A segment last night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell begins with a clip from former President Jimmy Carter‘s inaugural address.
“Your strength can compensate for my weakness,” Carter says, “and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.”
As soon as the last “s” in “mistakes,” is spoken, we cut to a clip of Donald Trump addressing an audience, saying, “I went to the Wharton School of Finance, you know, like, like really smart people go to the Wharton School of Finance, I will tell you,” a reference he has invoked more than once during his run for the GOP nomination.
“It took 38 years,” says host Lawrence O’Donnell after the clip has run its course, “to go from Jimmy Carter’s inaugural address, marked by humility and decency, to a frontrunnner for presidential nomination who has no humility and virtually no decency.”
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