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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | It Has Always Been About White Supremacy, Never Economy Anxiety

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with friends of the show Wajahat Ali and Joy Reid to talk about the current political climate and the pervasive, deeply entrenched system of white supremacy that continues to pit working-class Americans against one another. Together, they explore what real solidarity looks like, how communities can resist being manipulated, and what it will take to build a more honest, equitable political culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3

We have an ailing, Don Lemon, who is here and a Joanne Reed who's coming in a second.

0:52.3

And Don and me in our pajamas, but he says,

0:54.8

you know what, even though I'm sick, even though I'm tired, I'm going to make it because we here

1:00.2

are going to drag the racist, the hate mongers, the loser, the nerds, the freak, the Marjor

1:04.7

Taylor Greens, the Donald Trump's, the Nick Fuentes. I was just telling Don, Don,

1:22.8

Don was on my show last time, and he got into a lot of trouble because they clipped up what he was saying, which was perfectly normal and fine, and made it seem that he was inciting violence against ICE.

1:28.0

And I was telling Don, I've been in his position the past week and a half. They have lost their minds because I was responding to Donald Trump's hateful Thanksgiving post. And since then, the outright xenophobia

1:33.3

against immigrants. And I did this, I would say, very polite rant against white supremacists and

1:38.9

white nationalists. And Don, I said they're losers. I said, we who are in the multicultural

1:43.4

coalition, which includes white people, have the better culture, the better food, the better music.

1:48.9

We have the better story.

1:50.4

And these people have already lost because no matter how hard they try, the world is multicultural.

1:55.8

And even if they kick the rest of us out, if they do, they kick out all black and brown and Asian people. Overn, America will turn into a shithole. Oh, Don, you're from the South. I think they call it hit dogs holler. And now the dogs are hollering. And one of the dogs is Marjorie Taylor Green. Can you tell us your thoughts about what you've witnessed over the past week where MAGA is turning on each other.

2:18.5

Well, let me just say this.

2:20.1

If it was, you know, if we got rid of multiculturalism, first of all, the food would be terrible.

2:26.6

The music would be terrible.

2:29.2

The fashion would be terrible.

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