Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump ‘Is Publicly Begging President Xi to Call Him’

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O'DONNELL: "Oh, he's not going to blame them for Covid? Remember when he said he was going to blame them for Covid, like last week, make them pay for Covid in whatever his final trade deal with China would be in his trade war with China? That’s what he said. He brought it up. That’s why he was asked about it today. 'Are you going to blame them for Covid-19 when you’re negotiating with them?' And he said, 'Oh, no, no, no.' That was the cowardly lion roar you were hearing. That was the Trump nonsense. Now Donald Trump is publicly begging President Xi to call him, and President Xi is not calling. The president of China is not picking up the phone. He’s sending out a spokesperson to say, 'We’ll fight to the end.' No one in the Trump Administration has said, 'We will fight to the end.' Donald Trump wouldn’t dare say today, 'We will fight to the end.' His Treasury secretary didn’t dare say, 'We’ll fight to the end.' His usually clownish secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, wouldn’t dare say, 'We’ll fight to the end,' because they won’t, because they’ve already lost.  Donald Trump’s constant public flailing around ignorantly about tariffs in the White House these days has become a much more difficult rhetorical challenge for him than the way he idiotically talked about tariffs during the presidential campaign and lied to his voters every single time.”