Lawrence O’Donnell: Right to Wonder Today if There’s ‘Something Wrong’ with ‘The President’s Mind’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tonight brought on a psychiatrist to talk about President Donald Trump‘s state of mind after several comments made by POTUS.
“Things got stranger than usual with the president today,” O’Donnell said. “He said things for which there is no easy explanation. He said his father wasn’t born in the United States. His father was born in New York. Usually with a Trump lie you can easily figure out what he’s trying to accomplish with the lie, but not today. The president struggled to pronounce a very simple word and he repeatedly could not do it. What does that mean? We have grown accustomed to the vagaries and strangeness of Donald Trump’s public behavior, but this was a day where the strangest strangeness dominated both the strangeness of the policy positions and the strangeness of the president’s public behavior and public words.”
He showed comments Trump made at a Republican fundraiser tonight riffing on the idea of “a normal president” being “a stiff,’ saying at one point, “I don’t want to say that negatively, I think I’m very normal.”
“How often do you hear a normal person say I think I’m very normal?” O’Donnell asked.
He brought up Trump incorrectly saying his father was born in Germany and saying “oranges” instead of “origins” today.
“Watching the president today,” O’Donnell said, “you had a right to wonder whether the president simply likes to exaggerate how much we spend on defense or actually cannot learn the real number of what we spend on defense. You had a right to wonder today if there’s something wrong with the workings of the president’s mind, especially if you watched him repeatedly struggle to say the word ‘origin.'”
After showing the “oranges” clip, O’Donnell asked, “What is that? What was happening to the President of the United States today?”
O’Donnell’s subsequent panel even included a psychiatrist he asked about the president’s comments and what they say about him.
You can watch the segment above, via MSNBC.
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