Lawrence

Political commentary.

• Trump tariff policy is 'chaos and absurdity': Rep. Dean on asking Trump Commerce Secy. about bananas

  MSNBC's Ali Velshi is joined by Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean, to discuss the House Appropriations Cmte. testimony by Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and why he struggled to explain the administration placing tariffs on bananas which can only be grown in a few places inside the United States.

• 'It's just wrong!': Trump blasted for blaming Ukraine after Putin hits civilian targets

  MSNBC's Ali Velshi is joined by Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and MSNBC International Affairs Analyst, to discuss Donald Trump's response to Russia's continued deadly aggression against Ukraine.

• Lawrence: Trump humiliated globally while Musk live-tweets Trump's Oval Office 'stupidity festival'

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how the escalating battle between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over the Republican budget bill now turning personal is the “world's two craziest and most dangerous rich people each trying to find the way to destroy the other.”

• Lawrence: Musk vs. Trump. Trump's silence on Musk's budget bill attacks proves who’s afraid of whom

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details Elon Musk’s escalating attacks on the Trump Republican budget bill while Donald Trump stays silent, “cowering in abject fear of Elon Musk,” as one Senate Republican admits “the plan to deal with Elon Musk is to simply lie about the bill.”

• Lawrence: And on day 134, Musk turned against Trump

  Democrats can now call the Donald Trump-Republican budget bill a "disgusting abomination" and they’d be quoting Elon Musk every time they do it, says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. Now that the budget bill is in the Senate, Lawrence explains that Republican senators are now able to stop the bill or risk Musk funding an opponent in their reelection campaign to the Senate next year.

• Lawrence on USAID cuts: With Musk and Trump, 'soulless mindless entities are what you see'

  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses the deadly realities of Donald Trump and Elon Musk's cuts to USAID plus what Lawrence calls "the crisis" America and the world which is "the complete collapse of mental acuity" in Donald Trump. 

• Rubio says no one is dying from USAID cuts. This reporter went to Africa and says that's not true.

  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by NPR's Global Health Correspondent Gabrielle Emanuel who recently traveled to Africa and found the that stark reality is that the cuts to U.S. aid are indeed having deadly consequences.

• ‘Every dimension of this is chaotic’: Fmr. Biden economic advisor torches Trump on tariffs

  Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Jared Bernstein joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss Donald Trump’s “unconstitutional” tariff policies and why tariffs should be used like a “scalpel” and not, the way Trump uses them, as a “sledgehammer.”

• Ali Velshi: Donald Trump's trade rhetoric is not only outdated, it's divorced from reality

  MSNBC's Ali Velshi breaks down Donald Trump's antiquated thinking on the way the American economy works and how his use of tariffs has created chaos. Velshi also reacts to Trump's attacks against the courts ruling against his tariffs and Trump's latest fight over trade policy with China.

• Lawrence: 'Irreversibly stupid' Trump's biggest tariff 'humiliation day' has yet to come

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Donald Trump, through his lawyers to an appeals court, promised to issue refunds if the Trump tariffs are found to be illegal in a final court ruling, making “refund day … the ultimate humiliation day at the end of Donald Trump's disastrous trade war.”