WEBVTT - EMPEROR TRUMP HAS NO CLOTHES - AND NO CLUE ON IRAN - 4.20.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:23.915 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 0:00:24.035 --> 0:00:28.635 Emperor not only has no clothes, he has no clue. 0:00:29.715 --> 0:00:33.115 Is the Strait of Hormuz open or is it closed? 0:00:33.715 --> 0:00:38.875 Are there peace talks with Iran in Pakistan tomorrow or nah? 0:00:39.395 --> 0:00:42.555 Is JV Vance going to them? Is Iran going to them? 0:00:42.755 --> 0:00:46.235 Has Trump's scheduled peace talks where we're the only ones there? 0:00:46.915 --> 0:00:49.755 Will it make any difference if we're the only ones there? 0:00:50.755 --> 0:00:54.475 Doesn't Blowing a hole in the engine room of an 0:00:54.515 --> 0:00:57.635 Iranian cargo ship yesterday, I mean we are not honoring 0:00:57.675 --> 0:01:02.475 Trump's own ceasefire. He keeps boasting about are we paying 0:01:02.515 --> 0:01:05.515 twenty billion dollars for the Irani in Ran and the 0:01:05.555 --> 0:01:09.755 hostages the same uranium and hostages Obama bought for four 0:01:09.835 --> 0:01:12.195 hundred million, And Trump called him a trader? Or is 0:01:12.235 --> 0:01:19.395 that a no? Don't ask Trump. He doesn't know, but 0:01:19.435 --> 0:01:22.635 that won't stop him from answering anyway. Yes, then no, 0:01:22.955 --> 0:01:27.075 then yes again, then all of the above. In forty 0:01:27.115 --> 0:01:30.915 eight hours, Trump went from thirteen posts congratulating himself on 0:01:31.035 --> 0:01:34.715 winning to insisting he would stop being mister nice guy 0:01:35.035 --> 0:01:37.355 and blow up all of Iran. And by the way, 0:01:37.395 --> 0:01:43.115 exactly when was he? Mister nice guy, Trump is entirely 0:01:43.835 --> 0:01:47.275 full of shit. It is as if you took all 0:01:47.355 --> 0:01:50.635 the shit in the world, squeezed it into a bag 0:01:51.075 --> 0:01:55.755 and made it president. He insists he has opened Hormuz, 0:01:56.075 --> 0:01:59.355 and Iran's leaders fire on chips and insists it's closed. 0:01:59.755 --> 0:02:02.595 He insists there are talks. Iran's leaders say they know 0:02:02.675 --> 0:02:05.435 nothing about them. We are losing the war in Iran, 0:02:05.515 --> 0:02:08.555 and as of today, a total idiot is still president 0:02:08.635 --> 0:02:12.675 and commander in chief. He gets questions about this pointless 0:02:12.675 --> 0:02:15.195 war he started to divert attention from Epstein in the 0:02:15.235 --> 0:02:18.755 economy he has crashed. So he then orders the reporters 0:02:18.755 --> 0:02:22.075 out of the Oval office and sits there with hapless 0:02:22.315 --> 0:02:27.475 munchkin little Joe Rogan standing behind him, the shine off 0:02:27.475 --> 0:02:33.915 his motteled cubeball noggin blinding cameras and journalists alike. Trump 0:02:33.995 --> 0:02:36.035 has set off a chain of events over which he 0:02:36.115 --> 0:02:39.835 no longer has any control except to withdraw and flea. 0:02:40.955 --> 0:02:44.115 And to withdraw and flea would be to acknowledge he 0:02:44.315 --> 0:02:47.915 has screwed up. And this man would jump off the 0:02:47.995 --> 0:02:50.675 roof of the White House before admitting he screwed up. 0:02:53.435 --> 0:02:57.515 It is so bad. It is so bad. The Trump 0:02:57.595 --> 0:03:02.515 quote administration unquote has so utterly jumped the shark that 0:03:02.555 --> 0:03:06.475 the truthers are coming out, and the truthers are coming 0:03:06.555 --> 0:03:11.955 out from inside MAGA. Alex Jones now insist Trump has 0:03:11.995 --> 0:03:15.635 done all this deliberately because he has made a quote. 0:03:15.595 --> 0:03:18.555 Deal with the deep state to throw the election to 0:03:18.635 --> 0:03:25.395 the Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Green has joined the Trump assassination truthers, 0:03:26.115 --> 0:03:29.955 and Trump himself has floated a kind of conspiracy theory 0:03:30.595 --> 0:03:35.915 about himself. He wrote Praise Be to Allah on Easter 0:03:36.075 --> 0:03:40.155 morning to quote seem as unstable and insulting as possible. 0:03:41.955 --> 0:03:46.155 He wanted to seem as unstable as possible. Mission accomplished. Buddy, 0:03:46.595 --> 0:03:51.635 you've finally done something you promised Trump you have unsuspected depth. 