MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday continued railing towards President Donald Trump and his “nonsensical” proclamations on the Iran battle, arguing he has additionally discovered yet one more new approach “to dishonor” the seven U.S. army service members who’ve died in it.
“When Donald Trump began his battle, he referred to as it a battle,” O’Donnell mentioned Monday.
The “Final Phrase” host continued, “He referred to as it a battle a number of instances and that’s what it’s. Donald Trump’s Secretary of Protection [Pete Hegseth] additionally referred to as it a battle when the battle started, which he particularly cherished doing since he falsely calls himself the Secretary of Warfare.”
Trump and Hegseth have certainly each referred to the continued battle as a “battle,” confidently chatting with reporters all through final week about Operation Epic Fury and its deadly airstrikes, with Trump demanding “unconditional give up” from Iran to finish the battle.
“However now that Donald Trump realizes that People don’t like battle and perhaps being reminded that he campaigned towards battle when he was operating for president, Donald Trump is twisting the language to keep away from the phrase ‘battle,’” O’Donnell mentioned Monday.
He went on to play a clip of Trump describing the battle as “an tour” earlier that day whereas talking at a retreat for Home Republicans at his golf membership in Florida. Trump additionally notably bragged on the time that “not lots of people” would have gone on this “tour.”
O’Donnell went on to sentence the president’s callous rhetoric on the battle, which got here mere days after Trump wore a baseball cap with “USA” written on it through the dignified switch Saturday of the primary six U.S. troopers who had been killed within the so-called “tour.”
“That’s his newest description of his battle at present, an tour,” he mentioned. “Donald Trump finds new methods to dishonor the battle useless. A foolish hat, and now an tour. It’s one factor to die in a battle whose goal the president can not clarify. People have achieved that earlier than.”
O’Donnell added, “However to … name it an tour, earlier than the households have even had the funerals, to wrestle to seek out language that demeans these troopers’ sacrifice in service to his determined political wants, is a uniquely Trumpian second within the American presidency.”
The MS NOW host additionally tore into Trump for his demand of “unconditional give up” Friday from Iran, noting that the final time the U.S. accepted such an act “it took an atomic bomb to get it” and that Trump fairly quickly modified his tone as quickly because the inventory market dipped.
O’Donnell argued Trump is “the primary American wartime president dominated by the inventory market and the oil market,” noting that he informed a CBS Information reporter Monday, “I feel the battle may be very full” — and mentioned so throughout buying and selling hours “within the hope of stopping a collapse.”
Trump prompt over the weekend, in the meantime, that the U.S. has “already gained!”
O’Donnell appeared to mourn America’s former standing on this planet, noting that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded unconditional give up from the Axis Powers throughout World Warfare II, “the world knew” that the U.S. chief “meant these phrases.”
“And now the world is aware of the phrases of the present president of america don’t have any that means in any respect,” he mentioned. “Thirty-one hours after Donald Trump demanded unconditional give up in one other social media put up, Donald Trump mentioned, ‘We’ve already gained!’”
O’Donnell famous, “Donald Trump doesn’t even take note of the phrases of Donald Trump.”
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