2024 YEAR IN REVIEW: Looking back at Elon Musk, Donald Trump, & the Presidential Election
The Don Lemon Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 24 was one for the record books. It was a year marked by historic elections and worldwide unrest. |
| 0:09.7 | Folks in more than 60 countries representing almost 50% of the human race went to the polls in 2024. |
| 0:17.5 | Voters in Mexico and the UK, they picked new leaders. |
| 0:22.0 | Donald Trump was, of course, elected to a second term in the White House. |
| 0:26.0 | South Korea grappled with a half-baked coup d'etat. |
| 0:30.1 | And the Russia-Ukraine war entered its third year and the fighting surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, |
| 0:36.8 | while it spread all across the Middle East, |
| 0:39.7 | sparking protests around the globe. |
| 0:43.3 | Hurricane Helene ravaged the American Southeast, causing an estimated $200 billion in damage, |
| 0:50.6 | while the Northeast faced unprecedented wildfires. |
| 0:54.4 | The murder of CEO Brian Thompson kicked off a national conversation about health care access. |
| 1:00.1 | And Sarah McBride became the first transgender American elected to Congress. |
| 1:05.3 | The first transgender American ever elected to Congress. |
| 1:08.1 | And then there's Caitlin Clark. |
| 1:09.9 | She became the all-time leading score in NCAA |
| 1:12.5 | basketball and Travis Kelsey's Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl while Taylor Swift watched |
| 1:19.5 | from the stands. So so much happened this year. I thought that we need, you know, we should |
| 1:24.6 | break down some of 2024's biggest moments, the |
| 1:28.2 | spectacles and the stories that took our breath away. This first one involves, guess who? |
| 1:35.3 | Yours truly. You said if they kill the company, it's them, but doesn't the buck stop with you? |
| 1:40.8 | I mean, you're on it. |
| 1:45.0 | I have to say, I, choose your question carefully. |
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