Kelly is a better fit for Trump than media thought. He too invents lies to attack and insult women. https://t.co/nDh3Sugoun — Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) October 19, 2017 “They have more in common then John Kelly realizes,” O’Donnell said at the beginning of his show on MSNBC Thursday . “They were both born in segregated cities. They both went to segregated schools.”



“John Kelly never sat next to Frederica Wilson in his elementary school,” he added.



"I didn’t mind hearing John Kelly disagree with Congresswoman Wilson today,” O’Donnell added. “I understand the disagreement nature and some of it is deeply personal for him as a Gold Star father." “They have more in common then John Kelly realizes,” O’Donnell said at the beginning of his show on MSNBC. “They were both born in segregated cities. They both went to segregated schools.”“John Kelly never sat next to Frederica Wilson in his elementary school,” he added."I didn’t mind hearing John Kelly disagree with Congresswoman Wilson today,” O’Donnell added. “I understand the disagreement nature and some of it is deeply personal for him as a Gold Star father."

"But I was stunned, stunned when I watched him demonize her and very deliberately continue to dehumanize her and refuse to give her the dignity of a name and call her an empty barrel. He went out of his way to do it," O'Donnell said.

Wilson has called the president a "jerk" and a "sick man" while also stating that Kelly's "empty barrel" statement about her was racist.

"Kelly is a better fit for Trump than media thought. He too invents lies to attack and insult women," O'Donnell wrote in a tweet retweeted more than 5,000 times."That's a racist term," Wilson said on CNN. "We looked it up in the dictionary because I had never heard of an empty barrel. And I don't like to be dragged into something like that."