0:03:53.715 --> 0:03:58.475 So is that idea he's doing this deliberately? Is that 0:03:58.635 --> 0:04:02.235 the basis of the Alex Jones theory of TDS That 0:04:02.275 --> 0:04:05.955 would be Trump defenestration syndrome. I mean, listen to this. 0:04:06.315 --> 0:04:08.995 We're supposed to sit here and love this crap as 0:04:09.035 --> 0:04:10.955 his poll numbers go straight down and all the poll 0:04:10.995 --> 0:04:13.035 sholl republoms are going to lose them in terms of 0:04:13.075 --> 0:04:17.835 seven months by a landslide eight disaster, a total and 0:04:17.915 --> 0:04:21.075 complete disaster. Trump is not that stupid. He's made some 0:04:21.155 --> 0:04:23.155 deal with the deep state to throw the election of Democrats. 0:04:23.195 --> 0:04:23.555 That's something. 0:04:23.595 --> 0:04:26.795 This can be only possible explanation, the one about Trump 0:04:26.835 --> 0:04:30.795 being stupid. That just doesn't work right now. Did Jones 0:04:30.875 --> 0:04:32.835 read this quote in the Wall Street Journal or did 0:04:32.835 --> 0:04:36.755 somebody at the journal hear what Jones said there? Quote 0:04:36.995 --> 0:04:40.915 aids fielded calls from Republican senators and Christian leaders. They asked, 0:04:40.955 --> 0:04:44.195 why would he say Praise be to Allah on Easter morning? 0:04:44.275 --> 0:04:47.235 Why would he use the F word? When one advisor 0:04:47.355 --> 0:04:49.635 later asked Trump about it, he said he came up 0:04:49.675 --> 0:04:52.235 with the Allah idea himself. He said he wanted to 0:04:52.235 --> 0:04:56.115 see him as unstable and insulting as possible, believing it 0:04:56.155 --> 0:05:01.915 could bring the Iranians to the table. Good thinking Chief. 0:05:03.355 --> 0:05:07.955 And then there's Marjorie Green. Three separate social media posts, 0:05:08.515 --> 0:05:12.555 one of them a retweet of Tucker Carlson's son, who 0:05:12.795 --> 0:05:16.995 just quit as Vance's deputy press secretary in protest of 0:05:17.035 --> 0:05:22.755 the entire administration. The three posts go deeply into trump Trutherism. 0:05:23.275 --> 0:05:25.435 One of them is a repost of a seven hundred 0:05:25.435 --> 0:05:28.515 and fifty words screed from a self pronounced Trump twenty 0:05:28.515 --> 0:05:33.835 twenty four delegate from Texas, questioning the assassination attempts in Butler, Pennsylvania. 0:05:34.115 --> 0:05:38.475 Butler Trutherism is now coming into focus. It is pinned 0:05:38.675 --> 0:05:41.755 on three questions. If somebody out there in the fields 0:05:42.595 --> 0:05:44.675 has been in the last couple minutes trying to kill 0:05:44.715 --> 0:05:47.475 Trump with a rifle, why on earth did the Secret 0:05:47.475 --> 0:05:51.315 Service let him stand up and raise his arm over 0:05:51.395 --> 0:05:54.795 his head and shout fight? And why on earth did 0:05:54.875 --> 0:05:59.635 a crane reposition a giant American flag during the shooting 0:06:00.115 --> 0:06:02.115 so it would be in all the photos of Trump's 0:06:02.115 --> 0:06:05.355 standing like a duck at a county fair shoot gallery. 0:06:06.275 --> 0:06:09.555 And whoever in the Secret Service who totally screwed up 0:06:09.555 --> 0:06:14.315 that day? Why didn't Trump fire him and instead made 0:06:14.355 --> 0:06:18.595 him the head of the Secret Service. Marjorie Taylor Green 0:06:18.715 --> 0:06:21.835 calls this quote extremely important. Trump, of all people, should 0:06:21.835 --> 0:06:24.395 be leading the charge. Why isn't he? That's the question? 0:06:24.595 --> 0:06:27.595 Why the cover up and the final dose before you 0:06:27.635 --> 0:06:31.275 go full truther or on anything. Quote. I'm not calling 0:06:31.315 --> 0:06:36.835 the Butler assassination a hoax, but for what does the 0:06:37.115 --> 0:06:41.475 profit of president if he regaineth Baldy, Joe Rogan, but 0:06:41.715 --> 0:06:48.875 Loseth MTG and Alex Jones, which takes us back to 0:06:48.915 --> 0:06:51.475 Iran and the fact that Trump is not only losing 0:06:51.515 --> 0:06:54.755 in Iran, he's losing about Iran. Politico polled on it, 0:06:54.795 --> 0:06:58.035 and he's cratering. Support for Trump's war there is down 0:06:58.075 --> 0:07:02.675 to thirty eight percent, no improvement despite the weeks that 0:07:02.675 --> 0:07:06.195 Trump and his noise machine have had to try to 0:07:06.275 --> 0:07:09.835 sell this crap. Only twenty seven percent say he has 0:07:09.875 --> 0:07:12.395 a plan for resolving Iran one way or the other. 