Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I know,
Speaker 1: I know Matt Gates Attorney General. It's appalling, but bluntly,
Speaker 1: I'd rather have somebody stupid like him. And after all,
Speaker 1: there has been an attorney general who went to prison.
Speaker 1: And Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so
Speaker 1: he can appoint his cabinet without hearings or oversight will
Speaker 1: be a litmus test of whether Republicans are loyal to
Speaker 1: him or the country, and why are we even asking
Speaker 1: that question? They are whores. Every last Republican is a whore.
Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville announced last night that any Senate Republican who
Speaker 1: votes against Gates stands in Trump's the other Senate Republicans
Speaker 1: will try to get him or her out of the Senate.
Speaker 1: They are whorees. And none of these things was the
Speaker 1: most important event yesterday. By the way, quote I suspect
Speaker 1: I won't be running again, Trump said to his newly
Speaker 1: elected Republican House horror slaves. Unless you say he's good,
Speaker 1: we got to figure something else. And every news organization
Speaker 1: reported Trump was joking and kidding and owning the Libs
Speaker 1: and trolling and spoiler alert he's not he's not kidding.
Speaker 1: He is intending to stay in office indefinitely, and if
Speaker 1: we are nice to him, he will let us elect
Speaker 1: him again. Yesterday, the move to pretend that another amendment
Speaker 1: to the Constitution does not say what it says lurched
Speaker 1: out of the shadows and into the forefront. And now
Speaker 1: Trump is openly inviting his prostitutes to sell this farce
Speaker 1: in public, just as they have been trying to sell
Speaker 1: it in private for two years. And as I've told
Speaker 1: you previously that the two term limit in the twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment means two consecutive terms, and Trump hasn't had
Speaker 1: two consecutive terms, so he can have a third term.
Speaker 1: Or they make him Speaker of the House and then
Speaker 1: have the elected president and vice president resign and he
Speaker 1: becomes president or or or or in any way, even
Speaker 1: if none of this works, Trump won in a landslide,
Speaker 1: the fiftieth biggest popular vote landslide of all time last week.
Speaker 1: He's the most popular president ever if you look at
Speaker 1: the list from the bottom up. And besides that, what
Speaker 1: about what the great philosopher once said, what can be
Speaker 1: unburdened by what has been? You know, like what has
Speaker 1: been in the Constitution until now, within a span of
Speaker 1: literally fourteen or fifteen hours, the elements necessary for the
Speaker 1: latest Trump coup attempt, the one in which he gets
Speaker 1: to run again in twenty twenty eight, or he's already
Speaker 1: won the twenty twenty eight quote election unquote right now,
Speaker 1: or we just love him so much that we don't
Speaker 1: need another election in twenty twenty eight save the money,
Speaker 1: or maybe, if the timeline gets extra spicy, he uses
Speaker 1: the military to prevent an election in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: All the elements have now come together. This remark about
Speaker 1: I suspect I won't be running again, this seemingly offhand.
Speaker 1: H you know him, he's all he's kidding. He's such
Speaker 1: a kidder. Ask Mike Pence about what a kidder is.
Speaker 1: All that word play follow the betrayal of Ukraine, and
Speaker 1: that had followed the wild card in all this, Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense designate mister Fox Morning fill In hosts Pete somebody.
Speaker 1: I'll get to him, But first to how many Ukrainians
Speaker 1: did Trump and his cowboy Mike Johnson killed yesterday or
Speaker 1: sentenced to lives as Russian prisoners, all thirty seven million
Speaker 1: of them thirty six million with a million collaborators, the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian equivalents of Maga and Elon Musk. How many more
Speaker 1: polls did Trump just put at risk after Trump's manager
Speaker 1: Putin rolls through Ukraine using troops sent by Trump's boyfriend
Speaker 1: Kim Jong Un? Did he put at risk all thirty
Speaker 1: seven million in Poland? Too? How about the eleven million checks,
Speaker 1: the eighty four million Germans? The insider report from the
Speaker 1: Republican conference before Trump went into see Biden, Quoting the
Speaker 1: New York Times and Annie Karney, speaker Mike Johnson told
Speaker 1: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeney in the closed door conference meeting
Speaker 1: today that there would be no more money being sent
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. According to two people familiar with the remark,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Mike Johnson is familiar with World
Speaker 1: War Two or the decade which preceded it. He's always
Speaker 1: seemed to me to be an absolute moron. He does
Speaker 1: seem to have no working knowledge of anything that happened
Speaker 1: before Fox News signed on, But Putin figured out as
Speaker 1: Breshnev and Khrushchov and Stalian and Hitler and Napoleon and
Speaker 1: all the other dictators in states that were used to
Speaker 1: dictatorships figured out that the way to stay in power
Speaker 1: for life is to keep your country forever at war,
Speaker 1: but a specific kind of war, a war for territorial gain.
