Lawrence O'Donnell

Fun fact about Trump tariffs you won’t see in 99% of the reporting:

Trump tariffs are illegal.

Congress controls tariffs just like tax rates.

President can change a tariff only for national security emergency, meaning war.

TV audience for Inaugurations

Biden 40 million

Trump 38 million 2017

Trump 34 million 2025

There is a distinct possibility Trump will lie about this.

This is what not giving up looks like.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it.

Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.

This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."

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Trump's Treasury Secretary is the first to commit an impeachable offense. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

“All politics is local.” Tip O’Neill

They found a “fool” to sign the dismissal motion.

"Your government has chosen to do this to you."

- Trudeau to Americans today

Stupidest AG in history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

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Coverage of Trump "cognitive decline" has finally begun including the word "insane."
www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Bizarre 51st State Obsession is Starting to Look Like Evidence of Cognitive Decline

Trump's bizarre obsession with insisting that Canada become the "51st State" has pivoted from trollish trash talk to something in which he seems to believe.

A common theme at today’s protest in Santa Monica

I did this identical post on twitter, threads & Bluesky. Only Zuckerberg’s threads warned me not to use such a mean word to describe Trump.

Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social

So gratifying to see the word I’ve used for Trump for 14 yrs finally gain currency. Trump is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

Opinion | Trump and Stupidity

I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs.

Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm

Cognitive decline? What if Biden said “the thing you carry the babies around in”?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump on strollers: "All costs are down. Everything is down other than the thing you carry the babies around in."

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The story is not about Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen.

The story is about Trump’s mental health.

Any other president would be rushed to the hospital after saying this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."

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Nothing said by Trump & Musk in the Oval is true.

They don’t have any proof of what they said.

Mexico & Canada did literally nothing to stop the Trump tariffs.

The stock market stopped the tariffs as Wall Street always assumed it would.

Trump closed the Kennedy Library.

DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social

The JFK Library and Museum in #Dorchester announced that it is "temporarily closed until further notice" — sources tell @dotnews.bsky.social it's due to an Trump executive order impacting federal probationary workers

So gratifying to see the word I’ve used for Trump for 14 yrs finally gain currency.
Trump is stupid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

Opinion | Trump and Stupidity

I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

Caroline Kennedy invoked her father JFK & her uncle RFK saying they would be “disgusted” by RFKjr nomination.

Tonight 10pm @lastword.msnbc.com

The most despicably racist public statement of our lifetimes came from the perverted mind of RFKjr who said “every black kid” should be taken away from every black parent by government and “re-parented.” Listen to him say it & hear the sound of American Nazi madness.

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: RFK Jr. lied to Congress when he denied saying ‘every Black kid’ should be ‘re-parented’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_u...

No one humiliates Trump better than Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: We have our trade deals. All we have to do is send a letter and tell them how much they have to pay. (That’s not a deal)

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Donny 2 Dolls

His Sopranos character name

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

sometimes you do have to hand it to them