Lawrence: When asked, Trump refused to honor fallen U.S. troops in his war

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Trump administration faces criticism over its Iran military strategy. Also, Donald Trump posts a late-night rant on the federal judiciary. And the U.S. prepares to refund billions of illegal Trump tariffs. Rep. Adam Smith, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Neal Katyal join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone
0:08.2	other than himself.
0:10.2	That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone.
0:15.5	Many sociopaths are capable of saying, I'm sorry for your loss if someone and your family
0:20.3	dies, but they are incapable of saying, I'm sorry for your loss if someone in your family dies, but they are
0:21.6	incapable of actually feeling sorry for your loss. They just know they're supposed to say those
0:29.2	words, those well-rehearsed words. But the laziest and most mentally vacant president in history,
0:36.4	Donald Trump, as he approaches
0:37.6	80 years old, no longer has the energy or the concentration to be able to continue to
0:44.5	pretend that he feels sorry for even the members of the American military killed in service
0:51.6	in his war.
0:53.0	No president has ever gotten this wrong until Donald
0:58.2	Trump. Acknowledging and honoring American military deaths is something every president
1:03.8	got right. Most brought no particular eloquence to the moment, but they always found
1:09.4	the words to acknowledge and honor military
1:13.0	sacrifice until Donald's Trump.
1:17.4	Last night, at 9.17 p.m. with the cameras rolling, Donald Trump's mind and feelings appeared
1:26.4	to be an apparent sociopathic lockdown, possibly, when he was asked
1:33.3	about the six Air Force personnel on a refueling plane that crashed in Donald Trump's new war zone.
1:41.8	Watch what Donald Trump says and does in a moment that so obviously calls for
1:49.2	sympathy and admiration and honor things Donald Trump apparently just cannot feel.
2:00.5	Do you know how much on the six-service numbers? cannot feel.
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