1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,355 --> 00:00:28,315 Speaker 1: is drowning. Trump's presidency is drowning. Yesterday, Republicans forced a 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:33,915 Speaker 1: vote to extend Obamacare subsidies against Trump's will. Yesterday, thirty 4 00:00:33,955 --> 00:00:37,435 Speaker 1: eight percent approval in the Marist poll. Monday, his Rob 5 00:00:37,475 --> 00:00:41,035 Speaker 1: Reiner tweet that appalled even the worst of Mega Tuesday, 6 00:00:41,195 --> 00:00:46,355 Speaker 1: Susie Wiles Friday the Epstein Files, proving no history doesn't 7 00:00:46,355 --> 00:00:52,515 Speaker 1: repeat itself. But yes, sometimes it literally rhymes so much failure, 8 00:00:52,835 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: so many el's, so little time to cackle. Sometimes the 9 00:00:57,835 --> 00:01:00,835 Speaker 1: shit comes down so heavy. As my late friend Bill 10 00:01:00,915 --> 00:01:03,635 Speaker 1: Hurt said in the movie Body Heat, I feel like 11 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:08,035 Speaker 1: I should wear a hat. Only Trump doesn't have a hat. 12 00:01:08,875 --> 00:01:12,155 Speaker 1: He went to wag the dog in Venezuela and nobody 13 00:01:12,235 --> 00:01:16,155 Speaker 1: even noticed. And when he screwed that up too, insisting 14 00:01:16,195 --> 00:01:21,235 Speaker 1: an American armada had entirely surrounded Venezuela and setting aside 15 00:01:21,275 --> 00:01:25,115 Speaker 1: that unauthorized act of war, you really want to call 16 00:01:25,155 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: it an armada like the Spanish armada that crashed and 17 00:01:28,595 --> 00:01:31,595 Speaker 1: burned instead of taking over England in fifteen eighty eight, 18 00:01:31,795 --> 00:01:35,355 Speaker 1: And Spain hasn't been a world power since, and did 19 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:40,435 Speaker 1: you say your armada had entirely surrounded Venezuela. Does that 20 00:01:40,515 --> 00:01:43,355 Speaker 1: include the thirty two hundred miles of the Venezuelan border 21 00:01:43,355 --> 00:01:46,675 Speaker 1: that is on land. Did you park a battleship on 22 00:01:46,755 --> 00:01:52,155 Speaker 1: the border with Brazil, Donnie, you flatulant moron. Also, this 23 00:01:52,275 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: is about narco terrorism, whatever the f that is. No, 24 00:01:58,355 --> 00:02:02,035 Speaker 1: it's really about oil. It's about stuff they stole. It's 25 00:02:02,395 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: nuh uh for the first but not the last time. 26 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:09,275 Speaker 1: Today we turned to Susie Wiles for the it's a 27 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:12,075 Speaker 1: strange word to use about the Trump administration, but here 28 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:16,675 Speaker 1: it is about the truth. Quoting her, he wants to 29 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:21,635 Speaker 1: keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle, and 30 00:02:21,795 --> 00:02:27,035 Speaker 1: people weigh smarter than me on that say, he will unquote. 31 00:02:27,795 --> 00:02:31,395 Speaker 1: So it's regime change. And of course there is that 32 00:02:31,635 --> 00:02:34,835 Speaker 1: other reality that never occurred to Trump as he drowns 33 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:38,715 Speaker 1: well as you're armada. Now, if he and Rubio and 34 00:02:38,755 --> 00:02:41,915 Speaker 1: these other political whores can declare that they can take 35 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:45,635 Speaker 1: Venezuela's oil, and more importantly, they can try to force 36 00:02:45,795 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: regime change in Venezuela, Guess what that means That Venezuela 37 00:02:50,515 --> 00:02:54,715 Speaker 1: is entitled to try to force regime change in America, 38 00:02:55,115 --> 00:03:03,155 Speaker 1: Stop Don't come back. Trump is drowning on dry land. 39 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:08,435 Speaker 1: The Marist Poll Commission for NPR and PBS thirty eight 40 00:03:08,555 --> 00:03:12,915 Speaker 1: percent approval thirty eight He's cracked the bottom forty, his 41 00:03:13,035 --> 00:03:18,075 Speaker 1: worst number this term, worst overall since twenty eighteen, and 42 00:03:18,195 --> 00:03:20,955 Speaker 1: thirty eight percent is better than the interior numbers in 43 00:03:20,995 --> 00:03:24,075 Speaker 1: this poll. Approval on the economy is thirty six percent. 44 00:03:24,555 --> 00:03:27,875 Speaker 1: Who do you trust to handle the economy? Republicans thirty 45 00:03:27,915 --> 00:03:33,195 Speaker 1: three percent, Democrats thirty seven percent. Economic disapproval of Trump 46 00:03:33,235 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: by group, Rural residents forty nine to forty three disapprove, 47 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:41,115 Speaker 1: White women who didn't go to college forty eight percent disapproved, 48 00:03:41,275 --> 00:03:49,075 Speaker 1: to forty one suburbs. The suburbs OI sixty percent disapprove 49 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:53,155 Speaker 1: on the economy to thirty three. Who approve and the 50 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:56,835 Speaker 1: strength of your opinion about him? Of registered voters ask 51 00:03:56,955 --> 00:04:00,075 Speaker 1: if they approve or disapprove of him, half say they 52 00:04:00,315 --> 00:04:05,435 Speaker 1: strongly disapprove, half and six out of ten of us 53 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:08,035 Speaker 1: say the economy isn't working for us. Six out of 54 00:04:08,035 --> 00:04:10,475 Speaker 1: ten of us are pessimistic about the year ahead. He's 55 00:04:10,515 --> 00:04:15,075 Speaker 1: even lost five percent of Republican approval in just the 56 00:04:15,195 --> 00:04:22,635 Speaker 1: last month, Trump is drowning. They did not ask about 57 00:04:22,675 --> 00:04:27,795 Speaker 1: the Trump Memorial ballroom and ego storage airplane hangar, which 58 00:04:27,835 --> 00:04:31,155 Speaker 1: he first said would cost only one hundred million, Then 59 00:04:31,195 --> 00:04:34,195 Speaker 1: it was two hundred, then two hundred and fifty, all 60 00:04:34,235 --> 00:04:37,915 Speaker 1: of it paid by donors, then three hundred then Tuesday night, 61 00:04:38,035 --> 00:04:41,435 Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars. And he can't believe he was 62 00:04:41,475 --> 00:04:44,515 Speaker 1: sued over it. I mean, it's only four hundred million dollars. 63 00:04:45,075 --> 00:04:48,355 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, it opens in late twenty 64 00:04:48,395 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: twenty eight, and I hope the new president immediately tears 65 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:56,115 Speaker 1: it down put that on pay per view. By the way, 66 00:04:56,155 --> 00:04:59,715 Speaker 1: Trump says it will have five inch thick windows and 67 00:04:59,835 --> 00:05:05,355 Speaker 1: be totally impenetrable, five inch thick and totally triple Hey, 68 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:10,675 Speaker 1: just like Trump. Last indication of Trump drowning, then we'll 69 00:05:10,675 --> 00:05:14,035 Speaker 1: figure out why Susie wils just ended the prosecutions of 70 00:05:14,315 --> 00:05:17,835 Speaker 1: Jack Smith and James Comey and James and the others. 