In the Oval Office today, Donald Trump used “Palestinian” as a slur and said the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, Chuck Schumer, is “not Jewish.” Those comments went unchallenged by the reporters in the room. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains the problem with reporters learning not to be outraged by anything Trump says.
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00:00And so America is at this hour completing the 52nd day of having a
00:08president of the United States whose brain does not work. Donald Trump's
00:15brain is broken, badly damaged. As he exhibits every day and once again today
00:21Donald Trump said something that would have gotten any other president rushed
00:25to the hospital for a neurological examination and an evaluation for
00:29dementia. For starters that's where they would have begun. It was a vile
00:34anti-semitic outburst by the man who once said this after he saw a black
00:41accountant working at one of his failed casinos. Quote, black guys counting my
00:49money I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys
00:54that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my
00:59money. No one else. That is how the anti-semitic president of the United
01:06States sees Jewish men. Little short men who wear yarmulkes every day. That's
01:13Donald Trump. Donald Trump spewed this demented poison today. What the poison we
01:23will get to. It came out of him in response to this question.
01:33Well we are we are planning to lower taxes yeah if the Democrats behave but
01:38the Democrats have no clue. Are you planning to lower corporate taxes like
01:44Ireland? There's Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office today with the head of
01:47the Irish government asked a question about corporate taxes in Ireland and the
01:51United States which then got him rambling on for a few completely
01:56irrelevant paragraphs that could never be called an answer and then he ended
02:03his response to that question about corporate taxes with this hateful
02:12statement about Chuck Schumer. Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned
02:19you know he's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish he's not Jewish
02:23anymore he's a Palestinian. Not a single Republican anywhere in America who
02:31claims to be a staunch supporter of Israel and the Jewish people rose up to
02:37object to Donald Trump declaring Chuck Schumer to not be Jewish anymore so
02:44Donald Trump who has no idea what it is to be Jewish or Palestinian now decides
02:48who is Jewish in this country only in his own perverse deeply brain deeply
02:56perverse brain could he do that but the disgrace of every elected Republican in
03:03Washington is that not one of them dares to complain about that kind of poison
03:08coming out of the foul mouth of Donald Trump and not one of them worries about
03:13the mental capacity of the kind of person who can say that who oh by the
03:17way has access to the nuclear codes while he's saying things like that
03:22Donald Trump's mind is gone it is shattered you just saw that there is no
03:27recognizable neurological function going on there not a single person who ever
03:33tries to interpret Donald Trump for you and defensively tries to tell you what
03:37Donald Trump meant when he says something insane ever uses the actual
03:42words of Donald Trump to explain Donald Trump because Donald Trump who once
03:47said I have the best words says things all the time every day that make
03:53absolutely no sense and frequently are filled with hatred he's not Jewish
04:01anymore so the United States of America now has a head of state who decides
04:06who's Jewish and who isn't who else had a head of state who did that ever heard
04:12of a head of state doing anything like that you have to be in your 90s to
04:18remember the last time the world had a head of state who decided who was Jewish
04:22and who was not that was one of Adolf Hitler's first ideas about how to
04:28govern Germany first of all decide who's Jewish and who is not the people who
04:34attacked the Capitol on January 6th and made their way to the Senate were heard
04:38saying where's the big Jew they meant Chuck Schumer who had just become the
04:44first Jewish majority leader of the United States Senate in history the day
04:48before the attack and that was not lost on Trump supporters who attacked the
04:52Capitol wearing clothing celebrating the Holocaust Robert Keith Packer was
04:57wearing his camp Auschwitz hoodie what would he have done if he had found Chuck
05:05Schumer while Donald Trump supporters were looking for Chuck Schumer saying
05:09where's the big Jew Donald Trump was silent for 187 minutes if Donald Trump
05:17was ever going to say Chuck Schumer isn't Jewish maybe then maybe then when
05:22his people were walking around the Senate saying where's the big Jew Nazis
05:28invaded the capital of the United States looking for Chuck Schumer 76 years after
05:34Nazis were rounding up and executing members of Chuck Schumer's family in
05:40Nazi death camps and today the poisonous broken brain of Donald Trump said he
05:46used to be Jewish he's not Jewish anymore all of these same people in the
05:51world all of the same people in America all of the same people in the Republican
05:55Party the same ones do not have to work hard to not say things like that they
06:03are not spending their day and their energy fighting the impulse to say Chuck
