Battle-Fatigued Lawrence O'Donnell Steps Away from MSNBC, Citing “Exhaustion” from Trump's Success
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell announced he will be stepping away from his show, The Last Word, due to being “overwhelmed” by the reality of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The anti-Trump host, who built his entire career on attacking the President, is now suffering battle fatigue.
O’Donnell told fellow TDS sufferer Rachel Maddow that he could not “keep up” with the harsh reality of Trump’s success.
“This is day 52, I thought it was day 92,” O’Donnell said.
“So I’m going to take next week off. And I’m telling you that now because I know you don’t like it when I just drift away. Just taking next week off,” he said.
“Then I’m going to come back and go with you all the way to the 800 days. I can’t. I know.”
Maddow, who also appeared to realize she is in the midst of a losing battle with Trump, put on a brave face, saying, “We all tell each other you have to take care of yourself, you have to pace yourself, you have to be in this for the long haul.”
“So I can’t hold it against you, but I’m very sad.”
If it wasn’t for the damage these two hosts have done to America over the last eight years, you’d almost feel sorry for them.
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O’Donnell added, “Can you hold this against me? Can you hold this against me? I’m going to get a head start by taking tomorrow off.”
O’Donnell’s admission confirms that the liberal media cannot stand against the brutal force of the new Trump administration.
The current layoffs and restructuring among many media outlets highlight the sheer scale of the panic many networks are experiencing.
Will they finally learn their lesson? Hardly! Only this week, the liberal host again went off the rails, claiming Trump’s brain was “broken” and “badly damaged” simply because the president criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“So America is at this hour completing the 52nd day of having a President of the United States whose brain does not work. Donald Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged, as he exhibits every day. And once again, today, Donald Trump said something that would have gotten any other president rushed to the hospital for a neurological examination and an evaluation for dementia, for starters,” O’Donnell ranted.
“That’s where they would have begun.”
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