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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump's letter threatening Greenland is 'too stupid for even him'

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

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump threatens tariffs on eight European countries. Also, a federal judge limits ICE action against Minneapolis protesters. Plus, millions of Epstein documents remain unreleased by Trump’s Justice Department. And Trump fails to deliver on his promise to lower health care costs. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Sherrod Brown join Lawrence O’Donnell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is too stupid even for him.

0:03.0

Those are the words of Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump,

0:05.9

in her social media reaction to Donald Trump's latest proof that he is unfit to serve as president of the United States.

0:14.0

Mary Trump was reacting to Donald Trump's social media post of a message to the Prime Minister of Norway in which Donald Trump, in what appears

0:23.9

to be more evidence of cognitive decline, possibly cognitive collapse, says that because the

0:32.3

country of Norway did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize, even though the country of Norway has nothing to do with choosing Nobel Prize winners.

0:43.0

Donald Trump is now even more eager to take Greenland away from Denmark, which Donald Trump might not know is actually a different country from Norway. Those are two different countries.

0:58.5

Donald Trump's stone cold ignorance has been a defining characteristic of his entire public life.

1:03.5

And so it is possible Donald Trump has never known that Norway and Denmark are two separate

1:09.8

countries. Donald Trump might think that Denmark is the

1:12.1

capital of Norway or the other way around, or maybe he once knew they were separate countries,

1:17.5

but now his 79-year-old increasingly shattered brain can no longer hold on to facts like that.

1:25.1

The Greenland thing is and always has been a Trump diversionary tactic. Trump is no more

1:32.4

serious about it now than he was the first time he mentioned it over six years ago. Six years from

1:40.8

now, Donald Trump will have done nothing. Donald Trump is never going to do anything in Greenland. He's not going to buy the place. He's not going to invade the place. He's not, but he is going to talk about Greenland every day that he can because the American news media cannot resist saturation coverage of such a simple issue. And every bit of coverage of Greenland is not coverage of the Epstein files, as we will be covering tonight.

2:08.6

More than 99% of the Epstein files, Donald Trump is now illegally hiding.

2:15.6

We will be covering that story tonight.

2:18.1

And every news mention of Greenland is not coverage of what Donald Trump's invasion forces

2:23.1

did not change in Venezuela, where the regime that was in power before Donald Trump's

2:29.3

invasion remains in power tonight.

2:32.0

And every moment of coverage of Greenland is not coverage of Donald Trump's invasion forces in Minneapolis and other parts of the country that did not vote for Donald Trump.

2:42.9

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, who is by far the most incompetent Treasury Secretary in history once again, faced Sunday morning questions yesterday that he just could not answer.

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