Speaker 1: Not Vietnam but Poland, not Afghanistan but England, not even
Speaker 1: the wastefulness of Iraq, but Ukraine and Trump and by
Speaker 1: Johnson's gonna help. And then when Trump decides he can't
Speaker 1: leave office because the situation in Europe is just too dire? Now,
Speaker 1: how'd that happen? And he alone can prevent World War three,
Speaker 1: which he and his wimpy little minion Johnson have just
Speaker 1: taken several giant steps toward. Or when the money Trump
Speaker 1: took out of Ukraine and promised to spend on the border,
Speaker 1: and yet amazingly it never winds up being spent there
Speaker 1: when that runs out, Whenever the day comes that Trump
Speaker 1: needs some sort of farcical legislation passed through the House
Speaker 1: to enable him to stay in office with or without
Speaker 1: a toothless shadow election in twenty eight, Johnson will pass it.
Speaker 1: Because Johnson is one of those feeble men who have
Speaker 1: figured out that their route to a little power is
Speaker 1: to perpetually kiss the ass of the nearest monster who
Speaker 1: seeks world power, and as we all know, Trump is
Speaker 1: a unique opportunity for the Mike Johnson's of this world.
Speaker 1: He is not only the biggest ass, but he has
Speaker 1: the biggest ass. And Trump, of course, has figured out
Speaker 1: what many of the dictators in countries not used to
Speaker 1: dictatorships have realized, like net and Yahoo has realized in
Speaker 1: the last few years that in these former democracies like
Speaker 1: the United States, you cannot have aggressive wars because your population,
Speaker 1: or you're part of your population the part you need
Speaker 1: as your power base. They actually will ask why is
Speaker 1: my money going to Ukraine rather than to Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: and Laurence Sanchez. What you need is something local in
Speaker 1: the way of a war that you can call not
Speaker 1: a war but a defensive operation against attack by terrorists
Speaker 1: and other external threats. One type is, well, you know,
Speaker 1: an actual attack like that Net and Yahoo was given
Speaker 1: his on October seventh. The other type takes a little
Speaker 1: more finesse. You must spend years and even decades manufacturing
Speaker 1: an intern threat by an ethnic group that exists largely
Speaker 1: inside your country but combines potentially with others from their
Speaker 1: original country or countries who are masked or ready to
Speaker 1: mass or might be massing, or who you just lie
Speaker 1: and say are massing at you know, your southern border.
Speaker 1: Either way, if there isn't an actual attack, if there's
Speaker 1: no October seventh or nine to eleven with which you
Speaker 1: can defend your country while always threatening your country that
Speaker 1: there's going to be another one, this invented problem becomes
Speaker 1: your war in everything but name Oh, they are here already,
Speaker 1: and they are why you Trump supporter, you are fat
Speaker 1: and don't make enough money. And they are why there
Speaker 1: is any crime at all anywhere. And they have been
Speaker 1: given all these advantages when all the advantages should be
Speaker 1: going to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. And if you
Speaker 1: exploit this successfully, it is a Swiss army knife of excuses.
Speaker 1: You can use it as a bludgeon against your internal
Speaker 1: political rivals who insists the threat is negligible or better
Speaker 1: still containable and negotiable and solvable. You can use it
Speaker 1: to satisfy the bloodlust and the cruelty of the farm
Speaker 1: animals with thumbs, who are the base of your trumpy
Speaker 1: and support. And you can make it better or make
Speaker 1: it worse, or speed the threat up or slow it
Speaker 1: down as you need to. And the beautiful thing is
Speaker 1: you never actually have to call it a war, and
Speaker 1: you never ever have to solve it. And if you
Speaker 1: have any doubts about that, remember when Trump came down
Speaker 1: that escalator in his building, the one that usually malfunctions.
Speaker 1: I know, I used to live in a Trump building.
Speaker 1: When he did that, it insisted that all the Mexican
Speaker 1: immigrants were bringing drugs and bringing crime and were rapists,
Speaker 1: and it was a crisis and the country was dying
Speaker 1: and it had to be dealt with immediately. That is
Speaker 1: now three four hundred and forty days ago. And if
Speaker 1: there is anything Trump has ever done better than sharpen
Speaker 1: the knife edge of hatred in this country into his
Speaker 1: own personal shive with which to eventually kill us all.
Speaker 1: If he's ever done anything better than that, it's to
Speaker 1: make sure that nothing could have happened in those three
Speaker 1: four hundred and forty days, to make sure that this
Speaker 1: alleged imminent, overnight existential crisis was resolved. For nine and
Speaker 1: a half years, the immigrants have been ready to destroy
Speaker 1: the country tomorrow for nine and a half years. America
Speaker 1: was going to end tomorrow for nine and a half years.
