MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell drew the ire of failed former president Donald Trump last night, but Trump’s petulant online attack quickly backfired on him when O’Donnell turned the tables.
Here’s what Trump posted on his failing Truth Social site:
“I spotted Ratings Challenged Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, in the Courthouse toda. I haven’t seen him in years. He looked like shit, a real loser.”
O’Donnell replied on Twitter.
“Must’ve been something I said.”
Trump posted this right after my show tonight. Must’ve been something I said. pic.twitter.com/fhoucNgvoO
It’s unclear what exactly triggered Trump so badly, but it may have something to do with a comment O’Donnell made on his show Tuesday evening.
Referencing a remark made by Judge Juan Merchan, “The Last Word” host told viewers, “That was a signal to Donald Trump that his lawyers did not do a good job in that section of the trial.”
Others also joined O’Donnell’s mockery of Trump.
Congrats! I always consider it an honor when a terrible person hates me.
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) May 8, 2024
I cracked up laughing at his juvenile, sophomoric name calling. If he wants to speak freely, he should come on your show.
It’s somewhat humorous that Trump would say this about Lawrence O’Donnell when only one of them is in court as the defendant in a criminal case. And, speaking of looking like sh*t, someone needs to give Trump a mirror.
Even though he has repeatedly denied he had an extramarital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, testimony from Daniels today suggests that disgraced former president Donald Trump did indeed know her and wooed her in some laughably pathetic ways.
MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang explained that Trump had his eye on Daniels from the get-go.
“So here’s the thing,” Phang noted. “We know that Donald Trump is seeking Stormy Daniels out.”
“Donald Trump loves to say, ‘I don’t know these women,'” Phang continued. “They’re horse faces. They’re this. They’re that.’ No, no, no. We now know, he’s seeking out Stormy Daniels to dine with her. And what was her initial reaction? ‘Expletive no!'”
Daniels eventually relented when her publicist encouraged her, suggesting it would make for a good story.
But when Daniels arrived for her date with Trump, he was wearing silk or satin pajamas. She urged him to change because she said he looked like Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner.
Defense attorney David Markus said such details enhance Daniels credibility as a witness and show that the affair actually happened.
“The idea is you want to demonize the defendant, and this is all trying to make him look so bad. It’s not going to the elements of the crime. And the jury will see all these things she’s saying, and they will get that ick factor. And you laughed out loud when you heard about the pajamas.”
Phang: “He’s in satin pajamas, and she thinks she’s coming for dinner. And why would Trump be embarrassed about this information getting out? Maybe just the silk pajamas are what he doesn’t want to get out, and he doesn’t want it to hurt his campaign.”
Donald Trump is under the impression that he’s some sort of great ladies’ man, but as today’s testimony shows, he’s just a pathetic loser who wants to believe he’s smooth. In reality, he’s about as smooth as a bedsheet made of sandpaper.
Failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump tried to mock Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) for his weight and quickly got reminded on social media that someone as portly as him is in no position to fat shame anyone else.
During a fundraiser held at Mar-a-Lago for Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-Texas), Trump suggested that Tester was obese, according to Politico.
“He’s now in a tough campaign, and he could very well lose. We ought to go up and campaign against him. In fact, I looked at him, and I said, ‘Oh, this finally works for a man or woman, because he looks pregnant to me.’” “He’s now in a tough campaign, and he could very well lose. We ought to go up and campaign against him. In fact, I looked at him, and I said, ‘Oh, this finally works for a man or woman, because he looks pregnant to me.’”
“Have you seen this guy? He doesn’t look like a fat guy, except his stomach is out to here. Not that I talk about things like that. I don’t even notice them.”
But as many on social media reminded the disgraced ex-president, he isn’t exactly svelte himself and often looks like a walrus wearing an ill-fitting business suit.
🤣😂🤣😂 Seriously, what kind of funhouse mirror does Trump have.
Seriously, does Trump own a mirror. He's grossly over weight. His hair is ridiculously in color and style. His bronzer is clownish. That suit he wears is dirty and wrinkled.
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump is making no secret of GOP plans for the 2024 election: They want to guarantee that millions of ballots aren’t counted in the hope that their efforts will hand the election to failed former president Donald Trump.
Speaking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump proudly announced that her party has filed suit in the state of Nevada to make it illegal for any votes to be counted after Election Day.
“You cannot have ballots counted, Maria, after elections are over,” Trump said. “And right now, that is one of the many lawsuits we have out across this country to ensure that just that happens, that we have a free, fair, and transparent election.”
“So in Nevada, as you pointed out, we are saying we want, on election day, that to be the last day that mail-in ballots can be counted. And we’ve been very successful in a lot of lawsuits.”
Similar efforts are taking place in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, Trump revealed.
“They wanted to take off dates from mail-in ballots, of course, the Democrats, in an effort to make it easier to cheat.”
So if a ballot isn’t counted on the day of the election, it should be thrown out, according to the GOP.
As HuffPost notes, the Republican effort is meant to undermine the 2024 election.
“The lawsuit filed by the RNC in Nevada doesn’t seek to stop counting ballots after Election Day, but rather seeks to prohibit counting any mail-in ballots received after that date, even if they were postmarked in time.
Under the state’s current law, ballots received up to four days after Election “Day are counted, as long as they are postmarked before the end of the day on Election Day.”
It didn’t take long for social media to explode with criticism of the RNC plan.
These are immensely stupid people. If the Military and Veterans Service Organizations are doing their jobs they will sue Trump and the RNC for disenfranchising military voters who vote by absentee ballot from overseas and across the country…by law. https://t.co/7J9BkC7flL
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) got called out and corrected this morning when he suggested on ABC News that rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, merely “wandered” into the building.
This Week host Jonathan Karl reminded Cotton of a statement he made following the riot regarding Donald Trump’s role in that horrific day: “It’s past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence.”
“More than three years later, Trump has still not accepted the results,” Karl told the senator. “He is still misleading the American people.”
Cotton incorrectly replied that Trump had accepted the results of the 2020 election “that very day.”
“He still hasn’t accepted the results of the election,” Karl countered. “He’s also calling the people that attacked the Capitol hostages. And he’s suggesting that he would, may pardon all of them. I mean, I assume you don’t agree with that.”
“He said that he would consider pardons, and some of them probably…” Cotton sputtered.
Karl interjected, “And he called them hostages. So you agree these are hostages?”
“Some of them have been held in pre-trial detention longer than the sentences for the crimes with which they are charged,” Cotton insisted. “For people who just wandered into the Capitol, they thought it was open or was on the grounds.”
That’s when Karl slapped Cotton with a timely fact-check.
“I mean, that wasn’t like wandering. This wasn’t a tourist visit.”
Rather than address that point, Cotton whined the Justice Department had failed to prosecute “left-wing street militia threatening to assassinate Supreme Court justices.”
“People who were involved in that riot, who assaulted police officers, or who defaced and damaged public property should face the legal consequences,” he added.
“Isn’t it odd that the Republican nominee doesn’t agree with that?” Karl wondered.
“What shouldn’t be used is every grandma who had a red MAGA hat that was within a country mile of the Capitol on January 6th shouldn’t be sitting in pre-trial detention for a longer time than the crimes for which they might face a sentence,” Cotton whined.
Like nearly every member of the GOP since Donald Trump took complete control of their failing political party, Tom Cotton has become little more than a hypocritical shill who cannot criticize the failed ex-president, even when he incites an insurrection. Is it any wonder why so many Americans are sick and tired of Republicans and their bullshit?
