MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday mentioned President Donald Trump has made yet one more unprecedented confession — this time regarding the upcoming midterm elections, which even quite a few right-wing pundits consider will probably be disastrous for the GOP.
“Donald Trump mentioned, ‘I don’t care concerning the midterms,’” O’Donnell mentioned Wednesday. “Donald Trump is the primary president in historical past to say that he doesn’t care concerning the midterm elections. No president has ever mentioned that, even in non-public.”
He continued, “However Donald Trump selected to say it at the moment in a setting that’s speculated to be non-public, a Cupboard assembly. Donald Trump bragged initially of his so-called Cupboard assembly at the moment, about inviting the White Home press corps to hitch the Cupboard assembly.”
The “Final Phrase” host went on to notice these conferences have been “vital sufficient to be non-public” till Trump took workplace and turned them into “the sort of low cost actuality TV” that the previous “Apprentice” host is used to, stopping officers from “talking freely to Donald Trump.”
O’Donnell added that Cupboard members thus do nothing however “reward Donald Trump” throughout these conferences, as has been seen in quite a few cases over the previous yr, and that these “foolish, televised” gatherings have misplaced their whole objective on account of the spectacle.
The MS NOW host went on to play the precise clip of Trump stating Wednesday throughout his Cupboard assembly that he doesn’t “care concerning the midterms,” an admission prompted by a query about his ongoing warfare on Iran and ostensible negotiations to finish the battle.
“They thought they have been going to outwait me, you realize?” Trump mentioned Wednesday. “‘We’ll outwait him. He’s obtained the midterms.’ I don’t care concerning the midterms.”
O’Donnell famous Trump spent “almost 9 minutes” throughout this assembly speaking about his plans to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., which he has been fixated on whereas additionally obsessing about his exorbitant White Home ballroom undertaking.
Trump’s warfare on Iran has already price at the very least 13 U.S. navy service members and greater than 3,000 Iranians their lives, leading to excessive fuel costs and fears of a worldwide vitality disaster. O’Donnell famous that Republican lawmakers look like splitting with Trump.
“Republicans within the Senate and within the Home do care concerning the midterm elections, and so they know Donald Trump will not be serving to them, and so they know nothing is hurting them greater than Donald Trump’s warfare in Iran and the inflation it has brought on on this nation, particularly skyrocketing prices of gasoline and diesel gas,” O’Donnell mentioned.
He continued, “Eighty-three % of voters say fuel costs are going up just a little or lots, and never a single individual has mentioned fuel costs are happening lots — besides Donald Trump, who mentioned that at the moment in his faux Cupboard assembly.”
O’Donnell then performed footage exhibiting Cupboard members fawning over Trump on the assembly, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth praising him for his “sensible” warfare on Iran — and Trump actually patting Hegseth whereas laughingly stating, “He loves warfare.”
“The Cupboard room has by no means reeked of such stupidity and inhumanity earlier than, and it by no means will once more after the Trump presidency,” O’Donnell mentioned.
Watch the complete “Final Phrase” monologue on MS NOW’s YouTube account.