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Lawrence O’Donnell Touts His Accurate Prediction Trump’s ‘Fake Campaign’ Would End Today

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Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t want to say “I told you so,” but given that he has the videotape to prove it, he certainly is entitled to the statement. O’Donnell has been a persistent critic of Donald Trump, and today with Trump’s announcement that he chose Celebrity Apprentice over becoming a candidate, O’Donnell unleashed a stinging critique not just of Trump, but of all political pundits who ever took Trump seriously.

O’Donnell declared that “Donald Trump lied many, many times” and the lie most readily apparent is how Trump repeatedly said he would announce whether he was running for President after the season of Celebrity Apprentice ended. Instead, as O’Donnell predicted, Trump was forced to make his announcement today, at the time and place of NBC’s choosing. O’Donnell concluded, “and so the most monstrous publicity stunt in the history of ego-maniacal TV performer publicity stunts ends with this whimper.”

Yet O’Donnell wasn’t done, given that this “fake campaign” was, in his opinion, a “fraud perpetuated” on journalists and political observers, O’Donnell wanted to explain Trump’s madness:

“He is not self-aware enough or smart enough to be humiliated by anything. He is and always has been a vulgarian who doesn’t have even the vaguest notion of the boundaries of taste and decency.”

That should make for some awkward conversation if Trump and O’Donnell ever bump into one another at the NBC holiday party. Finally O’Donnell suggested that this story was the the “first intelligence test” of the campaign season and warned viewers that they should stop watching or listening to anyone who even for a moment considered Trump to be a serious candidate.

Although O’Donnell shouldn’t be too quick to celebrate that this will be his final segment on Trump. Not only was Trump a great target for O’Donnell’s impassioned arguments, but it also demonstrated his willingness to take on his own employer if the story justified it and his intellectual sophistication in being able to separate himself from the pack of other commentators who were indeed buying whatever it was that Trump was selling.

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  • Jaurez

    It was a hoot watching Trump tweak the liberal media. ;)

  • cjd ohio 1

    i love it when odonnell knew trump was not serious, thats why you covered him everyday larry

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kathryn-Scaglione/512022662 Kathryn Scaglione

    Why shouldn’t he gloat? All the other ‘journalists’ engaged in his racism. Ya’ll should be ashamed for engaging with this bigot and letting him BULLY each and every one of you. Real journalism is DEAD.

    http://politikasm.wordpress.com/

  • Barack Must Go

    What a fraud this guy is.

  • Glackin

    As LOD said at the beginning of the show, HE TOLD YOU SO!
    He named the date and the outcome.
    And of course he covered it.
    Everybody likes to watch a train wreck.

  • timzank

    Uhhh Larry, YOU believed him and covered him 24-7 unmercifully. Can Larry’s fans be so stupid they still don’t see what a waste of socialist skin he is?

    Sackless little ninny with expensive socks.

  • Azarkhan

    Lawrence O’Donnell, a veritable Nostradamus.

  • Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    What a fraud this guy is.

    Fraud? Aren’t you the clown who said last week that Trump would beat Obama?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Glackin said:
    Everybody likes to watch a train wreck.

    Just you , Glackin for brains .

  • Dem4Ever

    Breacking News:

    Donald Trump was just informed by Mediaite that Larry O’donnel predicted he would not run for president.  Mr. Trump was quoted as saying, “Who’s Larry O’donnel?”

  • timzank

    It’s actually hilarious, Trump pulled Larry’s (and all the socialists) strings and made them “wet” themselves for weeks. All the rest of us knew he was never going to run, of course we don’t base every waking decision on pure emotion like liberals do.

    Trump gotcha all. Priceless!

  • Glackin

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Just you , Glackin for brains .

    Don’t remember, “All OJ, all the time?” Or, “The pedophilia trial of Michael Jackson.”?

  • Jaurez

    Glackin said:
    Everybody likes to watch a train wreck.

    You’ve said the same thing under all of your names and it’s getting old…

  • Barack Must Go

    Glackin said:
    Fraud? Aren’t you the clown who said last week that Trump would beat Obama?

    Dropping out of the race does not guarantee Trump has given up the fight, although I really thought he would go all the way to the general and beat Obama.

    Now he will be free to kick him to the curb over all of Barack’s other flaws without having to worry about running.

    It’s a win, win for the ” real ” American people.

