On Friday night’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell was joined by MSNBC contributor and former Obama official, Wendy Sherman to, not surprisingly criticize the President. O’Donnell began, “There is a very smiling and happy Vladimir Putin joking about how much he hates the news media along with Donald Trump.” Of course, this was very triggering for the liberal media. Sherman commented: “…that Donald Trump aligns himself with these autocrats, with these dictators really is about his being a bully.”
Unsurprisingly, Sherman went on to bully Trump in an extended rant:
Someone who's really quite weak, quite insecure and he thinks that if he sort of struts around and quite frankly if he sexually assaults women, if he struts around as a leader that he is not, if he in fact speaks with a strong voice and a very weak stick that somehow he is going to get the job done. And it is really disgraceful to have someone like this as the President of the United States.
O’Donnell then changed the subject to the President’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea: “He said a very strange thing for a President to say today about Kim Jong-un.” The host quickly corrected himself: “And of course everything he says is a strange thing for a President to say, but this one thing in particular he was talking about basically this tweet that he put out saying, you know, he is hoping to see him when he goes to South Korea if he goes up to the border and they can shake hands at the DMZ.”
The liberal media have been so distraught with the President’s actions that they’ve been engaging in some sudden respect, reminiscing on the days when Reagan was President: “And it made me think back to 1987 when President Reagan, who was not a president who I voted for in that election, went to Berlin and said, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’ Because Ronald Reagan understood that freedom, democracy, human rights, tolerance, multiculturalism were part and parcel of who we were.”
O’Donnell then brought the conversation around to the media’s second most hated person: “So there's Vladimir Putin, apparently saying the Mueller report acquits Russia. When the Mueller report in fact indicts 25 Russians, all of them working for Vladimir Putin in their interference mission.” On cue, Sherman responded: “Well, between Vladimir Putin's statements and Donald Trump's joking around, he basically is begging Putin to do it again.”
Between MSNBC’s lack of patriotic support, and extreme anti-Trump rhetoric, they are basically “begging” to lose viewership.
Here is the transcript from the June 28 episode of The Last Word:
MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
06/28/19
10:42:06 PM ET
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Joining our discussion now, Ambassador Wendy Sherman, former Undersecretary of State in the Obama administration and an MSNBC global affairs contributor. And Ambassador Sherman, I just want to get your reaction to what we just saw in that video. There is a very smiling and happy Vladimir Putin joking about how much he hates the news media along with Donald Trump.
WENDY SHERMAN [MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR]: On a day, Lawrence, when five wonderful journalists lost their lives at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, on this day a year ago, it just reminds us how Vladimir Putin sees the world and it's his world and anybody who stands in the way has to get out of the way and that Donald Trump aligns himself with these autocrats, with these dictators really is about his being a bully. Someone who's really quite weak, quite insecure and he thinks that if he sort of struts around and quite frankly if he sexually assaults women, if he struts around as a leader that he is not, if he in fact speaks with a strong voice and a very weak stick that somehow he is going to get the job done. And it is really disgraceful to have someone like this as the President of the United States.
O’DONNELL: He said a very strange thing for a president to say today about Kim Jong-un. And of course everything he says is a strange thing for a president to say, but this one thing in particular he was talking about basically this tweet that he put out saying, you know, he is hoping to see him when he goes to South Korea if he goes up to the border and they can shake hands at the DMZ. But when he was talking about it he said: “I don't know where he is right now. He may not be in North Korea.” Is it possible that Kim Jong-un would leave North Korea and the president of the United States would not know about that?
SHERMAN: It would be unlikely for him not to know about that. We do have some means to know about his movements, not totally, but yes, the whole statement was bizarre and that point in particular. The President, I thought, also in those comments said, you know, this is really a border that they have at the DMZ. And it made me think back to 1987 when President Reagan, who was not a president who I voted for in that election, went to Berlin and said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Because Ronald Reagan understood that freedom, democracy, human rights, tolerance, multiculturalism were part and parcel of who we were. And Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the Financial Times before the G-20 saying that in fact that western liberalism was obsolete, that the populist right was the way to go. And the President of the United States on the other end of this day is saying that the demilitarized zone, which is actually the most heavily fortified zone in the world with thousands of land mines is exactly the kind of border he was saying he'd like to have with Mexico.
O’DONNELL: Vladimir Putin also said to the Financial Times, he said, "Russia has been accused, and, strange as it may seem, it is still being accused, despite the Mueller report, of mythical interference in the U.S. election. So there's Vladimir Putin, apparently saying the Mueller report acquits Russia. When the Mueller report in fact indicts 25 Russians, all of them working for Vladimir Putin in their interference mission.
SHERMAN: Well, between Vladimir Putin's statements and Donald Trump's joking around, he basically is begging Putin to do it again. And I think that you’re raising up Prime Minister May and her drawing a line with Vladimir Putin is what the President absolutely should be doing if he's really the President of the United States because no one should interfere with our elections. Putin wouldn't want us interfering in his. And clearly we don't because he does it all by himself and he wins with 98% of the vote every single time.
O’DONNELL: Ambassador Wendy Sherman, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
