Lawrence O’Donnell Spots Appalling New Way Trump Has Found ‘To Dishonor’ U.S. War Dead | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday continued railing in opposition to President Donald Trump and his “nonsensical” proclamations on the Iran battle, arguing he has additionally discovered yet one more new means “to dishonor” the seven U.S. navy service members who’ve died in it.

“When Donald Trump started his war, he called it a war,” O’Donnell stated Monday.

The “Last Word” host continued, “He called it a war multiple times and that is what it is. Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense [Pete Hegseth] also called it a war when the war began, which he especially loved doing since he falsely calls himself the Secretary of War.”

Trump and Hegseth have certainly each referred to the continuing battle as a “war,” confidently talking to reporters all through final week about Operation Epic Fury and its deadly airstrikes, with Trump demanding “unconditional surrender” from Iran to finish the battle.

“But now that Donald Trump realizes that Americans don’t like war and maybe being reminded that he campaigned against war when he was running for president, Donald Trump is twisting the language to avoid the word ‘war,’” O’Donnell stated Monday.

He went on to play a clip of Trump describing the battle as “an excursion” earlier that day whereas talking at a retreat for House Republicans at his golf membership in Florida. Trump additionally notably bragged on the time that “not a lot of people” would have gone on this “excursion.”

O’Donnell went on to sentence the president’s callous rhetoric on the battle, which got here mere days after Trump wore a baseball cap with “USA” written on it throughout the dignified switch Saturday of the primary six U.S. troopers who have been killed within the so-called “excursion.”

“That’s his latest description of his war today, an excursion,” he stated. “Donald Trump finds new ways to dishonor the war dead. A silly hat, and now an excursion. It’s one thing to die in a war whose objective the president cannot explain. Americans have done that before.”

O’Donnell added, “But to … call it an excursion, before the families have even had the funerals, to struggle to find language that demeans those soldiers’ sacrifice in service to his desperate political needs, is a uniquely Trumpian moment in the American presidency.”

The MS NOW host additionally tore into Trump for his demand of “unconditional surrender” Friday from Iran, noting that the final time the U.S. accepted such an act “it took an atomic bomb to get it” and that Trump fairly quickly modified his tone as quickly because the inventory market dipped.

O’Donnell argued Trump is “the first American wartime president ruled by the stock market and the oil market,” noting that he informed a CBS News reporter Monday, “I think the war is very complete” — and stated so throughout buying and selling hours “in the hope of preventing a collapse.”

Trump urged over the weekend, in the meantime, that the U.S. has “already won!”

O’Donnell appeared to mourn America’s former standing on the planet, noting that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded unconditional give up from the Axis Powers throughout World War II, “the world knew” that the U.S. chief “meant those words.”

“And now the world knows the words of the current president of the United States have no meaning at all,” he stated. “Thirty-one hours after Donald Trump demanded unconditional surrender in another social media post, Donald Trump said, ‘We’ve already won!’”

O’Donnell famous, “Donald Trump doesn’t even pay attention to the words of Donald Trump.”

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