Lawrence: Trump, a 'humiliated clown' who always pretends he never backs down, backed down again

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The stock market is calmer after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told investors a trade war is not “sustainable.” Also, the White House says Donald Trump “strongly stands” behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Plus, three prosecutors on the Eric Adams corruption case resign rather than admit to “wrongdoing.” And Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens launches her Senate bid in Michigan. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Andrew Weissmann, and Rep. Haley Stevens join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with the great Lawrence.
0:03.5	Oh, Donald.
0:04.3	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:05.8	Good evening, Rachel.
0:07.3	We are running a little bit behind and preparing for this show.
0:12.0	So I wasn't in this chair like about, I don't know, seven seconds ago.
0:18.2	So here we are.
0:19.2	We're going to try to just, you know.
0:21.8	Do you want me to top dance a little bit? Give you a chance to, like, find your highlighter and, like,
0:25.0	settle in? You know, you might have, you might have, you might have had to if I, if I didn't run,
0:29.8	when I was told to run. But, but here we are. And now everything's fine, ready to go. Of the two of us, I am the one who is always late, and you are the one who never is,
0:42.5	and I have never seen you.
0:43.3	I know.
0:44.3	I know.
0:44.8	So I know this is kind of a serious, like, this is a wrinkle in the force.
0:48.5	I get it.
0:49.3	Yeah, it leaves me completely disoriented.
0:51.2	I just, but we'll see how it goes.
0:53.1	Well, maybe, you know, could be better,
0:55.1	could be worse. We'll find out. This little interregnum here, I can hear you, I can see, like,
1:00.6	settling out, like everything's getting to be normal. It's a regular toss. We're just about to
1:05.3	have a regular night. Here you go, in Lawrence. So helpful, as only you can be at this moment, Rachel.
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