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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | White House Ballroom, Another Trump GRIFT!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with political commentator Ahmed Baba to unpack the current state of the nation and Trump’s latest grift... his new ballroom. Because when the country’s on fire, why not add another chandelier? Politics, spectacle, and a whole lot of spin, Don and Ahmed cut through it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm at Baba.

0:16.1

What is up?

0:16.6

I'm feeling about the general destruction of America, which is the symbol of it is tearing down the White House, the East Wing. It's crazy. It's so on the nose. Like he's literally being accused of, you know, destroying the executive branch and eroding the White House with these protests. And he's like, you know what? Let me give you a literal visual of that days later. Like, it's just, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It is, I mean, we say it's unbelievable, but in Trump's America, is it unbelievable? I mean, you know, I know it's a figure of speech, but I... Yeah, you know what, you're right. It is unbelievable.

0:55.0

It's unbelievable, especially when I think about the, what he's supposed to do. He's supposed

1:00.1

to get congressional approval. He's supposed to get approval from, I think, like a historic

1:06.3

something agency or some government agency and nothing.

1:12.1

Then he lied about, lied that it wasn't going to affect the original structure.

1:18.1

I think he said it wouldn't be impacted.

1:20.0

And then he said, oh, in order to do it, we have to tear it down.

1:23.9

It had to, in order to do it properly.

1:26.1

And then he said, well, um well we are going to submit plans

1:31.6

we haven't done it yet he's already started like what yeah they did like he's and then he also

1:37.9

said it was going to be 200 million now he's saying 300 million 300 million 300 million and it said

1:42.4

oh we just needed to take down one part of it we weren't even going going to touch it. Whole things are getting obliterated, like you said. And then meanwhile, I was on Stephanie Rule last night. She mentioned something I didn't realize. Like, there are major companies underwriting this. Like, Comcast is among them. Like, there are people now using this. And I think potentially as another vehicle for cronyism. So like there's another

2:02.8

layer to this where people are probably seeking to trade favors by funding this ballroom.

2:09.3

Well, that's something that I did not know. Who's underwriting this? Major companies. Apparently Comcast is one of

2:15.3

them. And apparently other companies are seeking to sign up. So this is becoming

2:19.5

I think another one of those pay to play schemes or like pay to get your merger approved schemes and

2:28.7

I got to see exactly who aside from Comcast, but it's really, it's another grift. Everything. Everything is a grift.

2:38.3

Wait a minute. Wait a damn minute here. How could I not know that? Yeah, it was news to me.

2:46.8

Yeah, news to me. I have not seen it and I'm looking for it, but I don't, I don't, I don't see it here.

2:52.5

But, you know, if Steph Ruhl says it, then, you know, I'll take that to the bank.

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