Lawrence: Trump’s ‘stupidity is utterly flawless at exposing his own lies’ on Iran war

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: U.S. allies stand up to Donald Trump as the war with Iran escalates. Also, the New York Times reports Jared Kushner is soliciting $5 billion for his private firm while working as Trump's Mideast envoy. Plus, Attorney General Pam Bondi is subpoenaed over the Justice Department’s Epstein files release. And Senate Republicans don't appear to have the votes for Trump's elections bill. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Maureen Farrell, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Sen. Alex Padilla join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last third with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. Hey, Jen. Another election night.
0:06.1	We're going to go back to Ellie Velchie whenever there's a result in the Senate primary in Illinois.
0:11.9	So we'll be following up on that. Yeah, absolutely. We're going to know these faces, Lawrence.
0:17.4	These are people who are going to be in the House and the Senate. And that's exciting. Yeah. And we have so much else to cover tonight also. Great. I'll look forward to
0:26.9	watching. Thanks, Jen. Thank you. He actually said he's not afraid of anything. Those are his exact words, not afraid of anything. The man who has
0:43.4	spent years afraid of the Epstein files and is still blocking the full release of the complete
0:50.6	Epstein files, the man who wears silly hats because he's afraid his hair might be blown out of place.
0:56.6	The man who's afraid of letting anyone see his natural skin color or his college transcript
1:02.0	or his SAT scores.
1:03.5	The man who's afraid of falling down the steps of Air Force One and the man who was very,
1:09.1	very afraid of being drafted into the United States Army
1:12.7	during the Vietnam War, that man today said he's not afraid of anything.
1:19.7	And it could not be more perfect that the question that provoked Donald Trump to tell the lie that he's not afraid of anything,
1:32.4	including included a reference to Vietnam.
1:39.1	Uranian regime is filled with Sky News.
1:41.5	If you put boots on the ground in Iran, it will be another Vietnam.
1:45.0	Are you afraid of that? No, I'm not afraid of, I'm really not afraid of anything.
1:51.4	Iran's deputy foreign minister was asked by Sky News today what would happen if U.S. troops
1:56.0	invaded Iran and he said, quote, just read what happened in Vietnam. Donald Trump was so afraid of being
2:04.7	drafted and sent it to Vietnam in 1968 that he got a note from a doctor saying that his feet
2:10.4	just couldn't take it. Those same feet that have covered miles and miles and miles of golf courses and continue to, just couldn't
2:20.1	take it. And in those days, rich kids like Donald Trump had an easy time escaping the draft
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