LEMON DROP | Rep. Jimmy Gomez on Hegseth, Trump, & Affordability

The Don Lemon Show

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Don sits down with Rep. Jimmy Gomez to dig into all the major news of the day, and there’s a lot to cover. They break down the latest developments in the Hegseth Venezuela boat strike scandal, Trump’s latest pardon, and the growing sense of lawlessness radiating from the administration. Rep. Gomez also walks Don through the new legislation he’s introducing to combat the inhumane immigration tactics we’re seeing across the country and to address the mounting affordability crisis that’s squeezing millions of Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3	I wanted to play a video that caught my eye on social media earlier today. Take a look.
0:50.3	The word affordability is a Democrat scam.
0:59.1	That is some bullshit right there.
1:03.4	It's coming from a billionaire who's never gone grocery shopping for himself,
1:05.8	somebody who's never truly struggled.
1:10.1	Affordability is something that Americans are talking about every single day because his economy is crushing, crushing the average worker.
1:15.6	Prices are up, cost living is up, and he's doing nothing to help the American people.
1:20.6	Yeah, you know, it's interesting because he has, I think on true social he called himself the affordability president. If we can get that, we can show it. So Congressman Jimmy Gomez is here. He's the man in that video. He proudly serves California's 34th Congressional District. Good to see you. Thanks for joining. Of course. Thanks for having me. I'm good. I'm good, you know, just trying to keep fighting every single day.
1:45.8	Well, he declared himself about a week ago. The affordability president, now he's going on about affordability is, quote, a fake narrative and a con job.
1:54.0	I mean, why the change in tune, you think? Because he knows that he has, he can't fix the problem that he's making it worse, that he has no plan, no direction, and that he has, he can't fix the problem and that he's making it worse, that he has
2:01.9	no plan, no direction, and that he's trying to say now it's a big scam. But he, the reason
2:08.5	why he won is because he said he was going to lower the price and the cost of living on day one.
2:14.3	He failed to do that, and he's actually made things worse for Americans. Things are
2:18.1	more expensive. People are struggling more. And it's a lot because of his economic plans, the tariffs,
2:24.5	as well as there was one big, beautiful bill that really just doesn't help Americans and gives
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