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The Mary Trump Show

31: Lawrence O’Donnell

The Mary Trump Show

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Comedy, News, Politics, News Commentary

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Mary Trump hits the Republicans for their cynical war on Disney and their brutal attacks on our human and constitutional rights. She then welcomes MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell to look at how our politics and the corporate media have changed for the worse over recent years, the illiberalism of the Supreme Court and the electoral college, and the necessity of transparent government and a focus on policy.

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0:00.0

Sometime after my first trip to Disney World when I was six, I became tolerant of people

0:06.4

with different sexual orientations and gender identities.

0:09.8

I know correlation doesn't imply causality, but the same thing happened to my daughter

0:13.9

after I took her to Disney World when she was four.

0:17.5

Disney has brought untold billions of dollars into Florida, but Governor and Mass

0:22.4

Murderer Ronda Santos has calculated that going all in on anti-science, anti-LGBT campaign

0:29.6

will serve him better as he positions himself for a potential 2024 presidential run.

0:36.0

So after Disney took a stance against Florida so-called Don't Say Gay Law, which prohibits

0:41.0

the discussion of sexual orientation in public schools, he revoked Disney's special status,

0:47.1

which actually I don't even know if that is going to hurt Disney in the long run, but

0:52.7

it does have the benefit of riling up the intolerant white evangelical homophobes in his

0:57.8

space, and it also has the extra added benefit of slapping his constituents with an extra

1:02.7

$2 billion tax bill.

1:05.5

Seditionist and unbelievably still Senator Josh Hawley seems to be in competition with

1:10.3

DeSantis over who can be the most terrible human, in part because he is narcissistic and

1:16.0

delusional enough to think he'll be president someday.

1:19.4

Hawley, who traffics in lame terms like cancel culture, was the first senator to state he

1:24.6

would oppose the certification of Joe Biden's electoral college win.

1:28.8

This forced the head of many of his Republican colleagues who worried that not joining him

1:33.5

in his objection would make them seem disloyal to Donald as if the simple arithmetic of

1:39.0

counting votes had anything at all to do with loyalty.

1:43.6

Hawley sent out a fundraising appeal during the siege, which makes you wonder not how

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