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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump is doing a very good job of sounding like the surrendering loser of his own war

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump tells reporters his war in Iran will end soon. Also, federal judges rule against Trump on multiple key cases. Plus, Trump signs an executive order targeting mail-in voting. And Rep. Ro Khanna asks King Charles to meet with Epstein survivors during his U.S. visit. Rep. Adam Smith, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Good evening, Lawrence, my friend.

0:06.2

Hey, Michael, great to see you at this hour. We have Donald Trump lost so many times in court today

0:12.3

that we've now had to add extra material for this hour, which we just, we have to get to

0:17.4

right away. There's just so much Trump losing today to get to.

0:21.5

You got reams of paper that you didn't have before the evening started.

0:25.8

That's right. Thank you, Michael.

0:27.9

You got it, my friend. Thank you.

0:31.3

Well, Donald Trump is going to address the nation tomorrow night at 9 p.m.

0:36.4

And it appears he will be announcing his surrender in his war in

0:40.3

Iran after he made his own personal surrender as clear as he possibly could this evening.

0:49.5

Does Iran have to make a deal for the U.S. to end its operation? No. No. No.

1:02.7

That is Donald Trump surrendering from the first objective he announced in his war four weeks ago,

1:08.4

which was, remember, the words, unconditional surrender, those two words.

1:12.5

Unconditional surrender, of course, means, as we saw at the end of World War II, the surrendering country officially signing the surrender agreement, in which then,

1:19.0

both Germany and Japan at the end of World War II, agreed to never fire a shot at the United

1:24.2

States of America again and give the United States of America in effect

1:27.6

complete control over their countries for the foreseeable future in 1945. That's what unconditional

1:34.4

surrender was and is. Gall-Trump quickly backed off his objective of unconditional surrender at the

1:42.0

beginning of his war within the first few days of his war,

1:46.2

and to completely incomprehensible objectives, if there were any, that no one waging

1:53.8

Donald Trump's war could ever explain to anyone. And when much to Donald Trump's surprise and

1:59.0

shock and amazement, Iran did the obvious in closing

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