0:07:12.595 --> 0:07:15.475 Only fifteen percent think he's achieved his goals in Iran, 0:07:15.635 --> 0:07:18.915 whatever the f they were. And on the overall subject 0:07:18.915 --> 0:07:22.035 of Iran, an NBC News poll came out yesterday, he's 0:07:22.075 --> 0:07:25.955 a net thirty four points underwater. By the way, he's 0:07:25.955 --> 0:07:28.595 a net thirty six on cost of living, so Iran 0:07:28.715 --> 0:07:33.355 is a relative highlight at this point. Oh when Trump 0:07:33.475 --> 0:07:36.395 extended the Russian oil license for a month forty eight 0:07:36.435 --> 0:07:40.635 hours after the Foppish Secretary of Commerce Scott Bessn't insisted 0:07:40.675 --> 0:07:43.275 they were not going to do that. So at least 0:07:43.755 --> 0:07:47.035 somebody is coming out of this in good shape. Unfortunately, 0:07:47.075 --> 0:07:52.235 that somebody is Vladimir Putin and despite that treason. Trump 0:07:52.315 --> 0:07:55.355 is aiding an enemy of this country, an enemy of 0:07:55.355 --> 0:07:58.275 this country, that is itself aiding another enemy of this country. 0:07:58.475 --> 0:08:03.315 That's that's that's treason. The head of the International Energy 0:08:03.355 --> 0:08:06.195 Agency now says Europe is down to its last six 0:08:06.275 --> 0:08:09.995 weeks of jet fuel. Quote the largest energy crisis we 0:08:10.075 --> 0:08:16.515 have ever seen. He says, two dollars gas. Well, Trump 0:08:16.515 --> 0:08:19.195 can still achieve that. It's an easy fix. Here's how 0:08:19.195 --> 0:08:21.555 you do it. Instead of quoting the price per gallon, 0:08:21.915 --> 0:08:27.835 you quote the price per ounce two dollars. Speaking of 0:08:27.835 --> 0:08:31.155 liquids and ounces that incredible. Bessentt and somebody nailed it. 0:08:31.235 --> 0:08:34.075 Somebody this week said Scott Bessant seemed to be doing 0:08:34.155 --> 0:08:37.515 a bad impression of Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live, 0:08:37.795 --> 0:08:41.395 doing an impression of Harry Carey, to which somebody else said, no, no, no, no, no, 0:08:41.435 --> 0:08:43.555 it's worse than that. Bessont seems to be doing a 0:08:43.555 --> 0:08:49.515 bad impression of himself. Speaking of liquids, announces, Scott Bessont 0:08:49.555 --> 0:08:52.155 managed to add comic relief to this nightmare by calling 0:08:52.155 --> 0:08:56.515 the Strait of Hormuz the Strait of Vermouth, providing a 0:08:56.595 --> 0:09:00.515 delightful sidelight to the sizzle reels of Pete Hegseth getting 0:09:00.595 --> 0:09:03.395 drunk live on Fox News, which are now accompanied by 0:09:03.435 --> 0:09:06.555 the new mashups heg Seth reading what he thought was 0:09:06.595 --> 0:09:09.155 a Bible quote to officers and others at the Pentagon, 0:09:09.235 --> 0:09:12.995 when in fact he was reading dialogue from Tarantino's pulp fiction, 0:09:14.115 --> 0:09:17.395 and all of its serving as a a parenteef to 0:09:17.515 --> 0:09:21.955 the Atlantic profile of Cash Patel, the head of your FBI, 0:09:22.755 --> 0:09:29.555 the Federal Bureau of Intoxication. The Patel's story provided the 0:09:29.595 --> 0:09:33.915 first proof of life from that bug eyed bastard who 0:09:33.955 --> 0:09:36.595 then had to go on Fox yesterday. Hey, look, there's 0:09:36.635 --> 0:09:40.915 been a Cash Patel sighting. He insisted, he has laser 0:09:40.995 --> 0:09:46.635 focused on the twenty twenty election, keeping an eye firmly 0:09:46.715 --> 0:09:51.715 fixed on it. Maybe two eyes. If the Atlantic story 0:09:51.755 --> 0:09:54.435 about Patel is accurate, and he's not just a drunk, 0:09:54.475 --> 0:09:56.275 but he's such a drunk that he is a risk 0:09:56.395 --> 0:10:01.715 for spontaneous combustion. The fact is most of the traction 0:10:01.835 --> 0:10:04.675 for that story has been provided by his own department 0:10:04.915 --> 0:10:08.675 and his own attorneys. They keep retweeting