Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: is drowning. Trump's presidency is drowning. Yesterday, Republicans forced a
Speaker 1: vote to extend Obamacare subsidies against Trump's will. Yesterday, thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent approval in the Marist poll. Monday, his Rob
Speaker 1: Reiner tweet that appalled even the worst of Mega Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Susie Wiles Friday the Epstein Files, proving no history doesn't
Speaker 1: repeat itself. But yes, sometimes it literally rhymes so much failure,
Speaker 1: so many el's, so little time to cackle. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: shit comes down so heavy. As my late friend Bill
Speaker 1: Hurt said in the movie Body Heat, I feel like
Speaker 1: I should wear a hat. Only Trump doesn't have a hat.
Speaker 1: He went to wag the dog in Venezuela and nobody
Speaker 1: even noticed. And when he screwed that up too, insisting
Speaker 1: an American armada had entirely surrounded Venezuela and setting aside
Speaker 1: that unauthorized act of war, you really want to call
Speaker 1: it an armada like the Spanish armada that crashed and
Speaker 1: burned instead of taking over England in fifteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: And Spain hasn't been a world power since, and did
Speaker 1: you say your armada had entirely surrounded Venezuela. Does that
Speaker 1: include the thirty two hundred miles of the Venezuelan border
Speaker 1: that is on land. Did you park a battleship on
Speaker 1: the border with Brazil, Donnie, you flatulant moron. Also, this
Speaker 1: is about narco terrorism, whatever the f that is. No,
Speaker 1: it's really about oil. It's about stuff they stole. It's
Speaker 1: nuh uh for the first but not the last time.
Speaker 1: Today we turned to Susie Wiles for the it's a
Speaker 1: strange word to use about the Trump administration, but here
Speaker 1: it is about the truth. Quoting her, he wants to
Speaker 1: keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle, and
Speaker 1: people weigh smarter than me on that say, he will unquote.
Speaker 1: So it's regime change. And of course there is that
Speaker 1: other reality that never occurred to Trump as he drowns
Speaker 1: well as you're armada. Now, if he and Rubio and
Speaker 1: these other political whores can declare that they can take
Speaker 1: Venezuela's oil, and more importantly, they can try to force
Speaker 1: regime change in Venezuela, Guess what that means That Venezuela
Speaker 1: is entitled to try to force regime change in America,
Speaker 1: Stop Don't come back. Trump is drowning on dry land.
Speaker 1: The Marist Poll Commission for NPR and PBS thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent approval thirty eight He's cracked the bottom forty, his
Speaker 1: worst number this term, worst overall since twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent is better than the interior numbers in
Speaker 1: this poll. Approval on the economy is thirty six percent.
Speaker 1: Who do you trust to handle the economy? Republicans thirty
Speaker 1: three percent, Democrats thirty seven percent. Economic disapproval of Trump
Speaker 1: by group, Rural residents forty nine to forty three disapprove,
Speaker 1: White women who didn't go to college forty eight percent disapproved,
Speaker 1: to forty one suburbs. The suburbs OI sixty percent disapprove
Speaker 1: on the economy to thirty three. Who approve and the
Speaker 1: strength of your opinion about him? Of registered voters ask
Speaker 1: if they approve or disapprove of him, half say they
Speaker 1: strongly disapprove, half and six out of ten of us
Speaker 1: say the economy isn't working for us. Six out of
Speaker 1: ten of us are pessimistic about the year ahead. He's
Speaker 1: even lost five percent of Republican approval in just the
Speaker 1: last month, Trump is drowning. They did not ask about
Speaker 1: the Trump Memorial ballroom and ego storage airplane hangar, which
Speaker 1: he first said would cost only one hundred million, Then
Speaker 1: it was two hundred, then two hundred and fifty, all
Speaker 1: of it paid by donors, then three hundred then Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars. And he can't believe he was
Speaker 1: sued over it. I mean, it's only four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, it opens in late twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight, and I hope the new president immediately tears
Speaker 1: it down put that on pay per view. By the way,
Speaker 1: Trump says it will have five inch thick windows and
Speaker 1: be totally impenetrable, five inch thick and totally triple Hey,
Speaker 1: just like Trump. Last indication of Trump drowning, then we'll
Speaker 1: figure out why Susie wils just ended the prosecutions of
Speaker 1: Jack Smith and James Comey and James and the others.
