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President Trump reveals his real fears as he fails to cover the Epstein files with his trademark 'obsessive' attack posts.
Donald Trump is living in fear over the omnipresent Jeffrey Epstein issue, according to MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell. On his program The Last Word on Monday, O'Donnell pointed out how unusual it was that the outspoken president had said nothing about Epstein that day. The host said that 'obsessive, relentless social media posts' were one way Trump expresses how 'terrified' he is of a person or an issue.
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10-07-2025
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Lawrence O'Donnell Points To 5 Words From Trump As The Brutal ‘Truth' Of His Presidency
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday highlighted what he thinks is the key 'theme' of Donald Trump's presidency, which is related to an admission the president made when asked about a key military decision. Earlier this week, Trump acknowledged he didn't know who in his administration had ordered a pause in sending some munitions to Ukraine as the country continues to defend itself from Russia's invasion. When reminded of that comment and asked if he'd since found out who made the call, Trump replied: 'I haven't thought about it.' Pressed further on what it says 'that such a big decision could be made' without him knowing, Trump pivoted and insisted, 'I would know,' adding, 'If a decision was made, I will know,' that he'd be 'the first to know,' and, 'In fact, most likely I'd give the order.' O'Donnell, baffled, commented: 'If you don't think that that string of English words made any sense, you are correct. It did not make any sense.' But 'if there's a shred of truth in anything that Donald Trump said' in his response, O'Donnell said it would be the five words, 'I haven't thought about it.' 'And that is the truth of everything Donald Trump does and doesn't do as president: 'I haven't thought about it,'' he continued. O'Donnell then tore into Trump: 'That is the theme of the Trump presidency. In your lifetime of listening to presidents being asked questions about policy situations they are actively engaged in every day, you have never once heard a president say, 'I haven't thought about it.' It takes Trumpian stupidity to say something like that. And when you're as stupid as Donald Trump, you have no idea how stupid your stupidity sounds. Donald Trump is trapped in his stupidity. There is no way he can fake sounding smart about anything, not even his lifetime passion and greatest expertise, golf, which he simply lies about.' Watch from the 11:30 point here: OOPS!! Stephen Miller's Fox News Glitch Goes Viral For Most Poetic Reason Trump's Latest 'Golden Age' Move Is Wired For Chaos, Critics Fume This Statue Of Liberty Street Art Made MAGA Mad — And The Artist Is Unrepentant
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04-07-2025
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Lawrence O'Donnell Gleefully Mocks House Republicans Over Big, Beautiful Bill Vote: ‘It Has a Mistake In It'
Lawrence O'Donnell mocked House Republicans for putting forward President Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill vote with a mistake in it, an error that shot themselves in the foot. 'It has a mistake in it,' O'Donnell said on Wednesday night's episode of 'The Last Word.' 'They all know that the real leading expert on House rules is Democrat Jim McGovern, the Democratic leader of the House Rules Committee. They know that the Republican chair of the House Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, is completely and permanently incompetent—always has been, always will be—along with her staff.' More from TheWrap CBS' John Dickerson Says Trump Settlement Jeopardizes Network Holding 'Power to Account After Paying It Millions' | Video Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino Mainstay Known for 'Kill Bill' and 'Reservoir Dogs,' Dies at 67 Where to Watch '40 Acres': Is the Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Streaming? UK Government Rejects Proposal for 5% Levy on Streamers' Local Revenue The MSNBC host went on to explain the difference between how legislation is voted on between the Senate and the House. For example in the Senate, rules do not change but in the House, the Rules Committee—controlled by the party in power—writes the rule for every bill. It is standard for the rule to say that no amendments will be allowed once the bill reaches the floor. 'The incompetent Republicans did such a bad job of writing that very simple, one-paragraph rule that Jim McGovern was able to stop everything in the House of Representatives today by announcing: 'It has a mistake in it,'' O'Donnell said in disbelief. 'We've never seen anything like that in the House—not something that stupid,' he continued. 'For the next 11 hours, the Republican-controlled House was paralyzed by that mistake. Usually in the House, no one in the Republican Party listens to anything said by Democrats on the floor. But this time, everyone heard what Congressman Jim McGovern said when he started a drama like we've never seen before.' The host explained in layman's terms that Republicans pushed forward the bill and didn't include an out for themselves. So if they began debating, and the GOP realized they didn't have the votes, they would still have to take the vote. O'Donnell chastised Speaker Mike Johnson for not knowing anything about governmental procedure and that it quickly became clear they didn't have the votes. 