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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Crybaby Trump’s Canada Tariff Tantrum

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Don breaks down Donald Trump’s latest economic meltdown, this time over tariffs, his self-proclaimed “favorite word.” What started as a one-minute ad from Canada quoting Ronald Reagan spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis. Now, trade talks are dead and prices are soaring while SNAP benefits are ending, and millions of Americans are paying the price for Trump’s fragile ego. This isn’t policy, it’s performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ever notice how Donald Trump has a favorite word.

0:15.5

It's not democracy.

0:17.5

It's not freedom.

0:18.3

It's not even America.

0:20.5

His favorite word is tariffs he actually said that

0:23.6

I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary those are his words

0:29.4

because tariffs are going to make us rich as hell again his words he said it again in

0:35.7

Chicago last year it's my favorite word, he bragged. It needs a public

0:40.7

relations firm to help it. But to me, it's the most beautiful word. I mean, you could just hear him

0:46.1

saying all that. Now, who talks like that about taxes? That's what I want to know, because we know

0:53.8

it's a tax on the consumer because that's

0:55.6

what tariffs are taxes.

0:57.0

But in Trump's mind, they're magic.

1:00.0

He thinks if he says the word, the economy will bow down, right?

1:04.3

If he repeats it enough times that America suddenly gets rich.

1:07.9

It's a two syllable spell for a man living in fantasy really that's what it is and this past week

1:15.6

that fantasy became a full-blown crisis all because ontario aired a one-minute tv ad quoting ronald

1:22.7

ragan on the dangers of tariffs that's it Just a polite historical reminder from a conservative icon,

1:29.0

really the gold standard, right? You could say the platinum standard. Well, Trump saw it,

1:34.8

he lost it. He called the ad fake. He accused Canada of interfering with U.S. courts and then

1:39.8

ended trade talks over a commercial. A grown man with the world's largest economy

1:46.1

in his hands throwing a fit because his feelings got hurt.

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