Speaker 1: The last indication of Trump drowning is a sports story.
Speaker 1: I don't particularly like the former New York radio host
Speaker 1: Mike Francesa. This goes back to only nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: I don't respect him, but I do respect his sources
Speaker 1: and on his podcast, he told tales of the collapse
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five New York Mets, and he
Speaker 1: gave insight into what happened to send them plummeting from
Speaker 1: five games up with nearly twice as many wins as
Speaker 1: losses in the middle of June to thirteen games out
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, and the team's top
Speaker 1: two stars being allowed to walk away by a free
Speaker 1: agency last week, and popular outfielder Brandon Nimo being traded
Speaker 1: to Texas for an aging infielder. According to Frances's Go,
Speaker 1: Neimo and star shortstop Francisco Lindor had a problem in
Speaker 1: the clubhouse. This is explained by Frances's source and the
Speaker 1: source I'm sorry, Francessa pronounces it sauce. The sauce says
Speaker 1: the problem was that one of them liked Trump and
Speaker 1: the other didn't like Trump. HM. Brandon Neimo is from Chyenne,
Speaker 1: Wyoming and Francisco Lindor is from Caguas in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we can figure this mystery out. Trump
Speaker 1: broke up the Mets. Actually, that might be his only
Speaker 1: significant accomplishment of his first term. I'd like to congratulate
Speaker 1: Susie Wiles on single handedly ending the just forming prosecution
Speaker 1: of Jack Smith, and the vowed prosecution of Anthony Fauci,
Speaker 1: and the already moribund prosecutions of James Comy and Letitia
Speaker 1: James and Adam Schiff, and all those cases will be
Speaker 1: thrown out of court, all of them because Susie Wiles
Speaker 1: is on tape saying quote, I don't think he Trump
Speaker 1: wakes up thinking about retribution, but when there's an opportunity,
Speaker 1: he will go for it. And about Comy specifically, quote,
Speaker 1: I mean people could think it does look vindictive. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you why you shouldn't think that, unquote Trump's
Speaker 1: chief of staff, current chief of staff, not ex chief
Speaker 1: of staff, not off the record, not through sources, not
Speaker 1: in a biography that comes out in the year twenty
Speaker 1: thirty four, confirming its retribution, and it's on tape, and
Speaker 1: on tape. Retribution means selective prosecution, and selective prosecution is illegal,
Speaker 1: and you not only get the case thrown out. If
Speaker 1: you've had to defend yourself and spend money, or your
Speaker 1: reputation has been hurt, you can sue the government and
Speaker 1: the prosecutors and it's on tape. And what Wiles said
Speaker 1: to Chief of Staff historian Chris Whipple about retribution, did
Speaker 1: I mention it's on tape? May also be enough for
Speaker 1: people who've merely been fired or threatened by Trump to
Speaker 1: demand a court stop him and restore them to their jobs,
Speaker 1: or get damages out of him or his government, or
Speaker 1: completely shut down his government by Vendetta and its efforts
Speaker 1: against them. That's four hundred and sixty five other Trump
Speaker 1: victims this year alone, everybody from Jerome Powell to Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 1: all of whom may now have some kind of legal
Speaker 1: case against Trump and his drowning arguments because Pat Summerle's
Speaker 1: daw couldn't keep her big bazoo shut and just let
Speaker 1: John Madden's child do all the talking. And if this
Speaker 1: was not enough for the four hundred and seventy victims
Speaker 1: counted by Reuters to sue or get their cases dismissed,
Speaker 1: or to bury Trump's minions for selective prosecution and damages,
Speaker 1: Wiles actually somehow made it worse. She not only confirmed
Speaker 1: on tape that Trump was quote score settling, but also
