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The Don Lemon Show

Does Donald Trump Hate His Own Supporters?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This morning, we break down some of Donald Trump’s comments about MAGA and the growing tension between him and his own base. While these are the supporters who helped fuel his rise, his recent remarks suggest a surprising level of frustration and distance. So what’s going on here? Is this just rhetoric, or a sign of a deeper disconnect between Trump and the movement he built? And what happens when a political leader starts turning on their own supporters? This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMON and use LEMON at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. This episode is brought to you by Helix. Go to https://helixsleep.com/DON for 20% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! This episode is brought to you by Sundays. Make the switch to Sundays. Go right now to https://sundaysfordogs.com/DON50 and get 50% off your first order. Or, you can use code DON50 at checkout. This episode is sponsored by Shopify. See less carts go abandoned and more sales go with Shopify and their Shop Pay button.Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon. This episode is sponsored by Lean. Get started with 20% off and free rush shipping so you can add LEAN to you healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit https://takelean.com enter LEMON for your discount. NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.196% for well qualified borrowers. Call 888-675-4090, for details about credit costs and terms. Or AmericanFinancing.net/Lemon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lemonheads.

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How are you?

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Oh, you know what?

0:50.0

I meant to change it.

0:50.8

It's Friday.

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Friday, I think Friday we should go with maybe more of a yellow theme. I'm feeling very liminey. Let's go. My shirt is red. Let's do a little red to match my eye heart in New York shirt. Okay, so listen, I just want to tell you guys this. How y'all doing? First of all, make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up let me fix that I

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just had it make sure you have the like and the thumbs up because it does

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affect the algorithm more people become aware of our conversation on our

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channel and we love that so thank you for joining us this morning on a Friday

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morning and it's the sun is out and I went out and about I'm gonna tell you all

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about it is great great great okay so listen like and thumbs up because it affects the algorithm, more people become aware of our channel and our conversation, okay? So please hit that. Also, I have to tell you, so we were going to do phone calls this morning. Do not get upset. I do sound better. I'm not 100%, but I kind of like the little rasp in my voice.

1:44.7

You guys tell me if I should try to keep it. By the way, before I go on for too long, that is the

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way that they used to teach movie stars back in the day. If they had like a high-pitched voice

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or their voice wasn't necessarily so great for movies or for audio, they would make

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them scream. I know they told Rock Hudson to go away and go and just scream all weekend

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and lose his voice till he couldn't talk anymore and that finally gave him a rasp to his voice.

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Go look it up. I'm telling you, I'm not lying. That's the way they used to teach people.

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They'd make them overexert their voices and their vocal cords and then it would damage the vocal cords or whatever and they would have a scratchy, sexier voice. I'm not kidding. Okay, but anyways, like and thumbs up. Thank you for joining us. Phone calls. We want to take phone calls. We're going to see, perhaps we'll do it this evening, but we had an audio issue.

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Andy, right?

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Andy's going to explain our audio issue.

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