Lawrence O'Donnell Slams The White House Press For Double Standard On Trump

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell slammed the White House Press Corps for their double standard and sweetheart treatment of Donald Trump.

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The White Press Corps Suddenly Remembers How To Be Civil

It was as if a switch flipped at 12:01 PM on January 20, 2025. The people were the same, but the behavior was entirely different. The same group that had acted like wild animals while screaming questions at the White House Press Secretary about their false belief that Joe Biden had hidden his mental decline were suddenly meek little kittens in the presence of Donald Trump.

In the flurry of activity, it would have been easy to miss, but MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell spotted it. After playing clips of White House reporters screaming at Joe Biden, O’Donnell said:

 The White House Press Corps never dared to do that to Donald Trump. The first time Donald Trump was in the White House, and they will not dare. to do that to Donald Trump this time, no matter how outrageous Donald Trump is being right before their very eyes, like trying to repeal a sentence in the Constitution by himself.

Donald Trump took an oath at noontime today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and not one reporter in that room tonight asked him. If he just violated that oath by trying to remove these words from the Constitution, all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States.

So the substance of what reporters will call a press conference by Donald Trump was horrible. Horrible on both sides. Tonight, the Trump side and the press corps side, but stylistically, it was actually the way it always should be. It should always be a calm Discussion among adults when a president speaks to reporters in any forum anywhere.

It should never be screaming, But it only works that way, the calm adult way for one occupant of the White House, Donald Trump. And the White House Press Corps seems completely oblivious and unembarrassed by this double standard for which Donald Trump is the unique beneficiary. The next president will not get the Trump treatment by the White House Press Corps.

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There it is. A side-by-side comparison of how the same group of reporters treated two presidents very differently. Why did they do this, and what does it mean for our nation?