Trump Is Sicker Than They’re Telling Us: Don Lemon

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Independent journalist Don Lemon joins the Beast’s Joanna Coles for a wide-ranging conversation unpacking Trump’s health issues, the MAGA movement’s big problem, and the night RFK Jr. had dinner with Don Lemon. The two dive into Trump’s public appearance at the U.S. Open and ask what the mysterious blue object clenched in his mouth, seen in a candid photo, is. The two also take apart JD Vance’s rise, calling him the kind of “DEI hire” conservatives pretend to hate. They dig into the contradictions of his wife Usha’s background, the role Black Americans played in securing rights for immigrant communities, and why Trump still manages to suck all the oxygen out of every room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that he is sicker than he's been that the administration is letting on to.
0:10.7	Donald Trump is almost 80 years old.
0:13.4	And, you know, if you get older, things start to happen to you.
0:17.7	I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast.
0:20.3	Before we get into the Pido Patio and the hearings with RFK Jr. last week with our special guest. I just want to remind you, if you're watching this on YouTube, below this video, press the Join Now button and you can become a member of the Daily Beast community.
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1:19.1	Now we're going to get into it with a man who's back by popular demand.
1:23.9	You love him.
1:24.7	He's got all sorts of views.
1:26.6	If you ask him about anything, he's got a point of view on it.
1:29.2	He's just back from D.C. where he was racing around with a microphone. He stopped off in Baltimore,
1:35.5	and the governor had an impromptu press conference for him, and he had dinner, and he's going to tell us about it with RFK Jr.
1:43.5	So, no more to do. Don Lemon is in the house. Don Lemon is in the house. Look, I've worn my blazer for you. I'm very conscious you don't have a blazer or a cardigan on, but I've worn my blazer for you, Don't. Would you like me to put my cardigan on? I brought one. No, no, I want you to say just the way you are. You are back from a week in D.C., just back. What was it like? Besides exhausting, it was interesting to be there after not being there for a while because I would go in and out on CNN depending on
2:18.2	the news. If there was big enough news, I would go. But never as a sort of on the ground reporter
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