Speaker 1: Trump was going to fix it tomorrow. We have always
Speaker 1: been at war with East Asia. The other part about
Speaker 1: this about Trump murdering everybody in Ukraine so we can
Speaker 1: make a big show of sending all the Ukraine money
Speaker 1: to fend off those nasty immigrants who have a lower
Speaker 1: crime rate than the people who were born here and
Speaker 1: who only pay into our social safety net and almost
Speaker 1: never take anything out of it. And there's Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: in the back trying to be seen over the heads
Speaker 1: of the adults, saying, remember, I helped, I helped. The
Speaker 1: other part about this is that if you want to
Speaker 1: dial the Trump crisis machine up to maximum, you can't
Speaker 1: use as your excuse something like Ukraine or Poland or Europe.
Speaker 1: Those places don't exist to the people in the Trump cult.
Speaker 1: Europe what part of Arkansas's Europe? In whyat Europe? But
Speaker 1: you can use Mexico. Even these people pretty much know
Speaker 1: where Mexico is. And you can say Steven Miller, new
Speaker 1: Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of stoking
Speaker 1: up fears of a zombie apocalypse, Stephen Miller wants to
Speaker 1: say it at noon on January twentieth. It seems like
Speaker 1: Trump's other monsters will want to wait until it's more
Speaker 1: strategically useful, like if he lives long enough to try
Speaker 1: to subvert the Constitution again and stay in office. Well
Speaker 1: you say, then, Well, now, these dirty brown migrants pose
Speaker 1: an existential threat to the nation, and that's why we
Speaker 1: have an insurrection acted. Guess what. The presidents can do
Speaker 1: anything he wants now, and he wants army tanks running
Speaker 1: down the FDR Drive in New York, an Upper Whacker
Speaker 1: Drive in Chicago, and on every major street in Washington
Speaker 1: to show those Democrats whose boss. And of course he
Speaker 1: has to have somebody at the Pentagon who won't say
Speaker 1: f this, and who will in fact send out those tanks.
Speaker 1: But the real Pentagon leader would be the one who
Speaker 1: would send the tanks to the White House and surround
Speaker 1: it until Trump and the Administration's surrender. The guy who
Speaker 1: will not do that is named Pete heg Seth. In
Speaker 1: his administration, Abraham Lincoln, as Doris Kerns Goodwin memorably wrote,
Speaker 1: assembled a team of rivals in his administration. Trump instead
Speaker 1: is assembling a team of trifles, non entities with no experience,
Speaker 1: no brains, no common sense, nothing in their closets but
Speaker 1: skeleton after skeleton after skeleton, and absolutely no redeeming value
Speaker 1: except loyalty. Loyalty to him. Sometimes to putin depends on
Speaker 1: who we're talking about. I mean, as the former managing
Speaker 1: editor of Stars and Stripes, Earl Stevens wrote, Pete heg
Speaker 1: Seth is on Fox News for hours at a stretch.
Speaker 1: Fox News is on at military basis for hours at
Speaker 1: a stretch, like twenty four to seven. The troops and
Speaker 1: the lower command ranks know him and watch him and
Speaker 1: think he's one of them, even though he has insisted
Speaker 1: it is wrong for military veterans to take all the
Speaker 1: government benefits they are entitled to after we damn near
Speaker 1: got them killed. So we know to whom Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: is loyal. He is loyal to Pete Hegseth. So when
Speaker 1: the time comes and the order is given to fire
Speaker 1: on I don't know, the next women's march or a
Speaker 1: prayer service somewhere, maybe maybe some of the troops will
Speaker 1: be hesitant to do it. Say nothing of many of
Speaker 1: the commanders. But the ones who are Fox fans, the
Speaker 1: ones who watch Pete Hegseth, who will still be on
Speaker 1: Fox News every week. But now he'd be wearing a
Speaker 1: big hat. It makes him look like a chess piece,
Speaker 1: like one of Kim John UN's general When they hear
Speaker 1: it's Pete telling them to go fire on their neighbors,
Speaker 1: they'll do it. And there's your trifecta. Eliminate or get
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to reinterpret the twenty second Amendment to
Speaker 1: give Trump a third term or fourth or fifth or
Speaker 1: however long he lives, pull out of Ukraine and showily
Speaker 1: throw the money at the border with no desire or
Speaker 1: even thought of resolving anything at the border if there
Speaker 1: is anything at the border to resolve. And then, finally,
Speaker 1: if anybody objects, Secretary of Defense hag Seth will order
Speaker 1: them shot by troops on American streets because America f Yeah.
