Lawrence O’Donnell Shreds Trump For Talking This 1 Thing Amid Rising Iran War Death Toll | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday laid into President Donald Trump for bragging in regards to the drapes on the White House and telling reporters simply how “beautiful” his new ballroom shall be, whereas staying silent on the rising U.S. dying toll of his warfare on Iran.

“When Donald Trump was speaking lovingly about drapes this afternoon, the publicly announced death toll of American military personnel in Donald Trump’s war was four,” O’Donnell mentioned Monday throughout his opening monologue on “The Last Word.”

“And later today, after Donald Trump was talking about his love of his drapes, that number was raised to six,” he continued. “And Donald Trump has not said a word about those lost lives since that number moved up to six today.”

Critics have broadly mocked Trump over his digression on Monday, the place he acknowledged throughout a White House ceremony for Medal of Honor recipients that he has “always liked gold,” gestured to the curtains within the East Room, and bragged, “I picked those drapes in my first term.”

O’Donnell claimed that Trump was doubtless the “only president in history” who, amid battle, “is talking to the world about drapes that he chose.”

The “Last Word” host went on to play a clip of Trump stating Saturday whereas asserting U.S. strikes on Iran that America “may have casualties” within the warfare, and a clip of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admitting there are “no stupid rules of engagement” within the battle.

“And that means the American military under Donald Trump will be operating under the same no rules of engagement used by Adolf Hitler’s forces in World War II against Americans,” O’Donnell mentioned after the clips concluded.

“Donald Trump and his secretary of defense have both repeatedly referred to what they are doing in Iran as a war, which neither of them seem to understand as a way of emphasizing just how unconstitutional and illegal it is,” he added.

O’Donnell cited former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori in claiming that the battle in Iran is prohibited in each home and worldwide phrases, noting first that the Constitution offers Congress the facility to declare warfare and doesn’t authorize a president to unilaterally achieve this.

He additionally argued that the Trump administration can’t merely invoke the War Powers Resolution of 1973, because it solely permits the president to provoke hostilities if warfare has already been declared or licensed by a particular statute, or if the U.S. itself has been attacked.

The MS NOW host then went on to notice that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the highest Democrat within the Senate Intelligence Committee, recommended after a closed-door briefing Monday with Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the strikes primarily benefitted Israel.

“There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians,” mentioned Warner on the time. “There was a threat to Israel. And if we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.”

O’Donnell argued that the buck on this case nonetheless stops with the U.S. president, including that Trump “did not even attempt” to argue that any of the circumstances to declare warfare have been met earlier than launching U.S. strikes. The information host then claimed that the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini was unlawful, as worldwide regulation “generally prohibits killing heads of state.”

Watch the total “Last Word” monologue on MS NOW’s YouTube account.