Lawrence: Your reward in Trump World for doing a 'tremendous job' is to be fired
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the big story of the day was that Donald Trump fired the top general in the United |
| 0:05.4 | States Army in the middle of Donald Trump's war in Iran that is going so badly that |
| 0:11.0 | last night Donald Trump officially announced that he is surrendering control of the Strait |
| 0:17.8 | of Hormuz to Iran. |
| 0:20.6 | The top general, the United States Army, served |
| 0:22.7 | every day of World War II under two presidents when firing the top general would have been seen |
| 0:29.7 | as chaos in the war effort. Presidents who are winning and confidently winning wars do not fire the top general. But today, Donald |
| 0:40.8 | Trump's utterly incompetent Secretary of Defense demanded the resignation of General Randy George |
| 0:46.8 | from the position of Army Chief of Staff, and he has asked General George to then immediately |
| 0:52.1 | retire from the United States Army. |
| 0:55.5 | That was going to be the top story of the day until Donald Trump decided to fire his second |
| 1:01.0 | choice for Attorney General Pamela Bondi. |
| 1:05.5 | And we must always remember she was the second choice. |
| 1:09.8 | There is a long-running and rarely violated gentleman's |
| 1:13.0 | agreement in Hollywood, which also has become a gentlewoman's agreement, for movie stars |
| 1:18.7 | to never publicly talk about the roles they turned down so that other movie stars would never |
| 1:25.4 | have to suffer the public embarrassment and humiliation of being second |
| 1:31.8 | choice. No one in Trump world finds that embarrassing. Donald Trump's current wife, for example, |
| 1:41.0 | finds no shame in being third choice. And Pamela Bondi was honored to be Donald Trump's |
| 1:46.7 | second choice for Attorney General in his second term. After enough Republican United States |
| 1:54.0 | senators let Donald Trump know that his first choice, Republican Congressman Matt Gates, |
| 2:00.4 | whose only experience with the Justice |
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