  • winning

    Wow, and here we were thinking Trump was serious about running. Boy, this O’Donnell guy is like Kreskin or something!

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Jaurez said:
    It was a hoot watching Trump tweak the liberal media. ;)

    You mean be a racist slob for a month and take away attention from legitimate candidates for the GOP ticket.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Trump is a better carnival barker than a politician anyways!!
    He knows how to get under our thin skinned community organizer!!

  • timzank

    RhapsodyinBlue said:
    You mean be a racist slob for a month and take away attention from legitimate candidates for the GOP ticket.

    He didn’t take away anything from the other “candidates” but he sure did occupy the Obama Press Army now didn’t he?

    Too funny.

  • Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    Dropping out of the race does not guarantee Trump has given up the fight, although I really thought he would go all the way to the general and beat Obama.

    Now he will be free to kick him to the curb over all of Barack’s other flaws without having to worry about running.

    It’s a win, win for the ” real ” American people.

    Chubby Checker would blush at moves like yours.

  • Glackin

    timzank said:
    He didn’t take away anything from the other “candidates” but he sure did occupy the Obama Press Army now didn’t he?

    Too funny.

    Yeah, EVERYBODY watched that debate in SC with Cain & whoever. TimPawho? “Don’t Google me, please!” Santorum?

  • Gasket

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Trump is a better carnival barker than a politician anyways!!
    He knows how to get under our thin skinned community organizer!!

    Was that before or after he got completely disemboweled at the correspondent’s dinner a few weeks ago? Not too shabby of a community organizer that you use his own words to describe yourself.

  • Jaurez

    Barack Must Go said:
    Now he will be free to kick him to the curb over all of Barack’s other flaws without having to worry about running.

    Where’s the grades? Where’s the thesis? Why a phony ss#?

  • CAINtheBULL

    Lawrence is always over the top but he was saying this from the beginning so I have to give him some credit.

  • timzank

    Gasket said:
    Was that before or after he got completely disemboweled at the correspondent’s dinner a few weeks ago? Not too shabby of a community organizer that you use his own words to describe yourself.

    You think it’s difficult to read lines written for you to make of fun of somebody at an event? Not to mention how Presidential it looks, the leader of the free world and all. Obama is just plain tacky, every bit as Tacky as Trump, that’s the kicker.

    President Smartazz, I’m soooo proud. Surprised he didn’t give the one finger face scratch again. Proof once again all the money and power in the world won’t take the “jack” outta ya. Rich and powerful trash is still just trash. 2012 is time to take out the trash.

  • winning

    Gasket said:
    Was that before or after he got completely disemboweled at the correspondent’s dinner a few weeks ago?

    Yeah, that was sure presidential, wasn’t it? Sorta like the time he gave the British PM a bunch of DVD’s he can’t play in Europe. :) This guy would be an embarrassment as mayor of BF, Egypt.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    Mediaite and its right wing lackeys hat the fact that Lawrence O’Donnell was 100% right about Trump.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    timzank said:
    He didn’t take away anything from the other “candidates” but he sure did occupy the Obama Press Army now didn’t he?

    Too funny.

    Yeah, an entire month leading up to the first debate means absolutely nothing, Trump was the face of the GOP for an entire month and nothing was heard from any of the other candidates. He hijacked the party and all the headlines, Obama loved it, he fired at will at that big bozo whenever he got the chance.

  • timzank

    RhapsodyinBlue said:
    Yeah, an entire month leading up to the first debate means absolutely nothing, Trump was the face of the GOP for an entire month and nothing was heard from any of the other candidates. He hijacked the party and all the headlines, Obama loved it, he fired at will at that big bozo whenever he got the chance.

    His gum flapping forced Obozo to cough up that BC, which was well worth the price of admission and the only “firing at will” The Chicago Jesus did was reading the teleprompter at a press dinner using jokes provided for him. Yeah, Barry sure won that round, heh…

    Trump didn’t hurt the Republicans at all, in reality (pun intended) he helped them by making Teh One scramble and respond.

    I’ll have to send him a thank you card.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    timzank said:
    His gum flapping forced Obozo to cough up that BC, which was well worth the price of admission and the only “firing at will” The Chicago Jesus did was reading the teleprompter at a press dinner using jokes provided for him. Yeah, Barry sure won that round, heh…

    Trump didn’t hurt the Republicans at all, in reality (pun intended) he helped them by making Teh One scramble and respond.

