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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Don Lemon & Jim Acosta on Trump, Elon, & the Big Beautiful Bill

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

CNN’s Jim Acosta joins Don Lemon to break down all the chaos dominating the headlines—from Trump’s ongoing grift to Elon Musk’s messy political pivot, to the so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' that’s anything but. No spin, no fluff—just two seasoned journalists digging into what matters, what’s broken, and what’s next. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMONDROPS and use LEMONDROPS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody at the Jim Acosta show. It is Wednesday and the bungling of Trump's big, beautiful blunder is getting bigger. It's a bigly problem for Donald Trump. As you can see with me today, Don Lemon. The great Don Lemon is here. Don, I don't know if you're seeing this or following this. I know you had your run in with Elon Musk, but Elon Musk has been going off on this big, beautiful bill, as Trump likes to call it, which is just such a bad name for it right now because it's just getting worse and worse for him.

0:25.2

And, you know, today he tweeted, call your senator, call your congressman, bankrupting America is not okay.

0:30.5

Kill the bill.

0:31.4

Does Elon Musk have Trump derangement syndrome?

0:34.6

You know, when you and I get accused of TDS?

0:37.2

TDS all the time.

0:38.8

It's a bad breakup, isn't it? It is a bad. It's bad. It's a bad breakup. And Mike Johnson saying,

0:43.6

hey, I texted, you know, Elon Musk last night. He didn't call me back. It was like, it was kind of like a

0:49.6

hey, you want. This is like mean girls on steroids. This is not good.

0:54.9

As you know, you know better than I, because you are the chief White House correspondent

0:59.5

and a very good one at that.

1:01.7

When the president has to go down to the hill and get people on board, you know it's not good.

1:08.5

It's not good.

1:09.1

You know, yeah, it's not good.

1:10.2

It means that it's failing.

1:13.3

This big beautiful bill is like just, I think it's a bus. You can call it a big, the bombshell

1:18.1

bust bill. I don't know what it is. But I think they're going to have trouble getting it through

1:22.8

considering everything that's happening. And I was laughing on my show yesterday, Jim, because Marjor Taylor Green said,

1:31.3

I didn't know the AI stuff was in there.

1:33.4

I was going to bring that up, yes.

1:35.1

And then she says, and then she says, I didn't see what happened on page 200 and something.

1:39.2

I was like, you couldn't even get to page 200 and something.

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