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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | David Pakman, Brian Tyler Cohen, & Cenk Uygur Take On Trump! - April 16th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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They’re back. A year after our first viral conversation, the three biggest voices in progressive podcasting—David Pakman, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Cenk Uygur—are joining Don once again to break down the chaos gripping the country. Trump’s tariffs are wrecking the economy, the markets are tanking, and now he’s openly defying a Supreme Court order. Are we teetering on the edge of a constitutional crisis? Is this what a dictatorship looks like in 2025? No spin, no fluff—just smart, sharp takes from four people who don’t mince words. Lemon Nation, you’re not gonna want to miss this one. The Don Lemon Show is up for a Webby! Vote now for Best Podcast Episode – Featured Guest: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/featured-guest This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/donlemon and get on your way to being your best self. This episode is brought to you by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Whether you’ve always been secular or left religion behind, if you don’t want someone else dictating the trip for you, F-F-R-F has your back. Join us. Go to FFRF.US/Freedom or text the word, “FAMILY” to five eleven five eleven and become a member today. Text fees may apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.9

What was it almost a year ago that we did this?

0:50.4

It was a show when I first started doing this streaming venture, and we called it

0:56.6

Maga's Worst Nightmare, because these are where the guys, there still are the guys who are out

1:01.6

there fighting the good fight, not just against Maga, but for truth and facts and some decency

1:06.8

in politics and even in the media. So welcome everyone. Good evening. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5.

1:11.7

This is a very special edition of the show on April 12th, it was, of 2024. Just a little over a year

1:17.5

ago, I hosted Maga's Worth Nightmare, Roundtable, Table Conversation. Unfortunately, that conversation

1:21.9

did not push Joe Biden and later Kamala Harris over the finish line. And I wanted to bring the panel

1:27.2

back to reflect on the past year, the past few months, and the Trump administration. So my guest tonight are once again, look who's with me, Brian Tyler Cohen, Jink Yugar, and Mr. David Pacman, not in any special order. It's just, you know, good to see you guys. How are you? Good seeing you too. Thanks for

1:45.4

having us. Good, good, good. Let's start with the breaking news. The market is down today significantly

1:51.4

after Jerome Powell released a statement today saying the level of tariff increases announced so

1:58.0

far is significantly larger than anticipated and the same is likely

2:01.9

to be true of the economic effects, which will include a higher inflation and slower growth.

2:07.1

That's what Powell said. Now, there had been, you know, hoped that the market would sort of

2:11.5

regulate itself or whatever after all of this a week or two of uncertainty, it looks like they had come to

2:18.7

some sort of consensus, but not today after this statement. You are an economics major. Am I right,

2:24.1

Mr. David Packman? That's true. So what do you make of that statement? Where are we now?

2:29.5

Well, it's basic economics. Jerome Powell agrees with just basic economics. Tariffs are a tax on imports.

2:37.1

It does trickle down. We've found the real trickle down. It's not you cut taxes for the rich and it

2:41.6

is great for everybody. The real trickle down is that the tariffs will filter down to the products

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