Speaker 1: that she got him to agree to a loose agreement
Speaker 1: to stop it after his first ninety days in office,
Speaker 1: and also also that Trump renegged on that that is
Speaker 1: called guilty fore knowledge. She knew it was wrong, and
Speaker 1: Trump having agreed to limit it means he knew it
Speaker 1: was wrong. And now you're looking at potential criminal charges
Speaker 1: for everybody who tried to enact vengeance for their Dracula
Speaker 1: in the White House. Have fun in prison, Alina Haba,
Speaker 1: good luck getting your hair done there, Lindsey Halligan in
Speaker 1: the Big House. Thanks Susie Wiles. It's on tape as
Speaker 1: we begin the third consecutive day that Trump will have
Speaker 1: shocked even those numbed him by now by not again
Speaker 1: firing Susie Wiles. The more important issue behind this may
Speaker 1: be why she thought she could get away with talking
Speaker 1: to this man. She told mister Whipple for Vanity Fair,
Speaker 1: not only that Trump has quote an alcoholics personality, but
Speaker 1: that she's seen the Epstein files and when Trump said
Speaker 1: there was evidence Bill Clinton visited Epstein Island, he was
Speaker 1: not telling the truth. She also insists she tried to
Speaker 1: convince Trump not to pardon the most violent insurrectionists of
Speaker 1: January sixth, insisted the deportations needed more work to prevent mistakes,
Speaker 1: and said there was an attempt to delay the tariff
Speaker 1: con job my words, because his advisors had a quote
Speaker 1: huge disagreement over tariffs, and if you missed it, she
Speaker 1: leveled far more than just Trump. Wiles dismissed JB. Vance
Speaker 1: as having quote been a conspiracy theorist for a decade
Speaker 1: whose reasons were going from seeing Trump for what he
Speaker 1: is to horring himself for him. Those reasons were not
Speaker 1: principled but quote sort of political. Wiles says, when Attorney
Speaker 1: General TIMU Blondie was given the Epstein files to handle,
Speaker 1: she quote completely whiffed, and that the budget director in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, reichsch Marshall Russell Vote is quote a
Speaker 1: right wing absolute zealot. Couldn't tell that from Project twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, which he largely wrote, could you. And to Wiles,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is quote an avowed ketamine user whose actions
Speaker 1: often leave her quote aghast and are not always quote rational,
Speaker 1: and who often tweets quote when he's micro dosing. Susie Wiles,
Speaker 1: you have unsuspected depth. Okay, why does she think she'll
Speaker 1: get away with it? First off, she immediately issued a
Speaker 1: non denial denial that she turned into lies about the
Speaker 1: Trump administration succeeding when it is repeatedly and spectacularly drowning,
Speaker 1: hitting icebergs, blowing up over New Jersey and detonating like
Speaker 1: a SpaceX musk rocket, already accomplished leadership and vision of Trump,
Speaker 1: relentless persuative blah blah blah blah blah. Not one quote denied,
Speaker 1: not one, Just the typical context was disregarded. Okay, Susie,
Speaker 1: what the hell is the context when you say Trump
Speaker 1: has the personality of an alcoholic and you know that
Speaker 1: because your father was an alcoholic, so damage control must
Speaker 1: have always been her fallback. But why put herself in
Speaker 1: that position in the first place. I mean, Vance and
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and Caroline Levitt and Stephen Miller all poss
Speaker 1: and so did Wiles for vanity photographs. In Vanity Fair, Happily,
Speaker 1: no sketch artists drew any of them nude. But for
Speaker 1: the other four, especially the evil Miller and the hapless Rubio,
Speaker 1: this was the chance to obtain the first presentable photographs
Speaker 1: of themselves in their lives. But Wiles doesn't care about that.
