Lawrence O'Donnell Calls Trump "The Laziest and Stupidest President in History"
Lawrence O'Donnell Calls Trump "The Laziest and Stupidest President in History"
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00:00Well, Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee for president in history, and Kamala Harris
00:04is not going to let anyone forget that, as we will see in a moment.
00:11On another day, when economic news indicators showed the world-leading strength of the Biden-Harris
00:18economy, Donald Trump did what he usually does, nothing.
00:25For four years, Donald Trump was the laziest and stupidest president in history by far,
00:30and now he is the laziest and stupidest presidential candidate in history.
00:35He is the only candidate for president today who did absolutely nothing today.
00:41There is no evidence that Donald Trump got out of bed today.
00:45He wouldn't have had to do that for the unhinged phone call he placed to the Fox propaganda
00:51network this morning, an hour before the new GDP report came out, showing even stronger
00:59growth in the American economy than anticipated.
01:02In a statement, President Biden said, today's GDP report makes clear we now have the strongest
01:07economy in the world, thanks to my and Vice President Harris's economic agenda.
01:11Our economy grew a robust 2.8 percent over the last quarter, based on strong American
01:17consumers and business investment.
01:20That will not stop Donald Trump, and did not stop Donald Trump, from lying about the
01:24American economy and pretending it is something other than the best in the world, as he did,
01:30of course, today, on the phone with Fox, when he also called Kamala Harris real garbage.
01:40I get a kick out of one thing, they say, sir, be nice, you just got hit with a bullet, maybe
01:47he's changed, be nice, and I'd love to be nice, but I'm dealing against real garbage,
01:54when you hear that.
01:56Okay, sir, two things.
02:00Number one, according to the FBI director's under oath testimony yesterday, we don't know
02:06if Donald Trump got hit with a bullet.
02:09The FBI director suggested it could be shrapnel, or something else far less dangerous than
02:13a bullet.
02:14Donald Trump is the only person in history protected by the Secret Service who was shot
02:18at, brought to a hospital, and then did not allow any of the medical personnel at that
02:23hospital to explain to the news media what happened to him.
02:28None of the medical personnel who treated Donald Trump at the hospital have been allowed
02:32to say what they think drew blood that day.
02:38With respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a
02:45bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.
02:48So it's conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet, in addition
02:53to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.
02:58But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots and the cartridges.
03:03And number two, real garbage.
03:07If you're the type of person who tries to think of people as inanimate objects, it's
03:12hard to think of someone who would better personify real garbage than the man who you
03:18just heard call his opponent real garbage.
03:22Everything out of Donald Trump's mouth is real garbage, and should be treated as such
03:28by the news media.
03:29Donald Trump is a pollutant.
03:32He has polluted American politics.
03:34He has polluted the vulnerable minds of the people who believe QAnon madness and all other
03:39sorts of utter impossibilities about the world, and then follow their hero, Donald Trump.
03:46He is simultaneously stupid enough to believe the real garbage that he spews, and liar enough
03:52not to believe all of it.
03:55And so the real garbage campaign is underway.
04:00On most campaign days between now and election day, the oldest, laziest, and stupidest presidential
04:05nominee in history will do absolutely nothing, but will probably manage to find the time
04:12on social media or otherwise to spew his garbage, including on Rupert Murdoch's garbage channel,
04:21where they all lap it up for money, Rupert Murdoch's money.
04:26Rupert Murdoch is the richest and oldest owner of a propaganda channel anywhere in
04:32the world, and he has dedicated it for years now to the delivery of real garbage directly
04:40into the homes of Fox viewers on behalf of the real garbage man, who is the oldest and
04:48only criminal presidential nominee in history.
04:52The Harris campaign's response to Donald Trump's words on Fox this morning was titled
04:58this way, statement on a 78-year-old criminal's Fox News appearance.
05:05The statement then took issue with some of what Donald Trump had to say, and of course,
05:10but the whole point of the statement was in that title.
05:15And that's the part that Donald Trump will be hit with every day, and that will hurt
05:20him personally every day, because we know who he is.