Speaker 1: You will notice that the actual support right now anyway
Speaker 1: for turning this country into a military dictatorship run by
Speaker 1: Trump is very loud, but very thin, so thin that
Speaker 1: despite all the military psychos on Fox News who support
Speaker 1: old man bullshit and would like nothing better than to
Speaker 1: strafe their domestic critics, Trump still could not find one
Speaker 1: of the weekday Fox psychos to do it. He had
Speaker 1: to go to the backup green room to get this
Speaker 1: idiot Hegseth, who once boasted that he hadn't washed his
Speaker 1: hands in ten years. Obviously, the less qualified, the less prominent,
Speaker 1: the less intelligent somebody is, the better it is for Trump.
Speaker 1: Heg Seth will get the office in the Pentagon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might eat them alive, but probably not because Trump
Speaker 1: will be the defacto Secretary of Defense and will be
Speaker 1: seen as such. He may even get a big hat too.
Speaker 1: The latest of all of these other yeah, you have
Speaker 1: the job, I have the responsibility. The latest of these
Speaker 1: are Attorney General matt The FBI division investigating underage sex
Speaker 1: is hereby disbanded Gates. The apparent would be Director of
Speaker 1: National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, which confirms that the term intelligence
Speaker 1: has been reduced to a brand name. There's Christy Nome,
Speaker 1: Director of Homeland Security, who will ensure we are all
Speaker 1: safe from any harmless household pets. She feels like murdering
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was apparently shifted over
Speaker 1: at the last moment from being Secretary of Combovers borders
Speaker 1: are Tom Hoeman, and you have to go no further
Speaker 1: than the first syllable of his last name to understand
Speaker 1: Tom Homan Ambassadors to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who believes there
Speaker 1: is no West Bank. So congrats to anybody who didn't
Speaker 1: vote for Harris to teach the Dems a lesson about
Speaker 1: Gaza EPA administrator Lee Zelden so incompetent he couldn't even
Speaker 1: beat this idiot. Kathy hokel out for Governor New York
Speaker 1: and of course Musk and Ramaswamy as bosses of the
Speaker 1: new Department of Government Efficiency such efficiency, miles and miles
Speaker 1: of efficiency, so efficient that, as has been widely noted,
Speaker 1: this new department cannot get by with one boss. It
Speaker 1: needs two. Then there's Press Secretary Politico Caroline Levitt, Elina Haba,
Speaker 1: Monica Crowley, Sage Steele, Scott Jennings, and Elizabeth Pipcoh are
Speaker 1: possibilities for the White House Press Secretary as the Trump
Speaker 1: team considers credentially more partisan Maga outlets Axios reports. But
Speaker 1: they're all MAGA outwits. I used to work with Monica Crowley,
Speaker 1: she's gone full Nazi too. But my god, Caroline Levitt,
Speaker 1: Alena Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steal, Sage fing Steele. My
Speaker 1: briefly SportsCenter co anchor, who would first have to get
Speaker 1: up and criticize her own appointment cause DEI, and then,
Speaker 1: of course she would run the risk of being the
Speaker 1: first Press secretary ever to accidentally electrocute herself while adjusting
Speaker 1: the podium microphone. I mean, the alert hit my phone
Speaker 1: about that Air National guardsman going to prison for fifteen
Speaker 1: years for perloining classified material one day at the office,
Speaker 1: and I read Jack to shera is and I just
Speaker 1: assume the rest of it. Was appointed by Trump as
Speaker 1: his liaison to the National Archives. Media coverage of all this,
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, quote, these confirmation hearings may just save cable
Speaker 1: TV for the short term. Unquote ps number one, despite
Speaker 1: your best efforts to destroy cable TV, Chuck, PS Number two.
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want any hearings, numb nuts. That's the point
Speaker 1: of a dictatorship that you still don't see and won't
Speaker 1: see coming, because, frankly, Chuck, you're too stupid to believe
Speaker 1: anything that hasn't happened before might happen now. When the
Speaker 1: president is a treason his criminal who needs to stay
Speaker 1: in power until he dies or he goes to jail.