71 00:05:18,275 --> 00:05:22,395 Speaker 1: The last indication of Trump drowning is a sports story. 72 00:05:23,435 --> 00:05:26,515 Speaker 1: I don't particularly like the former New York radio host 73 00:05:26,635 --> 00:05:30,795 Speaker 1: Mike Francesa. This goes back to only nineteen eighty nine. 74 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: I don't respect him, but I do respect his sources 75 00:05:34,715 --> 00:05:37,995 Speaker 1: and on his podcast, he told tales of the collapse 76 00:05:38,075 --> 00:05:40,675 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five New York Mets, and he 77 00:05:40,715 --> 00:05:44,155 Speaker 1: gave insight into what happened to send them plummeting from 78 00:05:44,235 --> 00:05:47,635 Speaker 1: five games up with nearly twice as many wins as 79 00:05:47,715 --> 00:05:51,635 Speaker 1: losses in the middle of June to thirteen games out 80 00:05:51,675 --> 00:05:53,755 Speaker 1: at the end of the season, and the team's top 81 00:05:53,795 --> 00:05:56,475 Speaker 1: two stars being allowed to walk away by a free 82 00:05:56,515 --> 00:06:00,635 Speaker 1: agency last week, and popular outfielder Brandon Nimo being traded 83 00:06:00,675 --> 00:06:04,555 Speaker 1: to Texas for an aging infielder. According to Frances's Go, 84 00:06:05,355 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: Neimo and star shortstop Francisco Lindor had a problem in 85 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:14,435 Speaker 1: the clubhouse. This is explained by Frances's source and the 86 00:06:14,555 --> 00:06:19,995 Speaker 1: source I'm sorry, Francessa pronounces it sauce. The sauce says 87 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:23,995 Speaker 1: the problem was that one of them liked Trump and 88 00:06:24,155 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: the other didn't like Trump. HM. Brandon Neimo is from Chyenne, 89 00:06:30,995 --> 00:06:36,355 Speaker 1: Wyoming and Francisco Lindor is from Caguas in Puerto Rico. 90 00:06:36,795 --> 00:06:39,915 Speaker 1: I wonder if we can figure this mystery out. Trump 91 00:06:40,315 --> 00:06:44,315 Speaker 1: broke up the Mets. Actually, that might be his only 92 00:06:44,315 --> 00:07:04,675 Speaker 1: significant accomplishment of his first term. I'd like to congratulate 93 00:07:04,835 --> 00:07:08,755 Speaker 1: Susie Wiles on single handedly ending the just forming prosecution 94 00:07:08,875 --> 00:07:12,355 Speaker 1: of Jack Smith, and the vowed prosecution of Anthony Fauci, 95 00:07:12,635 --> 00:07:16,555 Speaker 1: and the already moribund prosecutions of James Comy and Letitia 96 00:07:16,675 --> 00:07:22,595 Speaker 1: James and Adam Schiff, and all those cases will be 97 00:07:22,795 --> 00:07:27,035 Speaker 1: thrown out of court, all of them because Susie Wiles 98 00:07:27,195 --> 00:07:31,635 Speaker 1: is on tape saying quote, I don't think he Trump 99 00:07:31,915 --> 00:07:35,395 Speaker 1: wakes up thinking about retribution, but when there's an opportunity, 100 00:07:35,595 --> 00:07:39,435 Speaker 1: he will go for it. And about Comy specifically, quote, 101 00:07:39,595 --> 00:07:43,475 Speaker 1: I mean people could think it does look vindictive. I 102 00:07:43,675 --> 00:07:47,675 Speaker 1: can't tell you why you shouldn't think that, unquote Trump's 103 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: chief of staff, current chief of staff, not ex chief 104 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:54,515 Speaker 1: of staff, not off the record, not through sources, not 105 00:07:54,635 --> 00:07:56,955 Speaker 1: in a biography that comes out in the year twenty 106 00:07:57,035 --> 00:08:02,755 Speaker 1: thirty four, confirming its retribution, and it's on tape, and 107 00:08:03,035 --> 00:08:10,435 Speaker 1: on tape. Retribution means selective prosecution, and selective prosecution is illegal, 108 00:08:10,795 --> 00:08:12,995 Speaker 1: and you not only get the case thrown out. If 109 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:16,075 Speaker 1: you've had to defend yourself and spend money, or your 110 00:08:16,155 --> 00:08:20,555 Speaker 1: reputation has been hurt, you can sue the government and 111 00:08:20,635 --> 00:08:25,075 Speaker 1: the prosecutors and it's on tape. And what Wiles said 112 00:08:25,515 --> 00:08:30,395 Speaker 1: to Chief of Staff historian Chris Whipple about retribution, did 113 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:33,195 Speaker 1: I mention it's on tape? May also be enough for 114 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:37,115 Speaker 1: people who've merely been fired or threatened by Trump to 115 00:08:37,235 --> 00:08:41,395 Speaker 1: demand a court stop him and restore them to their jobs, 116 00:08:41,675 --> 00:08:44,395 Speaker 1: or get damages out of him or his government, or 117 00:08:44,475 --> 00:08:48,475 Speaker 1: completely shut down his government by Vendetta and its efforts 118 00:08:48,475 --> 00:08:52,355 Speaker 1: against them. That's four hundred and sixty five other Trump 119 00:08:52,475 --> 00:08:57,035 Speaker 1: victims this year alone, everybody from Jerome Powell to Jimmy Kimmel, 120 00:08:57,515 --> 00:08:59,435 Speaker 1: all of whom may now have some kind of legal 121 00:08:59,515 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: case against Trump and his drowning arguments because Pat Summerle's 122 00:09:04,435 --> 00:09:08,195 Speaker 1: daw couldn't keep her big bazoo shut and just let 123 00:09:08,275 --> 00:09:13,475 Speaker 1: John Madden's child do all the talking. And if this 124 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:16,715 Speaker 1: was not enough for the four hundred and seventy victims 125 00:09:16,715 --> 00:09:20,315 Speaker 1: counted by Reuters to sue or get their cases dismissed, 126 00:09:20,835 --> 00:09:24,675 Speaker 1: or to bury Trump's minions for selective prosecution and damages, 127 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:28,595 Speaker 1: Wiles actually somehow made it worse. She not only confirmed 128 00:09:29,035 --> 00:09:33,915 Speaker 1: on tape that Trump was quote score settling, but also 129 00:09:33,995 --> 00:09:36,515 Speaker 1: that she got him to agree to a loose agreement 130 00:09:36,555 --> 00:09:39,875 Speaker 1: to stop it after his first ninety days in office, 131 00:09:39,915 --> 00:09:43,155 Speaker 1: and also also that Trump renegged on that that is 132 00:09:43,235 --> 00:09:47,275 Speaker 1: called guilty fore knowledge. She knew it was wrong, and 133 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:50,595 Speaker 1: Trump having agreed to limit it means he knew it 134 00:09:50,675 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: was wrong. And now you're looking at potential criminal charges 135 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:58,075 Speaker 1: for everybody who tried to enact vengeance for their Dracula 136 00:09:58,195 --> 00:10:01,675 Speaker 1: in the White House. Have fun in prison, Alina Haba, 137 00:10:01,755 --> 00:10:05,115 Speaker 1: good luck getting your hair done there, Lindsey Halligan in 138 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: the Big House. Thanks Susie Wiles. It's on tape as 139 00:10:14,075 --> 00:10:16,835 Speaker 1: we begin the third consecutive day that Trump will have 140 00:10:16,915 --> 