Lawrence O'Donnell

What has happened since he's taken office has been terrifying, I think, for the world and definitely for the United States of America.

Well, I respect their right to do that. I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state and is also best friends and his largest donor was a man who owns and runs the Internet. So I would hope that that would be investigated. The whole Internet?

And that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her. And Donald Trump was not able to do that. So it's curious to me.

And as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country.

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 going to take next week off. And I'm telling you that now because I know you don't like it when I just drift away. Just taking next week off. Then I'm going to come back.

Yep.

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 going to take next week off. And I'm telling you that now because I know you don't like it when I just drift away. Just taking next week off. Then I'm going to come back.

How does this oligarchy affect people out there who've never used the word oligarchy? The people who you're saying might not get a fair shot because of the way this is going.

So his uniquely Trumpian stupidity about farming, because he knows the farmers are going to suffer very quickly on retaliatory tariffs. He said to them, you can just sell your products in the United States.

All of Donald Trump's lifetime and before, the United States of America has produced more food than it can eat. If we eat all day, we cannot eat that food. And the farmer knows, the grain farmers especially, commodity farmers, as you put it, know that they need those foreign markets, which Donald Trump is now cutting off to them. And that buffoon of a president thinks they can just sell it to us.

You know, conspicuously missing from the Trump speech tonight was a promise not to touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. He has done that in interviews whenever challenged.

Very specifically, didn't do it tonight. And the last person to give that speech, which was Joe Biden a year ago, in what was the best State of the Union address I've ever seen, especially because of the quick ad libs. Those ad libs were about that subject. The Republicans in the audience got very upset when Joe Biden said they wanted to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

That's when they started yelling at him. And that's what he made them promise right there, live in the room, that they wouldn't do it. He made the deal with them not to do it. That didn't come up. And What Donald Trump probably doesn't know about Social Security is the only way you can cut Social Security. There's only one way. You have to take money away from recipients.

There is no other use of Social Security money. Medicare, you can cut hospital reimbursement rates. Medicaid, you can cut hospital reimbursement rates. Social Security, it's money you take away from individuals.

Well, let's remember, it's hard to do this in the Trump era, that if any previous president had stood up there and said, we need Greenland, the two people behind him, the vice president and the speaker, would have quickly conferred and rushed that president to the hospital, ended the speech right there. right there with an overt burst of madness by the president at the microphone.

It would have to be an intervention, but not now. What's interesting about the lies tonight is one of his favorites wasn't there. And that is after really intense 48 hours of coverage of tariffs. He did not. Tell the American people the lie tonight that foreign countries pay the tariffs.

CNBC and other outlets have been really educating the voters intensely, you know, over the last couple of days about who pays the tariffs. We had Prime Minister Trudeau say to the American people today, your government chose to do this to you. And so the mystery or the question of who pays the tariffs is over. And people... People now know it. He didn't try to get away with that one.

And the terrorist was the shortest section of the speech. It is the news of the day and the world. And Donald Trump was afraid to talk about his.