05:24We know enough to know that the phrase 78-year-old criminal will hurt him personally and is going
05:33to be thrown at Donald Trump every day for the next 103 days by the Harris campaign.
05:40And every one of those days, it's going to be true.
05:43Donald Trump is going to be 78 years old, and he is going to be a criminal, a convicted
05:48criminal every day of the presidential campaign.
05:51On September 18th, in the middle of the presidential campaign, he's going to be sentenced for
05:56his 34 criminal convictions in a Manhattan courtroom, and Kamala Harris is not going
06:01to let anyone not pay attention to that fact, that Donald Trump is a 78-year-old criminal
06:08on that day when he is sentenced and on every day of the campaign.
06:15Of all of Donald Trump's bad qualities, his stupidity is both the most consistent and
06:22the most publicly damaging quality he has, because it is the stupidity, the raw, unrelenting
06:30stupidity that lets him say things like this publicly.
06:38She's got a new line, you know.
06:39She's going, I'm the prosecutor.
06:41She's one of the worst prosecutors in history.
06:43And the campaign says, I'm the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon.
06:49That's their campaign.
06:51I don't think people are going to buy it.
06:54What's to buy?
06:56It's true.
06:57She's a prosecutor, and you are a convicted felon, Donald.
07:01The entire world knows both of those things are true, and both of those things are going
07:07to be true every day of this presidential campaign.
07:10And now the prosecutor wants her day in court, the court of public opinion, with the convicted
07:15felon.
07:16I'm ready to debate Donald Trump.
07:19I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10th debate.
07:24He agreed to that previously.
07:25Now it appears he's backpedaling.
07:26But I'm ready.
07:27And I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a
07:35debate stage.
07:36And so I'm ready.
07:38Let's go.
07:39Donald Trump does pull himself out of the easy chair and get out on the campaign trail,
07:44as he did yesterday.
07:46He no longer uses that line about how he always hires the best people, since so many of the
07:51people he hired as president he then fired, and so many of them and others who worked
07:56for Donald Trump as president, including his vice president, Mike Pence, have turned against
08:01Donald Trump in this presidential campaign.
08:05Donald Trump continues to demonstrate just how bad he is at the very concept of hiring
08:11an expertise in government.
08:13Yesterday he said he wants race car drivers to guide our military.
08:19He wants race car drivers to tell our generals and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Pentagon
08:25what to do.
08:26Donald Trump believes that if you can drive a car in circles, surely you can tell the
08:31entire Defense Department to do what to do in every situation.
08:35He also said he thinks that football coaches should come to the Pentagon and take over
08:40those meetings and tell the generals what to do.
08:43Here's one of Donald Trump's favorite former football coaches.
08:49My opinion of a white nationalist, if somebody wants to call him white nationalist, to me
08:52is an American.
08:54That Alabama white nationalist may be America's stupidest person who has ever won a football
09:00game as a coach.
09:02And he is now, of course, a Republican senator.
09:06While Donald Trump did absolutely nothing today and may have spent the entire day in
09:10pajamas and slippers, we don't know, Kamala Harris accepted the endorsement of the American
09:16Federation of Teachers in Houston.
09:19As you may know, I am a proud product of public education.
09:27Many of you know that my first grade teacher, Mrs. Frances Wilson, God rest her soul, taught
09:35me and educated me and encouraged me and inspired me.
09:42And years later, when I walked across the stage to receive my law school diploma, Mrs.
09:48Frances Wilson was in the audience.
09:56And that's who you are.
09:58I know who you are.
09:59I know who you are.
10:01This work is personal.
10:04And it is professional.
10:05And it is so critically important.
10:08And so it is because of Mrs. Wilson and so many teachers like her that I stand before
10:14you as vice president of the United States of America.
10:21And that I am running to become president of the United States of America.
10:31In this moment, we are in a fight for our most fundamental freedoms.
10:37And to this room of leaders, I say, bring it on.
10:43Bring it on.
10:46Bring it on.
10:49Bring it on.
10:52Bring it on.
10:55Bring it on.
10:58Bring it on.
11:01Bring it on.
11:04Bring it on.
11:07Bring it on.