Lawrence: Trump retreats on Iran and proves he’s worse than Nixon

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Oil prices fall after Donald Trump retreats on Iran strikes. Also, Trump sends ICE to airports amid the TSA funding fight. And the North Carolina race is key to Democrats taking the U.S. Senate. Rep. Adam Smith, Amos Hochstein, Rep. James Walkinshaw, and former Gov. Roy Cooper join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	This despicable human being, he's stupid as well as being ill-tempered.
0:08.0	You know, those aren't my words because I would never call Donald Trump ill-tempered.
0:14.8	This despicable human being is how the Republican leader of the United States Senate in 2020, Mitch McConnell
0:22.1	described Donald Trump in an oral history after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential
0:27.6	election. In late December of 2020, Mitch McConnell said, he's stupid, as if it was a known
0:35.6	fact like planet earth is round, something beyond dispute.
0:40.2	This despicable human being.
0:44.2	Stupid does not equal despicable.
0:47.9	Sometimes Donald Trump can just be stupid, like when he's talking about tariffs, but when
0:52.8	Donald Trump manifests, in Mitch McConnell's
0:57.0	words, as this despicable human being, his stupidity is the least of what is so despicable
1:05.0	about him. And so this weekend, this despicable human being became the first president of the
1:10.8	United States
1:11.3	to say, I'm glad when a good and faithful servant of the United States died.
1:20.2	Robert Mueller was everything Donald Trump could never be, smart, highly educated, wise, and faithful.
1:28.3	Faithful to his one and only wife.
1:31.3	Faithful to his two daughters.
1:33.3	Faithful to all of the oaths he took
1:37.3	as a United States Marine, a federal prosecutor,
1:41.3	FBI director,
1:43.3	and faithful to his country.
1:46.0	Donald Trump's deep and irreversible perversion blinds him to human decency.
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