it. They have 0:10:08.755 --> 0:10:11.875 shouted at such length and such volume about suing about 0:10:11.915 --> 0:10:14.875 this article. Their lawyer letters are filled with each report 0:10:14.915 --> 0:10:18.835 of each bout of intoxication or paranoida or paranoid intoxication, 0:10:19.155 --> 0:10:24.275 they have truly proved the streisand effect is real. I mean, 0:10:24.435 --> 0:10:28.475 how do you possibly erase the image of Patel jock 0:10:28.555 --> 0:10:31.195 sniffing his way through the US Olympic hockey dressing room 0:10:31.195 --> 0:10:34.515 in Milan. I'll just make sure everybody in America now 0:10:34.555 --> 0:10:37.195 has a mental picture of Patel's so impaired that he 0:10:37.275 --> 0:10:40.915 can't remember his password for his FBI computer and he 0:10:40.955 --> 0:10:43.555 then fails to enter it correctly so many times the 0:10:43.595 --> 0:10:46.835 computer automatically locks him out, and he then reaches the 0:10:46.875 --> 0:10:51.355 only possible conclusion that Trump has fired him, and locking 0:10:51.435 --> 0:10:53.635 him out of his computer is the way Trump is 0:10:53.715 --> 0:10:59.275 letting him find out. The second saddest part of the 0:10:59.355 --> 0:11:04.075 Atlantic saga. After that little risk to national security that 0:11:04.155 --> 0:11:09.355 a drunken FBI chief would represent, the second saddest part 0:11:09.395 --> 0:11:15.955 is the profound, damaging, incapacitating alcoholism. That that possibility that 0:11:16.075 --> 0:11:20.795 he's he's literally a flammable drunk, That that would be 0:11:20.835 --> 0:11:24.875 the happiest of all the possible explanations for the self 0:11:24.915 --> 0:11:54.475 destruction of cash Patel's mind. And by the way, Fatel, Hegseeth, 0:11:54.555 --> 0:11:57.555 and Vessent. They are all still more sober and more 0:11:57.635 --> 0:12:03.435 sane than Trump. Is bad news everybody. The President's brain 0:12:03.595 --> 0:12:10.395 is missing. Let's just let Trump roll on three great 0:12:10.835 --> 0:12:15.195 sound bites, famous things the Pope never actually said, but 0:12:15.235 --> 0:12:18.835 he thinks he did. This new invention that he made 0:12:19.035 --> 0:12:24.515 the corner store and the best yet, just because you 0:12:24.635 --> 0:12:28.515 have no legs doesn't mean you can't run. 0:12:28.755 --> 0:12:31.475 The Pope made a statement. He says Iran can have 0:12:31.515 --> 0:12:34.395 a nuclear weapon. I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. 0:12:34.515 --> 0:12:35.075 So I could. 0:12:34.955 --> 0:12:38.315 Disagree with the puff right, I have a right to 0:12:38.395 --> 0:12:42.075 disagree with the pulp. Restaurant strip landers corner stores. 0:12:42.115 --> 0:12:42.995 What is a corner store? 0:12:42.995 --> 0:12:43.915 I've never heard that term. 0:12:43.955 --> 0:12:45.875 I know what a corner store is, but I've never 0:12:45.915 --> 0:12:47.515 heard it described a corner store. 0:12:47.795 --> 0:12:48.755 Who the hell wrote that? 0:12:48.875 --> 0:12:52.275 When you see soldiers or others, but soldiers generally walking 0:12:52.275 --> 0:12:54.675 around with no legs, with no arms of face, that's 0:12:54.715 --> 0:12:58.235 been smashed, that was solimated. It was Iran that did that. 0:12:58.955 --> 0:13:05.555 Holy crap, really running around with no legs. Ah, he's fine, 0:13:06.595 --> 0:13:08.795 And don't sleep on that other line about this term. 0:13:08.835 --> 0:13:13.995 He doesn't know. Corner stores don't have any corner stores 0:13:14.115 --> 0:13:18.915 in Queens. They have nothing but corner stores in Queens. 0:13:20.675 --> 0:13:23.835 We're finally beginning to see the pattern emerge and define itself. 