Lawrence: Trump humiliated on the world stage as France's Macron instantly corrects his Ukraine lie

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The U.S. sides with Vladimir Putin and votes against the UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Also, Donald Trump fires 6,700 IRS employees during tax season. Plus, a federal judge appoints outside counsel in the New York City Mayor Eric Adams corruption case. And a right-wing podcaster is tapped as the next FBI deputy director. Timothy Snyder, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Andrew Weissmann join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, Donald Trump made history today. And so today became a day that will live in infamy
0:07.7	in presidential history because today Donald Trump formally rejected the position
0:17.0	that every American president has held since Franklin Delano Roosevelt masterminded
0:25.0	the American victory in World War II, leader of the free world. That is what Franklin
0:33.6	Roosevelt turned the job of the presidency into during World War II, every subsequent president
0:40.2	until Donald Trump fulfilled that role, especially at the United Nations. The United Nations began
0:48.5	in the imagination of President Roosevelt. While President Roosevelt was making the key strategic decisions leading to
0:57.0	victory in World War II, he was also planning the aftermath of the war. He was planning the peace.
1:04.5	That's the way he talked about it. Planning the peace. During the war, he sometimes referred to America
1:10.8	and its allies in the war as the United Nations.
1:16.3	He didn't live to see his design of the United Nations come true.
1:20.8	But when the United Nations was organized after World War II, it was basically the Franklin Roosevelt design. And every day at the United
1:31.6	Nations throughout its history, the American president's ambassador to the United Nations
1:37.5	always stood on the side of freedom. The United States of America and the United Nations voted with the free nations of the world
1:48.0	against the cruelest dictatorships in the world, which almost always meant voting against the Soviet Union.
1:57.0	In the 21st century, as Russian President Vladimir Putin began turning the Russian government
2:02.7	into a dictatorship again, the United States leadership of the free world at the United Nations
2:09.7	meant standing against Russian aggression. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, exactly three years ago,
2:16.5	on this day, the United Nations passed six
2:20.3	resolutions against the Russian attack on Ukraine. And the United States voted with the free world
2:27.9	against the Russian war on Ukraine every single time until today. The United Nations once again today approved a
2:39.6	resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine and for the first time in history, the United
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