Lawrence O'Donnell Reveals Moment Trump Became A 'Humiliated Clown' On Live TV
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The president had to back down on Tuesday -- and the world noticed.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said President Donald Trump was forced to back down after his threat to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell caused the stock market to tank.
And in the process, O’Donnell said, Trump was also forced to “implicitly acknowledge” that Powell is even more powerful than he is.
Trump has demanded that Powell cut interest rates and threatened to fire him for not doing so. That’s not a power Trump has, but the threat spooked investors already skittish over Trump’s tariffs and caused the Dow to plunge yet again on Monday.
The Wall Street Journal fired off an editorial calling Trump’s tariffs “the biggest economic policy mistake in decades,” and said Trump’s policies followed by his threat against Powell triggered a financial “meltdown.”
So on Monday, Trump did some damage control.
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The Republican lawmaker said “Trump is not a king” as she accused the president of retreating from “key promises.”
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The far-right group had issued a warning for the president before he launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
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He's one of multiple scandal-plagued men seeking a second (or third or fourth) chance in the New York City Democratic primary.
Separately, the State Department also urged Americans overseas to be vigilant.
“Not exactly a vote of confidence," the Democratic lawmaker wrote online.
Democrats already passed on a chance to force Republicans to accept a crackdown on Donald Trump's brazen crypto self-enrichment schemes.
The vice president received a brutal reminder.
Conservative attorney George Conway led the criticism online.
The president vowed to campaign against Rep. Thomas Massie for opposing him on Iran, the "big beautiful bill" and more.
The president misspelled his own name in a social media post he deleted and corrected.
He posted on the subject shortly after J.D. Vance took a pretty different position.