Trump getting – Lawrence O’Donnell criticized Donald Trump for getting “lost in his own lies” after the president said he “loves” inflation and offered a confusing explanation, arguing Republicans now carry the political burden while Democrats can use the video in campaign ad
Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t wait long before pointing to the moment he said Donald Trump’s story began to unravel.
The television host focused on Trump’s confusing explanation for his so-called “love” of inflation, describing how the president appeared to lose his own thread when he said, “I love the inflation,” then asked, “You know why?”, before, in O’Donnell’s view, forgetting the answer.
O’Donnell framed it as more than just a gaffe. He argued that a 79-year-old Trump—“days away from being 80-year-old Donald Trump”—is now getting “lost in his own lies now much more than he used to.”
To make his point, he compared Trump’s pitch to a salesman selling an apartment in the 1980s. In O’Donnell’s retelling. a potential buyer looks out the window and sees only the brick wall of a building next door. Still. the seller insists. O’Donnell said. “I love that there’s no view. ” then tries to sweeten the deal by talking up how the lack of direct sunlight would supposedly help—by keeping wakeful light out of the morning.
In the same breath, O’Donnell said the pattern he was seeing was familiar: “The lying, salesman junk that desperate, fast-talking liars like Donald Trump traffic in so nervously as he did today.”
He then turned to Trump’s broader claim that he loves “every price going up,” including for people who voted for him. O’Donnell emphasized that as the video message sits in the public record, it remains part of the political fight.
After the comments, Trump later clarified to the New York Post on Wednesday that he actually loved that inflation wasn’t any higher—an explanation that O’Donnell treated as further evidence of how the original line landed and stuck.
As the segment moved toward the electoral stakes, O’Donnell said Republicans are now “left with the burden” of the president’s remarks as they seek reelection.
Democrats, he argued, have a simpler path: they can show Trump saying it on video “in as many campaign commercials as they want,” making the president’s inflation language a ready-made message for voters who want to know what he meant and whether they can trust the answer.
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So he “loves” inflation… ok. Can someone fact check this man real quick?
I don’t even get why people are arguing about love for inflation like that doesn’t just mean he likes low prices or something. Also Lawrence O’Donnell always sounds like he’s about to read a bedtime story lol.
Wait I thought Trump said inflation goes up because of Democrats? But then this says Republicans are stuck with the burden? I’m confused. The article lost me when they started comparing it to an apartment salesman??
O’Donnell making it into a whole “he forgot his line” thing is kinda rich. Like politicians don’t constantly ramble. Trump later said he didn’t love inflation being higher right? So either way, they’re both spinning it. Also I swear every time I hear “love that there’s no view” I think of a totally different movie.