MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Lashes Out at ‘Insane’ Trump in Blistering Rant Calling for His Removal: ‘Trump Has Lost His Mind!’
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell went off on “insane” President Donald Trump in a blistering rant calling for his removal from office under the 25th Amendment.
Trump followed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to military leaders Tuesday morning with a lengthy speech that featured several bonkers moments and characteristic deviations — as well as a lot of talk about “enemies” within the United States.
On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell declared that Trump “has lost his mind” and repeatedly invoked the removal clause while suggesting Vice President JD Vance is getting ready to step in:
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: It sure looked like 25th Amendment day in the White House today, where Donald Trump was not publicly visible, and the vice president of the United States took to the microphone on day one of the government shutdown to basically assure the country, I guess, that he’s in charge. And very specifically and deliberately to draw attention to Donald Trump’s public insanity by actively seeking out an opportunity to talk publicly about Donald Trump’s manifestations of outright insanity.
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VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: On the sombrero thing. I mean, Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that. And I honestly don`t even know what that means.
Like is he a Mexican American that is offended by having a sombrero meme? I mean, I saw one of the major TV stations put the meme up and then say, this is A.I. generated.
And he had like the curly animated mustache to it`s like, do the American people – – do you really not realize the American people recognize that he did not actually come to the White House wearing a sombrero and a black, curly animation mustache.
Like, give the country a little bit of credit. We`re all trying to do a very important job for the American people. The president of United States likes to have a little bit of fun when he`s doing it, and I think that`s okay. (END VIDEO CLIP)
O`DONNELL: Of course, he thinks it`s okay. James David Vance wants to start publicly acting as president as soon as possible, as he did today when Donald Trump was totally invisible, perhaps slumped over in exhaustion, too weak from yesterday`s exertion of giving a speech to slather on his homemade orange makeup, and to think of something to say to the American people about why he shut down the government. Donald Trump was incapable of doing that today.
And so, JD Vance jumped forward. Why did JD Vance and every Republican in Washington, why are they in favor of taking health insurance away from Americans and only from Americans?
Donald Trump didn`t even have the energy today to lie again about Democrats trying to provide health insurance for undocumented immigrants. That is a lie. Donald Trump thinks that that lie is brilliantly underlined by him tacking mariachi music and sombreros onto videos of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, and the vice president thinks it’s funny.
But he hasn’t explained the joke. In all that explaining he was trying to do of whatever it is Donald Trump is doing with those videos. JD Vance could not explain the joke. Jokes never have to be explained.
JD Vance had to explain that one and couldn`t because it`s not a joke. There`s nothing funny about it. The president has lost his mind. That is the clearest explanation for what Donald Trump is doing in his social media posting. He`s lost his mind.
John David — James David Vance says Donald Trump likes to have a little bit of fun while he is working. That is not an explanation for anything, because we know Donald Trump is not working, and we know Donald Trump has no sense of humor.
And we know what they all — what they all would have said, what they would all be screaming if Joe Biden had ever done anything like what Donald Trump has done this week, and what Donald Trump does every week and every day
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Last Word.
