Lawrence: Trump is now the first U.S. president in history to complain publicly of 'too much work!'
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, 2.19 p.m. on Saturday, four hours before heading to the White House Correspondents dinner, Donald Trump, |
| 0:07.9 | became the first president of the United States in history to complain publicly of too much work. |
| 0:18.5 | Donald Trump has decided that the war he started with Iran is now too much work after |
| 0:23.5 | 58 days. Donald Trump also became the first president of the United States in history to complain of |
| 0:30.0 | too much time wasted on traveling. And that's traveling in negotiating the end of a war. |
| 0:38.8 | During World War II, President Franklin Dono Roosevelt spent several days traveling from Washington via |
| 0:45.2 | airplane and ship for his first meeting with his most important allies in that war, |
| 0:52.0 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Soviet dictator |
| 0:55.3 | Joseph Stalin. And the meeting was in, of all places, Iran. President Roosevelt flew by plane |
| 1:05.1 | to South America having to make fueling stops along the way and then by ship from South America |
| 1:09.8 | to North Africa and then by plane again |
| 1:11.8 | to Iran and every minute of that time along with every minute of his presidency, President Roosevelt |
| 1:19.7 | was suffering the effects of polio, which left his legs almost totally paralyzed, left him in a wheelchair. |
| 1:28.3 | And he never complained of too much time wasted on traveling. |
| 1:33.3 | President Roosevelt's final overseas trip during World War II to meet with the Allied leadership was to Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, |
| 1:41.3 | the trip from Washington, D.C. to Yalta, taken by plane, ship, |
| 1:47.0 | and several hours of driving, was the longest trip ever taken by a president of the United States. |
| 1:54.0 | President Roosevelt died months after that trip without ever having complained about too much time wasted on traveling or too much work. |
| 2:05.2 | Donald Trump canceled negotiations with Iranians when he issued that complaint of too much work. |
| 2:11.1 | He said, I just canceled the trip of my representatives going to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet |
| 2:16.7 | with the Iranians. Too much time wasted |
| 2:18.9 | on traveling too much work. Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their |
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