On Monday night’s Lawrence O’Donnell hour-long derangement session, the host of The Last Word on MS NOW said President Trump was a sociopath and might be less trustworthy than the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi. O’Donnell also later stated Trump had dementia and the 25th amendment should be invoked on “mental health grounds.”
O’Donnell’s recent stretch of monologues had become increasingly more absurd, as he had clamored the last couple weeks for Trump children, especially Barron Trump, to go to Iran and fight or to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.
Lawrence opened as he said the President was a sociopath:
At the start of his Monday monologue, O’Donnell called Trump a sociopath, saying he was “incapable” of being sorry for the lost lives of servicemembers.
This comes from O’Donnell, a host who has spent the last week using dead servicemembers as political props. pic.twitter.com/Jlh9wFUWuq
— Nick (@nspin310) March 18, 2026
Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone other than himself. That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone.
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But the laziest and most mentally vacant president in history, Donald Trump, as he approaches 80 years old, no longer has the energy or the concentration to be able to continue to pretend that he feels sorry for even the members of the American military killed in service in his war.
O’Donnell then framed a situation where the President did not respond to a question from a reporter as if he did not care about the service members who died. This left out the context of the reporter, ABC News producer Miriam Khan, asking multiple question to Trump prior to the end of the press gaggle, much of which were anti-Trump in framing.
Since the war began, O’Donnell, unashamedly, used the dead service members as props for his anti-Trump monologues, so he didn’t have much space to talk.
Then, O’Donnell shifted to claim Trump hallucinated when he said he was called by a former president. He turned this into a call for a constitutional crisis through the 25th amendment:
That kind of public hallucination by a president is more than enough to invoke the 25th Amendment procedure based on the mental health grounds that the president is incapable of serving, and remove the president from his duties, especially in the middle of a war started by that same incompetent president who cannot explain why the war started or what will be necessary to end the war.
O’Donnell made maybe his most heinous claim next where he claimed the Iranian Foreign Minister may be more trustworthy than Trump:
O’Donnell calls Iranian FM more credible than Trump.
O’DONNELL: But with Donald Trump in the White House, we have reached the first time in history where Iran’s Foreign Minister might have more credibility – might have more credibility than the president of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/kelXd72VQP
— Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026
Donald Trump has said that the Iranian leadership is eager to make a deal with him, like the Venezuelan regime did to stop the war. But with Donald Trump in the white house, we have reached the first time in history where Iran’s Foreign Minister might have more credibility, might – might have more credibility than the president of the United States.
Which echoed comments former Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes told the network over the weekend.
To close, he continued to throw insults at Trump, as O’Donnell said Trump calling some reporters “guilty of treason” as a further sign of “Donald Trump teetering on the brink of dementia.”
O’Donnell ended his 13-minute tirade waiting and, seemingly, almost wanting more troops to perish:
And tonight the question remains, who else? Who else is going to die waiting for Donald Trump to feel it in his bones that it’s time to end his war? Who else is going to die and have their deaths ignored by the president who sent them into war? The president, who feels nothing? Who else?
O’Donnell should look himself in the mirror before making such statements since he didn’t have a stellar track record for making those kinds of determinations. Just a few months before President Biden’s presidential campaign went up in flames at the debate, O’Donnell equated Biden to Super Bowl quarterback Patrick Mahomes. He also gave Biden his final tongue bath from the press as president.
The transcript is below. Click “expand”:
MS NOW’s The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell
March 16, 2026
10:02:16 PM Eastern
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone other than himself. That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone. Many sociopaths are capable of saying, I’m sorry for your loss if someone in your family dies, but they are incapable of actually feeling sorry for your loss. They just know they’re supposed to say those words, those well rehearsed words.
But the laziest and most mentally vacant president in history, Donald Trump, as he approaches 80 years old, no longer has the energy or the concentration to be able to continue to pretend that he feels sorry for even the members of the American military killed in service in his war. No president has ever gotten this wrong until Donald Trump. Acknowledging and honoring American military deaths is something every president got right. Most brought no particular eloquence to the moment, but they always found the words to acknowledge and honor military sacrifice.