06:09Schumer is not Jewish anymore because they are not insane on CNBC yesterday
06:15the normally mild-mannered very pro-business Steve Leesman used a word
06:21I've never heard him used before in his analysis of the economy or the stock
06:26market or anything else it was the word insane and he applied it to Donald Trump
06:32I'm gonna say this at risk of my job Kelly but what President Trump is doing
06:36is insane it is absolutely insane it is about the eighth reason we've had for
06:42the tariffs and now he's saying he's putting 50% tariffs on Canada unless
06:47they agree to become the 51st state that is insane there is just no other way of
06:52describing it that's enough for Donald Trump to call Steve Leesman a
06:58Palestinian that's enough for Donald Trump to say he's not Jewish anymore
07:01Steve Leesman is not a short guy with a yarmulke so maybe Donald Trump thinks
07:06Steve Leesman doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to anything
07:10financial or economic it took an insane person to make Steve Leesman use the
07:18word insane in describing what Donald Trump is doing to the economy and the
07:22stock market with his tariffs and it took an insane person to say Schumer is
07:26a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned you know he's become a Palestinian he
07:32used to be Jewish he's not Jewish anymore he's a Palestinian okay that's
07:39what Donald Trump's last word was okay no not okay and it's not okay that we
07:46live in a country where that is not a story it is not okay where the New York
07:53Times which is read by more Jewish people than any other newspaper in the
07:58world doesn't have a story about the president of the United States deciding
08:03that the Senate Democratic leader is not Jewish anymore once again imagine what
08:07the New York Times would do if Joe Biden had said that how many inches high would
08:13the headline be on page one about Joe Biden or any other president saying that
08:18but Donald Trump's most insane statements including the ones filled
08:22with bigotry and hatred now just slipped through the cracks the very big
08:26cracks in the American news media and most people in Israel and most people in
08:31the world most people in America most Jewish people will not know that the
08:36only president of the United States in history who can legitimately be
08:41described as insane has decided and announced that Chuck Schumer is not
08:46Jewish anymore and we're told we have to select our outrage with Donald Trump
08:53I understand that we can't be outraged at everything we're told I guess that's
08:58true but the problem with that approach is that too many reporters and too many
09:04members of the news media are learning not to be outraged by anything and that
09:10is exactly what happened in the Oval Office today because when Donald Trump
09:14finished saying he's a Palestinian and then he turned to the reporters saying
09:18okay meaning I'm ready to take another question not one of them said a word to
09:24him about what he just said about Chuck Schumer that was one of the most
09:29disgraceful public moments in the history of the Oval Office if not the
09:33most disgraceful possibly out done only by Donald Trump in other Oval Office
09:38moments and not one White House reporter screamed at Donald Trump about
09:44that not one of them said a word to Donald Trump asked a single question to
09:49Donald Trump about when he became in charge of deciding who is Jewish
09:54remember how they used to scream at Joe Biden remember that sound that wasn't
10:00there today after Donald Trump said Chuck Schumer is not Jewish anymore you
10:06know what they'll tell you they'll say well he didn't mean it White House
10:12reporters will tell you that they'll say he didn't mean it when someone doesn't
10:16mean what they're saying there's supposed to be something in the delivery
10:23that makes that apparent especially if it's a joke for example let's take a
10:27look let's take a look at Donald Trump saying this one more time and when you
10:33look at this see if you can find the slightest hint that he doesn't mean
10:40every word of this Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned you
10:47know he's become a Palestinian he used to be Jewish he's not Jewish anymore
10:51he's a Palestinian and then he turns and says okay to the reporters I guess it
11:00was okay with them Donald Trump didn't say a single thing today with more
11:06seriousness than he said he's not Jewish anymore and Donald Trump said that
11:13sitting beside Ireland's head of state and an annual visit around st. Patrick's
11:18Day which is Monday to celebrate the Irish contribution to American life the
11:23Irish head of state always comes to the White House around this time of year
11:27around March 17th Michael Martin is the leader of a country whose people take
11:35their Irish identity very seriously Irish Americans have been known to take
11:39their Irish identity sometimes too seriously like on st. Patrick's Day when
11:45they can call it cause a traffic jam here and there but saying Chuck Schumer
11:50isn't Jewish anymore is the neurological equivalent of saying Michael
11:59Martin the head of the Irish government sitting beside Donald Trump in the Oval
12:02Office isn't Irish anymore go ahead Donald turn to him and say that to him
12:07turn to him in the Oval Office and say to him he's not Irish anymore because
12:12what you don't know Donald Trump is that the Irish government has a much more
