MSNBC Host Stunned by Trump’s Unprecedented Double Humiliation
Lawrence O’Donnell notes that it wasn’t just Elon Musk who caused the president issues on Thursday.
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell suggested that President Donald Trump made history by getting “humiliated” by two people at the same time.
In his opening monologue on Thursday’s The Last Word, O’Donnell said it was German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s turn to “sit beside Donald Trump and humiliate him” in the Oval Office, but that got “overshadowed” by Elon Musk’s wild social media posts attacking the president.
“Donald Trump became the first president in history to get humiliated by two people at the same time, with one of them not even being in the room,” O’Donnell said. “The richest person in the world, who Donald Trump now claims he fired last week, was live-tweeting Donald Trump’s stupidity festival in the Oval Office, saying, among other things, Donald Trump should be impeached.”
Musk’s salacious posting spree didn’t stop there. He also suggested that Trump’s tariffs will cause a recession later this year and claimed the president wouldn’t have won the 2024 election without his multimillion dollar support.
Then Musk dropped the “really big bomb,” claiming the “real reason” the government hasn’t released files related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is because Trump features in them.
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As if that weren’t bad enough, O’Donnell noted that Merz had to correct Trump to his face during their Thursday meeting in front of the world’s media.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had to remind Trump in the Oval Office that defeating the Nazis in WW II was a good thing.
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The German chancellor pointed out that Friday marked the anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a pivotal moment of World War II.
Trump remarked that D-Day was “not a pleasant day” for Germany. Merz then had to educate Trump: “In the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship.”
O’Donnell noted that this glib reply followed French President Emmanuel Macron fact-checking Trump in the Oval Office in February about Europe’s funding of Ukraine’s fight against Russian invasion, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejecting Trump’s claim that there are “infringements on free speech” in the U.K.
“Donald Trump is by far the stupidest person any European head of state has ever had to meet,” O’Donnell said.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump's fraught relationship reached fever pitch on Thursday.
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The host later discussed the possible implications of the tensions between Trump and Musk blowing up the way it did on Thursday.
“This is not a feud. This is the world’s two craziest, most dangerous rich people, each trying to find a way now to completely destroy the other,” he said.
“Elon Musk is now calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is now calling for cutting off all government contracts with Elon Musk’s companies. Steve Bannon, Trump ally, is now calling for Elon Musk to be deported. All-out madness has broken out in Trump World, with Donald Trump at the center of the madness, causing all of the madness.”
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