00:10:20,755 Speaker 1: shocked even those numbed him by now by not again 141 00:10:21,355 --> 00:10:25,875 Speaker 1: firing Susie Wiles. The more important issue behind this may 142 00:10:25,915 --> 00:10:29,755 Speaker 1: be why she thought she could get away with talking 143 00:10:29,875 --> 00:10:34,235 Speaker 1: to this man. She told mister Whipple for Vanity Fair, 144 00:10:34,595 --> 00:10:38,315 Speaker 1: not only that Trump has quote an alcoholics personality, but 145 00:10:38,355 --> 00:10:40,955 Speaker 1: that she's seen the Epstein files and when Trump said 146 00:10:40,955 --> 00:10:44,955 Speaker 1: there was evidence Bill Clinton visited Epstein Island, he was 147 00:10:45,035 --> 00:10:48,715 Speaker 1: not telling the truth. She also insists she tried to 148 00:10:48,755 --> 00:10:51,955 Speaker 1: convince Trump not to pardon the most violent insurrectionists of 149 00:10:52,075 --> 00:10:58,115 Speaker 1: January sixth, insisted the deportations needed more work to prevent mistakes, 150 00:10:58,435 --> 00:11:01,235 Speaker 1: and said there was an attempt to delay the tariff 151 00:11:01,315 --> 00:11:05,355 Speaker 1: con job my words, because his advisors had a quote 152 00:11:05,675 --> 00:11:10,395 Speaker 1: huge disagreement over tariffs, and if you missed it, she 153 00:11:10,635 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: leveled far more than just Trump. Wiles dismissed JB. Vance 154 00:11:15,635 --> 00:11:19,115 Speaker 1: as having quote been a conspiracy theorist for a decade 155 00:11:19,355 --> 00:11:22,115 Speaker 1: whose reasons were going from seeing Trump for what he 156 00:11:22,235 --> 00:11:26,155 Speaker 1: is to horring himself for him. Those reasons were not 157 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:30,835 Speaker 1: principled but quote sort of political. Wiles says, when Attorney 158 00:11:30,835 --> 00:11:34,435 Speaker 1: General TIMU Blondie was given the Epstein files to handle, 159 00:11:34,515 --> 00:11:37,835 Speaker 1: she quote completely whiffed, and that the budget director in 160 00:11:37,915 --> 00:11:41,995 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, reichsch Marshall Russell Vote is quote a 161 00:11:42,155 --> 00:11:46,395 Speaker 1: right wing absolute zealot. Couldn't tell that from Project twenty 162 00:11:46,395 --> 00:11:50,315 Speaker 1: twenty five, which he largely wrote, could you. And to Wiles, 163 00:11:50,315 --> 00:11:55,715 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is quote an avowed ketamine user whose actions 164 00:11:55,755 --> 00:11:59,675 Speaker 1: often leave her quote aghast and are not always quote rational, 165 00:11:59,915 --> 00:12:06,035 Speaker 1: and who often tweets quote when he's micro dosing. Susie Wiles, 166 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 1: you have unsuspected depth. Okay, why does she think she'll 167 00:12:11,475 --> 00:12:14,515 Speaker 1: get away with it? First off, she immediately issued a 168 00:12:14,595 --> 00:12:17,515 Speaker 1: non denial denial that she turned into lies about the 169 00:12:17,515 --> 00:12:22,115 Speaker 1: Trump administration succeeding when it is repeatedly and spectacularly drowning, 170 00:12:22,395 --> 00:12:26,435 Speaker 1: hitting icebergs, blowing up over New Jersey and detonating like 171 00:12:26,475 --> 00:12:32,315 Speaker 1: a SpaceX musk rocket, already accomplished leadership and vision of Trump, 172 00:12:32,395 --> 00:12:37,355 Speaker 1: relentless persuative blah blah blah blah blah. Not one quote denied, 173 00:12:37,515 --> 00:12:42,795 Speaker 1: not one, Just the typical context was disregarded. Okay, Susie, 174 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:44,995 Speaker 1: what the hell is the context when you say Trump 175 00:12:44,995 --> 00:12:47,795 Speaker 1: has the personality of an alcoholic and you know that 176 00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:53,435 Speaker 1: because your father was an alcoholic, so damage control must 177 00:12:53,475 --> 00:12:56,315 Speaker 1: have always been her fallback. But why put herself in 178 00:12:56,395 --> 00:12:59,475 Speaker 1: that position in the first place. I mean, Vance and 179 00:12:59,555 --> 00:13:04,875 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and Caroline Levitt and Stephen Miller all poss 180 00:13:05,115 --> 00:13:10,315 Speaker 1: and so did Wiles for vanity photographs. In Vanity Fair, Happily, 181 00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:15,595 Speaker 1: no sketch artists drew any of them nude. But for 182 00:13:15,675 --> 00:13:19,075 Speaker 1: the other four, especially the evil Miller and the hapless Rubio, 183 00:13:19,155 --> 00:13:22,835 Speaker 1: this was the chance to obtain the first presentable photographs 184 00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:26,515 Speaker 1: of themselves in their lives. But Wiles doesn't care about that. 185 00:13:26,715 --> 00:13:29,755 Speaker 1: She's not in it for fame. She's the daughter of 186 00:13:29,955 --> 00:13:33,195 Speaker 1: Pat summer All, the sportscaster, the longtime partner of John Madden, 187 00:13:33,795 --> 00:13:37,155 Speaker 1: and from him she not only knew the carcinogenic personality 188 00:13:37,195 --> 00:13:40,235 Speaker 1: effects fame threatens you with, but she also learned the 189 00:13:40,235 --> 00:13:42,635 Speaker 1: hard way how to make a judgment on Trump like 190 00:13:42,715 --> 00:13:47,155 Speaker 1: that most searing one. But Trump has an alcoholics personality. 191 00:13:47,315 --> 00:13:51,995 Speaker 1: Her dad was one, quoting her again, high functioning alcoholics 192 00:13:52,075 --> 00:13:56,395 Speaker 1: or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. 193 00:13:56,635 --> 00:13:58,635 Speaker 1: And so I'm a little bit of an expert in 194 00:13:58,675 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: big personalities. Trump doesn't drink, but acts like he does 195 00:14:03,035 --> 00:14:07,355 Speaker 1: the alcoholics personality, complete with again quoting a view that 196 00:14:07,395 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: there's nothing he can't do, nothing, zero, nothing. So she's 197 00:14:14,915 --> 00:14:19,475 Speaker 1: not doing it to make herself the Susie Wiles. Don't 198 00:14:19,515 --> 00:14:21,875 Speaker 1: get me wrong, she's one of the lead villains. She's 199 00:14:21,915 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: on the list of Trump enablers. I hope they've all 200 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:26,795 Speaker 1: broken the law so they can all be prosecuted later, 201 00:14:26,875 --> 00:14:30,155 Speaker 1: especially at the state level. Her beliefs are repugnant, her 202 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:34,435 Speaker 1: goals more so. But this isn't jd Vance political prostitute, 203 00:14:34,595 --> 00:14:39,155 Speaker 1: and this int somebody as amazingly unqualified as Patel or Bongino, 204 00:14:39,355 --> 00:14:43,435 Speaker 1: or Duffy or Bondi, or as incredibly stupid as carol 205 00:14:43,515 --> 00:14:48,835 Speaker 1: Ion Levitt. I assume that concept of her own status 206 00:14:48,915 --> 00:14:52,315 Speaker 1: could be at the core of her tea spilling over 207 00:14:52,355 --> 00:14:57,235 Speaker 1: the course of eleven interviews on tape. She believes herself 208 00:14:57,595 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: to be above these purely political frontmen who want the 209 00:15:00,675 --> 00:15:04,315 Speaker 1: power and the glory and the glam shots in Vanity Fair. 210 00:15:05,115 --> 00:15:07,995 Speaker 1: This may convey to her his false sense of security, 211 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:12,835 Speaker 1: or it may have or she may have been confident 212 00:15:12,875 --> 00:15:16,435 Speaker 1: because he already excommunicated her once and then brought her back, 213 00:15:17,435 --> 00:15:20,435 Speaker 1: Or bluntly, she may have inherited more from her father 214 00:15:20,515 --> 00:15:23,395 Speaker 1: than his six sinctness. Asked by The Times about her 215 00:15:23,395 --> 00:15:26,515 Speaker 1: comment on musk and ketamine, she said, quote, that's ridiculous. 