MSNBC Host Lawrence O’Donnell Claps Back After Trump Says He ‘Looks Like S—‘ At Hush Money Trial

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell replied after former president Donald Trump said he “looks like s—” in a Truth Social post. During the former president’s hush money trial, Trump mocked O’Donnell’s appearance in the Manhattan court.

“I spotted Ratings Challenged Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, in the Courthouse today,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I haven’t seen him in years. He looks like s—, a real loser!”

O’Donnell later replied to it in an X post.

“Trump posted this right after my show tonight,” he stated about the Truth Social post. “Must’ve been something I said.”

He also placed an image of the former president’s post in his post.

Last week, the MSNBC host said on his show The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell that he had been in the Manhattan court and that Trump noticed him and had “glared” at him.

“It seems Donald Trump wasn’t really pleased to see me,” O’Donnell noted. “I have my interpretation of what Donald Trump’s face and eyes were trying to say to me and what drove him to create a final moment in the courtroom today that was worthy of New York Times reporting.”

In early May, Trump was upset by media reports that he fell asleep during his hush money trial. During a recess in the Manhattan Supreme Court trial, he addressed these claims in a Truth Social post.

He contradicted “the FAKE NEWS MEDIA,” saying that he does not “fall asleep during the Crooked D.A.’s Witch Hunt, especially not today.”

He said he just closes his “beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!”

In response to this post, online critics used social media to ridicule the former president’s praise of his eye color.

On May 6, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump’s hush-money case, found him guilty of violating his gag order for the tenth time. Merchan ordered him to pay a fine of $1,000 for verbally attacking the jury in his trial. For each of the ten violations, he must pay $1,000, adding up to $10,000. The judge said he did not want to give Trump jail time and sought to “minimize disruptions” to the trial. 

Trump violated his gag order through public posts to his Truth Social account and during an interview on Real America’s Voice, a conservative channel. Trump claimed his jury selection was “unfair” due to Manhattan being a predominantly Democratic area.

Prosecutor Chris Conroy replied to the former president’s arguments, saying that he had been “on the media, and he used his platform there to criticize the seated jury in this case.” He also added that “there’s no inference needed . . . By talking about the jury at all, he places . . . the process in jeopardy.”