Lawrence: Trump was 'on the verge of outright insanity' in deranged speech to military commanders

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump rambles through a military speech as a government shutdown is looming. Also, the government is set to shut down as Democrats fight health care hikes. Plus, Senate Democrats demand the Tom Homan files from Trump officials. And Bloomberg News reports Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a support network. Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Brendan Boyle, Ken Dilanian, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence. So Donald starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. Hey, Jen. Donald Trump has done it again. It's the same thing he did around this time last night when he posted that horrific political pornography about Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, creating the words in Chuck Schumer's mouth,
0:22.7	just utter insanity and perversity by Donald Trump.
0:26.0	Tonight, within the last hour or so, he did it again.
0:29.3	He took what Hakeem Jeffries said on this program in response to that last night
0:35.3	and used a clip of this show. I'm silently in it with Hakeem
0:41.8	Jeffrey's speaking. He didn't change the words that Hakeem Jeffries was saying as far as I can
0:47.7	tell on it. But he changed Congressman Jeffrey's appearance in the same way that he did last night.
0:56.5	And I'm not going to show it.
1:00.9	I understand because it's from the president of the United States, there's a certain news value to it.
1:06.5	I also understand that anyone out there who wants to see it can see it. It's all over Twitter.
1:19.9	It's all over social media and it will be. But I've just made the judgment that I'm not going to advance Donald Trump's perverse political pornography on this program during this hour.
1:23.8	And that's not a judgment about other hours doing it and showing it.
1:24.7	I get it.
1:29.2	We struggle through this, I think, every day. You know, what has news value from Donald Trump? What is pure madness? What should we show? What should we not show?
1:34.8	And here we are again tonight. You know, we made a decision not to show it either. I've learned
1:40.7	a lot of things from Lawrence O'Donnell and others about what not to show.
1:45.5	And you're right.
1:46.0	Everybody can see it out there.
1:47.6	But we don't need to lift up this disgusting, perverse way that Donald Trump is handling this moment.
1:54.8	And you and I've been through many, many shutdowns.
1:57.1	You've covered many.
1:58.0	I've lived through many.
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