216 00:15:26,555 --> 00:15:28,995 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have said it, and I wouldn't know. Whereupon 217 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:32,435 Speaker 1: Vanity Fair played a tape of the interview and Wiles 218 00:15:32,435 --> 00:15:35,995 Speaker 1: said every word of it. So maybe she was micro 219 00:15:36,275 --> 00:15:40,555 Speaker 1: something her own self. Lord knows your father did, But 220 00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:44,915 Speaker 1: I think it's likeliest that Susie Wiles, like many in 221 00:15:44,955 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: this White House, figured she could get away with this 222 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:53,315 Speaker 1: because they are beginning to write Trump off because he 223 00:15:53,555 --> 00:15:57,395 Speaker 1: is drowning not only because it's nearly twenty twenty six 224 00:15:57,435 --> 00:15:59,755 Speaker 1: and at best his shelf life is three years and 225 00:15:59,795 --> 00:16:02,635 Speaker 1: a month from now. And she insisted not even Trump 226 00:16:02,715 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: is serious about illegally running again or staying in office, 227 00:16:05,355 --> 00:16:08,955 Speaker 1: that he just says it to enrage opponents. It's not 228 00:16:09,195 --> 00:16:11,355 Speaker 1: just that the tic tick tick tick tick in the 229 00:16:11,395 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: Oval gets louder every day. It's that she's got to 230 00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:18,995 Speaker 1: believe Trump will never actually see the article in Vanity Fair, 231 00:16:19,595 --> 00:16:23,315 Speaker 1: or never actually see the actual quotes from it. We'll 232 00:16:23,355 --> 00:16:26,755 Speaker 1: never read her say he's got, you know, the personality 233 00:16:26,795 --> 00:16:29,795 Speaker 1: of an alcoholic, even though he supposedly agreed with her 234 00:16:29,835 --> 00:16:33,155 Speaker 1: on that, or will never understand those quotes, because if 235 00:16:33,195 --> 00:16:37,195 Speaker 1: anybody knows Trump's brain is fading to black, it would 236 00:16:37,235 --> 00:16:42,235 Speaker 1: have to be as chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Or 237 00:16:42,595 --> 00:16:45,795 Speaker 1: she thinks Trump will see them and somehow will understand them, 238 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:49,755 Speaker 1: and then suddenly he will make her an ambassador to 239 00:16:49,915 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: someplace warm. And now to the tipping point of this 240 00:17:01,075 --> 00:17:04,875 Speaker 1: remarkable week, the moment the water began to rise around Trump. 241 00:17:05,555 --> 00:17:09,435 Speaker 1: The Rob Reiner post, I hope you heard my bulletin 242 00:17:09,515 --> 00:17:13,955 Speaker 1: on this Monday afternoon. It was my favorite philosopher the 243 00:17:14,035 --> 00:17:18,475 Speaker 1: second century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, out there trying to 244 00:17:18,595 --> 00:17:22,515 Speaker 1: rule the decaying empire from deep in the woods of Germany, 245 00:17:23,395 --> 00:17:27,275 Speaker 1: who wrote in what amounted to his diary, you always 246 00:17:27,435 --> 00:17:32,035 Speaker 1: own the option of having no opinion. There is never 247 00:17:32,155 --> 00:17:34,835 Speaker 1: any need to get worked up or to trouble your 248 00:17:34,875 --> 00:17:37,955 Speaker 1: soul about things you can't control. These things are not 249 00:17:38,195 --> 00:17:44,755 Speaker 1: asking to be judged by you leave them alone. It's 250 00:17:44,795 --> 00:17:49,795 Speaker 1: hard to do that, I'm example a but it's harder 251 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:53,035 Speaker 1: to do that if, like Trump, you've never even heard 252 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:57,275 Speaker 1: of Marcus Aurelius. It was kind of encouraging to see 253 00:17:57,275 --> 00:17:59,795 Speaker 1: how many of his sheep were still appalled by what 254 00:17:59,835 --> 00:18:02,395 Speaker 1: Trump wrote. But there are always a few of the 255 00:18:02,435 --> 00:18:05,235 Speaker 1: dumber ones who had to find a way to also 256 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:09,755 Speaker 1: ignore Marcus Aurelius and in shitify themselves trying to rationalize 257 00:18:09,795 --> 00:18:16,515 Speaker 1: Trump's irrationality, Like who else Laura Lumer. Rob Reiner was 258 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:19,555 Speaker 1: a loser, Naturally, his son was also a loser, and 259 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:22,315 Speaker 1: he got addicted to drugs and allegedly murdered his parents. 260 00:18:22,675 --> 00:18:25,235 Speaker 1: Looks like Rob should have spent more time parenting and 261 00:18:25,315 --> 00:18:29,315 Speaker 1: less time spreading Russia conspiracy hoaxes about President Trump. I 262 00:18:29,435 --> 00:18:33,595 Speaker 1: stand with President Trump, and of course she puts the 263 00:18:33,755 --> 00:18:38,595 Speaker 1: chef's kick on this or kiss and says that this 264 00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:42,555 Speaker 1: is a legitimate tweet Rob Reiner. Until Trump goes to prison, 265 00:18:42,555 --> 00:18:44,595 Speaker 1: I will no longer be posting on Twitter. I have 266 00:18:44,675 --> 00:18:47,075 Speaker 1: had it with the insults and put downs f all 267 00:18:47,115 --> 00:18:50,995 Speaker 1: of you maga assholes. It's of course a fake tweet. 268 00:18:51,915 --> 00:18:54,635 Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's a fake tweet. It doesn't look like 269 00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:57,435 Speaker 1: a real tweet. It's been identified as a fake tweet. 270 00:18:57,675 --> 00:19:01,195 Speaker 1: It's also dated January twentieth, twenty twenty three. And by 271 00:19:01,235 --> 00:19:03,435 Speaker 1: the way, for me, that would be like a B 272 00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:07,955 Speaker 1: minus in terms of number of obscenities used about Trump. 273 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: The Reiner tweet was, of course a fake, just like 274 00:19:12,195 --> 00:19:15,915 Speaker 1: Laura Lumer's face. By the way, Trump announced on social 275 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:23,875 Speaker 1: media that Laura Lumer is engaged engaged in what exactly? Then, 276 00:19:23,915 --> 00:19:27,115 Speaker 1: of course, there were reminders that creatures like Laura Lumer 277 00:19:27,155 --> 00:19:33,435 Speaker 1: aren't quite human. Those were preceded by the premature jocularity. 