Speaker 1: She's not in it for fame. She's the daughter of
Speaker 1: Pat summer All, the sportscaster, the longtime partner of John Madden,
Speaker 1: and from him she not only knew the carcinogenic personality
Speaker 1: effects fame threatens you with, but she also learned the
Speaker 1: hard way how to make a judgment on Trump like
Speaker 1: that most searing one. But Trump has an alcoholics personality.
Speaker 1: Her dad was one, quoting her again, high functioning alcoholics
Speaker 1: or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink.
Speaker 1: And so I'm a little bit of an expert in
Speaker 1: big personalities. Trump doesn't drink, but acts like he does
Speaker 1: the alcoholics personality, complete with again quoting a view that
Speaker 1: there's nothing he can't do, nothing, zero, nothing. So she's
Speaker 1: not doing it to make herself the Susie Wiles. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, she's one of the lead villains. She's
Speaker 1: on the list of Trump enablers. I hope they've all
Speaker 1: broken the law so they can all be prosecuted later,
Speaker 1: especially at the state level. Her beliefs are repugnant, her
Speaker 1: goals more so. But this isn't jd Vance political prostitute,
Speaker 1: and this int somebody as amazingly unqualified as Patel or Bongino,
Speaker 1: or Duffy or Bondi, or as incredibly stupid as carol
Speaker 1: Ion Levitt. I assume that concept of her own status
Speaker 1: could be at the core of her tea spilling over
Speaker 1: the course of eleven interviews on tape. She believes herself
Speaker 1: to be above these purely political frontmen who want the
Speaker 1: power and the glory and the glam shots in Vanity Fair.
Speaker 1: This may convey to her his false sense of security,
Speaker 1: or it may have or she may have been confident
Speaker 1: because he already excommunicated her once and then brought her back,
Speaker 1: Or bluntly, she may have inherited more from her father
Speaker 1: than his six sinctness. Asked by The Times about her
Speaker 1: comment on musk and ketamine, she said, quote, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have said it, and I wouldn't know. Whereupon
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair played a tape of the interview and Wiles
Speaker 1: said every word of it. So maybe she was micro
Speaker 1: something her own self. Lord knows your father did, But
Speaker 1: I think it's likeliest that Susie Wiles, like many in
Speaker 1: this White House, figured she could get away with this
Speaker 1: because they are beginning to write Trump off because he
Speaker 1: is drowning not only because it's nearly twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and at best his shelf life is three years and
Speaker 1: a month from now. And she insisted not even Trump
Speaker 1: is serious about illegally running again or staying in office,
Speaker 1: that he just says it to enrage opponents. It's not
Speaker 1: just that the tic tick tick tick tick in the
Speaker 1: Oval gets louder every day. It's that she's got to
Speaker 1: believe Trump will never actually see the article in Vanity Fair,
Speaker 1: or never actually see the actual quotes from it. We'll
Speaker 1: never read her say he's got, you know, the personality
Speaker 1: of an alcoholic, even though he supposedly agreed with her
Speaker 1: on that, or will never understand those quotes, because if
Speaker 1: anybody knows Trump's brain is fading to black, it would
Speaker 1: have to be as chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Or
Speaker 1: she thinks Trump will see them and somehow will understand them,
Speaker 1: and then suddenly he will make her an ambassador to
Speaker 1: someplace warm. And now to the tipping point of this
Speaker 1: remarkable week, the moment the water began to rise around Trump.
Speaker 1: The Rob Reiner post, I hope you heard my bulletin
Speaker 1: on this Monday afternoon. It was my favorite philosopher the
Speaker 1: second century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, out there trying to
Speaker 1: rule the decaying empire from deep in the woods of Germany,
Speaker 1: who wrote in what amounted to his diary, you always
Speaker 1: own the option of having no opinion. There is never
Speaker 1: any need to get worked up or to trouble your
Speaker 1: soul about things you can't control. These things are not
Speaker 1: asking to be judged by you leave them alone. It's
Speaker 1: hard to do that, I'm example a but it's harder
Speaker 1: to do that if, like Trump, you've never even heard
Speaker 1: of Marcus Aurelius. It was kind of encouraging to see
Speaker 1: how many of his sheep were still appalled by what
Speaker 1: Trump wrote. But there are always a few of the
Speaker 1: dumber ones who had to find a way to also
Speaker 1: ignore Marcus Aurelius and in shitify themselves trying to rationalize
Speaker 1: Trump's irrationality, Like who else Laura Lumer. Rob Reiner was
Speaker 1: a loser, Naturally, his son was also a loser, and
Speaker 1: he got addicted to drugs and allegedly murdered his parents.
