Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘If Donald Trump Gets Dementia, How Will We Know?’

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>> Thank you, thank you Lawrence.
>> Well, if Donald Trump gets dementia, how will we know. Donald Trump’s. mental decline, which is more and more obvious, started. From such a. low level of mental processing power that it’s hard to. Track his decline. It’s from low to lower. And then there are days like today when Donald Trump asks himself out loud in public if he is allowed to appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve. Now, it may be tiresome to hear, but we must not grow weary of making the point that no other president was ever capable of saying anything as stupid or as indicative of dementia as that. Am I allowed to appoint.
>> Myself chair.
>> Of the Federal Reserve? And we must.
>> Not grow weary.
>> Of reminding ourselves what the White House press corps would have done if Joe Biden ever said anything like that. And how big the headlines would be in the next days. Print editions of the New York. Times and the Washington Post, and every newspaper in the country. Because if we grow weary of making the point of how singularly stupid.
>> And.
>> Possibly clinically demented Donald Trump’s statements are, then we will become part of the normalization process of those statements, which most of the American news media has unwittingly participated in, and 14 year olds in this country will think it’s perfectly normal for a president to say those things. And on a day when the president of the United States is reportedly in. A meeting in the Situation Room where he is trying. To decide how much to support or fully join a war that he opposed a week ago, it must be reported as part of that very same story, that the person who is supposed to be in charge in that Situation Room meeting, the person who is supposed to be the decider in chief is George w bush. Put it in that meeting, doesn’t know if he can appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve and some of the highest ranking people in that room with that president also don’t know the answer to that question. Pete Hegseth has no idea if Donald Trump can appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve. Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump have no idea that Donald Trump doesn’t even have the legal power to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve. And he also