A mere minutes after Donald Trump had gone through the many, many ways he thought Rick Santorum was a loser on Fox News, over at MSNBC, he found himself on the receiving end of the same. It is no big secret that Lawrence O’Donnell isn’t a huge fan of Trump, but what may be news delivered by O’Donnell is his belief that Mitt Romney, Trump’s candidate in the Republican primary, thinks Trump is “a buffoon, and unconfirmable joke, America’s biggest loser.”

Like many people, Lawrence O’Donnell expressed his disgust today at a Republican ad by candidate Pete Hoekstra depicting a Chinese woman thanking his congressional opponent for making China strong. O’Donnell did not bother too much with attacking Hoekstra or the Republicans, however, and instead went after the young actress in the ad, calling for actors to take a vow of “simple decency” and boycott these ads.

Lawrence O’Donnell fiercely lambasted Donald Trump‘s endorsement of Mitt Romney on Thursday night’s edition of The Last Word. “Every single word that Donald Trump says publicly, every word, is designed to get attention to him so that he can pump up the ratings of his TV show,” O’Donnell jabbed. “…Because unlike Mitt Romney, Donald Trump still has to work for a living, and he so desperately needs the couple of million dollars that he makes on TV that he must spend his life promoting his show…

On Thursday, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and his guests discussed the “Finger of Fury” Arizona governor Jan Brewer gave President Barack Obama after greeting him on a tarmac this week. Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell called Brewer’s move “impolite,” noting that Brewer didn’t have to accept the invitation to meet him in the first place. But, “if you’re there, you treat the President with respect; you don’t point a finger in his face.” If you’re angry with him or need to hash something out, he continued, do it inside.

On Thursday night’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell discussed the recent fortunes of former House Speaker Newton Leroy Gingrich with panelists Goldie Taylor and Touré, and in addition to providing fresh insight into Newt’s newly-resurfaced extramarital history and racial politicking, they also managed to sneak in a few Star Wars references. Goldie likened Newt’s supporters to “stormtroopers,” while Touré compared Gingrich to Jabba The Hutt.

When you think open marriage, you think comedian D. L. Hughley, right? The actor paid a visit to MSNBC’s The Last Word on Thursday to weigh in South Carolina’s possible reaction to the claim that former Speaker Newt Gingrich asked his ex-wife, Marianne, for an open marriage. Host Lawrence O’Donnell opened the segment by noting that the American South has both a higher marriage and divorce rate than in the North, and that Southerners consume more porn.

Today, parent groups and fundamentalists are condemning ABC’s Modern Family. Why? Because every single episode is basically identical, they’ve ruined Julie Bowen’s character, it’s a show that uses ridiculously hoary cliches and tries to disguise them with the ridiculously lazy “mocumentary” structure, and it hogs every single television award when actually innovative comedy shows get nothing. Oh, wait. Those are just the reasons people should be condemning Modern Family. No, these groups are just ticked off because, last night, the show did the whole “a young child learns a dirty word and can’t stop saying it” storyline you’ve seen in every single sitcom ever and these people still think four letter words have the ability to conjure up the devil or something. Fortunately, Lawrence O’Donnell, a self-proclaimed “profane person,” is here to defend the show’s (bleeped out) curse words as well as curse words as a whole.

Is Stephen Colbert‘s satirical presidential run in South Carolina a veiled slap at Mitt Romney? MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell spoke with former Clinton Administration staffer Robert Reich on The Last Call, and examined the mischievous late-night host’s modus operandi.

During a panel discussion on Morning Joe Tuesday, Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell was asked about Newt Gingrich going after Mitt Romney for his Bain Capital connection. O’Donnell suggested he should check the New York Times to see what they were saying. He promptly lifted up the paper, held it up to pretend he was reading it, and showed off a bright yellow back-page ad that touted MSNBC’s ratings win over CNN.

Meghan McCain is a person who gets paid to think and say intelligent things about politics on cable news. The daughter of Sen. John McCain, who before joining MSNBC was famous for tweeting a provocative photo of her breasts, joined Lawrence O’Donnell last night to discuss her father’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. Other than stating the obvious about Romney (“[his sons] are just perfect and beautiful”) she took the time to call someone else a “moron”– namely, Rick Santorum who, had Sen. McCain endorsed him, “I mean, I’d be, like, slitting my wrists” over it.

Things got a little bit heated during MSNBC’s Iowa Caucus coverage Tuesday night when The Ed Show host Ed Schultz and The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell sparred over surging candidate Rick Santorum‘s tax repatriation plan, and whether it constitutes a “manufacturing plan.”

The exchange was heated, but brief, as co-anchor Rachel Maddow comically saved the day with the cheery declatarion, “Look! It’s Rick Perry!”