'Panic set in among House Republicans and within the Trump White House,' O'Donnell said. 'While Republicans may now try to fix the error with an amendment, McGovern posed a critical question: 'If this Republican leadership cannot get a one-paragraph rule right, can we really trust them to get an 870-page bill right?'' The mistake allowed Democrats to go to the mic and request amendments to cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, a main pushback on the bill from both sides of the aisle. Despite the Democrats' attempts, Republicans blocked every single amendment request on the House floor. O'Donnell also took a moment to blast some of the GOP members who have capitulated to Trump's demands including Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin who said, 'we're not a bunch of little bitches' for giving up all his prior objections to the bill. 'OK. No one said you were,' O'Donnell said as he called Van Orden's defense 'breathtakingly pathetic.' 'I mean, we've said negative things about what you're voting for and what you're willing to do, and many of us have said negative things about the cruelty that you're willing to inflict on people here and around the world. But 'little bitches' is your term, Congressman Derrick Van Orden—not mine.' You can watch the full 'The Last Word' segment in the video above. The post Lawrence O'Donnell Gleefully Mocks House Republicans Over Big, Beautiful Bill Vote: 'It Has a Mistake In It' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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26-06-2025
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Lawrence O'Donnell Savages Trump's ‘Warrior' Brag With His Vietnam Record
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell mocked Donald Trump for saying he feels like a warrior by referencing the last-minute medical diagnosis that kept him out of the Vietnam War. Speaking at a NATO summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Trump floated bringing back the title 'Secretary of War'—a Cabinet position abolished in 1947—for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'for a couple of weeks' because 'we feel like warriors.' He spoke in the same speech about his operation to bomb three nuclear facilities in Iran, insisting the targets had been 'obliterated' after a leaked report from his own intelligence community suggesting the strikes had a more limited impact. 'Of course Donald Trump feels like a warrior,' O'Donnell said on The Last Word on Wednesday night. 'Donald Trump, who evaded military service during the Vietnam War because he claimed his foot hurt—the same foot on which he spent the rest of his life playing endless miles of golf, and never limping.' Trump had five deferments during the draft in the 1960s—four of which were for education, according to the New York Times. When he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1968, he became eligible for the draft. But he was ultimately exempted from military service for a fifth time in the fall on medical grounds after being diagnosed with bone spurs—a buildup of calcium on the bone—in his heels. In 2018, the daughters of a podiatrist in Queens who rented his office from Trump's father, Fred Trump, claimed their late dad had made the diagnosis as a 'favor' to Trump Sr. Donald Trump had previously said a doctor gave him a 'very strong letter' about the bone spurs, which he in turn gave to draft officials, but said he couldn't remember the doctor's name and failed to provide documentation to the Times relating to the exemption. 'There is no reason to believe that Donald Trump wasn't perfectly healthy enough to serve in the military during the war of his youth,' O'Donnell said. 'But like most men who were eligible to serve in the Vietnam War at that time, Donald Trump was terrified of being sent to the jungles of Vietnam and becoming another statistic in the American military body count that was far greater than all of the wars—the American wars of the 21st century—combined.' 'And so Donald Trump, who only had to choose which ridiculous hat to wear when he went to the Situation Room to be a spectator during his war in Iran, now feels like a warrior,' O'Donnell went on. 'The war that Donald Trump experienced in that air-conditioned room, where he didn't even have to loosen his necktie, makes Donald Trump feel like a warrior. The biggest crybaby in the history of American politics now feels like a warrior. The man who spent every single day of his political and presidential life complaining that he is being treated unfairly now feels like a warrior.' The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
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19-06-2025
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Lawrence: Donald Trump proves he's the stupidest man in the situation room
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains how Donald Trump's 'cognitive confusion' about whether he can appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve, among other 'stupid and demented' comments, is proving the psychiatrists who predicted his mental acuity would get worse right.