Until Donald Trump last night at 9:17 pm. With the cameras rolling, Donald Trump’s mind and feelings appeared to be an apparent sociopathic lockdown, possibly when he was asked about the six air force personnel on a refueling plane that crashed in Donald Trump’s new war zone. Watch what Donald Trump says and does in a moment that so obviously calls for sympathy and admiration and honor, things Donald Trump apparently just cannot feel.
[Cuts to video]
REPORTER: Do you have a comment on the six service members who died last week?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Go ahead, who else?
{Cuts back to live]
O’DONNELL: Nothing. Not a word, just an immediate turn away. Who else? Who else has a question that’s not about the war dead? Six American Air Force personnel lose their lives in a refuelling accident in Donald Trump’s war and Donald Trump doesn’t have a word to say about them and their sacrifice and their families suffering.
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10:08:03 PM
O’DONNELL: Donald Trump continues to deepen his pathological lying about his war, saying today he has spoken to a former president, a Democrat who supports his war. That is, of course, an obvious lie. Each of the former living democratic presidents, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden issued statements saying that no, none of them talked to Donald Trump about his war.
That kind of public hallucination by a president is more than enough to invoke the 25th Amendment procedure based on the mental health grounds that the president is incapable of serving, and remove the president from his duties, especially in the middle of a war started by that same incompetent president who cannot explain why the war started or what will be necessary to end the war.
Donald Trump gave the stupidest answer in the history of the question: When will the war be over?
[Cuts to video]
TRUMP: I don’t think it’s going to be long. When it’s over, this is going to bounce right back so fast.
BRIAN KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it’s over?
TRUMP: It when I feel it.
KILMEADE: Okay.
TRUMP: I feel it in my bones.
[Cuts back to live]
O’DONNELL: Asking Donald Trump questions like this is a meaningless exercise. Donald Trump’s answers have absolutely no meaning. Donald Trump’s answers conflict with Donald Trump’s answers all the time. And so it’s just a game played by reporters who are allowed to ask Donald Trump questions.
But no one can pretend to have learned something or been illuminated by a Donald Trump answer. That never happens. The question and answer format format is now just another way of publicly tracking Donald Trump’s incoherence.
Donald Trump has said that the Iranian leadership is eager to make a deal with him, like the Venezuelan regime did to stop the war. But with Donald Trump in the white house, we have reached the first time in history where Iran’s Foreign Minister might have more credibility, might – might have more credibility than the president of the United States.
[Cuts to video]
ABBAS ARAGHCHI (Iranian Foreign Minister): No, we never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes.
[Cuts back to live]
O’DONNELL: Donald Trump has gone from saying the United States military doesn’t need anyone’s help in this war to desperately begging any and all foreign countries to help him in his war.
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10:12:29 PM
O’DONNELL: Donald Trump is now calling for accurate reporting on his war treason. That’s his word for it. No matter how many times Donald Trump uses the word, no one has to fear a treason conviction because there hasn’t been one since World War II. The reason we have not had a treason conviction since World War II is the supreme court has held that a necessary precondition for the crime of treason is a declaration of war, because the constitution defines treason as giving aid and comfort to our enemies.
The word enemy carries legal meaning, and the only way to qualify as an enemy in a treason case is for that enemy to be named in writing in a declaration of war, which the United States of America has not passed since World War II.
And yes, it’s outrageous. And further signs of Donald Trump teetering on the brink of dementia. But from Donald Trump, the word treason is just another empty threat. Just like every threat issued by his FCC chair who issues his threats on social media pretending to have powers that he doesn’t have.
Brendan Carr is the only deranged FCC chair in American history, the only one who imagines he has powers that don’t exist when he threatens to revoke licenses of broadcast networks if their reporting on Donald Trump’s war is accurate. The FCC chair has no such power, no matter what the networks do.
He is a clown, playing to an audience of one who is an ignoramus. And so accurate television reporting about Donald Trump’s war will continue, and Donald Trump will continue to describe reporting on his war dead as treason. And when he’s asked about it, he will immediately turn away from that question and ask the White House Press Corps who else? And that next compliant reporter will do what they always reliably do for Donald Trump in the white house press corps. They will change the subject.
And tonight the question remains, who else? Who else is going to die waiting for Donald Trump to feel it in his bones that it’s time to end his war? Who else is going to die and have their deaths ignored by the president who sent them into war? The president, who feels nothing? Who else?
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