAGA's Civil War Goes Public - April 23rd, 2025
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Wait till y'all hear this news. I got something to tell you. You guys know that you have someone in your life like that. They just go, hey, let's see. For the ladies and the gay men, girl, call me. You know when you get that, when you get that, girl, call me, call me, call me. Or, bro, bro, some shit went down today at the White House. Wait till I tell you what went down. You guys know you have people like that in your life, right? LOL, yeah, tell me. Tell me, tell me if you do. Yeah, ooh, we got some tea. We are spilling the tea or the tea is hot. And can I be petty? Boy, can I be? I know, right? Sandra, do tell. Can I be petty? I'm going to be petty. Because we have had, to be honest with you, I'm going to let you in on some behind-the-scenes stuff.
We have had so much, like, very serious news that today, before we heard about the... what i'm about to tell you we were just gonna say why don't we just ask people what they want to talk about or ask ask me anything all kinds of questions and we were that's what we were gonna do but now let me tell y'all it was just juicy too First of all, let me, where are you guys streaming from? Angela Calloway says, Bill or Don, where are you guys streaming from? I mean, this is like TMZ level stuff. T, some T, okay? So make sure you hit the like, make sure you hit the thumbs up. It affects the algorithm, I mean it. Uh, more people become aware of our conversation, our channel, all of that stuff. And we want people to become aware of us so that they can get in on the tea spilling and all of that.
So today we're going, I'm going to be petty for a lot of the day. If you don't mind, I can be petty, right? They used to call me petty, petty. at CNN because I like to spill the tea. And it's so absurd. It became so absurd with the Trump administration. I was just like, look, I'm not even going to try it. I'm going to be petty. I'm just going to talk about these fools. So, all right. So let me tell you what happened. So apparently these two people got into it. got into it at the White House in the West Wing. Did y'all hear about this? So apparently, there's a new sheriff in town in Doge City. Not Dodge. Close. But there's only one D in this one. There is. Oh, yes. So let me tell you. All right. So Scott Besant, who is a Treasury Secretary, and Elon Musk.
were leaving a meeting. Now, this is what I'm told now. I'm told this is what people are saying, okay? The streets are talking. That they were in a meeting, a little disagreement, but then they left the meeting with the president and they got into it in the hall in front of everybody. And you're right, Olivia Grace, the MAGA girlies are fighting. So they got into it in the hall Oval Office, an earshot of the president and everybody. They were like yelling at each other. And, you know, there was probably some name calling. And let me tell you. So, you know, like Elon Musk can be short. Right. You saw in the interview, he can be short and just like and biting. Right. Just hurt. But. Scott Bessette is a gay man.
and you know how gay men can be in fights they do not fuck around okay that's when the nasty queen comes out you get me see that's why i tell people you don't want to mess with me y'all saw what i did with megan kelly i was just like you know what i'm saying under my umbrella don't fuck with me So apparently Scott Besant was like, you better sit your ass down because you have met your match. And I am not having this shit. I'm tired of you coming up in here, Bogart and shit. Like you own the place and you have no government experience. You don't have any expertise in economics or any of that. And they said, really, it was like a WWE match. Like they were going at it. And they said, I'm going to tell you.
I'm going to quote because they said, like Scott said, he really laid it out. They said he's mild-mannered. He can take it a lot, but when he is fed up... Now, the quote is... I'll wait till you hear the quote, what they said about it. I'm just saying. That's the truth. So... Am I crazy? You know people do that. That's how they talk about it, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:17–10:01
2
What happened in the West Wing shouting match between Elon Musk and Scott Bessent?
10:01–13:13
3
How did witnesses describe the Musk–Bessent argument and where did it occur?
13:13–28:31
4
How did media and social outlets react to the West Wing drama (Axios, NYT, Fox, X)?
28:31–48:45
5
What was the White House response and Caroline Leavitt’s statement about the fight?
48:45–50:23
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