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The Don Lemon Show

HOT TOPICS | The Trump Train Has Officially Derailed - May 9th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Just when you think it can’t get weirder, it does. Today, Trump is meeting with Beijing officials and signaling he might lower China tariffs to 80% (because economic chaos is apparently a feature, not a bug). Meanwhile, he’s appointed Jeanine Pirro (yes, that Jeanine Pirro from Fox News) as the new U.S. Attorney for D.C., in case you were wondering if the justice system could get more politicized. And if that weren’t enough whiplash, the country is still processing the news of a new American pope, which has sent MAGA world into a fresh meltdown over the Catholic Church not falling in line with their culture war agenda. This morning, Reecie Colbert joins us to break it all down, from courtroom cosplay to tariff tap-dancing, and what it all means for a country that can barely catch its breath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.

0:04.0

When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.

0:08.0

Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:12.0

It's why you lace up at dawn.

0:15.0

Why a little rain doesn't stop you.

0:17.0

Why one run turns into a habit.

0:24.3

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.

0:46.3

Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com. Good morning. It's Friday.

0:48.6

It's a rainy Friday.

0:50.3

It's Friday.

0:51.3

How you doing, Nikki?

0:53.7

You're all right. It's good as one can be.

0:56.0

It's been a long week. It's been a long week. This has been a long week. But we're so

1:00.1

happy that you guys are here with us. Some of you now know who we are. Many of you do not.

1:05.5

We are not Don. If you haven't heard by now, Don unfortunately a um just a terrible family emergency this week his sister

1:13.6

passed away so we have been filling in he's okay we have been relaying all of your thoughts and prayers

1:19.4

and well wishes they mean the world to him um we don't have an exact timetable of when he's coming

1:25.9

back but um i'm sure it will be soon because he misses you guys. He loves you guys. And yeah, for now, you're stuck with us and we have a great show. And we have the one and only Risi Colbert, host of the Recy Colbert show on Sirius XM. Recy, thank you so much for stepping in, your fan favorite. Oh, thank you.

1:45.7

It's always good to be elimination. We are really great to have you. Yes. And I reached out to Don

1:53.2

and I just send him my love and my prayers as always. Yeah, I'm sure that meant the world to him.

1:59.8

Thank you. Recy, what the hell's going on? We got Trump crater in the economy. We got a new woke pope. We have Judge Janine Piro, the 23rd, if I'm not mistaken, 23rd Fox News cast member now to join the administration to some degree. What's going on? What world are we living in? I think we're living in a really

2:19.9

terrible reality show that should have been canceled like four years ago. I thought we did that,

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