Lawrence: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Senate passes Donald Trump’s budget bill with Medicaid and food assistance cuts. And Stanford University Professor Jack Rakove says the Trump era is a “constitutional failure.” Rep. Brendan Boyle and Jack Rakove join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.6	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.5	Hey, Jen.
0:04.0	One of the, tonight, good features of the way this screen is split is that when you're saying
0:10.7	that last little bit, I can't see anything that's on your screen.
0:16.0	You can't see the portraits.
0:17.3	I couldn't see any of that.
0:18.5	And I'm kind of grateful that I couldn't see any of that. Because you need to start your show in a serious way. Well, it's not just that. It's not just that. But yeah, we're going in a pretty different direction right away, actually. And I have to get right to it, Jen, because we have so much to cover tonight.
0:38.0	And as this situation continues in the House of Representatives, we'll be dipping into that also.
0:45.3	Absolutely.
0:46.1	Can't wait to listen and watch.
0:47.3	Thanks, Jen.
0:48.6	Thanks, Lawrence.
0:49.2	Thank you.
0:50.8	Well, today, the vacancy where Donald Trump's mind is supposed to be was on grim display
0:59.2	once again.
1:01.4	And this is an important day to consider the workings of Donald Trump's mind because this
1:05.5	is the day that he and Marco Rubio are celebrating starving children to death in the middle of a famine in Africa.
1:14.1	This is the day Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are celebrating the removal of previously paid for
1:20.4	life-saving AIDS medication for patients in Africa where a program started by Republican President
1:27.0	George W. Bush and Dr. Anthony
1:28.8	Fauci has already saved more than 25 million lives just in the 21st century alone with HIV
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