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3 days ago
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'Insanity!': Lawrence O'Donnell Totally Puts CNN On Blast Over Its Biden Coverage
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell hit CNN with a thinly-veiled, on-air attack Monday as he accused the network of failing to cover President Donald Trump's mental acuity like it has tackled Joe Biden's reported health decline. O'Donnell kicked off 'The Last Word' with talk of Trump recently reposting a bonkers conspiracy that Biden died in 2020 and was replaced with clones, calling the Truth Social share a 'complete collapse' of Trump's mental acuity. 'The insanity of the current American president is now officially taken for granted in the news media, no huge banners on the cable news network that recently devoted itself to the issue of presidential mental acuity,' he said. 'That network did not dare devote itself to the mental acuity of Donald Trump, that network decided that the mental acuity of Joe Biden is a more important story now.' Trump's repost, which has been subjected to a sea of criticism, is just the latest episode that'sfueledquestionsabout his cognitive ability. During his 2024 campaign, Trump rambled to the press, served up a word salad when asked about child care and bizarrely ranted about sharks and electric boats. Two of Trump's biographers, less than a month before his election win, also sounded the alarm on his 'degrading' cognitive ability on MSNBC. In recent weeks, CNN has highlighted a book co-written by host Jake Tapper on an alleged 'cover-up' of Biden's reported health decline, coverage that began just before the former president announced his prostate cancer diagnosis. O'Donnell noted that 'no one' at the network suggested Biden was 'incapable of doing the job as president.' Rather, O'Donnell said, the network's critique focused on the former president's incapability of 'delivering a sharp and polished television debate performance,' noting that this would've been true of every president before John F. Kennedy. What was 'lost in the relentless coverage' of the debate moment, he added, was that Biden made 'perfect sense' for the rest of the faceoff while Trump did the opposite. 'Donald Trump did not tell one true thing during that debate but that doesn't seem to matter,' O'Donnell stressed. He remarked that while Biden showed himself to be four years older and 'much slower' in the debate, he was still 'way more than four times smarter and more capable' than Trump. HuffPost has reached out to CNN for comment. Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden's Cognitive Health Trump Says 'If You Feel Sorry' For Biden, 'Don't Feel So Sorry' Biden On His Cancer Diagnosis: 'We're Going To Be Able To Beat This'
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30-05-2025
- Business
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Lawrence O'Donnell Makes Bold Prediction For 'Irreversibly Stupid' Trump's Next Big Loss
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Thursday predicted that President Donald Trump's legal victory earlier in the day would be a short-lived one. A federal trade court this week blocked Trump's sweeping tariffs, but an appeals court on Thursday issued a stay as it considers the president's case. O'Donnell said the only reason the court granted that stay was because Trump's attorneys guaranteed that the government would issue refunds to anyone who paid tariffs should they lose the case. Without that promise, O'Donnell said, it's 'very unlikely' the court would have granted the stay. He also noted that the Treasury Department knows how to issue refunds, since they do it every year at tax time ― and said they'll be doing it again, and soon, when the next ruling goes against Trump and those tariff refunds must be issued. 'Refund day is coming, and it will be the most humiliating day Donald Trump will suffer in his losing trade war,' O'Donnell said. Trump fired off a message on his Truth Social website attacking the trade court that had ruled against him, but O'Donnell said that's more proof the president doesn't understand the Constitution. 'Donald Trump humiliated himself once again by showing how irreversibly stupid and flawlessly ignorant he is of the actual words of the Constitution and their meaning,' he said, adding that Trump's social media post in response to the initial legal ruling revealed 'severe mental weakness.' See his full explanation below:
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29-05-2025
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Lawrence O'Donnell Reveals Exact Moment Trump Suffered 'Worldwide Humiliation'
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell predicted on Wednesday that stocks would rally big on Thursday after a federal trade court blocked President Donald Trump's plan to impose massive tariffs. On Thursday, he said, 'the world will reset itself around the restoration of law and order in international trade and the crushing of the Trump tariffs and resultant personal worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.' He called Trump's plan 'completely illegal' and 'constitutionally insane.' O'Donnell said the court went even further than the plaintiffs had asked, granting a 'summary judgment' against Trump. 'Donald Trump's attempts to kill the Constitution this time have failed,' O'Donnell declared after the unanimous ruling against Trump, later adding that none of the judges ― not even the one appointed by Trump ― accepted 'a single word' of his justification for the tariffs. Trump is appealing the decision. See more of O'Donnell's analysis below:
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27-05-2025
- Politics
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Harvard's Laurence Tribe Delivers Unflinching Message To Foreign Students In Trump Crosshairs
Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Monday condemned Donald Trump's move to strip 7,000 foreign students of their places at the Ivy League school, calling it 'obviously unhinged' and legally baseless. Appearing on MSNBC's 'The Last Word' with Lawrence O'Donnell, Tribe said the president has 'no idea what he is talking about' and is simply 'slinging around, frankly, B.S.' 'This is a president who hates intellect, who despises the symbol of excellence in the world of higher education around the world,' Tribe added. In a direct message to the affected students, Tribe urged them not to be intimidated by Trump's threats. 'Don't be scared,' he said. 'This guy is a paper tiger. He's a tinhorn tyrant.' Tribe highlighted Trump's recent legal track record. 'In the month of May alone, there were all kinds of cases across the country — judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats — involving Donald Trump and his megalomaniac attacks on our institutions. And you know what his record was? He lost over 95% of them.' Watch Tribe's full analysis here: New York Post Warns Trump How He's Burning Out Even His Biggest Fans Biden Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cancer Announcement Conservative Legal Icon's Chilling Trump Admission: 'I Don't Know Where This Ends...'
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14-05-2025
- Politics
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Lawrence O'Donnell Sums Up Trump's Middle East Trip In 2 Scathing Words
Donald Trump is on a 'humiliation tour' of the Middle East, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell said Tuesday. But the president is 'too stupid to know it,' the 'Last Word' anchor suggested. Trump has faced backlash from both sides of the aisle over his defense of accepting a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. O'Donnell argued Middle Eastern leaders will view Trump with contempt and 'someone who lives beneath them, as someone who takes their secondhand junk, their secondhand toys.' O'Donnell also pointed out the irony of Trump's recent remarks about American children having limited Christmas presents due to price hikes caused by his tariffs, which Trump is now climbing down from. 'The president of the United States, who just last week was telling American kids how many toys they could have for Christmas, is now humiliating himself with those Middle Eastern dictators by showing them just how much he covets their toys,' O'Donnell snarked. Watch from the 7-minute mark here: Pope Leo's 'MAGA-Type' Brother Goes To Confession About His Trolling For Trump Wall Street Journal Hits Trump With The Harsh Truth About His 'Golden Age' Boast Pope Leo XIV Goes Viral With 1-Word Reply About The U.S.