Speaker 1: What this just in, Chuck, Todd is the new Trump
Speaker 1: White House Director of Communications. I'm making that up. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they're just trolling us at this point,
Speaker 1: but they're not. There is a through line in all
Speaker 1: of them dates heg Seth, Gabbard, Gnome home Man, rubio
Speaker 1: Z Helden, Huckabee, musk Ramaswami. There's a through line besides
Speaker 1: the fact that they could have just as easily been
Speaker 1: the cast of the next season of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: They are all idiots who think they are geniuses. And
Speaker 1: they not only would never think to not do something
Speaker 1: Trump told them to do, they would never think of
Speaker 1: something that Trump didn't tell them first. They are utterly
Speaker 1: empty vessels chosen so Trump can say I think you
Speaker 1: should do this to this guy, and they can say,
Speaker 1: and believe, I just thought of this to do to
Speaker 1: that guy. And when the migrants or Democrats or reporters
Speaker 1: or whichever protesters are bleeding on the streets of an
Speaker 1: American city start bleeding, Trump can say, I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with this. That was Tulsey's idea. All the
Speaker 1: evidence suggests that the insane Roman emperor Caligula did not
Speaker 1: actually name his beloved racehorse in Catatas as consul, consul
Speaker 1: being one of the two official leaders of the Roman
Speaker 1: state below only the emperor to consuls. So Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: is safe. He's actually not the worst political appointment since
Speaker 1: a horse. But there's also evidence that Caligula did say
Speaker 1: he intended to name Incatatas a consul to comment on
Speaker 1: and criticize and mock the consuls who were already in office,
Speaker 1: and in fact to mock all the Roman senators, and
Speaker 1: even perhaps to mock other members of his own royal family.
Speaker 1: This would have happened in the year forty or forty
Speaker 1: one AD, and then on January twenty fourth, forty one,
Speaker 1: Caligula was assassinated by a bunch of angry Roman generals
Speaker 1: and government leaders who just had an effing enough of him. So,
Speaker 1: in some having cleared up the Caligular history, if you
Speaker 1: think that Gates hag Seth g Nome, especially that very
Speaker 1: poor advertisement for her own intelligence department, Gabbard. If with
Speaker 1: them you think Trump is just trolling us, remember Caligula's horse,
Speaker 1: because there is no way that caligulous horse in Catatis
Speaker 1: would have opened fire on Roman citizens. Oh, Pete hegseth.
Speaker 1: Will one last thing. Trump went to the White House
Speaker 1: yesterday and in the public photo op, President Biden emphasized
Speaker 1: that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. And
Speaker 1: I have two questions for you to ponder. The first
Speaker 1: question is why did Biden say that? The second question
Speaker 1: is do you think President James Buchanan said something like
Speaker 1: that to President elect Lincoln in eighteen sixty? So good news?
Speaker 1: You want good news? Hang on a second, let's have
Speaker 1: some good news. Here's somewhere. Oh wait a minute, how
Speaker 1: about the continuing signs that the man who may do
Speaker 1: the most to make sure Trump's presidency is a disaster
Speaker 1: and he leaves not late but early, is Putin? Or
Speaker 1: maybe it's Steve Bannon. There is already infighting inside the
Speaker 1: Trump dictatorship. Plus there's Newsy Olivia Newsy News. That's next.
Speaker 1: This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is
Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines,
Speaker 1: some updates, some snark. This is the Countdown podcast. And
Speaker 1: these are the places where there's news. Dateline Washington Special
Speaker 1: counsel Jack Smith. He tried, thousands, didn't will beat Trump,
Speaker 1: at least in small letters Smith will resign and end
Speaker 1: the federal cases against Trump and release a report about
Speaker 1: the insurrection prosecution? What is in the report? To what
Speaker 1: lengths will Trump go to try to stop its publication?
Speaker 1: A reminder to President Biden, just release the effing thing.
Speaker 1: You cannot be prosecuted. You have presidential immunity. As to
Speaker 1: the Florida case, the Biden DOJ may have seeded the
Speaker 1: clouds exactly right. They can continue to appeal Trump Concierge
Speaker 1: Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the entire you know,
Speaker 1: espionage and stealing classified documents case, because let's think of
Speaker 1: something special prosecutors aren't legal, except if they're going after Democrats.
Speaker 1: They can continue if they drop Trump as a co
Speaker 1: defendant and only continue to appeal her decision and only
Speaker 1: continue to go after his co weaseles Walt Nauda and
Speaker 1: Carlos di OLIVERA dateline moscow boy Putin just continues to
Speaker 1: signal that what Trump thinks he's going to do to America,
Speaker 1: Putin has already done it to Trump yesterday afternoon and
Speaker 1: with ear muffs. Remember the claim that after Putin stiffed
Speaker 1: Trump and did not call him after election night, Remember
Speaker 1: the claim that they finally had talked. The Kremlin is
Speaker 1: denying that. Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC there has
Speaker 1: been no phone call. Quote. It doesn't correspond at all
Speaker 1: to reality. It's completely made up. Its false information. There
Speaker 1: was no conversation. More interestingly, from tasks the Russian State
Speaker 1: propaganda agency the headline Trump to rely on forces that
Speaker 1: brought him to power. Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushev agreed
Speaker 1: that Trump, when he was still a candidate, made many
Speaker 1: statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued
Speaker 1: by the current administration. In his future policies, including those
Speaker 1: on the Russian track, US president elect Trump will rely
Speaker 1: on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power,
Speaker 1: rather than on election pledges, Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushkaev
Speaker 1: told the Daily Commerceant in an interview. The election campaign
Speaker 1: is over, Patrushev noted, to achieve success in the election,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump relied on certain force to which he has
Speaker 1: corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obligated
Speaker 1: to fulfill them. Well, you know, we've never actually seen
Speaker 1: a Russian dictator who owns his own American president, telling
Speaker 1: him in slightly veiled language that there are a hell
Speaker 1: of a lot of windows in Washington and that if
Speaker 1: he doesn't do what he's told, he might be pushed
Speaker 1: out one of them. But that sure sounds like that
Speaker 1: relied on certain forces. What forces? Oh, Kremlin forces? Eight
Speaker 1: line Mari Lago. Guess who's already up the creek in
Speaker 1: the Trump Meyer Elon Elmo. It was apparently him who
Speaker 1: told everybody that he was on the call between Trump
Speaker 1: and President Zelenski. Turns out, per Politico, Musk happen to
Speaker 1: be in the room with Trump when the call came through.
