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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | Iran War Crisis: Donald Trump Is Going To Get Us All Killed!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This morning, we break down the latest alarming escalation in the Iran war. Donald Trump is now threatening massive strikes on Iran if they don’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz, including targeting infrastructure like power plants and bridges. The problem? The messaging keeps changing. Just weeks ago, the line was that the U.S. didn’t need the strait reopened, now it’s suddenly worth threatening a full-scale escalation. As tensions rise, oil markets are rattled, allies are alarmed, and even officials inside the U.S. are questioning the strategy, if there even is one. So what are we actually looking at here? A plan… or just pure chaos? How far can this go, and what does this mean for all of us? This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you 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 Sundays for Dogs. 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 brought to you by 120Life. Go to https://120Life.com—and use code DON for 20% off. Try it risk-free for two weeks. If your blood pressure doesn’t come down, you get a full refund. Don’t wait until next month. Nothing to lose except higher blood pressure numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In the door? It's gone? It's not in the door?

0:17.3

Okay, this, hi, everybody. Good morning. The show kind of snuck up on me because I'm going to, can I just be honest with you guys?

0:24.5

I'm a little, I shouldn't say, I'm tired because I'm not hung over because I did my zbiotics.

0:32.7

And did you hear that?

0:33.9

Did you hear that noise, Andy, that pop?

0:36.0

Yeah, I heard that.

0:37.3

That's champagne.

0:39.8

We have some news today.

0:42.5

We're popping champagne because, no.

0:46.1

It is our, it's my anniversary.

0:48.2

I've been married for two years.

0:50.2

And it is also Tim's birthday today.

0:53.3

So we're going to start off the morning with a little celebration, a little champagne, and good morning. Can we talk to, can we just tell, we have Dr. Frida coming up. We tell Dr. Frida we're going to move back a little bit. If you're watching Dr. Frida, we're going to move you back a little bit because there are a couple things that I I want to talk about. And I'll talk to Dr. Frida about it as well. So happy birthday, Tim. Thank you. Happy birthday, happy anniversary. Yes, best thing you did. Don't get married people. Do not get married. You're kidding, he's like, don't say, no. Married life is good. It's really great. This is warm, babe. I knew you were going to say that, John. Oh, my gosh. I thought you had some chilled. Anyways, what am I doing? So, welcome. So we went and celebrated a little bit last night, and it was funny because we went to, it was really great. I'll tell you, I have a lot of stuff that I want to tell you this morning. We're going to get to the news, but we went to an oyster bar, which was right in the village. It was great. This place I think it was Jeffrey's grocery, right? Yeah, so good. We had oysters and we had king crab or snow crab, I forget, and it was great. And, you know, celebrated that people brought us some stuff over. They're like it, your anniversary, blah, blah, blah. It was very, very nice. And then we went to this dive bar in the village that you probably have not heard about, but it's like one of the oldest gay bars in the city. It's not Stonewall.

2:32.5

We went to Stonewall. There was no one there. Stonewall's and I'm a Stonewall ambassador. I love you, Stonewall. But then we went across the street. I mean, it is a die piano bar. But it's called the monster. And if you guys, you know, like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you went there. It was really, the people couldn't have been nicer.

2:35.5

They were buying us drinks, and it was fun.

2:37.6

And then we just walked home and walked the dogs or whatever.

2:51.3

But that's how we spent our anniversary. Mainly though, we spent our anniversary on an airplane trying to get back from Cleveland. We tried to land at LaGuardia and got, the ceiling was too low. And then they said, we got a circle.

3:09.1

And as soon as they said that, I said, you know what, they're going to divert us to Philadelphia. And lo and behold, 30 minutes later, the pilot gets on and says, hey, sorry, blah, too low, weather's bad. We're going to Philadelphia. We went to Philadelphia. We landed. We sat there for two hours, trying to waiting to get fuel, whatever. and then LaGuardia had a ground stop and whatever.

3:08.8

And so we spent most of our anniversary and Easter on an airplane being shuffled around.

3:14.0

So that is what's happening. Okay. So thank you guys for helping me to celebrate that run,

3:18.6

Don, run. Oh, Lorenzo Thomas, 1972, I know people are saying that I should run for president. Are you

3:25.6

crazy? That's what people have been saying to me because someone asked me about running for president

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