Before getting to Lawrence O'Donnell's segment on historical precedent and Trump’s failure to measure up, here is a very good piece by Heather Digby Parton on a more human aspect being stomped on by a regime led by an imbecile claiming — "only I can fix it”
Trump’s UN speech: Democracy and human rights? Fake news! National sovereignty is meaningless. Let’s blow stuff up
— a couple of excerpts:
If one were to believe Donald Trump's speech before the United Nations, in his short tenure as president he has already fixed the domestic problems he outlined in his "American Carnage" inaugural address and is now prepared to apply his methods to the rest of the planet. One might even call this speech "Global Carnage." [...]
This was very much the way he described America on the day he was sworn in. It too was a desolate, dystopian hellscape of smoldering ruins and abandoned cities, where bands of foreigners and gangsters roamed the land, raping and pillaging and leaving carnage in their wake. He promised to take the country back (reclaim its sovereignty, if you will) from people who were trying to impose their values and culture on the Real Americans. He told the world on Tuesday morning that he had largely accomplished that task.
Hoping that Trump also breaks another promise and in doing so, fails to incite a nuclear war and the desolate, dystopian hellscape of smoldering ruins and abandoned cities his unhinged rhetoric promises
9/19/17
Lawrence: Why Trump's UN speech worst, most dangerous in history
Donald Trump says the U.S. could "totally destroy" North Korea. Lawrence O'Donnell revisits a speech by Amb. Adlai Stevenson in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and argues Trump's speech is the worst ever delivered by the United States at the United Nations.
With these thoughts from Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman
9/19/17
Amb. Sherman on Trump UN speech: 'Dangerous' where U.S. is headed
Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Amb. Wendy Sherman, who worked on the Iran Deal and was a special advisor for President Clinton on North Korea, to get her take on Trump's speech and what he could have possibly meant when he threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea.
“I alone can fix it” should have been warning enough, even as it came from the lying mouth of an unlawful, illegitimate, unconstitutional, imbecile currently squatting in the White House