The TV anchor Lawrence O'Donnell reportedly opened up about Donald Trump's recent TIME Magazine interview, in which he called Americans "enemies of ours" before the upcoming midterm election in November. According to MS Now, Lawrence said that almost everything Trump said could be explained by three reasons, and none of them involve human reasoning.The first reason Lawrence mentioned was pathological lying, the second was stupidity, and the third was dementia. The anchor further explained that in Trump's current condition, all three reasons might be working together at the same time. He added that there was no other explanation for anything Trump said in the long transcript of his interview.On September 28, 2026, Trump sat for an interview with TIME Magazine in the White House. There, Trump said that he collected hundreds of billions of dollars, but now the money has to be written back and returned to what he mentioned as "enemies of ours." According to the Washington Examiner, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal, which forced the U.S. government to return the money to the corporate importers.Continue reading more about the story.Lawrence O'Donnell opened up about Donald Trump's recent TIME interview View this post on Instagram Instagram PostLawrence O'Donnell opened up about Donald Trump's recent TIME Magazine interview and accused him of being a "pathological liar" because the president called Americans "enemies of ours." The anchor argued that nearly all of Trump's remarks could be traced back to three underlying factors: pathological lying, stupidity, and dementia.In the interview, Trump said,"I took in hundreds of billions of dollars. We have to write it back, giving it back to people that were enemies of ours."The Washington Examiner reported that Washington used $166 billion as regular revenue, but now the administration is paying it back with interest. It was like an unplanned loan from importers on terms that nobody agreed to. In private companies, this would be treated as an unrecorded debt, and auditors would formally record it as such.The Congressional Budget Office calculated that removing these tariffs would increase primary deficits by $1.6 trillion over 10 years, with another $400 billion in interest, but their estimate clearly does not include refunds. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained to Congress that the money goes to the companies that brought the goods into the nation, and customs law allows only the importer of record to claim it back.What did Donald Trump say in the TIME Magazine interview?During the TIME Magazine interview, Donald Trump said that the Supreme Court's ruling was unfair because it prevented America from stopping trade with other countries. He explained that this decision was unreasonable since the government had the right to stop trade yet was told not to impose tariffs, even minor ones.Trump even mentioned that the ruling forced the nation to return hundreds of billions of dollars collected from tariffs to nations he described as enemies, which he believed was a terrible outcome. He further noted that the Court could have added a simple clause stating that any money already paid did not need to be refunded, but they failed to do so.Follow Soap Central for more updates on Donald Trump.