    I’ll have to send him a thank you card.

    While he killed Bin Laden and made a fool of Trump right to his face. .How naive can you be. Ideology is for the weak minded. You are blinded to the fact that Obama was governing the country. When it was time he swatted Trump away like the nat he was and the fools that listened to his imbecilic rhetoric.

  • da-wdc

    He is and always has been a vulgarian who doesn’t have even the vaguest notion of the boundaries of taste and decency.

    O’Donnell is so entertaining. Who else would take a job hosting a cable news show and turn around and repeatedly (and accurately, of course) attack someone else for being a “vulgarian”? He’lll always hate Bill Clinton, no matter how much they might agree on policy, because he thinks Clinton’s a vulgarian too.

  • timzank

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    While he killed Bin Laden and made a fool of Trump right to his face. .How naive can you be. Ideology is for the weak minded. You are blinded to the fact that Obama was governing the country. When it was time he swatted Trump away like the nat he was and the fools that listened to his imbecilic rhetoric.

    You can keep clinging to that Barack is a Superhero thing but it’s kind of embarassing for grownups. Chicago Jesus just happened to be in office when our intelligence sources caught up to UBL, blind luck for Barry and the bounce is gone in the polls now anyway.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    Mediaite by the way selectively edited Lawrence O’Donnell’s comments. Watch the full from the “Last Word”. The whole segment was fabulous but Mediaite did not want to publish the whole segment. Here it is. There coverage and headline here is a gross distortion of what was actually presented on the show, typical of the right wing media.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#43054672

  • Resistance Is Futile

    Good Mediaite added the rest of the segment!,

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    A lot of people knew Trump wouldn’t run including me. We knew it before O’Donnell. O’Reilly fell for it and now he owes somebody a dinner. I forgot who made the bet, does anyone remember? O’Reilly is falling for the Romney is the front runner nonsense too.
    The libs here are idiots. They can’t see the obvious. Obama can’t win next year against Miss Piggy.

  • IIWII

    It was only a “fake” campaign for those who bit… hook, line….sinker… enjoy your meal, Lefties.

  • Glackin

    Why didn’t you tell us you were running?

  • dougx

    Who cares and by the way, why doesn’t “Lawrence” go by “Larry”. Whatever happened to “Larry”?

  • joe7

    Out of curiosity who gets nbc higher ratings O’Donnell or Trump?

  • rushlimbang

    Lawrence might have been right but he told us so in the most condescending way possible. It is not as if other people notably Glenn Beck didn’t the same thing.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    timzank said:
    His gum flapping forced Obozo to cough up that BC,

    You are seriously delusional if you believe this, like falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland delusional

  • JasonMays

    RhapsodyinBlue said:
    You are seriously delusional if you believe this, like falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland delusional

    I can’t stand Donald Trump, and he’s far from a Conservative, but he absolutely did force the BC issue on Obama.

    Not being a birther myself, i’m glad it happened, because that whole issue was a distraction from the terrible job Obama is doing.

    There are a million reasons not to like the President, but his birthplace is not one of them.

  • WildMan

    Lawrence O’Donnell is incapable of discussing adult topics. He seems to have a below 100 IQ and thus can only deal with one subject at a time for weeks on end. And it is always a subject/topic that nobody gives a damn about. Is it any wonder that LSDnbc has such low (bottom dwelling) ratings. PMSnbc is nothing more than a joke…PERIOD.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    JasonMays said:
    I can’t stand Donald Trump, and he’s far from a Conservative, but he absolutely did force the BC issue on Obama.

    Not being a birther myself, i’m glad it happened, because that whole issue was a distraction from the terrible job Obama is doing.

    There are a million reasons not to like the President, but his birthplace is not one of them.

    Nice to see the Cheshire Cat has joined the Mad Hatter in this debate

  • Nacho

    gordonbloyershow said:
    A lot of people knew Trump wouldn’t run including me. We knew it before O’Donnell. O’Reilly fell for it and now he owes somebody a dinner. I forgot who made the bet, does anyone remember? O’Reilly is falling for the Romney is the front runner nonsense too.
    The libs here are idiots. They can’t see the obvious. Obama can’t win next year against Miss Piggy.

    How about that ground zero mosque? It is currently a fully functioning mosque that you said would never happen.

