Lawrence: The Trump presidency is collapsing like the Berlin Wall collapsed

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Justice Department has 29 days to release the Epstein files. Also, the U.S. unemployment rate rises to 4.4%. And Congress has a December 31 deadline to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits. Andrew Weissmann, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Sen. Tammy Baldwin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence, so Donald starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. Hey, Jen. There is so much
0:05.8	to cover tonight with Donald Trump once again, finding new territory where no other president
0:11.8	has ever gone. And not in a good way. No, not at all, as usual. Yeah, exactly. Well,
0:18.8	look forward to hearing what you have to say, Lawrence. Thanks, Jen.
0:21.6	Thank you.
0:22.6	Well, what a week it has been in the madness of Donald Trump, the decline and fall of Donald
0:32.6	Trump, with him tonight now, calling for the execution of members of Congress, the first president of the United
0:39.2	States to call for members of Congress to be put to death. The American news media has been so
0:45.8	overwhelmed by Donald Trump since his emergence on the political stage that the New York Times,
0:51.3	which continues to do great work in covering Donald Trump and the world,
0:56.5	has lost its perspective on the enormity of what Donald Trump decided to say today
1:01.8	about members of Congress saying something that he says is, quote, punishable by death.
1:09.3	Had any other president of the United States ever said anything
1:12.9	like it, the New York Times would have a six-inch headline about it and a front page devoted
1:18.2	entirely to that madness and the reaction to that madness. And tonight, it's not even close to the
1:24.8	lead story in the New York Times.
1:28.4	It is impossible to make too much of this story.
1:33.2	And the only way to try to reduce the historic and moral and legal importance of what Donald
1:38.5	Trump said is to internalize the notion that Donald Trump's words do not matter.
1:47.1	And the American news media has done that.
1:51.3	And they have done it for exactly one president.
1:56.8	The old rules will come roaring back as soon as Donald Trump isn't president anymore.
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