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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump backs down on tariffs after a day of fearing Elon Musk might call him a 'moron'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: House Republicans cancel Wednesday night’s budget vote. Also, Trump’s tariff pause comes after markets lose trillions. Plus, House Democrats launch an inquiry of Trump aides’ Signal use. And GOP senators up in 2026 face Trump tariff backlash. Rep. Brendan Boyle, Jason Furman, Rep. Stephen Lynch, and fmr. Rep. Wiley Nickel join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with the great Lawrence. Oh, Donald. Good evening, Lawrence.

0:05.3

Good evening, Rachel. You know, after midnight last night, when I know you were fast asleep,

0:10.3

I was watching bond market developments on Bloomberg, which was covering it live, and following

0:17.4

the guidance of Stephanie Rula on Twitter and realizing that something really big was

0:23.1

happening in the bond market.

0:24.4

Don't ask me to explain it.

0:25.8

I just know it was like a wicked big thing.

0:29.0

And it really changed the game today on the Trump tariffs.

0:33.8

And it has been a pretty dramatic.

0:35.6

I just want to read the, I have here the New York Times account of what really turned it.

0:42.3

This is there inside the House reporting.

0:45.3

It says the real credit, Mr. Trump's advisors claim, so there's that, should go to the bond market.

0:52.9

Mr. Trump's decision was driven by fear that his tariff's

0:57.0

gamble could quickly turn into a financial crisis. And unlike the two previous crashes the last

1:03.6

20 years, this would be entirely attributable only to one man. And that's pretty much what was

1:10.1

being said, you know, two o'clock of the morning

1:13.4

last night about the action on the bond market. And here we are tonight. Yeah. I mean, seeing

1:18.8

the stock market crash and crash and crash and crash like a, you know, like a Wiley

1:25.3

Coyote cartoon or something, you know, like, oh, he's out the bottom

1:28.0

of the cliff. Oh, no. Here comes the anvil to land on his head, even though he's at the bottom

1:32.6

of the cliff. Here comes the piano to land on the inval. I mean, to see that just catastrophic

1:37.6

collapse that he initiated in the stock market is one thing. But in the bond market, it is a whole different thing. That is the spine of the U.S.

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