Speaker 1: To quote the entirety of the Politico report about Dusk's
Speaker 1: future or non future with Trump, Musk is quote starting
Speaker 1: to wear out his welcome with some in Trump's orbit.
Speaker 1: After initially making a huge splash with his endorsement made
Speaker 1: just moments after the July attempt on Trump's life, some
Speaker 1: insiders now say he's become almost a comical distraction, no
Speaker 1: hanging around marri A Lago, sidling into high level transition meetings,
Speaker 1: and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump's personnel decisions. Quote Elon
Speaker 1: is getting a little big for his breeches. One insider
Speaker 1: tells Playbook what Elon too big for his breeches? Mister Musk,
Speaker 1: time for more ozempic Dateline the wag House. You know
Speaker 1: who else is onto Elon Musk? Steve Bannon is onto him,
Speaker 1: so he Musk tweeted out something, I used to think
Speaker 1: Bannon was smart and evil. Now a think he's evil.
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon retweeted it, this is on what It's the truth, truth,
Speaker 1: whatever the name of Trump's social media platform is. So
Speaker 1: Musk is quoted as saying, I used to think Bannon
Speaker 1: was smart and evil. Now I think he's just or
Speaker 1: now I think he's just evil. And Bannon said, smart
Speaker 1: enough to turn you down to your face every time
Speaker 1: you came to the White House for a taxpayer bailout,
Speaker 1: evil enough to call you out as a running dog
Speaker 1: for your paymasters in Beijing. So the Musk Trump thing
Speaker 1: and the Musk Putin thing are both going. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: there's a way out of this yet, Dateline Brooklyn. Here
Speaker 1: is the rare good point from Nate Silver that isn't
Speaker 1: just numbers. Trump, he notes, starts out unpopular and will
Speaker 1: likely sink from here. According to the National Exit Poll,
Speaker 1: this is silver, writing. Trump was elected with a tepid
Speaker 1: forty eight percent favorability rating. However, he actually won nine
Speaker 1: percent voters who had an unfavorable view of him. These
Speaker 1: people may have seen Trump as a superior alternative to Harris,
Speaker 1: but will be less tolerant now that he has no
Speaker 1: more elections to run in. No, we think in the
Speaker 1: same poll, forty four percent of voters have a very
Speaker 1: unfavorable view of Trump, so the ceiling on his popularity
Speaker 1: is likely to be fairly capped forty eight percent. That's
Speaker 1: not even even. This could be silver, says a Kin.
Speaker 1: In history to two thousand and four, when George Bush
Speaker 1: got elected by a razor thin margin, announced he had
Speaker 1: won a mandate, insisted the world was his and he
Speaker 1: was going to use all his political capital, and while
Speaker 1: new Democratic stars rose in the background to destroy the
Speaker 1: Republicans in the next two elections, actually four elections, Bush
Speaker 1: gradually got eaten alive by an increasingly hostile media led
Speaker 1: by who was that again? All right? Me? And Dateline
Speaker 1: the White House, the CNN headline Milania Trump unlikely to
Speaker 1: move to the White House full time as First Lady
Speaker 1: This time he's different. I'm not anxious because these time
Speaker 1: he's different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge,
Speaker 1: she told CNN. I was in the White House before.
Speaker 1: When you go in, you know exactly what to expect.
Speaker 1: She said in a recent friendly interview with Fox News.
Speaker 1: Milinia Trump is expected to spend a majority of her
Speaker 1: time over the next four years not at the White House,
Speaker 1: but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Sources
Speaker 1: familiar with the thinking told CNN. However, they insisted she
Speaker 1: would still be present for major events and would have
Speaker 1: her own platform and priorities as first Lady, the first
Speaker 1: of them being stay the hell away from her idiot husband.