With the results of the Iowa caucuses still to close to call in a seriously difficult to pin down three-way race, the fate of one of those candidates’ supporters was on Rachel Maddow‘s mind tonight as it became increasingly clear that either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum would take the state: Rep. Ron Paul‘s. Why, Maddow asked, did no other candidate try to lure in Rep. Paul’s supporters? After all, “Ron Paul voters are human beings, too!”

Rep. Barney Frank may find the 2012 Republican primary as wildly entertaining as most anyone else following the campaigns has, but he is still a little worried that the Democrats may suffer from this. This he told Lawrence O’Donnell on tonight’s The Last Word, where he explained that part of the blame for close-minded political rhetoric was voter demand, and that Democratic desire to cooperate has led to more gridlock in Congress.

Thursday night, Lawrence O’Donnellbrought up a Los Angeles primary ballot measure — a possible law that would require porn stars to wear condoms while filming in Los Angeles — and found a way to work in the GOP field of candidates, suggesting that the two groups were similar in not wanting to be burdened with any more regulations.

Tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell dedicated a segment to correcting Newt Gingrich‘s misconceptions. Not a surprising development, except for the fact that the misconception in dispute was that Gingrich considered his commercial with Rep. Nancy Pelosi the most foolish thing he had done in recent years. O’Donnell disagreed, turning to another video encounter in Gingrich’s past: his interview with Sacha Baron Cohen character Ali G.

During his last week before vacation, Jon Stewart sat down the Republican Party and staged an intervention to get them to realize just how terrible nominating Newt Gingrich would be for their party. He may have been doing the GOP a favor, but Lawrence O’Donnell tonight had to stage his own intervention with Stewart to remind him of a very salient point: Newt Gingrich makes for great comedy.

Lawrence O’Donnell never thought the proposed Donald Trump-moderated debate would be anything but an “embarrassment.” The News that Trump has only two candidates on board for the event, then– Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum– and that Trump has taken to calling the debate a “chat” are music to his ears. On his “Rewrite” segment tonight, O’Donnell explained how Trump’s media appearances today were part of a “humiliation tour.”

MSNBC’s new info blog listed a couple of job postings today. Both wanted candidates to have strong knowledge of progressive news. The very idea that MSNBC is looking for political editors whose knowledge of progressive news matters, but knowledge of conservative news apparently does not matter, seems to run entirely counter to what NBC News professes to be about.

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell brought on Massachusetts senatorial candidate and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren to discuss reaction to her ongoing campaign.

O’Donnell kicked things off by pointing out a recent attack ad against Warren that attempted to cast a negative light on her role as an Ivy League professor. “You know, all I can say is ‘yeah, I have a job at Harvard,’” she responded. “But I ‘wasn’t’ born at Harvard.”

In last night’s Last Word, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell acted as a character witness for embattled actor Alec Baldwin, who has found himself in the news after being kicked off an American Airlines flight for allegedly exhibiting “extremely rude” behavior after being asked to stop playing a game on his iPad. O’Donnell made clear to his audience that he didn’t know what really happened with Baldwin, but he did claim that he sat next to Baldwin on a flight to Los Angeles the Friday before, and found him to be a delight.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell presented viewers to the “new and desperate Mitt Romney,” a Mitt Romney who is making himself more available to the media in the wake of former Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s rise in the polls.

The last time Donald Trump was a relevant political actor in the news cycle, it took a little longer than for most commentators for Lawrence O’Donnell to let go. Now that he’s back, O’Donnell began today’s episode of The Last Word with a thorough excoriation of Trump, Newt Gingrich for meeting with him, and a post-mortem with Chuck Todd on his Trump interview this morning.

On MSNBC’s The Last Call Wednesday night, Lawrence O’Donnell gave props to Stephen Colbert for sticking by former Godfather Pizza CEO and scandal-beleaguered presidential candidate Herman Cain, despite everyone else turning their backs on him. “Even Fox News has rewritten its position on Herman Cain from the ‘women are all lying’ to ‘when are you gonna drop out?’ There is only one Herman Cain true believer left in the political media — Stephen Colbert — the right-wing reactionary played by Stephen Colbert, the actor, refuses to give up on his dream of a Cain presidency and he is still trying to show Cain how to rewrite his troubles to his advantage.”

Judging from today’s headlines, Herman Cain has some serious explaining to do to his wife, Gloria, as yet another women has come out publicly alleging an affair with the Republican presidential candidate. It was the top story on tonight’s Last Word, and Lawrence O’Donnell noted that there was much Cain had to apologize to his wife for. But the affairs were low on the totem poll for O’Donnell, who recalled a comment by Cain that black voters who registered Democrat were “brainwashed” into doing so. It turns out Gloria Cain is a Democrat, and likely voted for Obama in 2008.

On Wednesday night’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell set his sights on recent campaign ads by Rick Perry and, to a larger extent, Mitt Romney with regards to an out-of-context statements from President Obama… and on how the media has treated these.