Lemon LIVE at 5 | This Is NOT Normal - January 20th, 2025
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Why does Don Lemon say 'This is NOT normal' about the January 20th, 2025 inauguration?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Lemon Live at Five. So glad that you're here. We have a very special show planned for you. We have, I'm going to introduce them in a second, but I just wanted to make sure you know just how important and how historic today is or was because it is Dr. King Day and we have an administration, well, not the same administration, but the same president going back into office, and this is unprecedented, and it is not normal. So welcome to Lemon Live at 5. This is not normal. This is not normal. This is not normal. I'm going to repeat that, and I said time and time again during the second term, you can be informed without being inundated, okay? And that is how we're going to approach today's coverage.
I am going to make you aware of what's going on. We're going to talk about what's going on, but we're not going to Get into the pettiness of it. We're not going to dwell on certain things. We're just going to be informed with the appropriate amount of attention placed on the subjects, we believe. And you guys correct me. If you don't like it, correct me. I'm going to talk about every, I'm not going to talk about, excuse me, every second of the proceeding, going over every little bit of the thing, and this person here and that person here. You know, so what we've done is that we have picked out the moments that best illustrate what is happening, that this is not normal, as East Coast Transplant says on the chat.
Let's keep it real, okay? I'm not going to obsess over every petty piece of nonsense. You're welcome, Rhonda Wolk, for such an enjoyable morning. So I'm promoting you like crazy here in Ohio. Thank you. We had a fantastic morning where we barely touched on the inauguration. We paid tribute and homage to Dr. King. This is his day. And we took the temperature down and we discussed issues. You got to have your comments and your feedback up on the screen and addressed. Today has been difficult, someone says. Think puppies and kittens and take a deep breath. That's what Kristen Thompson is saying in the chat. No, instead I'm going to only hone in on, again, the most not normal moments from today. Okay? So... In order to keep me in check and to make sure you have a voice, and just because we promise in our memberships that the folks who are members get special treatment.
Okay? So the highest tier of our memberships is called Lemon Legends. Lemon Legends get to be on the screen. They get to be part of the show. So why don't we introduce them? These are the folks that are going to talk us through today. I want to see how they're doing. Maureen Marfell is here. Jim Brim is here. Kim Page is here. Warren is here. Nicole Cox and May Money. Just a few of our lemon legends. I'm so glad that you're all here today. I'm going to start the show off and then we're going to discuss. First of all, let's talk about the folks who were sitting pretty much on the front row. what people are calling the oligarchy, as another lemon legend, Peggy, joins us. Let's play it.
So these are the folks who are on the front row.
You're seeing Jeff Bezos. You're seeing the CEO of Google or I forget what the alphabet is up. You're seeing Elon Musk, who is obviously the owner of Twitter and Tesla and SpaceX, also presiding over Doge, which is that blue panel committee. You're also Jeff Bezos, as I said, Mark Zuckerberg there as well. These are the folks who are on the front row. And what they said about this, the billionaires, the stagecraft on Donald Trump's inauguration placed global billionaire tech titans, just put the picture of them up, in the front row of his own cabinet picks. So you see them on the front row, and look at the cabinet picks in the back. The RFK juniors of the world are in the back. The, I forget, what is his name?
Mike Duffy, I forget his name, in the second row. They're in that second row. Roll the video, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Just roll it, and you don't have to play the audio on it. But look, so you see RFK Jr. back there, and that other gentleman is another Scott, not Scott, but the other guy who's head of HUD, second row.
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