Rachel Maddow belittled Donald Trump on Monday night whilechatting with her MSNBC colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, declaring that Trump’s latest “dictator” actions have made him “very boring.” Not that she argued the current situation isn’t serious, only that Trump is acting like, as she joked, a blonde copy of the extremely corrupt former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

But Maddow also clarified that the “really interesting question” about all of this is “what the country lets him get away with.

The comment came up at the start of “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” as the duo discussed how Trump’s current actions — calling in the national guard over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom to quell lawful protests — are the exact opposite of what he said he could lega

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