LEMON DROP | Mike Nellis on Trump and the State of American Journalism

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Don Lemon sits down with strategist Mike Nellis for a sharp, unfiltered look at the headlines dominating the week. From Trump’s failures in Texas amid devastating floods to the troubling state of American journalism, Don and Mike cut through the noise to break down what really matters and what the media’s missing. This episode is brought to you 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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0:45.4	My Mike Nellis is here with me, Don Lemon.
0:46.2	Here's the thing.
0:48.6	What are we going to fight about today?
0:50.0	I don't know if we're going to fight about anything.
0:50.8	What do you want to fight about?
0:54.4	Do you want to talk about the Superman movie being too woke?
0:56.5	Because I'm getting a lot of that from my conservative friends.
0:59.9	Oh, God.
1:00.8	I'm so God.
1:06.6	That goes into, you know, I actually had to end a friendship over some dumb shit like that.
1:12.0	Someone who's like, Idris Elba can't be, can't be Bond because he's not white.
1:13.1	I was like, wait, what?
1:13.9	I was like,
1:15.3	well, Bond's a white guy.
1:15.8	He's always been.
1:16.0	I said,
1:17.1	Bond's a fictional character.
1:18.1	I said, anyways.
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