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O'Donnell: 'Stupidest' presidency has 'stupidest' White House press corps [View all]
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O'Donnell: 'Stupidest' presidency has 'stupidest' White House press corps
— USpolitics 🇺🇸 (@uspol.skyfleet.blue) 2025-07-09T14:53:22.717Z
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5391616-lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-second-term-press-corps/
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell called President Trump’s second term the “stupidest” presidency in history and said it is being covered by the “stupidest” press corps.
“Well, the possibility of a relentlessly stupid person becoming president of the United States has been underexplored by screenwriters,” O’Donnell said Tuesday on his nightly show “The Last Word.”
“And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.
The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”
The president, in this fictional scenario, O’Donnell continued, would “absolutely never talk to the press because a stupid president’s stupidity would be immediately exposed by the White House press corps.”
“And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.
The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”
“Well, the possibility of a relentlessly stupid person becoming president of the United States has been underexplored by screenwriters,” O’Donnell said Tuesday on his nightly show “The Last Word.”
“And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.
The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”
The president, in this fictional scenario, O’Donnell continued, would “absolutely never talk to the press because a stupid president’s stupidity would be immediately exposed by the White House press corps.”
“And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency,” he added.
The veteran host compared the current White House to that of the Emmy-winning NBC show “The West Wing” and said, “if I were writing the character of a stupid president in a script, I would simply have had the stupid president completely rely on a smart White House staff and a smart cabinet and just hide behind those people.”
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