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Rhiannon12866

(239,159 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 11:49 PM Jul 8

Lawrence: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs. Why doesn't the White House press corps? - The Last Word MSNBC



The American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs. And as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains, they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers. - Aired on 07/08/2025.
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Lawrence: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs. Why doesn't the White House press corps? - The Last Word MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jul 8 OP
He's corrupted the press corps, too NJCher Jul 9 #1
This should have kacekwl Jul 9 #2
Outstanding report dweller Jul 9 #3
Thank you, Lawrence! BigmanPigman Jul 9 #4
Thanks! Lawrence always explains exactly what we need to know! Rhiannon12866 Jul 9 #5
O'Donnell: 'Stupidest' presidency has 'stupidest' White House press corps LetMyPeopleVote Jul 9 #6

NJCher

(40,729 posts)
1. He's corrupted the press corps, too
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:07 AM
Jul 9

It’s all a big stage show with actors playing their tsf assigned roles.

The audience is not fooled, though.

kacekwl

(8,473 posts)
2. This should have
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:17 AM
Jul 9

thousands of recs by now. The single most reason for trumps ability to continue.

BigmanPigman

(53,373 posts)
4. Thank you, Lawrence!
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:57 AM
Jul 9

Thank god he said what I have been observing for a long time. While I was cooking and listening to his segment I said out loud, "Just watch 30 seconds of the film "Life With Father" and you will know about tariffs than the morons in the press corp.

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,528 posts)
6. O'Donnell: 'Stupidest' presidency has 'stupidest' White House press corps
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 11:14 AM
Jul 9

trump has been lying about who pays his tariffs. Tariffs are pay by US consumers. Tariffs are NOT paid by foreign governments. Any tariff revenue cited by trump is from US consumers or companies and NOT from foreign nations.

O'Donnell: 'Stupidest' presidency has 'stupidest' White House press corps

USpolitics 🇺🇸 (@uspol.skyfleet.blue) 2025-07-09T14:53:22.717Z

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5391616-lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-second-term-press-corps/

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell called President Trump’s second term the “stupidest” presidency in history and said it is being covered by the “stupidest” press corps.

“Well, the possibility of a relentlessly stupid person becoming president of the United States has been underexplored by screenwriters,” O’Donnell said Tuesday on his nightly show “The Last Word.”

“And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.

The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”

The president, in this fictional scenario, O’Donnell continued, would “absolutely never talk to the press because a stupid president’s stupidity would be immediately exposed by the White House press corps.”

And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.

The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”
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