Lemon LIVE at 5 | The U.S. is Facing A Constitutional Crisis! - February 10th, 2025
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Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5, The Don Lemon Show. We're so glad that you could be with us. We've got a lot to go to talk about here. We have some breaking news to discuss, of course, as it relates to Donald Trump. And again, embroiled in lawsuits and litigation. Is that necessarily a shocker? No, because that's Donald Trump's life. That is his M.O., But Donald Trump has been blocked by so many judges, I can barely count them or keep up with them. It's very similar to the charges that he faced. What was it? Falsifying business documents and all kinds of things. And I was like, wait, which Donald Trump case are we talking about? And yet this fool still became president.
Says more about the country than about him, though, right? So we have some breaking news I'm going to tell you about in a little bit. So stand by, everyone. Stand back and stand by. But I want to introduce, this is some of our members tonight. This is our Lemon Legends evening where we discuss the news with them and they get to be a part of it. They're joining us now. We're going to get to talk to them. There you see them up on the screen. Maureen Marfell is here, Kim Page, May Money's here, Natasha Williams, Nicole Cox, and James Brim. I was going to say it's ladies night until James showed up and ruined it for all of us. So we'll get to them in just a moment. But let's talk about this morning. There was so much engagement and so much interest in what happened last night in New Orleans during halftime at the Super Bowl.
People didn't get it. It revealed, exposed a lot of racists and racism. It exposed a division, some divisions in this country. And so I just want to there is a young man on social media who explained last night better than anyone could. Now, remember, last night was all about American iconography, about America's role, African-Americans role, black people's role in America from the beginning until now. Samuel Jackson told the story of America. Actually, it was a video game. He started it and then he ended it. He was Uncle Sam starting the video game, telling you that this whole thing is a game. And are you willing to play the game in order to survive in America or to go along with the oligarchy, the racism, the patriarchy?
All of it. If you're ready to tap dance, as they say, for the man. And then game over at the end. It was a story brilliantly told, but it went over, sadly, a lot of people's head. Watch this.
you understand the message of the whole show like the story of it was it being a game like uncle sam popped out and said salutations it's your uncle sam and this is the great american game further on in the performance he's like mr lamar do you really know how to play the game do you really know how to obey the whole stage setup was a controller heavy on control he started off the show rapping the extended version of the song we all really want He had a few lyrics that stood out to me in this part. You would not get the picture if I had to sit you for hours in front of the loo. Would not have a soul even if I had told you to stand next to Johnny and Q. Johnny is J-Rock. Q is schoolboy Q. You would not have a soul.
That's Ab Soul. Do you know who Ab Soul is? Ladies and gentlemen, this is Ab Soul. one of the greatest lyricists of our time, okay? I bring Ab-Soul up because all of this, this controller we see right here reminds me that in 2012, Ab-Soul dropped his album called Control System. And if you listen to this album and watch Kendrick's performance, Same to same. Here go a few bars from the song Terrorist Threats featuring Jhene Aiko off that same album, Control System. Wish I could see out of Selassie, aye. Maybe my sovereignty will still be mine. If all the gangs in the world unify, we stand a chance against the military tonight. Here go a few more. They have a rock. I know you just a puppet, but I'm giving you props.
You lying to the public like it ain't nothing. And I just love it. I hope it don't stop. I don't give a damn, nigga. Bang that block.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:17–5:36
2
What happened at the Super Bowl halftime and why did Kendrick Lamar’s message spark controversy?
5:36–24:25
3
How did Don Lemon interpret the Jalen Hurts father-son moment as a cultural milestone?
24:25–54:15
4
Which Trump executive orders and court blocks are creating a constitutional crisis debate?
54:15–55:14
5
What legal actions have federal judges taken against the administration’s birthright citizenship order?
55:14–1:08:13
6
How are officials and commentators (J.D. Vance, Tim Miller, senators) framing the role of courts vs. the executive?
1:08:13–1:18:35
Speakers
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