278 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:38,355 Speaker 1: The night before Trump disqualified himself from being president again, 279 00:19:38,835 --> 00:19:44,435 Speaker 1: the right was completely holier than thou again, Jack Posobic. 280 00:19:45,275 --> 00:19:48,355 Speaker 1: You won't see people on the right celebrating the horrific 281 00:19:48,435 --> 00:19:51,235 Speaker 1: murder of Rob Reiner and his wife compare to the 282 00:19:51,355 --> 00:19:55,555 Speaker 1: left's reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder. Eleven twenty eight PM 283 00:19:55,635 --> 00:20:00,155 Speaker 1: Sunday night, Bret Weinstein noticed that the American right is 284 00:20:00,195 --> 00:20:03,955 Speaker 1: not celebrating Rob Reiner's murder. I see post after post 285 00:20:04,155 --> 00:20:07,555 Speaker 1: honoring his remarkable contribution to our culture, despite his strident 286 00:20:07,635 --> 00:20:11,355 Speaker 1: embraceive progressive lunacy in his later years. This is America 287 00:20:11,355 --> 00:20:14,475 Speaker 1: displaying our common humanity. May his memory and his remarkable 288 00:20:14,515 --> 00:20:17,115 Speaker 1: body of work be a blessing to us All twelve 289 00:20:17,195 --> 00:20:21,555 Speaker 1: fifty nine am Monday, very nice. And then Trump celebrated 290 00:20:21,635 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 1: Rob Reiner's murder, so no matter who on his side 291 00:20:25,395 --> 00:20:30,915 Speaker 1: did not, the lead guy did. As Lumer suggested, Trump's 292 00:20:30,955 --> 00:20:35,675 Speaker 1: disgusting touchdown dance on my friend Rob's grave and his 293 00:20:35,715 --> 00:20:39,155 Speaker 1: wife's grave, and Lumer and the even dumber versions of 294 00:20:39,235 --> 00:20:43,315 Speaker 1: lumour needing something anything to try to justify what Trump did. 295 00:20:44,435 --> 00:20:47,915 Speaker 1: I even saw them use screen caps of one of 296 00:20:47,995 --> 00:20:52,275 Speaker 1: my tweets, particularly the one that read burn in hell 297 00:20:52,435 --> 00:20:57,715 Speaker 1: Sinclair next to Charlie Kirk. This was after Sinclair Broadcasting 298 00:20:57,915 --> 00:21:01,115 Speaker 1: tried to get Jimmy Kimmel fired because he didn't pretend 299 00:21:01,315 --> 00:21:05,475 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was Jesus Christ while consoling the family and 300 00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:09,435 Speaker 1: condemning the killing anyway, and they wanted Kimmel not only 301 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:12,515 Speaker 1: to lose his job, but also to pay a bribe 302 00:21:12,875 --> 00:21:17,915 Speaker 1: to some kind of Charlie Kirk memorial sainwashing fund. I'll 303 00:21:17,915 --> 00:21:22,075 Speaker 1: say it again. The killing of Charlie Kirk was indefensible. Then, 304 00:21:22,595 --> 00:21:26,635 Speaker 1: It is indefensible now, it will be indefensible later. The 305 00:21:26,755 --> 00:21:31,155 Speaker 1: killing of political commentators is indefensible. I believe this firmly. 306 00:21:31,395 --> 00:21:33,715 Speaker 1: I may believe it more than you do, since I'm 307 00:21:33,995 --> 00:21:37,715 Speaker 1: a political commentator. But you know what else is indefensible. 308 00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:41,915 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and his cult of hatred and violent fantasies 309 00:21:42,035 --> 00:21:45,755 Speaker 1: and racism and complete disregard for anybody who wasn't exactly 310 00:21:45,995 --> 00:21:50,795 Speaker 1: like him. He called for public executions and to force 311 00:21:50,995 --> 00:21:55,875 Speaker 1: kids to watch them. I'm sorry if the people who 312 00:21:55,915 --> 00:21:59,995 Speaker 1: thought they knew him never actually read the Bible. It's 313 00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:05,795 Speaker 1: clear in page after page that the evil, those who 314 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:11,075 Speaker 1: are evil like Charlie Kirk are going to hell. Sorry, 315 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:17,315 Speaker 1: unless you right wingers are saying the Bible isn't literally correct. Also, 316 00:22:17,435 --> 00:22:20,275 Speaker 1: how are you comparing Charlie Kirk, who contributed nothing to 317 00:22:20,315 --> 00:22:25,475 Speaker 1: this country, to Rob Reiner. But I've got a worse cop, 318 00:22:25,555 --> 00:22:27,715 Speaker 1: even bigger than that. When the far right goes and 319 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:30,315 Speaker 1: says it's all right for Trump to have celebrated Rob 320 00:22:30,395 --> 00:22:33,715 Speaker 1: Reiner's murder because I said Charlie Kirk was going to hell. 321 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:41,515 Speaker 1: So my comments and Trump's comments are of equal importance. 322 00:22:41,795 --> 00:22:48,195 Speaker 1: Somehow I carry the same influence as the President of 323 00:22:48,195 --> 00:22:51,275 Speaker 1: the United States. I am in some way as important 324 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:57,315 Speaker 1: as him. I suddenly begin to suspect that I am underpaid. 325 00:23:06,315 --> 00:23:09,475 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, Laura Ingram doesn't know what country 326 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: Canada is. No, I'm not kidding. And just when I 327 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:16,915 Speaker 1: thought the pecking order had become clear of which of 328 00:23:16,955 --> 00:23:20,675 Speaker 1: my exes was the most self destructive, Laura is moving 329 00:23:20,715 --> 00:23:24,755 Speaker 1: swiftly round the clubhouse, turn and down the stretch. They come. 330 00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:33,555 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown, with Keith 331 00:23:33,635 --> 00:24:12,235 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead. On this edition of Countdown, I missed 332 00:24:12,235 --> 00:24:14,875 Speaker 1: the exact anniversary, but just by a few days. It 333 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:19,475 Speaker 1: was this past Monday, this past Monday, the forty second 334 00:24:19,515 --> 00:24:24,435 Speaker 1: anniversary of the morning I met and first interviewed Trump. 335 00:24:25,155 --> 00:24:28,315 Speaker 1: He was almost exactly the same then, not really human 336 00:24:28,795 --> 00:24:32,115 Speaker 1: and kind of drowning. The only difference we had yet 337 00:24:32,155 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: to make the dumbest, most evil man on Earth president 338 00:24:36,555 --> 00:24:41,235 Speaker 1: the day I met it. Next in things I promised 339 00:24:41,235 --> 00:24:43,995 Speaker 1: not to tell first, Believe it or not, there's still 340 00:24:43,995 --> 00:24:46,835 Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about, the roundup of the miscreants, 341 00:24:46,875 --> 00:24:50,635 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 342 00:24:51,395 --> 00:24:57,835 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world, the Bronze worse. If you're 343 00:24:57,915 --> 00:25:02,315 Speaker 1: like me, you hate to see an X beginning to slip. No, 344 00:25:03,075 --> 00:25:10,595 Speaker 1: not Katie, uh, not even Kirsten, No, not even Libby, Laura, 345 00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:15,435 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram. Okay, So it was