Lawrence O'Donnell

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225 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Dec

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | Trump Keeps Failing, What A Loser! - June 5th, 2025 · 5 Jun 2025 podcast

The stupidest president in American history backed down again.

The only convicted felon to serve as president of the United States backed down again.

The president who got caught publicly lying over 35,000 times in his first term backed down again.

And in backing down again, Donald Trump once again became a loser.

In this case, a loser in a contest that he started, a contest that didn't have to happen were it not for the rank ignorance of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has already lost his trade war and he is relentlessly stupid enough to continue to draw lines in the sand of his trade war that get blown away by his own foul, intemperate breath.

The parties in the House and Senate really aren't doing much else.

Every ounce of energy they have, most of the legislation that they might pass is all rolled up into this reconciliation package.

That includes a lot of the tax cuts for middle and lower class voters that the president campaigned on.

That also includes a lot of the border security components that are broadly popular that he campaigned on.

And so if this thing collapses, the entire Trump agenda collapses, that which he can't do by executive order, and the entire congressional Republican agenda collapses, they risk going to the voters empty-handed next year.

That's a recipe for disaster.

One other thing here, and Republicans have told me that if they were to start from scratch and do this in a way that wasn't going to add to the debt, that would require

actual normal legislating and they'd have to negotiate with Democrats, at least in the Senate where Democrats can filibuster.

And the Republican base would look at that as a complete failure and be really, really upset that they weren't just plowing this stuff through.

So there are a lot of political considerations that are not surprisingly are looming larger in the minds of these Republicans than the fiscal considerations because no voter, finally here, no voters beating on their door complaining about the debt.

They're just not.

They will be.

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