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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | This Is NOT Normal - January 20th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Hey there Lemon Community! On the very day we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, a man known for hateful and racially charged remarks takes the oath of office to be the President of the United States. But that’s not all. From bizarre moments to unsettling rhetoric, this inauguration was anything but ordinary. As the nation watched, the contradictions were impossible to ignore. What does this mean for the fight for equality, and how should we respond? Join Don and our Lemon Legends to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. So glad that you're here. We have a very special show planned for you. We have, I'm going to introduce them in a second. But I just wanted to make sure you know just how important and how historic today is or was because it is Dr. King Day. And we have an administration,

0:46.8

well, not the same administration, but the same president going back into office. And this is

0:51.0

unprecedented. And it is not normal. So welcome to Lemon Live at 5.

0:58.7

This is not normal. This is not normal. I'm going to repeat that. And I said time and time again during the second term, you can be informed without being inundated. Okay. And that is how we're

1:03.9

going to approach today's coverage. I am going to make you aware of what's going on. We're going to talk about what's going on, but we're not going to get into the pettiness of it. We're not going to dwell on certain things. We're just going to

1:17.4

be informed with the appropriate amount of attention placed on the subjects, we believe, and you guys correct me.

1:28.8

If you don't like it, correct me.

1:30.8

I'm going to talk about every, I'm not going to talk about, excuse me, every second of the

1:35.0

proceeding going over every little bit of the thing and this person here and that person here.

1:39.2

You know, so what we've done is that we have picked out the moments that best illustrate what is happening, that this is not normal, as East Coast transplant says on the chat.

1:51.3

Let's keep it real.

1:53.5

Okay?

1:54.5

I'm not going to obsess over every petty piece of nonsense.

1:59.7

You're welcome Rhonda woke for such an enjoyable morning.

2:05.0

So I'm promoting you like crazy here in Ohio.

2:07.4

Thank you.

2:08.1

We had a fantastic morning where we barely touched on the inauguration.

2:13.6

We paid tribute and homage to Dr. King.

2:16.3

This is his day.

2:18.7

And we took the temperature down and we discussed issues.

2:24.5

You got to have your comments and your feedback up on the screen and addressed.

2:31.5

Today has been difficult, someone says.

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