Speaker 1: Now you have to admit what she said there was
Speaker 1: pretty good word salad for somebody for whom English is
Speaker 1: a second language. Role of Milania Trump will be performed
Speaker 1: tonight by Alina Habba and Dateline Washington. So if you
Speaker 1: wonder whether or not the limpdiced coverage of Trump during
Speaker 1: the campaign by CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News
Speaker 1: could not have had anything to do with Trump's win,
Speaker 1: think again. From the invaluable Dan Frumkin of Press Watch,
Speaker 1: distilled from polling by NBC News, Biden supporters more likely
Speaker 1: to get their news by newspapers than Trump supporters. How
Speaker 1: registered voters consume news based on who they voted for.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, in cable news, fifty three percent
Speaker 1: of cable news as your primary source of news voters
Speaker 1: fifty three percent Trump, forty five percent for Well Harris
Speaker 1: not Biden, obviously, and then in newspapers it was seventy
Speaker 1: to twenty one the Democrats over Trump. And then in
Speaker 1: National Network News, where supposedly ABCCBS and NBC had been
Speaker 1: abandoned decades ago by the Republicans, the voters said fifty
Speaker 1: five percent in favor of the Democrat Kamala Harris, thirty
Speaker 1: five percent in favor of Trump. So for one third
Speaker 1: of the audience watching the broadcast network newscasts every night
Speaker 1: and things like Meet the Press and Face the Nation
Speaker 1: and whatever they're calling the one on CBS at the
Speaker 1: moment that nobody watches, yes, one third of them are
Speaker 1: still Trump supporters or became Trump supporters thanks to the
Speaker 1: as I noted before, ld coverage of Trump by the networks,
Speaker 1: and with that this media note, Dennis Murphy, Jarrett Shustrin,
Speaker 1: and Lamar Gerring have joined Newsmax as executive producers for
Speaker 1: American Agenda, Wake Up America, Nazi Line on whatever the
Speaker 1: shows are called Murphy. Most recently was it Fox. Schustron
Speaker 1: Ha said, Gerring is the former EP of wnywtv's Good
Speaker 1: Day New York. That would be the Fox station in
Speaker 1: New York. So Newsmax just hired a producer named Gerring
Speaker 1: ge r i n g Lamar Gerring. Now he might
Speaker 1: pronounce it some other way. Maybe he pronounces it smith.
Speaker 1: Maybe he pronounces it lamar g. Maybe he pronounces it Gerrig.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's spelled g o e r
Speaker 1: i n g, which in German is Gerring. Even for
Speaker 1: these dark times, isn't that a little too on point?
Speaker 1: And there's Olivia Newsy News and the most racist Republican
Speaker 1: thing ever in Worst Persons Next, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's the semi weekly roundup of the miss Grants, morons
Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse
Speaker 1: persons in the world. Theron's worse Olivia is back. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what I mean, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you about Olivia's back, I meaning she's back in the news,
Speaker 1: Newsy in the news or NUTSI. I can never remember
Speaker 1: which way she's pronouncing it. This week, remember the restraining
Speaker 1: order and the charges Olivia Newsy made against her ex
Speaker 1: fiance Ryan Lizza before their careers both imploded, and the
Speaker 1: stories about going to the FBI and he hacked her
Speaker 1: phone and revealed all the RFK Junior stuff, and he
Speaker 1: was a stalker, and he blackmailed her into sex and
Speaker 1: staying into their relationship, and most importantly to her, blackmailed
Speaker 1: her to in the book deal. Oh god, pew pew pew,
Speaker 1: what were those bullets? I just missed? She's dropped all
Speaker 1: those charges, The Daily Beast reports Ryan Liza answered those
Speaker 1: charges in court in the last ten days with an
Speaker 1: outline of evidence that he was going to use in
Speaker 1: his defense that suggested Olivia wasn't exactly not lying texts, email's,
Speaker 1: third party witnesses, phone conversations. Her response to seeing this,
Speaker 1: she has withdrawn the restraining order against him. Just dropped it.
Speaker 1: No stalking, no blackmailing, no book deal stuff. So now
Speaker 1: Liza is hinting at suing her his quote, she shamelessly
Speaker 1: used litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public
Speaker 1: relations strategy. I said I would defend myself against her
Speaker 1: lies vigorously and successfully, and I am fully prepared to
Speaker 1: do so way more or lassits. Oh boy, takes my
Speaker 1: mind off Trumpo. But for now, he concluded, I'm pleased
Speaker 1: this matter is closed. One additional quote she lied, pal
Speaker 1: take a number. As for me, I'm just quietly enjoying
Speaker 1: my garbage dumpster full of popcorn. I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to deal with the fact that I'm now eight
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five pounds. It's all popcorn, and I'll
Speaker 1: just keep enjoying my hot and cold running Shadu and Freud.
