Lawrence: Day 150 shows what happens when a madman starts a war

On Friday night, Donald Trump put on a bow tie and went into a hotel ballroom full of people to talk to himself.No one else was listening.Instead of spending the time either explaining his war to an audience of reporters at the White House Correspondents' Dinner or something else, Donald Trump spent the evening watching reporters win awards for reporting exposure of his incompetence and or his corruption.His hour -long speech, which I did not watch and would not watch, but heard about from reporters soon afterward, was yet another demonstration of just how far gone Donald Trump is.Here is a piece of the speech that I did watch this afternoon.It's the only piece that I watched.

It's a typical, inexplicable passage of what was on the mind of the man who cannot figure out how to end the war he started.

And we had a sort of little preview, and then Anderson Cooper was going to fight Lawrence O'Donnell.I'm not a fan of Lawrence O'Donnell.I like Anderson, actually, because he's covered me well for many years, and he went bad as soon as I went for politics.But for years, he loved interviews.I did so many interviews with him, and he was great.But, you know, he's got a little different persuasion than me, in many ways, actually.

And Lawrence O'Donnell never liked him, never thought he had any talent.But he's still making a living, so I can't knock it.But we had a contest for who had the lowest ratings and the lowest I .Q.on television.And that was actually Don Lemon, I think.

You know, when I said that he's the dumbest man on television, I said, you know, when you say some things, you never make a comeback.It's notlike, oh, gee, hey, Don, let's have dinner some night.But I know what I'm saying.

I know what I'm saying.He's in the middle of waging a war.And that's what he's saying.I know what he's saying.I know.I know what I'm saying.

He said if he does know what he's saying, he's the only person who knows what he is saying.No one has any idea what he meant in that passage or any other passage in that speech.The Iranians he is waging war against don't know what he's saying.They don't understand a word he's saying, because no one does.No one in that room Friday night knew what he was saying.