Speaker 1: Looks like Rob should have spent more time parenting and
Speaker 1: less time spreading Russia conspiracy hoaxes about President Trump. I
Speaker 1: stand with President Trump, and of course she puts the
Speaker 1: chef's kick on this or kiss and says that this
Speaker 1: is a legitimate tweet Rob Reiner. Until Trump goes to prison,
Speaker 1: I will no longer be posting on Twitter. I have
Speaker 1: had it with the insults and put downs f all
Speaker 1: of you maga assholes. It's of course a fake tweet.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's a fake tweet. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: a real tweet. It's been identified as a fake tweet.
Speaker 1: It's also dated January twentieth, twenty twenty three. And by
Speaker 1: the way, for me, that would be like a B
Speaker 1: minus in terms of number of obscenities used about Trump.
Speaker 1: The Reiner tweet was, of course a fake, just like
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer's face. By the way, Trump announced on social
Speaker 1: media that Laura Lumer is engaged engaged in what exactly? Then,
Speaker 1: of course, there were reminders that creatures like Laura Lumer
Speaker 1: aren't quite human. Those were preceded by the premature jocularity.
Speaker 1: The night before Trump disqualified himself from being president again,
Speaker 1: the right was completely holier than thou again, Jack Posobic.
Speaker 1: You won't see people on the right celebrating the horrific
Speaker 1: murder of Rob Reiner and his wife compare to the
Speaker 1: left's reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder. Eleven twenty eight PM
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Bret Weinstein noticed that the American right is
Speaker 1: not celebrating Rob Reiner's murder. I see post after post
Speaker 1: honoring his remarkable contribution to our culture, despite his strident
Speaker 1: embraceive progressive lunacy in his later years. This is America
Speaker 1: displaying our common humanity. May his memory and his remarkable
Speaker 1: body of work be a blessing to us All twelve
Speaker 1: fifty nine am Monday, very nice. And then Trump celebrated
Speaker 1: Rob Reiner's murder, so no matter who on his side
Speaker 1: did not, the lead guy did. As Lumer suggested, Trump's
Speaker 1: disgusting touchdown dance on my friend Rob's grave and his
Speaker 1: wife's grave, and Lumer and the even dumber versions of
Speaker 1: lumour needing something anything to try to justify what Trump did.
Speaker 1: I even saw them use screen caps of one of
Speaker 1: my tweets, particularly the one that read burn in hell
Speaker 1: Sinclair next to Charlie Kirk. This was after Sinclair Broadcasting
Speaker 1: tried to get Jimmy Kimmel fired because he didn't pretend
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was Jesus Christ while consoling the family and
Speaker 1: condemning the killing anyway, and they wanted Kimmel not only
Speaker 1: to lose his job, but also to pay a bribe
Speaker 1: to some kind of Charlie Kirk memorial sainwashing fund. I'll
Speaker 1: say it again. The killing of Charlie Kirk was indefensible. Then,
Speaker 1: It is indefensible now, it will be indefensible later. The
Speaker 1: killing of political commentators is indefensible. I believe this firmly.
