Lawrence O’Donnell Recaps Trump’s Week of Humiliation
While hosting the British prime minister, Trump proved “how relentlessly uneducable he is,” the MSNBC anchor said.
MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell analyzed Donald Trump’s “humiliating” meeting Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in which the president was corrected by his European counterpart—just days after French President Emmanuel Macron did the same.
“Donald Trump was humiliated once again today in the Oval Office, sitting in exactly the same chair where he was humiliated in exactly the same way, in this same week, on Monday,” O’Donnell began on The Last Word, referencing Macron touching Trump’s arm to get him to be quiet so he could set the record straight about Ukraine funding.
That, O’Donnell said, was the “historic humiliation touch seen around the world.”
And Starmer on Thursday reached out similarly when Trump went on about the same topic, falsely claiming that all countries helping Ukraine financially are being repaid with interest, except for the U.S.
O’Donnell summed it up as the same “humiliation trap” as before, which Trump couldn’t avoid because he “is not now, and never has been, educable.”
O’Donnell also praised the precise questioning of Trump regarding tariffs by The Independent’s White House reporter, Andrew Fineberg, and called out Trump’s evasive responses.
Trump saying he didn’t think that the cost of tariffs would ultimately be paid for by American consumers was a lie, according to O’Donnell.
“It’s like saying gasoline taxes are paid at the pump by us when we buy gas for our cars, and Donald Trump says, ‘No, they’re not,‘” O’Donnell suggested.
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“The sad truth is we don’t actually know if Donald Trump is so deeply stupid that he believes what he is saying,” he said.
“I leave it to you to decide which would be better: a president stupid enough to think that foreign countries pay American tariffs, or a president who knows the truth but lies about it. It’s one or the other.”
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