Lawrence O’Donnell tore into President Donald Trump for his “dazed and confused incoherence” during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday’s “The Last Word.”
O’Donnell focused on one section of the president’s remarks, in which he discussed the “most-favored-nation” policy that he has adopted for prescription drugs. According to Trump, the plan would lower drug costs in the U.S. while pushing other nations to pay more.
The president spoke about a recent phone conversation he said he’d had with French President Emmanuel Macron in which he’d threatened France with tariffs if Macron refused to raise drug prices there.
But O’Donnell didn’t buy the anecdote, calling it a “hallucinated conversation.”
“He made up a conversation with the president of France in which he forced the president of France to raise drug prices in France — something no politician would ever do — and, by the way, something that is impossible for the president of France to do,” he said. “But Donald Trump, in his publicly disintegrating brain today, believed that he found the way to sound tough about something.”
According to O’Donnell, Wednesday’s speech showed the president’s “ignorance is getting bigger.”
“Trump hears the phrase ‘most favored nation’ and has no idea what it means, throws it into a hallucination about drug prices, has no idea how they work and thinks he’s somehow doing Americans a favor by convincing the French president to raise the cost of drugs,” he said.
“Knowledge is actually the antidote to ignorance. Ignorance gets reduced through knowledge. But Donald Trump is uneducable,” O’Donnell added.
The MS NOW host also brought up what he called one of the president’s “favorite phrases” to use during public remarks.