Speaker 1: I may believe it more than you do, since I'm
Speaker 1: a political commentator. But you know what else is indefensible.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and his cult of hatred and violent fantasies
Speaker 1: and racism and complete disregard for anybody who wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: like him. He called for public executions and to force
Speaker 1: kids to watch them. I'm sorry if the people who
Speaker 1: thought they knew him never actually read the Bible. It's
Speaker 1: clear in page after page that the evil, those who
Speaker 1: are evil like Charlie Kirk are going to hell. Sorry,
Speaker 1: unless you right wingers are saying the Bible isn't literally correct. Also,
Speaker 1: how are you comparing Charlie Kirk, who contributed nothing to
Speaker 1: this country, to Rob Reiner. But I've got a worse cop,
Speaker 1: even bigger than that. When the far right goes and
Speaker 1: says it's all right for Trump to have celebrated Rob
Speaker 1: Reiner's murder because I said Charlie Kirk was going to hell.
Speaker 1: So my comments and Trump's comments are of equal importance.
Speaker 1: Somehow I carry the same influence as the President of
Speaker 1: the United States. I am in some way as important
Speaker 1: as him. I suddenly begin to suspect that I am underpaid.
Speaker 1: Also of interest here, Laura Ingram doesn't know what country
Speaker 1: Canada is. No, I'm not kidding. And just when I
Speaker 1: thought the pecking order had become clear of which of
Speaker 1: my exes was the most self destructive, Laura is moving
Speaker 1: swiftly round the clubhouse, turn and down the stretch. They come.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown, with Keith
Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead. On this edition of Countdown, I missed
Speaker 1: the exact anniversary, but just by a few days. It
Speaker 1: was this past Monday, this past Monday, the forty second
Speaker 1: anniversary of the morning I met and first interviewed Trump.
Speaker 1: He was almost exactly the same then, not really human
Speaker 1: and kind of drowning. The only difference we had yet
Speaker 1: to make the dumbest, most evil man on Earth president
Speaker 1: the day I met it. Next in things I promised
Speaker 1: not to tell first, Believe it or not, there's still
Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about, the roundup of the miscreants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other
Speaker 1: worst persons in the world, the Bronze worse. If you're
Speaker 1: like me, you hate to see an X beginning to slip. No,
Speaker 1: not Katie, uh, not even Kirsten, No, not even Libby, Laura,
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram. Okay, So it was two dates, and one
Speaker 1: of them was really more of a hostage situation, which
Speaker 1: I was the hostage. Still, this gets posted on social
Speaker 1: media from somebody named Mark Nixon breaking doug Ford just
Speaker 1: announced billions in investment to turn Niagara Falls into the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas of the North, mega casinos, a new theme
Speaker 1: park and a plan to double tourism. And there is
Speaker 1: a picture of doug Ford at a podium announcing this,
Speaker 1: and there is all sorts of logos on the podium
Speaker 1: indicating who doug Ford is in case you don't know,
Speaker 1: And Laura retweets this, adding gambling. Ug we need manufacturing,
Speaker 1: not this. We need manufacturing, not this. Laura doug Ford
Speaker 1: is the premiere of On Tear Ontario, which is in Canada,
Speaker 1: which is a different country than ours, Unless Laura, you
Speaker 1: think Trump annexed it using only his superior mind. Your
Speaker 1: first hint should have been the podium at which doug
Speaker 1: Ford is shown speaking in the video, The podium that
Speaker 1: literally has a sign on it that says protect Ontario
Speaker 1: in two different languages, protege Ontario, which is French, which
Speaker 1: is a different language than you speak. Then again, half
Speaker 1: the time English is a different language than Laura speaks.
Speaker 1: My god. The runner up worser New York City councilwoman
Speaker 1: Vicki Palladino. She's the drama queen from Queens on the
Speaker 1: Brown University shootings, whereas these nightmares are more cynically known,
Speaker 1: the latest chance for magas, on top of everything else,
Speaker 1: to make fools of themselves, she writes Clia. Now that
Speaker 1: the attack at Brown was poipetrated by a leftist activist
Speaker 1: and targeted Republicans, the people who openly celebrated Charlie KOs
Speaker 1: mighta enmass and faced exactly zero social illegal consequences for
Speaker 1: it have been emboldened to killmaw Conservatives. Vicki Palladino actually
Speaker 1: elected by idiots in Queens. The vice president of Brown
Speaker 1: University's Republican Club, a student named Ella Cook, was one
Speaker 1: of two killed, and I mourn what happened to her
Speaker 1: and grieve for her family. The other fatality was a
Speaker 1: student from Uzbekistan who did not appear to be a Republican.
