Lawrence O’Donnell Dedicates 5 Whole Minutes to Ridiculing Trump’s ‘Mud Brown’ Physical Appearance
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell briefly turned his show into a beauty contest of sorts on Thursday as he spent five whole minutes ridiculing Donald Trump’s physical appearance ahead of his hush money criminal trial.
Jury selection begins Monday in Manhattan in a trial where Trump is facing more than 30 felony counts stemming from a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair. Trump has denied the affair and any wrongdoing.
On The Last Word, O’Donnell at one point let an image of Trump from a campaign video take full screen on his show while he ridiculed the former president’s hairline, ears, color, and more. O’Donnell argued Trump will not testify, so therefore, the jury will have only his looks in the courtroom to go on.
“Now, we normally don’t allow Donald Trump to occupy your full television screen during this program, but for this one time, as you consider yourself sitting there on Monday in the position of a juror looking at him, let’s look at what they will actually see without hearing a word from Donald Trump,” he said. “And for that we’re going to go back to full screen so you can take in what this man actually looks like.”
O’Donnell compared Trump to a “horror movie character” you don’t want to present to a criminal jury and described the former president as a sideshow of sorts.
“That’s a picture of him when he’s trying to look his absolute best in his campaign video, which in his mind includes a face partially covered in some form of homemade bronzer in which he always forgets the ears. He always forgets his ears are visible, showing the real color of Donald Trump,” he said. “In contrast to the mud brown that he has decided makes him look his best. And to some eyes, actually makes him look like a horror movie character. That is not a face you want to present to a criminal jury.”
O’Donnell was so unimpressed with Trump’s appearance that he claimed members of the jury would be “fighting the urge to sneak a peek at that profoundly strange-looking man.”
O’Donnell moved on from the image to discuss other aspects of the trial but didn’t end without taking another shot at Trump’s looks.
“So with Donald Trump unable to testify in his own defense the only thing he brings to his defense is that silent, discolored face, a face that lies to you without Donald Trump saying a word, a face that claims to be a color of brown that is betrayed by his 77-year-old pink ears, a face that is topped by hair that is lying to you about exactly where Donald Trump’s hairline might actually be,” he said.
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