MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday continued railing in opposition to President Donald Trump and his ongoing conflict on Iran, arguing the MAGA chief has as soon as once more “disgraced” himself by dishonoring the most recent U.S. army service members who died in it.
The “Last Word” host got here out swinging with a fairly fiery accusation.
“Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone other than himself,” mentioned O’Donnell throughout a very scathing monologue. “That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone.”
He continued, “Many sociopaths are capable of saying, ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ if someone in your family dies, but they are incapable of actually feeling sorry for your loss. They just know they’re supposed to say those words. Those well-rehearsed words.”
O’Donnell went on to argue that Trump is not able to even feigning sympathy, nevertheless, by enjoying a clip from Sunday wherein Trump was requested by a reporter aboard Air Force One if he had a touch upon the six U.S. service members who died Thursday.
The fallen service members had been aboard a army refueling plane that crashed in Iraq, and whereas they died in a conflict Trump began and claims is critical, he dismissed the query Sunday by pointing at different reporters aboard and saying, “Go ahead, who else?”
“Nothing,” O’Donnell famous. “Not a word. Just an immediate turn away. ‘Who else?’”
He continued, “Who else has a question that’s not about the war dead. Six American Air Force personnel lose their lives in a refueling accident in Donald Trump’s war and Trump doesn’t have a word to say about them and their sacrifice and their family’s suffering.”
O’Donnell on Monday acknowledged the six service members who died final week by identify: Air Force Sergeant Tyler Simmons, 28; Major John Klinner, 33; Captain Ariana Savino, 31; Sergeant Ashley Pruitt, 34; Captain Seth Koval, 38; and Captain Curtis Angst, 30.
While the six troopers will obtain their dignified switch Wednesday in non-public with out press or Trump in attendance, O’Donnell argued this received’t totally forestall the president from exploiting it — “as he did exploit the first dignified transfer that occurred during his war.”
The MAGA chief wore a baseball cap with “USA” written on it throughout the solemn event.
O’Donnell additional flamed Trump for sending a latest fundraising e-mail that includes a photograph of him on the switch sporting his hat, arguing some other president could be rebuked and condemned by unanimous House and Senate votes for such “dishonorable behavior.”
“Donald Trump disgraced himself as the only president in American history who has tried or would even consider trying to raise money over the bodies of the war dead in a war that he started,” O’Donnell mentioned Monday.
The conflict has already value at the least 13 U.S. service members and greater than 1,400 Iranians, together with dozens of schoolgirls, their lives. Trump mentioned Friday it will likely be over “when I feel it in my bones,” however let slip aboard Air Force One that “maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all.”
“And tonight the question remains, who else?” O’Donnell mentioned Monday.
He continued, “Who else is going to die waiting for Donald Trump to feel it in his bones that it’s time to end his war? Who else is going to die and have their deaths ignored by the president who sent them into war — the president who feels nothing?”
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