LEMON DROP | Donald Trump Backs Down on Iran Threats!

The Don Lemon Show

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Don sits down with political analyst Mike Nellis to break down the sudden shift in the Iran war, from threats of “annihilation” to a two-week ceasefire announced just hours before a potential strike. But stepping back from the brink doesn’t mean things are better. The conflict has already escalated, the global economy has been shaken, and analysts warn the U.S. may now be negotiating from a weaker position than before the war began. So what actually changed and what didn’t? Was this de-escalation, or just a pause in a much more dangerous trajectory? And after everything that’s happened, are we now in a worse place than when this started? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So let's just put this, Mike Nellis, into, I don't know,
0:04.0	this is a technical term.
0:06.0	Donald Trump caved.
0:07.7	Yeah.
0:08.9	Yeah.
0:09.2	Like totally caved.
0:10.7	You would say a lot of people want to say taco,
0:12.5	that Trump always chickens out,
0:13.7	but we got a new term for it that somebody introduced on my show,
0:16.0	which is tofu.
0:17.7	Trump only fucks up.
0:19.5	And that's what he's done here.
0:20.4	He has fucked up. And that's what he's done here. He has fucked up.
0:22.7	I heard last night people saying, oh, well, there's a ceasefire.
0:29.2	First of all, there's still rockets being fired.
0:31.6	Do you know that, right?
0:32.3	Yes, yes.
0:32.9	And secondly, he's trying to pretend that they have negotiated the strait of Harmoos being opened already.
0:41.6	They agreed to negotiate to open the Strait of Harmuz, which is the big thing.
0:47.0	Now, I want you everybody to keep in mind that the straight was open on February 27th or
0:52.3	whenever this started, and it has now since been closed.
0:57.2	So what did we accomplish? There's no regime change as a lying to people. So what has been
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