two dates, and one 346 00:25:15,435 --> 00:25:17,955 Speaker 1: of them was really more of a hostage situation, which 347 00:25:18,075 --> 00:25:22,995 Speaker 1: I was the hostage. Still, this gets posted on social 348 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:27,795 Speaker 1: media from somebody named Mark Nixon breaking doug Ford just 349 00:25:27,835 --> 00:25:31,035 Speaker 1: announced billions in investment to turn Niagara Falls into the 350 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,955 Speaker 1: Las Vegas of the North, mega casinos, a new theme 351 00:25:35,115 --> 00:25:38,075 Speaker 1: park and a plan to double tourism. And there is 352 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:41,915 Speaker 1: a picture of doug Ford at a podium announcing this, 353 00:25:42,515 --> 00:25:45,235 Speaker 1: and there is all sorts of logos on the podium 354 00:25:45,275 --> 00:25:48,795 Speaker 1: indicating who doug Ford is in case you don't know, 355 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:55,795 Speaker 1: And Laura retweets this, adding gambling. Ug we need manufacturing, 356 00:25:56,115 --> 00:26:02,355 Speaker 1: not this. We need manufacturing, not this. Laura doug Ford 357 00:26:02,475 --> 00:26:09,475 Speaker 1: is the premiere of On Tear Ontario, which is in Canada, 358 00:26:10,195 --> 00:26:14,515 Speaker 1: which is a different country than ours, Unless Laura, you 359 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:19,595 Speaker 1: think Trump annexed it using only his superior mind. Your 360 00:26:19,635 --> 00:26:22,915 Speaker 1: first hint should have been the podium at which doug 361 00:26:22,995 --> 00:26:25,795 Speaker 1: Ford is shown speaking in the video, The podium that 362 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:29,395 Speaker 1: literally has a sign on it that says protect Ontario 363 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:37,075 Speaker 1: in two different languages, protege Ontario, which is French, which 364 00:26:37,115 --> 00:26:41,515 Speaker 1: is a different language than you speak. Then again, half 365 00:26:41,555 --> 00:26:45,155 Speaker 1: the time English is a different language than Laura speaks. 366 00:26:46,155 --> 00:26:49,355 Speaker 1: My god. The runner up worser New York City councilwoman 367 00:26:49,475 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: Vicki Palladino. She's the drama queen from Queens on the 368 00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:57,995 Speaker 1: Brown University shootings, whereas these nightmares are more cynically known, 369 00:26:58,275 --> 00:27:01,115 Speaker 1: the latest chance for magas, on top of everything else, 370 00:27:01,115 --> 00:27:05,835 Speaker 1: to make fools of themselves, she writes Clia. Now that 371 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:09,475 Speaker 1: the attack at Brown was poipetrated by a leftist activist 372 00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:14,395 Speaker 1: and targeted Republicans, the people who openly celebrated Charlie KOs 373 00:27:14,475 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: mighta enmass and faced exactly zero social illegal consequences for 374 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:26,915 Speaker 1: it have been emboldened to killmaw Conservatives. Vicki Palladino actually 375 00:27:26,955 --> 00:27:32,355 Speaker 1: elected by idiots in Queens. The vice president of Brown 376 00:27:32,475 --> 00:27:36,475 Speaker 1: University's Republican Club, a student named Ella Cook, was one 377 00:27:36,555 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: of two killed, and I mourn what happened to her 378 00:27:40,195 --> 00:27:44,115 Speaker 1: and grieve for her family. The other fatality was a 379 00:27:44,155 --> 00:27:48,555 Speaker 1: student from Uzbekistan who did not appear to be a Republican. 380 00:27:48,955 --> 00:27:51,715 Speaker 1: Among the eleven who were injured in the shooting, there's 381 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:55,275 Speaker 1: no official list, but lots of local news reports around 382 00:27:55,315 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: the country about this high school's graduate who was shot 383 00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:02,755 Speaker 1: and this high school's graduate who was nearly shot, and 384 00:28:02,795 --> 00:28:06,515 Speaker 1: they indicated that all the others were, you know, students 385 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:11,115 Speaker 1: in a Brown University Saturday prep class for an economics final. 386 00:28:11,595 --> 00:28:13,955 Speaker 1: One of the kids was a freshman who manages the 387 00:28:13,955 --> 00:28:17,835 Speaker 1: women's volleyball team, which, incidentally, if I ever have a 388 00:28:17,915 --> 00:28:20,515 Speaker 1: second life, I'm going to have the presence of mind 389 00:28:20,715 --> 00:28:23,155 Speaker 1: to try to do that as the freshman to be 390 00:28:23,715 --> 00:28:27,475 Speaker 1: the manager of the women's volleyball team. Great idea, kid, 391 00:28:27,555 --> 00:28:31,235 Speaker 1: I'm hoping you're back in play real soon. Another of 392 00:28:31,235 --> 00:28:34,315 Speaker 1: the victims was just an engineering major who got stuck 393 00:28:34,355 --> 00:28:37,155 Speaker 1: taking an economics class. There does not seem to have 394 00:28:37,195 --> 00:28:40,435 Speaker 1: been another politically active victim, but you can't tell them 395 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:44,555 Speaker 1: that to somebody like this idiot Palldino. Very clear now 396 00:28:44,755 --> 00:28:48,555 Speaker 1: it was quite petrated by a leftist activist and targeted Republicans. 397 00:28:49,155 --> 00:28:50,995 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I can't get you a deep enough 398 00:28:51,075 --> 00:28:53,715 Speaker 1: voice to really give you an indication of how she sounds. 399 00:28:54,715 --> 00:28:57,235 Speaker 1: And she thinks that way because she has lost the plot, 400 00:28:57,875 --> 00:29:00,635 Speaker 1: the plot of life. If there was one victim who 401 00:29:00,675 --> 00:29:03,875 Speaker 1: was in the Republican club and eleven who were not, 402 00:29:04,795 --> 00:29:10,115 Speaker 1: the eleven don't count to her. Never mind Keystone cop 403 00:29:10,155 --> 00:29:13,155 Speaker 1: cash is FBI and what appeared to be two occasions 404 00:29:13,275 --> 00:29:15,595 Speaker 1: where they decided they had the perpetrator, only it turned 405 00:29:15,635 --> 00:29:18,635 Speaker 1: out they didn't and got the wrong person. It's very 406 00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:23,995 Speaker 1: clear to Vicki Palladino, like everything else in your life, counselwoman, 407 00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:29,235 Speaker 1: nothing at all is very clear. But the winner the worst. 