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The Don Lemon Show

How Can Black Voters Support MAGA?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with journalist and political commentator Ahmed Baba for a candid conversation about the current state of the MAGA movement and the growing debate around policies that ultimately hurt many of the very people supporting them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I meant for the life of me, I cannot understand, and maybe you can explain it to me,

0:05.6

how anyone could be black and be a MAGA supporter right now with what has happened,

0:10.7

especially with what before that for me, but what has happened with voting rights in this country

0:15.5

and what they're doing. I don't, I don't get it. And some people are defending it,

0:19.3

even black MAGA, black folks, black lawmakers. Like, what? Yeah, man, we just watched the, you know, right before this, the Tim Scott and the Wesley Hunt videos of them basically saying, oh, Tim Scott's saying, I'm still, I'm still black and I'm telling you that redistricting is fine or, or Wesley Hunt being like,

0:39.1

I'm here to tell you Jim Crow's done just because, like, these people have just sold what's left

0:44.1

of their soul for this, for this party. And very clearly, you know, I was talking about this on MS Now

0:48.8

last night and just set out right. Like Trump is, in my opinion, what I think history suggests is the most openly anti-Black president in modern history, especially in recent times.

1:00.1

And right now to be MAGA as a black man or black woman or black person is to be opposing yourself.

1:08.2

Your very nature, you have a party that is trying to erase your power and to back them is

1:14.5

is is insane to me i don't there's no amount of money or power is worth that relinquishing of your

1:21.0

dignity man i can't what about you can you understand it i i told you i don't get it. And especially after this, I, you know, I thought maybe the racist Obama video might do it.

1:33.9

I thought the, you know, my African American might do it.

1:36.7

I thought the black countries or shithole countries that that might do it.

1:41.7

You know, I thought that the discriminating against black people for housing, I thought that might do it. I thought the Central Park, the exonerated five, that might do it. I thought, you know, higher taxes for poor people and fewer services for people who are part of the underserved communities. I thought that might do it.

2:04.7

But not even taking, you know, black voting,

2:08.4

the ability to have black representation away.

2:09.3

That's not doing it. So I don't know if it's part of a cult.

2:11.4

I wonder, I don't know if it's self-hatred.

2:13.4

I don't understand that mentality.

2:17.3

I don't know.

2:18.7

And look, and for Wesley Hunt, of all people, to say, well, Jim Crow is over and I don't see anybody this is racist.

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