Lawrence O'Donnell Humiliates Trump And Shows That He Will Not Be Controlled

Lawrence O'Donnell played the clip of Trump nearly falling while trying to board Air Force One and said that he will not let Trump control what is on his program.

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If Lawrence O’Donnell has a superpower, it is the ability to see through Trump and humiliate the president like no one else in mainstream media.

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Lawrence O’Donnell showed that he will not allow Donald Trump to control the news cycle with distractions like the president’s sending of the National Guard to Los Angeles.

Instead, O’Donnell talked about other things that Trump doesn’t want the American people to know about.

Lawrence O’Donnell said:

 Donald Trump will not like the next hour of news coverage you're about to watch on this program. Donald Trump will not control this program, and that is what Donald Trump has been trying to do this weekend by sending troops to Los Angeles in response to what's actually one of the smallest public and televised protests in Los Angeles history.

There have been protests 100 times larger than this, that never provoked this kind of response. Donald Trump was drowning in the worst media coverage of his return to the presidency. Just last week, going into the weekend with Elon Musk saying Donald Trump should be impeached and the cruelest Republican budget bill in history, in trouble in the United States Senate while the polling on Donald Trump's tariffs is overwhelmingly negative.

Send troops to LA and TV News will follow. We'll, forget about everything else. That's what Donald Trump had to be hoping, and that's what he won't get. In this hour, we will cover what is happening in Los Angeles. The California government's plea in a filing in a federal court tonight says this court should reject the unlawful attempt by Donald Trump to strip away the state's control of its own National Guard for improper and unjustified ends.

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Look at Los Angeles and with TV screens filled with live shots from Los Angeles where nothing is happening right now. You could easily miss the video of Donald Trump stumbling as he went up the stairs yesterday to Air Force One. That's the thing Donald Trump doesn't want you to see more than any other video that could possibly occupy your television screen tonight.

I would not be drawing any attention at all to a 78-year-old man or a 28-year-old man stumbling on stairs were it not for the deranged obsession, Donald Trump and some in the news media had for Joe Biden once stumbling on those same stairs, going to that same airplane. We've all stumbled at some point, we all will.

Again, it is not news, but Donald Trump and much of the news media weaponized that kind of image against Joe Biden as they never had before in the history of American news coverage of stumbling, which is a very tiny body of news coverage because stumbling was never news before Joe Biden was president.

By the time Donald Trump stumbled on the stairs, he had already ordered 2,000 California National Guard troops into action in Los Angeles or inaction. But hearing that, that might not be enough to keep suppressing the Trump stumbling video, Donald Trump has now tonight ordered the movement of 700 Marines in California for deployment in Los Angeles.

That is 700 Marines. Out of the 57,000 Marines stationed in the state of California permanently, and those 700 Marines have absolutely nothing to do in Los Angeles tonight, but their movements will help suppress news attention to the video of the 78-year-old man stumbling on those airplane steps. The Trump stumble video will never be seen.

On the news network that ran the Biden stumble video constantly on a loop, they firmly believe that a video of the president stumbling on steps. They believed that then they believed that that was proof that a person was not capable of being president if that person was Joe Biden.

Here is the video that if it happened to Joe Biden, the media would called a sign of cognitive decline and a disqualifying event:

PoliticusUSA wrote about Trump’s stumbling decline, but precious few others did, because when it is Joe Biden a bike accident or a stumble are cognitive decline. When it is Donald Trump, the corporate press looks the other way.

Lawrence O’Donnell will not be controlled, and neither will we.

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