The Real Reason Trump's Lost His Mojo: Don Lemon
The Daily Beast Podcast
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think Donald Trump is losing his mojo. |
| 0:03.0 | I do. |
| 0:03.7 | And do you think this is, is it partly his health? |
| 0:07.5 | Is it the economy? |
| 0:09.1 | Is it all of it? |
| 0:10.2 | I think it's all of the above. |
| 0:11.3 | I think that if you build something based on conspiracy theories and a lot of lies and a lot of, you know, distractions and distortions, eventually people start |
| 0:22.6 | to see through it and they become disillusioned. And you can't go out there telling people, the economy's great, the economy's great, the economy's great, the economy's great. This is the best economy ever. And they're like, wait a minute, I don't have any money. My energy bills are my utility bills are crazy. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Joanna Coles. |
| 0:38.1 | This is the Daily Beast podcast. |
| 0:39.7 | Big thanks to Hugh Docherty for holding the |
| 0:42.5 | full. I cannot compete with his accent. But I can compete with curiosity and what the hell |
| 0:49.4 | has been going on since I've been out of the country for whatever it was, 10 days. So, Pennsylvania rally, |
| 0:57.1 | Epstein photos, health premiums going up, the economy beginning to falter, and Donald Trump |
| 1:04.2 | falling asleep pretty much all the time. And then his strange, slow, whatever, dissent down the White House stairs for the |
| 1:15.1 | congressional ball buoyed up physically by the First Lady. It's always good to see her, as you know. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm particularly intrigued by her movements. Anyway, who better to discuss this with and who has more |
| 1:29.9 | opinions than Don Lemon from Lemon Live, Don Lemon live, live in the studio. Don. |
| 1:39.5 | So, Don, welcome. Hi, Joanna Coles. How are you? I'm very well. I hear you just had a meta moment. I did. Okay, so if there's any... You don't have you, if you get the... You're in those mood. You're like, what am I doing? I'm working so hard, that kind of thing. And so I'm not feeling well. And the only reason I did this was because of you. I do. I love you. Thank you. So so I jump in a taxi and like walking down the street, I jump in a taxi. And I get it and I hear the open to my show, the music. And I looked, I was like, oh, my God, I looked on the thing. And it's like, it's not on my phone. And I looked at the driver. Well, I looked up on the little box. I heard as you know, the little taxi thing, the screen. Yeah, taxi TV. I was like, I'm not on taxi TV. And then the driver is playing me in his car on his cell phone and it's coming through the speakers in the car. And he has it sitting right in the middle on the dash of the steering wheel. And so I said, and I just let it play for a while. And I said to him, I said, what do you listen to you? And he said, lemon. And I said, do you listen to him all the time? He goes, yeah, every day. And I said, do you recognize me? And he turned around and he goes, oh, man. So, Joanna, that was confirmation to keep going. That is confirmation to keep going. So too, may I say, is your merch. Don't you love my merch? |
| 2:54.4 | I do. I mean, I'm distressed. You haven't bought me some of your merch there. I'll get you. I should probably buy some because we all have to support each other. But this is fabulous. So this is Lemon Live with Don Lemon. It's cold. I have a cold, so sorry for all of the thing, but I'm in a good. And also what I like is the color scheme of navy and yellow, really good. Nice shade of yellow and good shade navy. Because navy's hard to get right. Thank you. Did you spend a lot of time organizing it? No, not really. I like the colors. there's one that has a light blue one, same color blue, and there's one that has black letters. |
| 3:28.0 | On Navy? |
| 3:28.9 | On Navy. |
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