Lawrence O’Donnell did not hold back on Wednesday’s edition of “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” The MSNBC anchor lambasted the President of the United States again — this time declaring Donald Trump‘s brain “broken” and “shattered” and calling him out for his recent “vile, antisemitic” remarks about Democratic New York senator and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“Donald Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged,” O’Donnell began. “Once again today, Donald Trump said something that would have gotten any other president rushed to the hospital for a neurological examination and an evaluation for dementia.” O’Donnell then played a clip from Trump’s recent press conference with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheál Martin, in which Trump questioned Schumer’s Jewish identity.
“It was a vile antisemitic outburst,” O’Donnell said about Trump’s response to a question about lowering corporate taxes, which ended with the president, out of nowhere, commenting, “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”
“Not a single Republican anywhere in America who claims to be a staunch supporter of Israel and the Jewish people rose up to object to Donald Trump declaring Chuck Schumer to not be Jewish anymore,” O’Donnell somberly observed following the clip. “So Donald Trump, who has no idea what it is to be Jewish or Palestinian, now decides who is Jewish in this country.”
Turning his ire on the entire Republican Party, O’Donnell added, “The disgrace of every elected Republican in Washington is that not one of them dares to complain about that kind of poison coming out of the foul mouth of Donald Trump.”
“Trump’s mind is gone. It is shattered,” he continued. “Not a single person who ever tries to interpret Donald Trump for you and defensively tries to tell you what Donald Trump meant when he says something insane ever uses the actual words of Donald Trump to explain Donald Trump, because Donald Trump, who once said, ‘I have the best words,’ says things all the time, every day, that make absolutely no sense and frequently are filled with hatred.”
O’Donnell then took a moment to draw a chilling historical parallel between Trump’s comments and the actions of a certain 20th-century national leader. “The United States of America now has a head of state who decides who is Jewish and who is not. Who else had a head of state who did that? Ever heard of a head of state doing anything like that?” the MSNBC host rhetorically asked.
“You have to be in your 90s to remember the last time the world had a head of state who decided who was Jewish and who was not,” he concluded. “That was one of Adolf Hitler’s first ideas about how to govern Germany.”
You can watch the full 19-minute segment yourself in the video above.