0:13:23.875 --> 0:13:25.795 The odds are about three to one that at some 0:13:25.955 --> 0:13:29.555 point in the next week or month, Trump will encounter 0:13:29.715 --> 0:13:33.675 that term again and claim, oh, corner stores, I just 0:13:33.755 --> 0:13:37.675 invented that. This is now revealing itself as a pattern 0:13:37.715 --> 0:13:40.155 that is familiar to those who have dealt with others 0:13:40.195 --> 0:13:43.755 who have declining mental function of any kind. People who 0:13:43.795 --> 0:13:46.555 invent new words and insist everybody knows what they mean. 0:13:46.635 --> 0:13:50.475 That tends to suggest bipolar disorder. But if somebody forgets 0:13:50.595 --> 0:13:54.155 a common word or phrase and then suddenly remembers it 0:13:54.275 --> 0:13:57.875 or hears it, they can only rationalize their own confusion 0:13:57.955 --> 0:14:02.675 by claiming they just invented that phrase or word, and 0:14:02.755 --> 0:14:08.315 those people are mentally coming apart at the seams. For 0:14:08.395 --> 0:14:11.155 over a decade this has been happening, and I don't 0:14:11.155 --> 0:14:13.555 think it's been happening frequently enough to be a pattern. 0:14:13.715 --> 0:14:16.195 I think with this it is now a pattern. Trump 0:14:16.195 --> 0:14:20.395 insisted he invented the term priming the pump. He insisted 0:14:20.395 --> 0:14:24.155 he invented the word caravan. Last year, he came up 0:14:24.195 --> 0:14:29.035 with the quote new word equalize. He has said that 0:14:29.075 --> 0:14:33.035 there is a new word affordability. He's claimed he invented 0:14:33.035 --> 0:14:35.595 the term fake news, except fake news dates to the 0:14:35.635 --> 0:14:42.035 eighteen nineties, and even his greatest linguistic concoction, make America 0:14:42.115 --> 0:14:46.195 Great Again, that, of course, bears no connection to the 0:14:46.275 --> 0:14:50.355 Ronald Reagan campaign slogan from nineteen eighty Let's make America 0:14:50.395 --> 0:14:55.555 great again. Totally different, totally different. Well, we are here 0:14:55.595 --> 0:14:58.475 on the subject of Trump's amazing dissolving brain good news 0:14:58.475 --> 0:15:00.435 from the White House, where as predicted, Trump is not 0:15:00.515 --> 0:15:03.075 building a ballroom nobody wants or needs, but he has 0:15:03.075 --> 0:15:06.755 brought it up. Turns out third day this year on average, 0:15:06.875 --> 0:15:10.915 Trump is building a ballroom atop a deep underground bunker, 0:15:12.195 --> 0:15:17.715 because building deep underground bunkers is what all hated dictators do. Quote. 0:15:18.035 --> 0:15:22.115 The underground portion is wetted to and serves the upper portion, 0:15:22.435 --> 0:15:25.435 including the bomb shelters, a state of the art hospital 0:15:25.435 --> 0:15:31.155 and medical facilities, protective partitioning, top secret military installations, structures 0:15:31.155 --> 0:15:35.755 and equipment, protective missile resistant steel columns, roofs and beams, 0:15:35.995 --> 0:15:39.915 drone proof ceilings and roofs, military grade venting, and bullet 0:15:39.915 --> 0:15:44.795 ballistic and blast proof glass. These are the things I 0:15:44.795 --> 0:15:46.395 look for in a nice ballroom. 0:15:48.235 --> 0:15:51.195 Quote. It's all tied together is one big, expensive and 0:15:51.315 --> 0:15:54.475 very complex unit which is vital for national security and 0:15:54.595 --> 0:15:57.555 military operations of the United States of America. 0:15:57.835 --> 0:15:59.355 Exclamation point. 0:16:01.955 --> 0:16:04.155 A bunker ballroom, A. 0:16:04.155 --> 0:16:11.595 Best underground bunker ballroom. Christ because the last White house 0:16:11.795 --> 0:16:15.395 underground bunker that Trump went and hid in. If you 0:16:15.395 --> 0:16:19.155 will remember in twenty twenty during the Black Lives Matter protest, 0:16:19.475 --> 0:16:24.435 where's the president? He's in the underground bunker. Uh okay. 0:16:27.635 --> 0:16:33.395 Apparently that image was not hit Larryan enough if this 0:16:33.595 --> 0:16:37.395 boast of his come from the ballroom. But stay for 0:16:37.475 --> 0:16:40.395 the invocation of where Adolph and Ava met their end. 0:16:41.275 --> 0:16:45.515 If that boast was not weird enough. Trump also used 0:16:45.595 --> 0:16:49.115 a really strange and perhaps telling phrase about television and 0:16:49.275 --> 0:16:52.555 media careers during one of his Diet tribes against the 0:16:52.635 --> 0:16:57.435 Fox token liberal Jessica Tarlov quote, get her off the air, 0:16:57.475 --> 0:16:59.915 she is bad for our country. And then here we go. 0:17:00.155 --> 0:17:04.315 I hear Megan Kelly, Tucker, Carlson and Candace Owens are 0:17:04.475 --> 0:17:14.715 dying fast, dying dying fast, you say, Donald Trump. Then 0:17:14.955 --> 0:17:17.475 this quick circle back to that Trump is Jesus image 0:17:17.475 --> 0:17:20.435 that will haunt him no matter what happens next. Axios 0:17:20.435 --> 0:17:23.035 supporting that the image mainlined back to two of the 0:17:23.075 --> 0:17:27.875 towering mental giants of Mago World Housing Finance chief Bill 0:17:27.955 --> 0:17:33.435 Poulty and the Australian born unintentionally hilarious tweet machine Nick Adams. 