Lawrence O’Donnell Rips Trump As No. 1 Prez To ‘Kill More People During Peacetime’ Ever | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday excoriated President Donald Trump for appointing “the most incompetent, ignorant and amoral” officers in White House historical past and managing “to kill more people during peacetime” than each certainly one of his predecessors.

The “Last Word” host started with the administration saying an finish to its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, calling it a “humiliating retreat” and slamming Trump over his dearth of “basic human decency” and “comprehension of the Constitution.”

O’Donnell then launched right into a scorching monologue on Trump’s most polarizing Cabinet members and advisers, together with former head of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Today’s winner of the daily competition for most perverse thing said by a Trump Cabinet member, said — and these are the exact words — quote, ‘I’m not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,’” mentioned O’Donnell with a number of pointed seems into the digicam.

He then famous that it’s sadly “easier than it should be” to guess which Trump official mentioned this, however nonetheless went on to play a clip from comic Theo Von’s newest podcast episode — throughout which Kennedy voluntarily made the admission.

“It would be nice if we could regard something like that as funny,” mentioned O’Donnell. “But he is the sociopath who deliberately steered people to their deaths with his opposition to vaccines, the single greatest advance in the history of medicine.”

He added, “Donald Trump has found more ways to kill more people during peacetime than any president in history. He appoints a madman to be the secretary of health. And then, with Elon Musk’s guidance … takes food away from people in the middle of famine in Africa.”

The Trump administration slashed overseas help by means of USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, leading to some 60,000 metric tonnes of meals left moldering in warehouses world wide.

“He took HIV medicine away from people who need it to survive, medicine that was being delivered in Africa thanks to the initiative of Republican [former] President George W. Bush,” O’Donnell continued. “Donald Trump said no, we don’t want to save those lives.”

The MS NOW host famous that the meals in query was already en path to beleaguered populations when Trump shut the trouble down, making him “the first president in history to deny food to starving people,” and left off with a damning view on America’s trajectory.

“The United States of America has been helping people for 200 years in famine until Donald Trump said, let them die, let them starve to death because Elon Musk wanted them to,” mentioned O’Donnell. “The world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children.”

Watch the complete “Last Word” phase on MS NOW’s YouTube account.