The liberal media would rather promote terrorists and a “murderous dictatorship” above President Donald Trump. MS NOW’s radical leftist host Lawrence O’Donnell provides more evidence for this theory every single time his withering face disgraces the TV screen. With his squinty eyes filled with nothing but hate, on Tuesday’s episode of The Last Word, O’Donnell went so far as to platform actual Iranian propaganda and then suggest that Trump was worse than that oppressive and homicidal regime.
A simple seven-word phrase was enough to set off O’Donnell’s crazed on-air rant:
It's one of Donald Trump's tics: “If you want to know the truth.” And every single time I have ever heard that, man, use that phrase, “if you want to know the truth,” he said it after a lie.
O’Donnell called the phrase a “tic.” By definition, a tic is a habit that the user can’t necessarily control, so O’Donnell is attacking the President for something that he doesn’t do on purpose and probably can’t suppress.
Annoying habits aside, O’Donnell said, “We want to know the truth. And we all know it's impossible to get that from Donald Trump about anything.”
On the contrary, Trump has been one of, if not the, most upfront and blunt presidents in recent history. No one ever has to wonder what he thinks about something. All you’d have to do is go to his Truth Social page, and you’ll be smacked by more honesty than the leftist media has given in the past 50 years.
O’Donnell also took the opportunity to sympathize with Iran, one of America’s greatest enemies, and promote its state propaganda straight from the X account of Iran’s foreign minister:
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Iranian dictatorship, which has never dealt with a more clownish person anywhere in the world than Donald Trump, issued this statement.
Never mind that on the screen, O’Donnell’s producers showed an edited version of the X statement and put a fake verification mark by the username, which is not actually on the account.
In O’Donnell’s smooth brain, we really ought to feel bad that Iran has to talk to Trump. It’s not something he would wish on his worst enemy:
That's what we're dealing with in the presidency during wartime. That's what Iran is watching every day. That's the clown on the other side of the negotiations that Iran might or might not be engaging in with the United States.
Perhaps most egregiously, O’Donnell added, “The Iranian regime is a horrible, murderous dictatorship. But Donald Trump has publicly lied more about his war with Iran than Iran has.”
As we all know, whatever comes before the word but in a sentence means absolutely nothing. Though, for O’Donnell, it’s just another regular broadcast when you casually imply the President of the United States is no better or even worse than Iran’s “horrible, murderous dictatorship.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
6/9/26
10:07:37 p.m. Eastern(…)
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: It's one of Donald Trump's tics: “If you want to know the truth.” And every single time I have ever heard that man use that phrase, “if you want to know the truth,” he said it after a lie.
‘We should be able to do it in one hour, if you want to know the truth.’ ‘We should be able to reach a complex peace agreement with Iran that would prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in one hour.’
The same person, the same person said in his interview last weekend with Meet the Press that this kind of negotiation takes years. That was Donald Trump's defense on Meet the Press for not having already negotiated a peace agreement. He said, quote, “It takes years to do these things.”
And so, yes, we want to know the truth. And we all know it's impossible to get that from Donald Trump about anything. And so, Donald Trump says that it could be in “two or three days.” Those were his exact words. It could be in “two or three days.” A reporter simply repeats those words back to him: “You'll be signing a peace agreement in two or three days?” And Donald Trump immediately says, “No, no.”
That's what we're dealing with in the presidency during wartime. That's what Iran is watching every day. That's the clown on the other side of the negotiations that Iran might or might not be engaging in with the United States.
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Iranian dictatorship, which has never dealt with a more clownish person anywhere in the world than Donald Trump, issued this statement, quote:
"Despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination. Our powerful armed forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered. Leave our region if you want to be safe. History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders."
Nothing in the Iranian statement about two or three days.
And so, we've reached this extraordinary point in history. In a war Donald Trump started with Iran's dictatorship 102 days ago, Donald Trump has lied repeatedly every single time he has been asked when his war will end. And Iran has not lied once about when the war will end.
And the Iranian regime is a horrible, murderous dictatorship. But Donald Trump has publicly lied more about his war with Iran than Iran has.
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