0:17:34.435 --> 0:17:40.475 Nick Adams apparently first boasted and posted Trump Jesus Jesus Trump, 0:17:40.875 --> 0:17:44.755 although axious in its greatest reporting in years, reassures us 0:17:44.915 --> 0:17:48.875 that the flying horned thing in the Jesus Trump that 0:17:48.915 --> 0:17:51.875 looked like the evil statue of Libertory flying through the 0:17:51.915 --> 0:17:54.995 air that was not in the Adams version. That's what 0:17:55.075 --> 0:17:59.995 was added later. As to Paulty, who is, of course 0:17:59.995 --> 0:18:02.395 the guy who tried to prosecute Letitia James and others 0:18:02.395 --> 0:18:06.755 over procedural uncertainty in Morgan applications, which it turned out 0:18:06.755 --> 0:18:09.595 his own parents did in identical fashion and is usually 0:18:09.795 --> 0:18:14.395 treated with a fine, he reportedly showed the Jesus h 0:18:14.475 --> 0:18:17.035 Trump meme to Trump may or may not have actually 0:18:17.075 --> 0:18:19.635 forwarded it to Trump, but they talked about it at 0:18:19.675 --> 0:18:23.675 Mari Lago, where Pulty is a member. You may remember 0:18:23.755 --> 0:18:27.115 Bill Paulty from such in house Trump disasters as Scott 0:18:27.155 --> 0:18:30.155 Bessant walking up to Paulty and saying, I'm going to 0:18:30.235 --> 0:18:36.595 punch you in the effing face. Speaking of effing, I 0:18:36.675 --> 0:18:39.995 cannot skip the greatest commentary on Trump from the week past. 0:18:40.635 --> 0:18:44.075 Ladies and gentlemen, stand by for the adult comments from 0:18:44.115 --> 0:18:48.435 Congresswoman Sidney Kamilinger Dove, who would have been the representative 0:18:48.555 --> 0:18:51.715 for the district next to mine when I still lived 0:18:51.715 --> 0:18:55.515 out there and was a local sportscaster in La. Oh, congresswoman, 0:18:55.755 --> 0:18:58.075 are you concerned about the impact that this morning Iran 0:18:58.235 --> 0:19:00.035 is having on our national debt? Oh? 0:19:00.115 --> 0:19:02.755 My god, yes, of course I am, you would. Stevie 0:19:02.795 --> 0:19:05.435 Wonder can even see how much this is costing us? 0:19:05.715 --> 0:19:08.315 So gas prices are going up, It's almost ten dollars 0:19:08.355 --> 0:19:12.075 in California, and fertilizers going up. I mean, you name it. 0:19:12.115 --> 0:19:15.515 The prices have gone off. And this dude, doctor Jesus Okay, 0:19:15.995 --> 0:19:18.715 is wanting to spend two billion dollars of your money 0:19:18.795 --> 0:19:21.955 every single day rather than help you get health care. 0:19:22.235 --> 0:19:33.315 Fuck his ass, Which leads us finally to this question, 0:19:33.395 --> 0:19:36.115 what would be the dumbest thing Trump could do right now? 0:19:36.915 --> 0:19:39.715 With congress people not only dropping f bombs on him, 0:19:39.715 --> 0:19:44.795 but adding quote his ass with MTG and Alex Jones 0:19:45.035 --> 0:19:49.155 leading the anti Trump conspiracy theories, with the Iran saga 0:19:49.195 --> 0:19:51.835 making George W. Bush and Iraq look like FDR and 0:19:51.875 --> 0:19:57.075 Truman and Germany. What would be the worst dumbest thing 0:19:57.075 --> 0:20:03.395 Trump could do right now? Invade Cuba, sees Greenland? Well, 0:20:03.595 --> 0:20:07.075 sure those would be do disasters of biblical proportions. But 0:20:07.195 --> 0:20:10.195 I would have her that the dumbest thing Trump could 0:20:10.195 --> 0:20:14.115 do right now would be well, it's under discussion. Let 0:20:14.155 --> 0:20:17.195 me just read this selection from Politico magazine. 0:20:17.315 --> 0:20:17.675 Quote. 