Speaker 1: But I will mention that as far back as the
Speaker 1: year twenty fourteen, she used to tell me about her
Speaker 1: quote stalker unquote in DC. His name was Ryan Lizza.
Speaker 1: I'm quoting her. You know how to reach me. The
Speaker 1: runner up worser, Tim Poole, one of those fascists, the
Speaker 1: one with the beanie baby outfit, who it turned out,
Speaker 1: was brought to you by a contribution from the Kremlin.
Speaker 1: Make pronouns illegal. He's written, everyone and everything must be
Speaker 1: referred to directly by name. In the replies from at
Speaker 1: duchess Prim, everyone is a pronoun, you pine cone? Try again?
Speaker 1: The best thing all week that is the new insult
Speaker 1: you pine cone. Pool says he was just trolling here.
Speaker 1: He knows, he knows knows everyone and everything are pronouns.
Speaker 1: It was the whole point he wanted to get. Who
Speaker 1: are you writing to, Pool? You're talking to conservatives. If
Speaker 1: you knew that everyone and everything is a pronoun you're
Speaker 1: the only one of the crowd who knows that, because
Speaker 1: the rest of them have a collective IQ of one
Speaker 1: hundred and seven. The best part is the insult you
Speaker 1: pine cone. Hey, f you o your pine cone? Thank you,
Speaker 1: duchess Prim. You have introduced one of the great new
Speaker 1: insults of the century. Dear listener, won't you use it
Speaker 1: today and tell the others of the good news U
Speaker 1: pine Cone? But our winner the worst. Now this is
Speaker 1: a month old. Somehow I missed it. The Independent just
Speaker 1: published it. The guy in it is so Republican he
Speaker 1: should be continued onto the adjacent Republican At a bipartisan
Speaker 1: forum in Idaho, Republican state Senator Dan Foreman got into
Speaker 1: a heated exchange with Democratic House six district candidate Trish
Speaker 1: Carter Goodheart. They were talking about discrimination and somebody said
Speaker 1: there wasn't really any discrimination in Idaho, and Carter Goodheart
Speaker 1: says that. She then said, just because someone hasn't personally
Speaker 1: experienced discrimination doesn't mean it's not happening. And that is
Speaker 1: when Republican Senator Foreman screamed, I'm so sick and tired
Speaker 1: of this liberal bullshit, and looking at Ms Carter Goodheart,
Speaker 1: he added, why don't you go back to where you
Speaker 1: came from? Trish Carter Goodheart is Native American nez Perse.
Speaker 1: Just for the record, Native American in Idaho. She is home,
Speaker 1: She is back where she came from. Senator Foreman denies
Speaker 1: he said this, but attendees, including a state representative, said
Speaker 1: they heard it. And then in real time after he said,
Speaker 1: why don't you go back to where you came from?
Speaker 1: To the Native American, the Native American, Ms Carter Goodheart
Speaker 1: asked the unanswerable rhetorical question, where am I supposed to go? Well,
Speaker 1: we all know where State Senator Foreman is supposed to go. Hell,
Speaker 1: but first he should go into the Trump administration as
Speaker 1: Secretary of Pine Cones, Idaho State Senator Dan why don't
Speaker 1: you Native Americans go back to where you come from? Foreman,
Speaker 1: Today's other worst person in the I've done all the
Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow
Speaker 1: me for the podcast promos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x,
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Speaker 1: banned from TikTok I put out an anti Trump meme.
Speaker 1: TikTok is crap. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the
Speaker 1: musical directors have Countdown Range, produced and performed most of
Speaker 1: our music. Mister Shaneil handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray
Speaker 1: was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced
Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are
Speaker 1: by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The
Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written
Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music
Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My
Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend John Dean, and as always,
Speaker 1: everything else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for today,
Speaker 1: just one five hundred and thirty five days until the
Speaker 1: scheduled end of the term of Lame duc President Trump.
Speaker 1: Maybe the next scheduled countdown is Monday. Still playing this
Speaker 1: by ear on the schedule, I may do some shorter
Speaker 1: eight nine ten minute editions as news warrants. I mean,
Speaker 1: Trump could could appoint a horse to his cabinet, especially
Speaker 1: if he doesn't think. I have a confirmation here Wilbur
Speaker 1: has been named Secretary of Oats. We'll see how the
Speaker 1: schedule works out. Two at least a week schedule Monday
Speaker 1: and Thursday make the most sense for me in any event.
Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants, till the next one,
Speaker 1: whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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