MSNBC host reveals he's taking a week off, citing exhaustion from Trump's presidency
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell revealed on Wednesday night that he was exhausted by covering President Donald Trump and that he was taking a week off from hosting his show, "The Last Word," lamenting that it was only day 52 of Trump's second term.

"I know you've pledged to cover and be here for the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. I hope you noticed that I did not make that same pledge," O'Donnell told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.



"This is day 52. I thought it was day 92. It turns out it's day 52, Rachel, and 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. I’m just taking next week off, then I can come back and go with you all the way to the hundred days," O'Donnell continued.



MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell told fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday that he was taking a week off, citing exhaustion from the Trump presidency. (Screenshot/MSNBC)



"We all tell each other, you have to take care of yourself. You got to pace yourself. You got to be in this for the long haul. So I can’t hold it against you, but I’m very sad," .

Maddow jokingly asked, "Can I go with you?"

"No, no, no. You said 100 days, you said 100 days. You can’t. One hundred days," O'Donnell said.

After his announcement and back-and-forth with Maddow, O'Donnell turned to Trump.



MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell raged against Donald Trump on Wednesday. (Screenshot/MSNBC)



"And so America is at this hour completing the 52nd day of having a President of the United States whose brain does not work. Donald Trump’s brain is broken, badly damaged, as he exhibits every day. And once again, today, Donald Trump said something that would have gotten any other president rushed to the hospital for a neurological examination and an evaluation for dementia, for starters. That’s where they would have begun," he said, referring to  Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

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O'Donnell notably interviewed former President Joe Biden right before he left office, during which he lauded Biden and his policies.

"We combined domestic policy and foreign policy in a way that I’ve never heard another president do," O'Donnell told Biden during the late January interview.



O'Donnell also said Biden had the "largest list of domestic achievements" that he could think of.

_Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report._
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