0:20:19.595 --> 0:20:23.395 Asked about the chances of a pardon, Attorney David Oscar 0:20:23.475 --> 0:20:27.355 Marcus appeared somewhat bullish despite the massive political fallout for 0:20:27.395 --> 0:20:30.075 Trump that would surely follow, But he wouldn't give a 0:20:30.115 --> 0:20:33.355 firm number. I don't know what the percentages are. He said, 0:20:33.515 --> 0:20:36.715 there's a good chance, and for good reason, that she 0:20:36.795 --> 0:20:40.835 would get a pardon. Marcus said he had not yet 0:20:40.835 --> 0:20:43.635 spoken to the administration about a clemency request. He does 0:20:43.635 --> 0:20:45.595 not believe this is the right moment. With the heat 0:20:45.595 --> 0:20:48.595 on the administration over its handling of the release of 0:20:48.635 --> 0:20:52.195 the Epstein files, she obviously wants clemency. There's no secret 0:20:52.195 --> 0:20:57.715 about that Who's this she, Who's this client of his? 0:20:59.075 --> 0:21:01.595 Who's this woman that this lawyer Marcus wants Trump to 0:21:01.675 --> 0:21:06.915 pardon soon or late. This guy Marcus a professional friend 0:21:06.915 --> 0:21:10.715 of the acting Attorney General Trump ambulance chaser Todd Blanche. 0:21:11.755 --> 0:21:14.475 This guy Marcus who says you'll be pressing this idea soon, 0:21:14.835 --> 0:21:20.555 if not immediately. Who are we talking about Trump pardoning 0:21:21.915 --> 0:21:30.675 Glaine Maxwell? This guy Marcus represents Gallaine Maxwell. Gallaine Maxwell's 0:21:30.755 --> 0:21:38.115 lawyer expects Trump will eventually pardon Gallaine Maxwell. I think 0:21:38.115 --> 0:21:40.595 this will go over real Well, you're right, mister President. 0:21:40.715 --> 0:21:44.435 Let's do it immediately or just drop her over Iran 0:21:44.995 --> 0:21:49.715 bomb Iran with Gallaine Maxwell after you pardon her. This 0:21:49.795 --> 0:21:56.035 is a story Trump considering pardoning Gallaine Maxwell. This should 0:21:56.035 --> 0:22:04.515 be mentioned every week, every day, every hour. I'm doing 0:22:04.755 --> 0:22:13.115 my part, now you do yours. Also of interest here, 0:22:13.195 --> 0:22:16.915 Lauren Bobert thinks Congress has gotten to horny. We'll get 0:22:16.915 --> 0:22:21.155 her first hand account. And if you think the American 0:22:21.195 --> 0:22:26.435 news media isn't committing suicide fast enough, this just in 0:22:26.995 --> 0:22:33.955 stand by for the return of Brian Williams. Thanks Keith. 0:22:35.835 --> 0:22:42.155 That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith 0:22:42.355 --> 0:23:06.475 Oberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown, this all 0:23:06.595 --> 0:23:10.235 new edition of Countdown. It is decade now since I 0:23:10.315 --> 0:23:14.555 went into Netflix with the president of a major Hollywood 0:23:14.595 --> 0:23:19.115 production company and a high powered agent and said to them, 0:23:19.795 --> 0:23:25.395 I can offer you the entire news business, the entire 0:23:25.595 --> 0:23:30.115 online and streaming news business. I will audition it for you, 0:23:31.355 --> 0:23:34.435 do my own commentaries, my own videos for you. You 0:23:34.475 --> 0:23:37.395 will see that you can have an addition to Netflix. 0:23:37.435 --> 0:23:41.075 You can have Newsflix little corner, little dot in the 0:23:41.115 --> 0:23:45.355 corner of your main screen, and take over the news business. 0:23:45.395 --> 0:23:51.075 Have all the commentators and breaking news, and we will 0:23:51.115 --> 0:23:53.755 be the test case. I will be the test case 0:23:53.875 --> 0:23:57.555 to show you you can do this. And their response 0:23:57.795 --> 0:24:03.035 was what about the Italian subtitles? And how could people 0:24:03.115 --> 0:24:05.235 binge watch the news if you're you're only going to 0:24:05.275 --> 0:24:08.235 have one show up at a time. And I thought, 0:24:08.555 --> 0:24:10.635 these people are going to continue to make a lot 0:24:10.675 --> 0:24:15.195 of mistakes, aren't they. And now they've made a really 0:24:15.235 --> 0:24:18.355 big mistake. They're going to get into news with the 0:24:18.395 --> 0:24:22.555 future of news online, the future of streaming news. The 0:24:22.595 --> 0:24:26.435 man who will lead us into the middle years of 0:24:26.475 --> 0:24:37.675 the twenty first century. Brian Williams next and another thing 0:24:37.755 --> 0:24:42.275 I promised not to tell my own saga of Brian 0:24:42.315 --> 0:24:47.435 Williams and the day he imploded while I watched in 0:24:47.515 --> 0:24:52.035 my efforts to save him and his refusal to be saved. 