Uh Oh, Donald...This Fully Backfires In Their Face

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Jennifer Welch and Don Lemon dissect a week of conservative missteps, focusing on Benny Johnson's alleged personal life contradictions, Jesse Waters' bizarre straw-sucking commentary, and Nikki Minaj's controversial

Key takeaways

• Benny Johnson faced targeted ads for a gay cruise after Googling, fueling long-standing rumors about his sexuality that he denies while avoiding legal action.
• Jesse Waters' Fox News segment fixated on men sucking straws and eating ice cream, which Welch and Lemon interpreted as projection of homophobia.
• Nikki Minaj's Trump endorsement was dismissed by Lemon as tone-deaf political advice from a non-citizen trying to secure immigration benefits.
• J.D. Vance's campaign trail comments attacking Angie Nixon as a socialist were labeled pure projection, given his own lack of qualifications and past criticisms of Trump.
• Pete Hegseth's Pentagon declaration banning
• and

Main topics

• Conservative media hypocrisy
• J.D. Vance & Angie Nixon Florida Senate race
• Pete Hegseth Pentagon controversy

Notable quotes

"That bitch is still fifth place swimmer it changes nothing."

Conclusion

The episode serves as a sharp critique of MAGA's cultural and politica

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:00) Welcome, welcome to The Weekend Read, a Welch's Lemonade production. We are here right now squeezing it and juicing it up. Don Lemon, tell everybody what we're Speaker 7 (0:10) going Speaker 3 (0:10) to be doing next Wednesday in Boston. Speaker 7 (0:14) Oh. Let's see. Speaker 4 (0:16) I'm going to be hanging with you. Speaker 7 (0:18) I'm going to be, we're going to be, we're going to be on stage in the same room together. Wait, do you have the book? You better have that book right there. So Jennifer Welch has a new book and guess who's moderating the conversation? Not today, fascists. So I guess I'm not a fascist because I will be there. that day, not today, but I will be there. I'm so excited for you. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for me, Jen? I Speaker 3 (0:43) am so ready. I am absolutely ready. So if you're in Boston, there's only a few tickets left. I mean, you drop the Don Lemon as the moderator. Those tickets sell fast. There's just a few left. So anybody in the Boston area wants a little Welch's Lemonade in person in Boston next Wednesday at seven. But let's get to MAGA ripping. Yes, ma'am. Speaker 7 (1:02) Yes, I'm ready. Speaker 3 (1:04) The first item up to review with the Welch's Lemonade community is one Benny Johnson. One Benny Johnson who, let's just remind, let's remind the people when Benny Johnson was on doing a search on the Google. Google sends you targeted ads based on your previous search history. Speaker 3 (1:28) Let's tee it up this way first. So one day, Benny's Googling and he gets targeted for this ad. Kylie popped this up. So he tweets, during advertising on the Military Times right now, and he pops it up. And the ad that he, Benny, was targeted based on his Google search is the world's largest gay cruise. Well, since then, there's been a lot of leaking and conservative. Speaker 3 (1:53) places where they say that Benny Johnson has been making out with men at conservative conferences. Speaker 7 (1:58) Hold on, hold on. I don't want to hear leaking and conservative. Speaker 3 (2:03) I Speaker 7 (2:03) don't Speaker 8 (2:04) want that image in my head. Ew. Cause Speaker 7 (2:06) you know, they're freaky and weird. All right. Sorry. Sorry. Go on. Speaker 3 (2:11) No, I agree. But the press is getting pretty awesome about this. I think this might be TMZ. Play the clip. Speaker 2 (2:19) Are you a homosexual? No. Were you a homosexual? No. Well, then why are there so many allegations against us? Why? People lie. They're all lies. Saeed Jones was lying when he said he made out with you in the BuzzFeed dressing room. All right, well, we'll see what happens. How come you didn't sue Milo? You said you were going to sue him, right? I want to sue Milo. What? I want to sue him. You want to sue Milo? But you don't want Discovery, right? Speaker 5 (2:44) No, I'd be Speaker 2 (2:45) fine with Discovery. All right, well, let's see what happens. Speaker 3 (2:48) Dawn. Tsk, tsk. Oh, Speaker 7 (2:52) what a web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Those rumors have been out there. Jen, you and I have spoken about it. I have someone who has told me that they have had relations and let's just put encounters or an encounter at least with our said subject. So I would say allegedly, reportedly, that's what they say to me, that he is not the only one who says that. And that has been for years. This is when I was at CNN. This has been out there. And it's look, it's not just among, you know, people that they deem liberal. Conservatives talk about it. They talk about it openly. All one has to do is a Google search, Jen. Where's the lie? Am I wrong? Speaker 3 (3:44) You're right. Benny did a Google search and he was sure targeted by the community he fetishizes at night on a little gay cruise. It's so hilarious, the cell phone and that. But speaking of- You know what? Speaker 7 (3:56) When I first saw Benny Johnson, I wasn't aware of him when I was in mainstream media. When I first saw him, I said, oh, who's that gay guy? Immediately my gaydar went up. I'm like, oh, who's that gay in the black t-shirt doing his best Anderson Cooper black tie t-shirt thing? With the glasses. And then I found out it was Benny Johnson who was talking about his wife and Christianity. And I went, oh, God, here we go. Anyways. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get a ping. You have a good gaydar, Jen. Speaker 3 (4:25) I have really good gaydar. Yeah. Speaker 7 (4:27) I Speaker 3 (4:28) have excellent gaydar. A total, a total ping. I mean, 100%. And I mean, you could tell by the way he answered that question. I've watched enough like body language experts, the way he kind of, no. No. I mean, if somebody came to me and said, are you a lesbian? I'd be like, where'd you hear that? Like, what's going on with that? Speaker 7 (4:47) No, I know. Can I tell you what you would say? When someone said, Jen, are you a lesbian? You'd go, I wish, but I just, I'm not. And if I was, honey, I would tell you. But, you know, I have a friend, I have straight friends who will say, when people ask them if they're gay, they'll say, thank you for the compliment. I wish I was, but I'm just not interested in that. It's cool to be gay. We're stylish. We're handsome. We're smart. We're successful. We're overachievers, all the things. But I think you say the same thing. You're like, yeah, I wish I was a lesbian, but I just ain't. Speaker 3 (5:17) I would love to have a wife. You wouldn't have to deal with men's Speaker 7 (5:20) drama if you did. Speaker 3 (5:22) Exactly. And I wish that that was for me, but it's just not. I have to deal with all the men and my very high maintenance husband, whom I love very, very much. Okay, let's move along to speaking of gay coded stuff. Jesse Waters is sucking balls on Fox News. Play the clip. You Speaker 6 (5:43) can't watch me while I suck the straws. And then he made that really weird laughing Speaker 8 (5:46) noise. Oh, I Speaker 6 (5:47) got a ball in my mouth. Yes, yes. So at the bottom of it, there's balls, right, Kennedy? That's right, tapioca balls. Tapioca balls, all right. Oh, okay. Speaker 3 (5:56) So did you notice, Don, at the beginning, he goes, don't watch me sucking this, it's private. There's footage after footage of him on The Five talking about the way men suck straws, the way men... Oh, my God. Kylie. Speaker 3 (6:13) Play the clip. Hit the... Speaker 3 (6:17) Hit Kennedy. We're building a soundboard for Welch's Lemonade. That's why. Speaker 5 (6:23) How can you Speaker 3 (6:23) even Speaker 5 (6:23) get into bestiality? Speaker 3 (6:30) The Welch's Lemonade community needs the soundboard. This is the Friday unwind after the news cycle. Why would you Speaker 7 (6:38) give Speaker 3 (6:38) me a high five? Give me Speaker 7 (6:39) a Speaker 3 (6:39) high Speaker 7 (6:39) five, Jen. Other side, other side, other hand. Speaker 3 (6:42) Oh, you're so smart. Wait. Speaker 7 (6:44) Oh, wait. No. Other hand, but then go across your face. No. Jen. Speaker 7 (6:52) We'll do it later in person. You don't have to turn your hand. You just go like that. Speaker 3 (6:58) I can't. I'm not. Speaker 3 (7:06) I can do it now. Speaker 3 (7:11) We'll get better and better. Okay. So there's a lot of footage of Ms. Waters talking about how Joe Biden likes ice cream and how men should eat soup. He's very consumed with how men use their mouths. And you notice when he just took a drink of a coffee, tapioca drink, he says, don't watch me suck this. It's private. That's a weird tell. And then of course he's like, oh my God, I got a ball in my mouth. Just the minute he thought about sucking, he goes straight to a ball in the mouth. Speaker 7 (7:39) Well, anybody, Jen, who is that concerned about looking as if they might be doing what they're doing is, in my experience, the bigger the homophobe, the bigger the hypocrite, the bigger the closet is. And most people are not concerned about eating ice cream in public because licking an ice cream cone has nothing to do with being gay. Sucking out of a straw has nothing to do with being gay. And if you're that concerned about it, there's something wrong with you. And most likely you're probably having, you have gay tendencies. You want to actually suck on a straw and lick on an ice cream cone, if you know what I mean, and get whatever happens that came out of the bottom of that straw, the balls. Hey, don't forget the balls. Don't forget the balls, Jesse. Speaker 3 (8:35) OK, staying on Miss Waters here for a second. I want to ask you this as a black voter and a member who's of the black voting community. I'm going to play this clip for you and then you just go off on this. Play the clip. Donald Speaker 6 (8:52) Trump doubled his black turnout in 2024. Black support is going to stay Republican with Trump not on the ballot. The party is going to need a little lift. So they called in Nikki. Speaker 1 (9:04) Now is not the time. Speaker 1 (9:08) to think that your voice will not be heard. Speaker 7 (9:15) Done. Speaker 7 (9:18) Girl, all the way by. Don't nobody want to hear nothing from no Nicki Maga Minaj. We don't want to hear that from Nicki Maga Minaj. Nicki is trying to get a green card. Nicki is trying to get a pardon for her brother or whoever it is that was accused of the things. And I think is he still in prison or was in prison or spent time and whatever. So no, and nobody in the black community is listening to her. We're not going to get political advice from the woman who has super bass. Now, if you like her music, that's one thing. But stick with super bass in the music. Get out of politics. And you know what? I will say, I will say, I'm not into that wig with the big hump because, you know, she's doing her best 1960s Supreme or who is it? Gosh, who was a young lady who died? Speaker 7 (10:17) I thought I had to go to, yeah, she's doing her best Amy Winehouse, right? She got a better wig than the one when she and Trump were all lovey-doveyed up and holding hands because that was a terrible wig. You could see the glue, at least that one. It's got bangs and you can cover the glue. Nikki, go sit down. That's it. Speaker 3 (10:33) Also talk. She's not even American. Speaker 7 (10:34) She's not even American. So I think maybe she doesn't want to get deported. But I think Trump and those they would deport her in a second. I'd be careful about her going anywhere near the White House because she might get deported.