Last Friday, President Donald Trump took to the stage at the postponed White House Correspondents’ Dinner, after an attempted assassination attempt. In his manifesto, that failed assassin used leftist media talking points to justify mass murder. Unfortunately, many of the people mentioned in Trump’s new WHCD speech couldn’t take a joke. That included MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who derailed his opening monologue on Monday’s The Last Word to fight for (not against) Trump’s title for him: “The Dumbest Man on Television.”
“On Friday night, Donald Trump put on a bow tie and went into a hotel ballroom full of people to talk to himself,” O’Donnell began. “No one else was listening.”
Immediately after, he said that Trump’s “hour-long speech, which I did not watch, and would not watch, but heard about from reporters soon afterward, was yet another demonstration of just how far gone Donald Trump is.”
So, clearly those other reporters listened, otherwise they couldn’t have made that opinion.
That line also perfectly sums up the elitist media. They don’t watch or listen to what actually happened; they just repeat one another. And any assertions that O’Donnell makes about Trump’s speech are, by his own admission, based on practically nothing.
Narcissistic O’Donnell only watched when Trump mentioned him and Don Lemon:
TRUMP: And, Lawrence O'Donnell, never liked him, never thought he had any talent. But he's still making a living, so I can't knock it. But we had a contest for who had the lowest ratings and the lowest IQ on television, and that was actually Don Lemon, I think.
Calling someone talentless (which happens to be true in O’Donnell’s case) isn’t a harsh insult, especially by Trump’s standards. He could have called him a brainless, demented scarecrow, but he didn’t.
But O’Donnell took bigger issue with Trump’s Lemon comment, because apparently he wants to be the dumbest man on television:
O'DONNELL: Donald Trump called me the dumbest man on television years before he ever aimed that insult at Don Lemon. And when he did, Don Lemon and I were both on television. So that functions as a, sort of, Trumpian proof that Don Lemon can't possibly have ever been the dumbest man on television if I already was.
O’Donnell essentially said he deserved to be the dumbest because Trump called him that before Lemon, "Donald Trump called me the dumbest man on television in early 2012 when I was calling him a liar every time he opened his mouth about President Obama's birth certificate."
Calm down, boys, you can both be tied for the dumbest. Trump probably wouldn’t mind splitting that title between you two.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
MS NOW's The Last Word
7/27/2610:13:13 p.m. Eastern
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: On Friday night, Donald Trump put on a bow tie and went into a hotel ballroom full of people to talk to himself. No one else was listening.
Instead of spending the time either explaining his war to an audience of reporters at the White House Correspondents' Dinner or something else, Donald Trump spent the evening watching reporters win awards for reporting exposure of his incompetence and/or his corruption.
His hour-long speech, which I did not watch, and would not watch, but heard about from reporters soon afterward, was yet another demonstration of just how far gone Donald Trump is.
Here is a piece of the speech that I did watch this afternoon. It's the only piece that I watched. It's a typical, inexplicable passage of what was on the mind of the man who cannot figure out how to end the war he started.
[Cut to video]
DONALD TRUMP: And we had a, sort of, little preview. And then Anderson Cooper is going to fight Lawrence O'Donnell, not a - I'm not a fan of Lawrence O'Donnell.
I like Anderson, actually, because he's covered me well for many years. And he went bad as soon as I went for politics. But for years, he loved interviews. I did so many interviews with him and he was great. But, you know, he's got a little different persuasion than me in many ways, actually.
And Lawrence O'Donnell, never liked him, never thought he had any talent. But he's still making a living, so I can't knock it.
But we had a contest for who had the lowest ratings and the lowest IQ on television, and that was actually Don Lemon, I think. You know, when I said that he's the dumbest man on television, I said, "you know, when you say some things, you never make a comeback." It's not like, "Oh, gee, hey, Don, let's have dinner some night.."
But I know what I'm saying.
[Cut back to live]
O'DONNELL: "I know what I'm saying." He's in the middle of waging a war, and that's what he's saying. I know what he's saying - "I know what I'm saying," he said.
If he does know what he's saying, he's the only person who knows what he is saying. No one has any idea what he meant in that passage or any other passage in that speech. The Iranians he is waging war against don't know what he's saying. They don't understand a word he's saying because no one does.
No one in that room Friday night knew what he was saying, and he definitely doesn't know what he has actually said, including about me or Don Lemon.
Donald Trump called me the dumbest man on television years before he ever aimed that insult at Don Lemon. And when he did, Don Lemon and I were both on television. So that functions as a, sort of, Trumpian proof that Don Lemon can't possibly have ever been the dumbest man on television if I already was.
Donald Trump called me the dumbest man on television in early 2012 when I was calling him a liar every time he opened his mouth about President Obama's birth certificate. That was the foundational lie of Donald Trump's political career. That's what launched Donald Trump: public racist hatred of Barack Obama. That's what gave him his start, his ignition in Republican Party politics.