0:24:54.075 --> 0:24:56.275 All that ahead in the interim, we always have more 0:24:56.355 --> 0:24:59.155 new idiots to talk about the roundup of the miscreants, 0:24:59.235 --> 0:25:04.635 morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst. 0:25:04.475 --> 0:25:06.035 Per persons in the world. 0:25:07.115 --> 0:25:11.275 And this addition is dedicated to Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. 0:25:12.635 --> 0:25:17.595 The San Diego Padres are being sold. The reported price 0:25:17.715 --> 0:25:24.475 is three billion, nine hundred million dollars, which is twice 0:25:24.555 --> 0:25:27.635 what the New York Mets sold for just over five 0:25:27.715 --> 0:25:30.435 years ago. Now I know what you're saying. Of course, 0:25:30.475 --> 0:25:33.635 it's twice what the Mets sold for. The Padres are 0:25:33.675 --> 0:25:39.795 a professional baseball team, not a semi pro organization. Still, 0:25:40.395 --> 0:25:43.235 the Mets make more money. So when you hear about 0:25:43.235 --> 0:25:47.435 that price three point nine billion, remember that before the 0:25:47.475 --> 0:25:50.795 next New Year's Day, after their contract with the players 0:25:50.875 --> 0:25:54.715 union expires, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the owners will threaten 0:25:54.795 --> 0:25:57.955 to lock the players out and to even cancel the 0:25:57.995 --> 0:26:01.795 twenty twenty seven season. A gigantic fu to the fans, 0:26:02.235 --> 0:26:07.035 because the owners will demand a salary cap, because small 0:26:07.075 --> 0:26:12.075 markets are dying, because competitive imbalance, because disparity, because owners 0:26:12.115 --> 0:26:16.035 don't make enough billions, because management still thinks they can 0:26:16.115 --> 0:26:21.435 make it nineteen seventy Again, the Padres, who are worth 0:26:21.555 --> 0:26:27.115 three point nine billion dollars. Never mind profits or losses, 0:26:27.195 --> 0:26:29.315 or how much salaries have gone up, or how much 0:26:29.515 --> 0:26:33.195 the Dodgers spend compared to the Kansas City Royals. The 0:26:33.235 --> 0:26:36.715 San Diego Padres just sold basically for four billion bucks. 0:26:37.355 --> 0:26:43.555 They play in the twelfth smallest market in Big League Baseball. 0:26:43.635 --> 0:26:48.235 It's like fifteenth or sixteenth smallest in all of professional sports. 0:26:48.275 --> 0:26:51.315 Not a knock against San Diego, which is a wonderful place, 0:26:52.515 --> 0:26:54.435 but you shouldn't be able to make any money in 0:26:54.515 --> 0:26:57.995 San Diego compared to New York or Los Angeles. And 0:26:58.275 --> 0:27:00.635 right now the Padres are more valuable than the La 0:27:00.715 --> 0:27:02.915 Dodgers and the New York Mets may be put together. 0:27:04.155 --> 0:27:06.675 The Padres have never won the World Series. They last 0:27:06.675 --> 0:27:09.555 played in one in nineteen ninety eight. They got swept. 0:27:09.955 --> 0:27:13.435 They played in literally what nine World Series games, had 0:27:13.435 --> 0:27:16.115 lost eight of them in their entire history, and the 0:27:16.195 --> 0:27:19.915 owners will spend the rest of this year crying that 0:27:20.035 --> 0:27:23.595 imbalance is killing the sport and the small market teams 0:27:23.635 --> 0:27:26.875 like the Podres can't win or make any money. They 0:27:26.875 --> 0:27:31.035 can't win because the owners of the small market teams 0:27:31.115 --> 0:27:35.755 won't spend the money. They keep the money. The Padres 0:27:38.035 --> 0:27:42.435 owners somehow either didn't like the economics at baseball or 0:27:42.715 --> 0:27:45.235 just decided to get out, and they got out for 0:27:45.275 --> 0:27:48.235 three billion, nine hundred million dollars. This team they bought 0:27:48.235 --> 0:27:51.435 in twenty twelve for eight hundred million dollars. Now, if 0:27:51.475 --> 0:27:54.195 math is really problematic for you, let me explain this. 0:27:55.715 --> 0:27:58.355 In fourteen years they made a profit of three billion, 0:27:58.435 --> 0:28:00.075