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The Don Lemon Show

Why Donald Trump's Attacks on the Pope Matter

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The shocking but not surprising feud between MAGA and the Pope continues. While it isn't new for a pope to speak out on politics, having the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of Defense, and various other MAGA politicians criticizing the pope IS new. Of course it comes under the Trump regime. But this is no ordinary pope. Pope Leo is from Chicago, speaks fluent English, and is does NOT back down from a fight. Join Don to dive into this battle between church and state. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMON and use LEMON at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. This episode is brought to you by Sundays. Make the switch to Sundays. Go right now to https://sundaysfordogs.com/DON50 and get 50% off your first order. Or, you can use code DON50 at checkout. This episode is sponsored by Lean. Get started with 20% off and free rush shipping so you can add LEAN to you healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit https://takelean.com enter LEMON for your discount. This episode is brought to you by Helix. Go to https://helixsleep.com/DON for 20% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! This episode is sponsored by Shopify. See less carts go abandoned and more sales go with Shopify and their Shop Pay button.Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It is Friday Eve.

0:26.6

I love to say that because Thursdays, I always like Thursday because you know the next day is Friday and then the weekend is coming.

0:55.5

However, for those of you who are watching this and not live because a lot of our folks, most of the people actually watch it after we are off, but we love having our audience in our community. It helps to build a community. By the way, like and thumbs up. Have you done that yet? What's the first order of business? Because it affects the algorithm, more people become aware of our channel. Someone said, hi, Maureen. Hi, Maureen. Hi, 89, Philadelphia. Thank you. Okay, so I'm so glad that you guys are here. I have lots to talk about. Do you ever just sit back? And some of the things are so ridiculous. Nikki, we having trouble streaming

1:02.2

something? I'm getting an alert. You ever have something that's so, that's just so ridiculous

1:09.6

that you can't, it's hard to even react to it. Your mind or your body

1:13.9

is almost like, you know, it's like when someone is really majorly injured and then it's that

1:19.6

thing that kicks in, that sort of smooths or heals or, it's like a sab, like your, your, your, your, your brain brain does it. And it doesn't hurt. And then all of a sudden, a couple of days later it starts hurting. Have you ever seen anyone who was in a major accident? Sometimes they don't feel the pain right away because the body does that, right? If you guys ever been, you know what I'm talking about? Even if it's paralysis or whatever it is, it's adrenaline, whatever. And so, but sometimes when you get some really big, bad news,

1:49.6

the same reaction kind of happens, or you're just like, you're just so stunned. People are in

1:54.1

shocked. They just, you know, they're just, they don't really have a feeling about it. And then the smallest

2:03.1

little thing will set you off. It's weird how it works that way because it, because you're

2:08.9

like, this is so dumb, why do I have to deal with it? Well, every day I kind of feel similar

2:13.3

things about what's happening in the world in this administration elimination.

2:22.9

I feel it, and I feel like this ridiculous, I remember the first administration I kept saying,

2:27.7

how long is this going to last, how long it's going to last, and then all of a sudden it was over.

2:28.5

But the difference was then, was that Donald Trump could run again, right, afterwards.

2:34.7

And we were like, okay, and then you didn't think that he was going to run again, right?

2:40.2

However, so that's all I feel about what's happening.

2:44.1

And with all of the craziness that comes out of the administration, there's so much crazy

2:50.1

that you don't know what to believe,

2:52.2

you don't know what's real, it's always some sort of ludicrous act fighting with the Pope and

2:57.7

then trying to pretend it's normal. And so we cannot, we cannot pretend that any of this is normal

3:03.3

anymore. We have to stop normalizing it and we have to stop becoming a newer to it and you really

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