Good evening, friends. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. This is a Don Lemon show, our live version that we do every day at 5 p.m. Eastern, a big show. So let's get right to it. Okay. The cruelty is the point. That's what the point of all this is. That was a title of perhaps the greatest single essay written about the first Trump administration.

That was by the Atlantic's Adam Surwer.

President Donald Trump and his supporters, Sir argued this in that column.

They find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

It's hard to take this issue with that, take issue with that claim,

especially if you're thinking about, let's think about the reality of this. If you're watching

how Trump is demanding that ICE agents create a made-for-TV moment or made-for-TV moments

during their immigration raids, this mass roundup of immigrants around the country, taking reporters with

them. He wants them the ICE agents to dress the part for the cameras. He wants videos of people

crying and screaming to put out there. He wants families torn apart. He wants people dragged out

of schools and churches. And most of all, he wants you to watch

reportedly, all of that. Powerless. Yes, the cruelty is the point. Let's take you through the day

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This is a roundup of the day to get you started.

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Active duty U.S. troops deployed by the president arrived in El Paso, Texas yesterday.

I swapped in like it was their empire's own conquered land.

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