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Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Trump ‘Laziest, Most Ignorant President' in History
Newsbusters ^ | March 24, 2017 | 4:57 PM EDT | Randy Hall

Posted on 03/24/2017 4:09:13 PM PDT by drewh

Never one to miss a chance to slam President Donald Trump, Lawrence O’Donnell -- host of The Last Word, a weeknight program on MSNBC -- called the Republican occupant of the White House “the laziest, most ignorant president in history.”

Of course, he had an entirely different opinion of former Democratic President Barack Obama, who “never once said something like this in the crusade to get that thing passed because he knew how to stay with it and get it passed.”

The liberal host began the discussion by criticizing the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill intended to replace Obamacare and the differing opinions on the bill held by the president and the Republicans who have a majority of members in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

O’Donnell stated:

That's why this is so devastating. If you are a House Republican, and this is a tough vote for you, the president is saying to you on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow: ‘I quit, and I quit in the Senate.”

“I do not have the patience or the ability to stay focused on this and get it through the Senate, which is much harder than getting it through the House.”

Panelist Steven Brill, an American lawyer and journalist who wrote a book on health care entitled America’s Bitter Pill, responded: “I agree with you, but let’s put one thing in perspective.”

“As someone who watched Obamacare,” Brill stated, “it took 15 months. It was dead at least ten different times. Even if it doesn’t pass tomorrow, they could do something else and they could come back to it, and they might.”

That was when O’Donnell unleashed his venom toward Trump and praised Obama.

Then Joshua Barro, a journalist who currently contributes to Business Insider as a political commentator, presented a somewhat different perspective:

He’s lazy and ignorant, but he has a really good marketing sense.

He knows that this is not really what he ran for president on. He talked about it because Republicans have to talk about it, but he ran about trade and crime and immigration and making America great again.

In addition, Trump “was saying that he’d give insurance for everyone,” Barro stated. “He understood that this is not something Americans wanted, and I think that was against his better judgment to listen to (House Speaker) Paul Ryan about doing this first. He should have started with a tax cut.”

In an article posted on the Free Beacon website by Chandler Gill, the media analyst noted that the president “reportedly told congressional Republicans on Thursday that he was done negotiating on the American Health Care Act.”

Gill noted that Trump “apparently told GOP lawmakers” that they needed to vote on the plan Friday in its current form or live with the Affordable Care Act remaining in place.”

The conflict among Republican officials also drew the attention of Matthew Belvedere on the CNBC cable television channel, who interviewed White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney early Friday.

Referring to Trump, Mulvaney said he "is not a politician. This is a businessman, and he thinks the time has come to a vote.”

Many members of the Freedom Caucus didn't believe the GOP health bill went far enough to eradicate Obamacare's framework, Belvedere stated.

“Trump is prepared to move on to other legislative priorities such as tax cuts for individuals and corporations and updating the nation's infrastructure systems,” Mulvaney said before noting:

He has other things he wants to do. Impatient is not the right word. Busy would be the right way to describe this president.

He doesn't want to spend the time for the next two, four, six, eight months, whatever it would take. That's what it would take if you let the House go about its own business.

It now appears that the president can devote his time to other matters since Republican leaders in the House abruptly pulled the health-care bill on Friday afternoon, according to an article in the Washington Post.

Not surprisingly, the reporters claimed: “The decision means the Affordable Care Act remains in place, at least for now, and a major GOP campaign promise goes unfulfilled.”

“It also casts doubt on the GOP’s ability to govern and to advance other high-stakes agenda items, including tax reform and infrastructure spending,” they added.

O’Donnell and his fellow liberals at MSNBC will probably gloat about the GOP’s failure to pass the bill for a while, but Trump still has about three years to push through another version of the health-care proposal.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: fakeamericans; fakenews; msnbc
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To: drewh

American Press = Paid Democrat Liars


21 posted on 03/24/2017 4:20:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Lazy! Very few could keep his pace for three days.


22 posted on 03/24/2017 4:21:07 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: drewh
Donald Hasn't been in office for 100 days and has only started to do stuff and the left is in no hurry to attack him for whatever he has yet to do or not do.

I'd better get some more popcorn...

23 posted on 03/24/2017 4:21:38 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: dragnet2

Hammer and Sickle gang loathe this man. I love it! Suck it up Lawrence-


24 posted on 03/24/2017 4:22:52 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: drewh

Never heard of him but then I don’t watch MSNBC.


25 posted on 03/24/2017 4:23:34 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: drewh

I really dislike this deranged commie a-hole.


26 posted on 03/24/2017 4:24:24 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: timestax

1? You are really going out on a limb here.

Does that include both the Turtle and Parrot, whose owners happen to leave the TV on for them at night?


27 posted on 03/24/2017 4:24:34 PM PDT by Trueblackman (Who knew Trump would cause tthis level of derangement among the Socialists, Liberals & Establements)
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To: drewh

ODonnell is one of the most vitriolic talking heads on MSNBC. He prides himself on refusing to say, Mr. President.


28 posted on 03/24/2017 4:25:43 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: drewh

Drunk again????


29 posted on 03/24/2017 4:27:01 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: drewh
Image result for lawrence o'donnell perfection of the hillary clinton campaign
30 posted on 03/24/2017 4:27:15 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: drewh

Someone should introduce Larry to Barry. Talk about lazy and dumb.


31 posted on 03/24/2017 4:30:34 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: drewh

Would love to see ODonnell stay up with the President for even a day let alone a week. Complete brainless liberal idiot.


32 posted on 03/24/2017 4:32:27 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: drewh

Lawrence O’Donnell.. another NOBODY talking about NOTHING.


33 posted on 03/24/2017 4:37:18 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: drewh
O'Donnell probably thinks best President ever is Josiah Bartlet.

-PJ

34 posted on 03/24/2017 4:40:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: drewh

Who?


35 posted on 03/24/2017 4:41:19 PM PDT by Mister Baredog (AP Headline: Global Warming found on Mars, it's Trumps fault!)
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To: God luvs America

Is that him? I’ve never seen or heard of him before.
Apparently for good reason.


36 posted on 03/24/2017 4:47:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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To: drewh

O’Donnell is being ridiculous. He’s only saying that because obama has already been proclaimed as laziest president. One might even say shiftless.


37 posted on 03/24/2017 4:50:03 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: drewh

POTUS LAZY? This TV host is clueless.

Must be nice to get paid for hosting a show nobody watches!

Whatever this jackass says, it’s like spitting into the wind.


38 posted on 03/24/2017 4:52:17 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: drewh

Trump is a Billonaire. Larry is a journalist. Smells like penis envy.


39 posted on 03/24/2017 4:56:10 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: drewh

Trump is one of the hardest working human beings I’ve ever seen, president or civilian.

This is just another lazy fake news hit piece, done by a particularly nasty evil Democrat party operative.


40 posted on 03/24/2017 4:58:22 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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