Lawrence O'Donnell

Trump: “When I can, I tell the truth.” That’s a lie. @TheLastWord 10pm

The 1893 Coca-Cola trademark registration, featuring the logo's distinctive cursive, can be found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's U.S. Patent Office Trademarks Collection. On this day in 1886, the very first Coca-Cola was sold at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.

California’s wealth tax would cost Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang $8 Billion. His response was simple: “I don’t mind paying taxes.” “Once a year we get a bill, we pay it, and it’s big. I never once thought about it. We love this country. That’s our way of giving back.”

President Trump wants the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted blue. He used an exemption to steer a $6.9 million contract to somebody he said had worked on his own pools, despite rules about how government money is spent, The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4toRuLI

Worst Treasury Secretary in history. (Mnuchin now a distant second.)

Announcing a real "unconditional surrender" that Trump will never get.

Responding to the Trump-written motion to dismiss in the Ballroom case, plaintiffs say it makes multiple statements govt attys know to be false, is “utterly unprofessional,” & is signed by 3 top DOJ attys who had never previously appeared in the case.... 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

TONIGHT: @EricLiptonNYT talks to @Lawrence on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

.@Lawrence is back tonight. 😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@BeverlyFoy6 @NavyCaptRet63XX I’m back tonight, Beverly. But now that you mention it, I am on vacation next week.

@NavyCaptRet63XX @Lawrence Lawrence should tell us in advance if he’s taking the week off So I can plan my 9pm schedule accordingly

Where’s @Lawrence ? I didn’t know or hear anything about him being off this week. I hope he’s doing OK and in good health.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of current and former members of his security team, searching for leaks. ms.now/news/kash-pate…

TONIGHT: @AWeissmann_ joins @Lawrence on The #LastWord. Tune in!

TONIGHT: @SenAdamSchiff joins @Lawrence on The #LastWord. Tune in!

Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court. In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible. We won. 6-3. But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow. I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves. I also had four teachers preparing me. A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi. An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else. A meditation coach who taught me stillness. And Harvey. Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable. Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person. Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written. Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium. AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument. Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry. That is the irreducibly human skill. Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives. The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: go.ted.com/nealkumarkatyal What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?

In 41 of 50 states, more Americans now disapprove of Trump than approve of him.

Pete Hegseth falsely testified to both the House and the Senate last week that troops were deployed to voting places in 15 states under Joe Biden in 2024. Not only were all National Guard activations for the 2024 election ordered by individual states rather than Biden, all 11 states that responded to my inquiries told me that *zero troops* were sent to voting places. The Pentagon declined to comment. Fact check: cnn.com/2026/05/04/pol…

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. Since that day, job growth has come to a standstill, with only the non-traded healthcare industry adding meaningfully to payrolls. Also, since that day, inflation has accelerated, with the consumer expenditure deflator increasing at a 3% year-over-year pace, up from 2.5% before the tariffs and well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. And the trend lines don’t look good, especially as the economic fallout from the Iran War hits with full force. The higher energy and other commodity prices caused by the war threaten to do even more economic damage than the tariffs, further undermining growth and pushing inflation higher. The U.S. economy is resilient, but just how resilient is set to be tested.

A federal judge ORDERS the Trump DOJ to unseal the names of the currently redacted witnesses cited in the affidavit supporting the search warrant for the seizure of 2020 presidential election ballots in Fulton County, Ga. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

TONIGHT: Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law Professor @sandylocks talks to @Lawrence on The #LastWord at 10pm ET. nytimes.com/2026/05/02/boo…

TONIGHT: Congressman @RobertGarcia joins @Lawrence on The #LastWord. Tune in!

.@Lawrence: The first six Americans killed in Trump's war died because Hegseth left them defenseless bsky.app/profile/lastwo…