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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | A Dream Meets Reality: MLK Jr. Day & an Inauguration Blackout!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 187 minutes

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Summary

This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration of Donald Trump are falling on the same day—an unsettling coincidence, given that the incoming president has a history of racially charged remarks. As we honor Dr. King’s legacy of justice, equality, and unity, we’re faced with a stark reminder of how far we still have to go. The next four years will be difficult for many, but we will be there for each other. Join Don for a special Hot Topics this morning to come together on this year's MLK Jr. Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.6

Welcome to our hot topics.

0:49.3

And this is our Dr. King breakfast.

0:50.8

You can probably hear the bacon going.

0:55.9

And so we're going to talk about,

0:59.5

we're going to celebrate a King today. I hope you had a copy. I hope you're getting your breakfast as well. If you were here, I would cook you breakfast. But how are you guys this morning?

1:06.0

We're going to talk about Dr. King. I'm going to talk a little bit about, I'm not going to

1:10.0

inundate you. Don't worry about it. We're going to talk about a little bit about what's happening in

1:15.8

Washington, D.C., but not in the way where we're going to pretend like this is some real normal

1:20.5

stuff that we need to be talking about. We're not doing that. But I do want to tell you that

1:26.1

Martin III, who is Dr. King's son, was on Meet the

1:30.9

Press yesterday, giving a really good contrast of the two men, one of them a dreamer, one of them

1:36.8

a schemer. Here's Martin III, and this will really put into context, contextualize how we're

1:43.0

going to cover today's events. So here we go.

1:46.5

This year, the day that we remember and Mark, your father's legacy, falls on the same day of the

1:53.7

inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. What will you be listening for in his speech?

2:00.1

You said you're going to be paying close attention.

2:02.6

He has said that he wants to create some semblance of unity.

2:07.9

Now what that means is you've got to be in dialogue with everybody.

2:11.4

If you really want to bring the nation together so that it is the manifestation of what we call ourselves, the United States of

2:19.3

America. We're not reflective of the United States of America right this moment in my judgment.

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