    Why do you attempt to make matter of fact predictions? Does it make you feel like Rush? You are always so wrong and out of touch with reality and “real America,” it’s just sad.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    lol@ you stupid ass wingnuts who spent months riding trumps jock suddenly giving trump to Obama when he quit on ya…this whole episode just shows how ignorant you righties and your media handlers are….hey and why is it that your california republicans love sticking it to the hired help so much….yall love yall some mexicans dont ya???….they make the bed up after you screw em on it…..sickos

  • ProObamaAgenda

    gordonbloyershow said:
    A lot of people knew Trump wouldn’t run including me. We knew it before O’Donnell. O’Reilly fell for it and now he owes somebody a dinner. I forgot who made the bet, does anyone remember? O’Reilly is falling for the Romney is the front runner nonsense too.The libs here are idiots. They can’t see the obvious. Obama can’t win next year against Miss Piggy.

    stop lying wingnut….trump had your bitch ass measuring windows for new oval office drapes and you know it….you freaks run from your positions everytime and have no problem at all with lying about it

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    You were correct, Larry, but for most of us Trump was nothing more than an amusing diversion presented to us by those zany Republicans. Few people outside Lard Limbaugh and Michelle in Utah and the potential Republican primary voters who anointed Trump #1 or #2 ever thought this was going any place.

    Newt/Mitt ’12!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    About two weeks ago this Earless Idiot, O’Donnell went into a 20 Minute
    rant, on his Low Rated Show, accussing Trump of being a racist (what else is new on MSNBC)
    and demanding an answer from NBC “before” the show was over regarding the status of
    “Celebrity Apprentice” for the upcoming Season.
    Crazy Larry was stating loud in clear, that if the Apprentice was re-newed, NBC, his employer
    was condoning Racisim.
    “Apprentice” has just been renewed for three years.
    Mediaite, can we count on you to keep us informed as the the actions NBC is
    planning for Mr. O’Donnell’s future employment?
    Thanking you in advance.
    Jim

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  • gottosay

    Trump will forever be the man of the deal he will do whatever necessary to make money even when its making a colossal fool out of himself and his family…

    However, this time Trump created an image of a little man with consideration of the effect his actions had on this nation…of course our president had more on his plate or more to do than worry about the foolish acts of a selfish man.

    Just think our president was joking with the Trump I think while preparing for the killing of americas most wanted and worlds’ most terrible ..now that is scary

    Trump support for any candidate should be return with a thanks but no thanks

  • Pablo

    Nacho said:
    How about that ground zero mosque? It is currently a fully functioning mosque that you said would never happen.

    Huh? Since when?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Nacho said:
    How about that ground zero mosque? It is currently a fully functioning mosque that you said would never happen. Why do you attempt to make matter of fact predictions? Does it make you feel like Rush? You are always so wrong and out of touch with reality and “real America,” it’s just sad.

    You must be smoking those funny cigs. The mosque that was talked about does NOT exsist and NEVER will like YOU said it would. The mosque you are talking about was there all the time.
    Why do you think you can fool everyone here when they know the truth? You are not that good of a liar. Now go back to your video games.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    stop lying wingnut….trump had your bitch ass measuring windows for new oval office drapes and you know it….you freaks run from your positions everytime and have no problem at all with lying about it

    If you had a brain you would be dangerous. I have been promoting Daniels for months. Trump was a joke. I liked the way he attacked Obama and how he made you loons go crazy. You should file a lawsuit against the school that gave you a diploma, it is obvious that you can not read.

  • Color Me Badd

    You may not like Lawrence, even I don’t like him all the time. But there is no denying that he knows politics better than any host on cable news. The end.

  • notsofast

    Now, Larry, if only your fake TV show would end.

  • Barack Must Go

    Jaurez said:
    Where’s the grades? Where’s the thesis? Why a phony ss#?

    That’s right. They’re shrewed these lefties. Our military kills one high ranking foreign terrorist and presto…..chango Barack isn’t America’s biggest security risk since the Cuban Missle Crisis all of a sudden.

  • Barack Must Go

    Glackin said:
    Chubby Checker would blush at moves like yours.

    Hey, is that him in your pocket….or are you just …….

  • Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    Hey, is that him in your pocket….or are you just …….

    Nah, were I gay, you’d still be an instant soft-off.
    Go bump your rocks with nutsofast (the one’s in your heads, of course).
    He’s the girlie for you.

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