Lawrence O'Donnell taking break: 'I'm exhausted at Day 52' of Trump administration
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell announced he'd be taking a week off from his nightly show, citing his "exhaustion" with the first few weeks of President Trump's second term.
“I’m exhausted at Day 52, and so I’m going to take next week off. And I’m telling you that now, because I know you don’t like it when I just drift away," O'Donnell said during a nightly handoff with fellow pundit Rachel Maddow. "I’m just taking next week off, then I’m going to come back and go with you all the way to the 100 days."
Maddow, who recently returned to a five-day-a-week hosting schedule to cover Trump's first 100 days, said she was "very sad" O'Donnell was taking time off but indicated she understood where he was coming from.
O'Donnell, a frequent Trump critic, opened his show Thursday by suggesting the president is mentally unwell.
"And so America is, at this hour, completing the 52nd day of having a president of the United States whose brain does not work," the host said. "Donald Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged, as he exhibits every day."
O'Donnell's comments were first highlighted by Mediaite.
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