Lawrence: Trump's Iran war propaganda videos show the depths of his depravity

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Iran’s new leader vows to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Also, Donald Trump suggests high oil prices are a positive. Plus, the DHS shutdown strains TSA staffing at airports nationwide. And the Senate passes a bipartisan housing affordability bill. Sen. Gary Peters, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Sen. Adam Schiff join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last one with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. Hey, Jen. After that horrible
0:06.0	incident at an Old Dominion University in Virginia and the attack on the synagogue in Michigan,
0:12.0	Senator Gary Peters of Michigan will be our first guest tonight. We'll get his reaction
0:17.3	to the situation in Michigan. He's such a great guest to have on a night like this, his expertise and also obviously
0:24.4	his connection to Michigan. I'll look forward to listening and watching.
0:27.8	Thanks, Jen. Thank you. Well, no one insults Donald Trump's voters more viciously than Donald Trump.
0:39.1	No one makes it harder for committed Trump voters to believe in Donald Trump than Donald
0:43.8	Trump. The rest of us knew Donald Trump was lying on Monday when he urged oil tankers and
0:50.3	other vessels to take the chance of going through the Strait of Hormuz because Donald Trump
0:57.2	said, there's nothing to be afraid of. Those were his exact words. There's nothing to be afraid of.
1:02.6	So how does it feel tonight? If you're a Trump voter who believed that lie from Donald Trump Monday night.
1:11.7	And you watch the ships engulfed in flames in the Strait of Hormuz where Donald Trump
1:19.9	said, there's nothing to be afraid of.
1:24.8	Viewers of this program knew on Monday night there was something to be afraid of. They knew that that
1:31.4	would happen in the Strait of Hermuz if ships tried to go through there. The insurers knew that.
1:37.4	The shipping companies knew that. Donald Trump could never get away with that kind of lie to a single
1:44.0	viewer of this program,
1:46.1	and he knows it. He was only trying to lie to his own voters because he knows they are the
1:53.5	only people who can ever believe him anywhere in the world. And as Donald Trump's troubles
2:00.5	deepened, whether it's about the Epstein
2:02.1	files or the war he has started in Iran, his lives just become harder and harder to believe, and
2:09.4	all the more insulting to his own voters, who are left with the impossible mental feat of trying
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