Speaker 1: Among the eleven who were injured in the shooting, there's
Speaker 1: no official list, but lots of local news reports around
Speaker 1: the country about this high school's graduate who was shot
Speaker 1: and this high school's graduate who was nearly shot, and
Speaker 1: they indicated that all the others were, you know, students
Speaker 1: in a Brown University Saturday prep class for an economics final.
Speaker 1: One of the kids was a freshman who manages the
Speaker 1: women's volleyball team, which, incidentally, if I ever have a
Speaker 1: second life, I'm going to have the presence of mind
Speaker 1: to try to do that as the freshman to be
Speaker 1: the manager of the women's volleyball team. Great idea, kid,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you're back in play real soon. Another of
Speaker 1: the victims was just an engineering major who got stuck
Speaker 1: taking an economics class. There does not seem to have
Speaker 1: been another politically active victim, but you can't tell them
Speaker 1: that to somebody like this idiot Palldino. Very clear now
Speaker 1: it was quite petrated by a leftist activist and targeted Republicans.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I can't get you a deep enough
Speaker 1: voice to really give you an indication of how she sounds.
Speaker 1: And she thinks that way because she has lost the plot,
Speaker 1: the plot of life. If there was one victim who
Speaker 1: was in the Republican club and eleven who were not,
Speaker 1: the eleven don't count to her. Never mind Keystone cop
Speaker 1: cash is FBI and what appeared to be two occasions
Speaker 1: where they decided they had the perpetrator, only it turned
Speaker 1: out they didn't and got the wrong person. It's very
Speaker 1: clear to Vicki Palladino, like everything else in your life, counselwoman,
Speaker 1: nothing at all is very clear. But the winner the worst.
Speaker 1: Same topic, Philip Buchanan. You do not know Philip Buchanan,
Speaker 1: not certainly under his name Philip Buchanan. He is the
Speaker 1: Florida loser and Twitter troll known as cat Turd. Here's
Speaker 1: what he has to say about Brown. They're not telling
Speaker 1: you the identity of the brown shooter because they want
Speaker 1: to wipe all his social media First Paranoia the destroyer, Sir,
Speaker 1: they're not telling you the identity of the brown shooter
Speaker 1: because Cash Bettel keeps getting the wrong guy identified and
Speaker 1: or arrested. Cash Patel keeps getting the wrong guy. But
Speaker 1: there is something useful in what you have written here,
Speaker 1: Tard that part about wipe all his social media? Have
Speaker 1: you considered that for your own self, Philip? Why would
Speaker 1: anybody choose to call themselves cat turd? Because he's pretending
Speaker 1: his life is better than it is. Buchanan, Today's other
Speaker 1: worst person, and the world choose the number one story
Speaker 1: on the countdown and the things you never know and
Speaker 1: the things you'll never realize at the time that someday
Speaker 1: you will need to promise not to tell. I met
Speaker 1: Trump when I was twenty four years old. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty good story. His hair was still its original color.
Speaker 1: Then more or less it was thinning. He'd done something
Speaker 1: to it. It was combed strangely. He was weird, unsettling, unnatural.
Speaker 1: But it was New York in nineteen eighty three. Everybody
Speaker 1: had done somebody of their hair. I had a perm
Speaker 1: everybody was weird and unsettling. But if you had said
Speaker 1: this in the future, this is how this will end up.
Speaker 1: I would never have believed you. The president thing, the
Speaker 1: coop thing, the dictatorship thing, the violence thing, the burying
Speaker 1: the wife on the golf course thing. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I would have believed all that. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: really weird. I meant the President mccheese thing. I like
Speaker 1: China and I like President Shees. And here's another clip
Speaker 1: that slipped through the cracks, but only for a moment.
