Lawrence O’Donnell Scolds ‘Spoiled Child’ Trump Over This Bold Iran War Claim | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday ripped Donald Trump for declaring the U.S. can have “control of anything we want” amid what he has claimed to be negotiations to finish the Iran struggle. (Watch his monologue on “The Last Word” beneath.)

The president, when requested on the White House if the 2 sides have been understanding who would management the Strait of Hormuz, made the “anything we want” assertion, whilst Iranian officers deny that such peace talks are taking place.

“The man who started the most expensive war in history without being able to explain why continued to sound like a spoiled child today,” O’Donnell mentioned of a struggle that price the U.S. an estimated $12.7 billion within the first six days — a quantity that continues to develop.

After taking part in a clip of Trump, the host continued, repeating the president’s phrases: “‘We’ll have control of anything we want.’ He wants to control the Strait of Hormuz now, and he doesn’t. And he doesn’t know how to get control of the straits.”

O’Donnell known as out Trump for now seeming to be combating in Iran for management of the Strait of Hormuz, which has successfully been shut down for the reason that begin of the struggle however was “free and open to shipping” a matter of weeks in the past.

Trump’s brag that the U.S. can take something it needs arrives as his approval score fell to an abysmal 36% because of the struggle and its toll on costs on the pump.

“Donald Trump is looking, desperately, for a way out that will not look like total surrender on his part,” O’Donnell argued.

The host later pointed to Trump suggesting on Tuesday that the Iranian regime gifted the U.S. with a “very big present,” one which Politico reported may very well be a ship carrying Iranian crude safely out of the strait.

The remarks, per the outlet, “baffled” these near the administration.

“Baffled, indeed. One ship. One ship getting through the strait and Donald Trump treats it like a wonderful present, a ‘very significant prize,’” O’Donnell mentioned.

But, as Bloomberg has indicated, a ship carrying Iranian crude hasn’t transited the strait.

“The only people who could authorize the movement of a ship in that situation is the current Iranian ruling regime, which is exactly the same ruling regime that was in place before Donald Trump started his war,” O’Donnell famous.