408 00:29:29,835 --> 00:29:34,995 Speaker 1: Same topic, Philip Buchanan. You do not know Philip Buchanan, 409 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:37,955 Speaker 1: not certainly under his name Philip Buchanan. He is the 410 00:29:37,995 --> 00:29:43,395 Speaker 1: Florida loser and Twitter troll known as cat Turd. Here's 411 00:29:43,435 --> 00:29:46,875 Speaker 1: what he has to say about Brown. They're not telling 412 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:50,155 Speaker 1: you the identity of the brown shooter because they want 413 00:29:50,195 --> 00:29:58,235 Speaker 1: to wipe all his social media First Paranoia the destroyer, Sir, 414 00:29:58,475 --> 00:30:01,315 Speaker 1: they're not telling you the identity of the brown shooter 415 00:30:01,435 --> 00:30:06,315 Speaker 1: because Cash Bettel keeps getting the wrong guy identified and 416 00:30:06,555 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: or arrested. Cash Patel keeps getting the wrong guy. But 417 00:30:12,195 --> 00:30:14,875 Speaker 1: there is something useful in what you have written here, 418 00:30:15,035 --> 00:30:20,195 Speaker 1: Tard that part about wipe all his social media? Have 419 00:30:20,315 --> 00:30:24,835 Speaker 1: you considered that for your own self, Philip? Why would 420 00:30:24,915 --> 00:30:29,475 Speaker 1: anybody choose to call themselves cat turd? Because he's pretending 421 00:30:29,555 --> 00:30:33,635 Speaker 1: his life is better than it is. Buchanan, Today's other 422 00:30:34,595 --> 00:30:52,315 Speaker 1: worst person, and the world choose the number one story 423 00:30:52,315 --> 00:30:55,315 Speaker 1: on the countdown and the things you never know and 424 00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:58,995 Speaker 1: the things you'll never realize at the time that someday 425 00:30:59,035 --> 00:31:04,475 Speaker 1: you will need to promise not to tell. I met 426 00:31:04,955 --> 00:31:09,795 Speaker 1: Trump when I was twenty four years old. It's a 427 00:31:09,835 --> 00:31:13,755 Speaker 1: pretty good story. His hair was still its original color. 428 00:31:13,795 --> 00:31:16,435 Speaker 1: Then more or less it was thinning. He'd done something 429 00:31:16,515 --> 00:31:22,315 Speaker 1: to it. It was combed strangely. He was weird, unsettling, unnatural. 430 00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:25,035 Speaker 1: But it was New York in nineteen eighty three. Everybody 431 00:31:25,035 --> 00:31:27,355 Speaker 1: had done somebody of their hair. I had a perm 432 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:33,195 Speaker 1: everybody was weird and unsettling. But if you had said 433 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:37,315 Speaker 1: this in the future, this is how this will end up. 434 00:31:37,515 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: I would never have believed you. The president thing, the 435 00:31:41,195 --> 00:31:44,955 Speaker 1: coop thing, the dictatorship thing, the violence thing, the burying 436 00:31:44,995 --> 00:31:47,955 Speaker 1: the wife on the golf course thing. No, no, no, 437 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:50,115 Speaker 1: I would have believed all that. I mean, he was 438 00:31:50,235 --> 00:31:54,955 Speaker 1: really weird. I meant the President mccheese thing. I like 439 00:31:55,035 --> 00:31:58,515 Speaker 1: China and I like President Shees. And here's another clip 440 00:31:58,555 --> 00:32:00,515 Speaker 1: that slipped through the cracks, but only for a moment. 441 00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:03,675 Speaker 1: This was Newsmax. This was the interview where Trump just 442 00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:08,315 Speaker 1: kept talking and talking, and even poor dumb Greg Kelly 443 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:12,795 Speaker 1: glazed over as he listened. And Trump said his big 444 00:32:12,835 --> 00:32:16,395 Speaker 1: takeaway from the New York trial was that none of 445 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:22,035 Speaker 1: the jurors smiled at him. The light bulb went off 446 00:32:22,075 --> 00:32:24,875 Speaker 1: over my head. This is far more important than it 447 00:32:24,915 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: could possibly seem at first. Blush, there's no way you 448 00:32:28,555 --> 00:32:29,075 Speaker 1: heard me say. 449 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:32,395 Speaker 2: You were long before the verdict that mother Teresa couldn't 450 00:32:32,395 --> 00:32:35,675 Speaker 2: get a fair trial. Here I said that, and no, 451 00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:39,555 Speaker 2: you couldn't. I never saw a glimmer of a smile 452 00:32:39,635 --> 00:32:41,835 Speaker 2: from the jury. No, this was a venue that was 453 00:32:41,995 --> 00:32:42,715 Speaker 2: very unfair. 454 00:32:43,275 --> 00:32:48,235 Speaker 1: Oh my god, did I have a flashback there. I 455 00:32:48,275 --> 00:32:50,955 Speaker 1: have had the misfortune to meet Trump in person four times, 456 00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:55,115 Speaker 1: the first late in nineteen eighty three, and each time 457 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:59,195 Speaker 1: I saw the exact moment that his face went from 458 00:32:59,275 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: an emotionless, almost lifeless, certainly non human mask to a beaming, 459 00:33:05,995 --> 00:33:10,915 Speaker 1: phony smile. That's who he is, That's what he thinks 460 00:33:11,155 --> 00:33:16,795 Speaker 1: is his asset, an irresistible smile. You and I look 461 00:33:16,835 --> 00:33:19,795 Speaker 1: at him and see a face of evil and debauchery, 462 00:33:20,155 --> 00:33:21,915 Speaker 1: and mostly a guy who claims to be rich and 463 00:33:21,995 --> 00:33:25,235 Speaker 1: yet clearly buys his makeup at the cheap end of 464 00:33:25,275 --> 00:33:29,515 Speaker 1: the notions department at Filein's basement. But he really thinks 465 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:33,555 Speaker 1: he can sell anybody anything, and somewhere early in life 466 00:33:33,635 --> 00:33:36,555 Speaker 1: he decided his means of doing that was to mimic 467 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:40,595 Speaker 1: a human smile and really make it as big and 468 00:33:40,675 --> 00:33:44,075 Speaker 1: as preposterous as possible. And he's done this now for 469 00:33:44,155 --> 00:33:49,795 Speaker 1: at least seventy years, from his childhood dementia to this dementia. 470 00:33:49,915 --> 00:33:54,075 Speaker 1: And the way he registers a sail with people, his 471 00:33:54,235 --> 00:33:58,675 Speaker 1: receipt for convincing them to do his bidding is their 472 00:33:59,035 --> 00:34:02,435 Speaker 1: smile in return. So the jury didn't smile at him, 473 00:34:02,515 --> 00:34:05,635 Speaker 1: so the jury was biased against him. The jury was corrupt, 474 00:34:05,635 --> 00:34:07,875 Speaker 1: so the trial was rigged. So when he says these 475 00:34:07,955 --> 00:34:10,195 Speaker 1: crazy things, there is a part of him that truly 476 00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:13,835 Speaker 1: believes it is rigged, because they are, as the kids say, 477 00:34:13,955 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: not buying what he's selling. He believes life is a transaction, 478 00:34:19,715 --> 00:34:22,315 Speaker 1: and when he gives you his smile, you have to 479 00:34:22,315 --> 00:34:27,595 Speaker 1: give him yours, and then he owns you. I met 480 00:34:27,635 --> 00:34:29,715 Speaker 1: him in the lobby of the apartment building I used 481 00:34:29,715 --> 00:34:34,635 Speaker 1: to live at here, the no longer Trump Palace. I 482 00:34:34,675 --> 00:34:36,995 Speaker 1: saw him first, then he saw me. Then he whispered 483 00:34:36,995 --> 00:34:39,515 Speaker 1: to one of his flunkies. I'm guessing he was double 484 00:34:39,635 --> 00:34:41,595 Speaker 1: checking it was me. Then he stared at me for 485 00:34:41,635 --> 00:34:44,955 Speaker 1: a moment. Then when he thought I was first looking 486 00:34:44,995 --> 00:34:48,915 Speaker 1: at him, his dead face turned immediately into that fake smile. 