Lawrence: Donald Trump says it's time to 'show some guts' in a warzone where no Trump would ever go

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts global oil markets. Also, the Trump Justice Department’s newly released Epstein files reveal at least 21 names of known or suspected survivors. And Trump taps Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem as DHS secretary. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Garrett Graff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, Donald Trump is demanding something he has never seen.
0:03.8	Donald Trump is demanding something no president in his lifetime has ever achieved.
0:10.0	Unconditional surrender.
0:12.0	On Friday morning at 8.50 a.m., Donald Trump demanded Iran's unconditional surrender in a social media post.
0:20.5	The last time the United States of America accepted an unconditional surrender, it took an atomic
0:28.2	bomb to get it.
0:29.8	In fact, two of them.
0:32.1	After President Harry Truman became the first and only person in world history to use
0:37.1	nuclear weapons against Japan,
0:38.9	first in Hiroshima, and three days later in Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's
0:44.5	unconditional surrender.
0:47.2	Harry Truman had already accepted Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II three
0:52.3	months earlier.
0:54.0	No American president has demanded or accepted an unconditional surrender at the end of an
0:59.7	American war since the year before Donald Trump was born, 81 years ago, at the end of World War
1:08.8	II.
1:09.6	Anyone who has witnessed a war during Donald Trump's lifetime
1:13.6	knows that the unconditional surrender of Iran is impossible. Everyone on Wall Street knew that
1:21.3	over the weekend when markets began to adjust negatively to an anticipated long-term Trump war in pursuit of the impossible
1:31.5	unconditional surrender. And so, of course, oil prices skyrocketed. The stock market crashed,
1:39.8	and Donald Trump today offered his unconditional surrender. Donald Trump is the first American wartime president
1:47.8	ruled by the stock market and the oil market. In a phone call when the CBS News reported today,
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