Lawrence O’Donnell is having a hard time at just 52 days of Trump’s presidency. He’s spewing baseless drivel like claiming President Trump’s brain doesn’t work. He says Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged and accuses him of dementia. In reality, Trump’s running the country like a master CEO—mentally sharp, full of energy—not some crooked, demented politician who’s been in office for 50 years like Joe Biden. Meanwhile, O’Donnell spent decades ignoring Joe Biden’s crimes and obvious mental decline. That’s a real case of a broken, badly damaged brain that does not work. But O’Donnell conveniently kept that under wraps to protect his team. The alleged quote he’s reading from some book is pure hearsay. It’s a flimsy smear that doesn’t even sound like Trump—penned by a guy named John R. O’Donnell, who, funny enough, shares the same last name as Lawrence. Lawrence calls it a “vile antisemitic outburst.” He spins an alleged quote about short guys in yarmulkes into racism. Yet he breezes right past the “black guys counting my money” line without a peep about it being racist—funny how his outrage picks and chooses. This whole rant is absurd. It’s a slanderous meltdown from a grumpy old man and partisan hack Democrat. His blatant bias has been obvious every single day of his career. Since Lawrence O’Donnell’s taking a break, it’s clear he’s too burned out to read his teleprompter and push his lies. Maybe he should stretch that break into retirement. That would spare us his garbage for good.
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Lawrence O’Donnell: Rachel, I know you’ve pledged to cover and be here for the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. I hope you notice that I did not make that same pledge when you did.
Rachel Maddow: You’re not going anywhere, are you?
Lawrence O’Donnell: Well, here’s the thing, this is day 52. I thought it was day 92, it turns out it’s day 52, Rachel. And I’m exhausted at day 52, and so I’m gonna take next week off. And I’m telling you that now, cause I know you don’t like it when I just drift away. And I don’t, but just taking next week off. Then I come back and go with you all the way to the hundred days. And uh.
Rachel Maddow: I can’t, I can’t. I know I, we all tell each other you have to take care of yourself, you gotta pace yourself, you gotta be in this for the long haul, so I can’t hold it against you, but I’m very sad.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Can you hold this against me? I’m gonna get a head start by taking tomorrow off.
Rachel Maddow: Hahahahaha. Yes. Yes. I can hold it against you. Hahaha.
Lawrence O’Donnell: I thought you might. I thought you might Rachel.
Rachel Maddow: I’m pre-mad right now. It’s like, and I’m not, it’s not even tomorrow yet. Take me, take me with you, can I go with you? Where are you going?
Lawrence O’Donnell: No no no, no, you said a hundred days, you said a hundred days. You can’t. A hundred days. On the hundred and first day, Rachel. You and I.
Rachel Maddow: POOF!
Lawrence O’Donnell: Yeah, right.
Rachel Maddow: Hahaha.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Happy day 52, Rachel.
Rachel Maddow: Safe travels, Lawrence, thank you.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Thank you, thank you. And so America is at this hour completing the 52nd day of having a president of the United States whose brain does not work. Donald Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged, as he exhibits every day. And once again, today, Donald Trump said something that would have gotten any other president rushed to the hospital for a neurological examination and an evaluation for dementia for starters. That’s where they would have begun. It was a vile antisemitic outburst by the man who once said this after he saw a black accountant working at one of his failed casinos. Quote. Black guys counting my money, I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulke every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. No one else. That is how the anti-Semitic president of the United States sees Jewish men. Little short men who wear yarmulke every day. That’s Donald Trump. Donald Trump spewed this demented poison today. What the poison. We will get to.