12:18sympathetic posture toward Palestinians than Chuck Schumer ever has much more
12:23and you wouldn't dare Donald Trump to turn to Michael Martin and say you're
12:30not Irish anymore you're a Palestinian wouldn't dare Donald Trump has a broken
12:40brain that leaks ugly poison every day and it cannot be fixed it is getting
12:49worse it is worse on day 52 of his presidency than it was on the first day
12:54of his presidency this time and it will be worse on the hundredth day of his
12:59presidency and it will be worse much much worse on the thousandth day of his
13:04presidency and on this the 52nd day of his presidency today Donald Trump the
13:14weakling backed down in a very big way once again we've seen Donald Trump's
13:21childish and now predictably weak backing down on his ridiculous tariff
13:27game his dangerously stupid tariff game that he's playing against Canada and
13:31Mexico in the world but today Donald Trump backed down on something that's
13:36even bigger to him and it is much more important to his voters than tariffs
13:41which is why Donald Trump is using the tariff game and the madness it has
13:46created to distract from his biggest broken promise to his followers and his
13:53biggest failure so far and that is mass deportation there have been no mass
14:03deportations none and the breaking news of the night is the New York Times
14:09reporting ice returns all migrants from Guantanamo to stateside facilities
14:16that's right all of them and there were very few there remember the promises of
14:24the 30,000 people who are going to be scooped up in the United States and
14:28sent straight to Guantanamo 30,000 he didn't even send 300 not even one-tenth
14:34of 1% of what he said he was going to do and now he's given up on Guantanamo and
14:39doesn't want you to know it the New York Times reports as of Friday according to
14:43a court filing this week 290 migrants from 27 countries have since cycled
14:49through the base as of Friday the court filing said 17 migrants were being held
14:55in a medium security facility a dormitory style building on the other
14:59side of the base from the wartime prison where 23 were in camp six so that is a
15:06grand total of 40 as of last week 40 people detained by Donald Trump at
15:16Guantanamo Bay as of Friday and now there are none zero the operation has so
15:23far cost 16 million dollars according to representatives of the Guantanamo
15:27migrant detention mission who briefed the congressional delegation during a
15:31visit last week it has a staff of a thousand security forces and civilian
15:36contractors many of them mobilized from military bases in the United States in
15:42other words many of them mobilized from military bases in the United States for
15:46no reason to go to Guantanamo and do nothing a complete Trump Ian waste of
15:52money while his court jester Elon Musk is trying is trying to pretend that he's
15:58the one who's finding the waste in the federal government immigration law
16:05specialists have questioned the legal basis for the operation arguing that the
16:09act does not authorize the government to transfer people to the soil of another
16:15unrelated country without its consent nor they said does it provide authority
16:18to detain people outside the territorial United States which appears to exclude
16:25Guantanamo that is what Donald Trump is trying to hide that's why he's illegally
16:32using federal property to try to sell Elon Musk's cars which American buyers
16:37are turning away from apparently because they don't want to be accused of driving
16:42what could be interpreted as the rolling version of a Nazi salute thanks to Elon
16:48Musk's disgraceful public antics that's what that car has become in the minds of
16:53some antics that the president of General Motors doesn't do idiotic antics
17:00that the president of Ford doesn't do hateful posts on social media that the
17:05presidents of other automobile companies don't do because the people running
17:09General Motors and Ford don't publicly disgrace themselves every day people can
17:15buy electric cars from General Motors and Ford without fear of the very car
17:20itself associating the driver with any political position at all Donald Trump
17:28wasn't asked a single question about Guantanamo Bay yesterday when he was
17:32trying to sell cars illegally on federal property in the White House driveway
17:36Donald Trump wasn't asked a single question about Guantanamo Bay in the
17:40Oval Office today when he decided that Chuck Schumer isn't Jewish anymore
17:44Donald Trump's so-called border czar Tom Homan is busy trying to threaten mayors
17:50in places like Boston which has the lowest crime rate of any major city
17:54because Donald Trump knows Tom Homan has failed to round up and deport the
18:01millions of people that Donald Trump promised to throw out of this country
18:05right away under the Donald Trump presidency inflation went up the price
18:10of eggs went way way way up and are still going up the stock market is going
18:15way down and tonight Guantanamo Bay is empty instead of being a harsh holding
18:21pen for the tens of thousands of criminals who Donald Trump has not found
18:25after insisting they'd be easy to find and round up and get rid of and so far
18:30the only people Donald Trump has managed to get rid of our American citizens who
18:37work in America for the American government and that's the way it is as
18:46of day 52
19:07you