Trump claims ‘we’ve won’ war as more troops deploy to Middle East
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just going to say something about Ali Velshi, who of course hosts the last word on Friday nights. He is one of the most brilliant, one of the most deeply substantive, who has a crazy wealth of knowledge people. And I get to talk to him when he's not on television and the loveliest colleague. And I cannot wait to see what you do with the 11 p.m. Moralei Valshii is good during the week. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm excited about it. Thank you, my friend. And you're right. I think we have some great conversations. I get so much from you when you're on TV. But some of that deep knowledge that you have feeds the stuff that I do too. So that will continue. We'll have a lot more of it and I'll get to see you five days a week. |
| 0:36.2 | So I'm happy to it. |
| 0:38.2 | Thank you, my friend. |
| 0:38.8 | Have a great weekend. |
| 0:39.6 | We'll see on Monday. |
| 0:40.1 | Thanks, Sally. Well, today, America's wartime commander-in-chief welcome the U.S. Naval Academy |
| 0:45.8 | Championship football team for the commander-in-chief trophy presentation at the White House. |
| 0:51.2 | Donald Trump, who claimed that he would end the war when he feels it in his |
| 0:55.6 | bones, bragged about how well the war with Iran is going for him in front of midshipmen who are |
| 1:01.7 | on their way to entering active military service, a war that has killed 13 U.S. service members |
| 1:07.5 | and injured now 232 others. that's according to the Pentagon today. |
| 1:13.2 | The war has killed over 2,300 civilians, including more than 200 children, displaced more |
| 1:19.7 | than a million people across the Middle East, as well as causing chaos in the global energy |
| 1:24.1 | market that spiked gas prices to an average of nearly $4 a gallon today. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay, Donald, so let's hear what you think about how well your war is going. |
| 1:35.2 | Their Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, their anti-aircraft is all gone, it's all gone, |
| 1:41.7 | their radar is all gone, their leaders are all gone, the next set of leaders are all gone. It's all gone. Their radar is all gone. Their leaders are all gone. The next set of |
| 1:46.8 | leaders are all gone. And the next set of leaders are mostly gone. And now nobody wants to be a leader |
| 1:52.7 | over there anymore. We're having a hard time. We want to talk to them and there's nobody to talk to. |
| 1:59.0 | We have nobody to talk to. And you know what? We like it that way. |
| 2:04.8 | We have nobody to talk to and we like it that way. What does that even mean? We have no one to |
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