487 00:34:50,115 --> 00:34:53,795 Speaker 1: Remember the Senko de Mayo taco bowl tweet from twenty 488 00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:56,635 Speaker 1: sixteen where he says, I love Hispanics, like there were 489 00:34:56,995 --> 00:34:59,275 Speaker 1: actual Hispanics in the taco bowl and he was eating 490 00:34:59,315 --> 00:35:03,955 Speaker 1: them that fake smile. But his eyesight is not as 491 00:35:03,995 --> 00:35:06,435 Speaker 1: good as he lets on, so he doesn't know that 492 00:35:06,515 --> 00:35:11,555 Speaker 1: you have seen him first. He had done the same 493 00:35:11,595 --> 00:35:15,115 Speaker 1: thing twice in the lobbies of thirty Rock at NBC, 494 00:35:15,395 --> 00:35:19,035 Speaker 1: once stopping just to shake hands, once actually stopping to 495 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:22,235 Speaker 1: tell me how good Countdown was, and how pissed off 496 00:35:22,515 --> 00:35:25,075 Speaker 1: his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get whenever he told him 497 00:35:25,075 --> 00:35:27,875 Speaker 1: how good countdown was, and then striding off, and I 498 00:35:28,035 --> 00:35:31,435 Speaker 1: watched to see if I could see that fake smile 499 00:35:31,515 --> 00:35:34,555 Speaker 1: that had appeared so suddenly vanished justice suddenly, but his 500 00:35:34,675 --> 00:35:40,035 Speaker 1: back was turned to me. However, December fifteenth, nineteen eighty three, 501 00:35:40,035 --> 00:35:43,475 Speaker 1: CNN sends me to cover a New York Post sports 502 00:35:43,515 --> 00:35:47,475 Speaker 1: forum where owner George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees, 503 00:35:47,755 --> 00:35:50,275 Speaker 1: owner Fred Wilpond of the New York Mets, Sonny Werblin 504 00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:52,795 Speaker 1: of the New York Rangers, and Nixon, this real estate 505 00:35:52,875 --> 00:35:55,915 Speaker 1: hump Trump who owned the sort of pro football team 506 00:35:55,915 --> 00:35:58,675 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. They would speak and do interviews and 507 00:35:58,715 --> 00:36:01,715 Speaker 1: meet fans and whatever. And I interviewed them all briefly, 508 00:36:02,155 --> 00:36:04,275 Speaker 1: and when it came time to interview this Trump guy 509 00:36:04,915 --> 00:36:08,755 Speaker 1: there and looked at me like he was trying to 510 00:36:08,835 --> 00:36:12,995 Speaker 1: guess my weight. Then we put the camera light on 511 00:36:13,155 --> 00:36:15,955 Speaker 1: and there it was this big fake smile out of nowhere, 512 00:36:15,955 --> 00:36:18,195 Speaker 1: and I asked some questions about the New Jersey Generals, 513 00:36:18,315 --> 00:36:20,835 Speaker 1: and he boasted he was hiring a new name coach 514 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:22,795 Speaker 1: who used to coach the Jets. When we turned out 515 00:36:22,835 --> 00:36:24,795 Speaker 1: he hadn't hired him yet, and he spent a week 516 00:36:24,835 --> 00:36:26,675 Speaker 1: cleaning up that mess. And when I said thank you, 517 00:36:26,715 --> 00:36:28,795 Speaker 1: when we turned the light off, he turned off the 518 00:36:28,795 --> 00:36:32,635 Speaker 1: big fake smile zap, it was gone, and the blank 519 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:37,115 Speaker 1: look repeated in his eyes. A couple of years ago, 520 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,035 Speaker 1: on a cold night, I turned a corner here and 521 00:36:39,075 --> 00:36:42,555 Speaker 1: a familiar but older face shouted Keith. And suddenly I 522 00:36:42,595 --> 00:36:46,435 Speaker 1: realized it's a CNN cameraman I haven't seen in thirty years. 523 00:36:46,555 --> 00:36:49,195 Speaker 1: Remember when we covered Trump at that sports thing, he says, 524 00:36:49,235 --> 00:36:52,475 Speaker 1: And I realized he was the cameraman that day at 525 00:36:52,515 --> 00:36:55,915 Speaker 1: the post thing. Remember what you said about him? And 526 00:36:55,955 --> 00:36:57,715 Speaker 1: I didn't. And he laughs, and he says, we were 527 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:00,715 Speaker 1: walking back to the truck and you didn't say anything, 528 00:37:01,395 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: and that worried us, because when have you ever shut 529 00:37:03,835 --> 00:37:05,795 Speaker 1: up for five minutes? And so finally I say, what's 530 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: bothering you? And you stopped and you turning, you looked 531 00:37:07,755 --> 00:37:09,955 Speaker 1: at me and Jimmy, and you said that last guy 532 00:37:09,995 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 1: we interviewed Trump, what the f is wrong with that guy. 533 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,195 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 534 00:37:30,235 --> 00:37:33,115 Speaker 1: you for listening. Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced, 535 00:37:33,155 --> 00:37:35,875 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, our 536 00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:39,475 Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers 537 00:37:39,755 --> 00:37:43,515 Speaker 1: mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, mister Chanelle with 538 00:37:43,675 --> 00:37:48,035 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 539 00:37:48,075 --> 00:37:51,555 Speaker 1: by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The 540 00:37:51,595 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: sports music was the Olderman theme from ESPN two. It 541 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:58,115 Speaker 1: appears courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And was written by Mitch 542 00:37:58,195 --> 00:38:01,835 Speaker 1: Warren Davis. Other music arranged and performed by the group 543 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:05,075 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my Friends Stevie 544 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:10,155 Speaker 1: van Zant. This program was produced by Ted. Everything else 545 00:38:10,355 --> 00:38:14,235 Speaker 1: was as always my fault. That's countdown for today. Day 546 00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:17,635 Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty three of America held hostage again, 547 00:38:18,035 --> 00:38:21,755 Speaker 1: but just one and thirty days until the scheduled end 548 00:38:21,755 --> 00:38:24,835 Speaker 1: of his lame duck and lame brained term, unless he's 549 00:38:24,875 --> 00:38:30,355 Speaker 1: removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein, or affordability or 550 00:38:31,235 --> 00:38:36,875 Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, it's on tape. The next schedule Countdown is Monday. 551 00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:39,635 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 552 00:38:40,115 --> 00:38:50,115 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production 553 00:38:50,355 --> 00:38:55,635 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 554 00:38:55,715 --> 00:38:59,115 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.