Speaker 1: This was Newsmax. This was the interview where Trump just
Speaker 1: kept talking and talking, and even poor dumb Greg Kelly
Speaker 1: glazed over as he listened. And Trump said his big
Speaker 1: takeaway from the New York trial was that none of
Speaker 1: the jurors smiled at him. The light bulb went off
Speaker 1: over my head. This is far more important than it
Speaker 1: could possibly seem at first. Blush, there's no way you
Speaker 1: heard me say.
Speaker 2: You were long before the verdict that mother Teresa couldn't
Speaker 2: get a fair trial. Here I said that, and no,
Speaker 2: you couldn't. I never saw a glimmer of a smile
Speaker 2: from the jury. No, this was a venue that was
Speaker 2: very unfair.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did I have a flashback there. I
Speaker 1: have had the misfortune to meet Trump in person four times,
Speaker 1: the first late in nineteen eighty three, and each time
Speaker 1: I saw the exact moment that his face went from
Speaker 1: an emotionless, almost lifeless, certainly non human mask to a beaming,
Speaker 1: phony smile. That's who he is, That's what he thinks
Speaker 1: is his asset, an irresistible smile. You and I look
Speaker 1: at him and see a face of evil and debauchery,
Speaker 1: and mostly a guy who claims to be rich and
Speaker 1: yet clearly buys his makeup at the cheap end of
Speaker 1: the notions department at Filein's basement. But he really thinks
Speaker 1: he can sell anybody anything, and somewhere early in life
Speaker 1: he decided his means of doing that was to mimic
Speaker 1: a human smile and really make it as big and
Speaker 1: as preposterous as possible. And he's done this now for
Speaker 1: at least seventy years, from his childhood dementia to this dementia.
Speaker 1: And the way he registers a sail with people, his
Speaker 1: receipt for convincing them to do his bidding is their
Speaker 1: smile in return. So the jury didn't smile at him,
Speaker 1: so the jury was biased against him. The jury was corrupt,
Speaker 1: so the trial was rigged. So when he says these
Speaker 1: crazy things, there is a part of him that truly
Speaker 1: believes it is rigged, because they are, as the kids say,
Speaker 1: not buying what he's selling. He believes life is a transaction,
Speaker 1: and when he gives you his smile, you have to
Speaker 1: give him yours, and then he owns you. I met
Speaker 1: him in the lobby of the apartment building I used
Speaker 1: to live at here, the no longer Trump Palace. I
Speaker 1: saw him first, then he saw me. Then he whispered
Speaker 1: to one of his flunkies. I'm guessing he was double
Speaker 1: checking it was me. Then he stared at me for
Speaker 1: a moment. Then when he thought I was first looking
Speaker 1: at him, his dead face turned immediately into that fake smile.
Speaker 1: Remember the Senko de Mayo taco bowl tweet from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen where he says, I love Hispanics, like there were
Speaker 1: actual Hispanics in the taco bowl and he was eating
Speaker 1: them that fake smile. But his eyesight is not as
Speaker 1: good as he lets on, so he doesn't know that
Speaker 1: you have seen him first. He had done the same
Speaker 1: thing twice in the lobbies of thirty Rock at NBC,
Speaker 1: once stopping just to shake hands, once actually stopping to
Speaker 1: tell me how good Countdown was, and how pissed off
Speaker 1: his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get whenever he told him
Speaker 1: how good countdown was, and then striding off, and I
Speaker 1: watched to see if I could see that fake smile
Speaker 1: that had appeared so suddenly vanished justice suddenly, but his
Speaker 1: back was turned to me. However, December fifteenth, nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: CNN sends me to cover a New York Post sports
Speaker 1: forum where owner George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees,
Speaker 1: owner Fred Wilpond of the New York Mets, Sonny Werblin
Speaker 1: of the New York Rangers, and Nixon, this real estate
Speaker 1: hump Trump who owned the sort of pro football team
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. They would speak and do interviews and
Speaker 1: meet fans and whatever. And I interviewed them all briefly,
Speaker 1: and when it came time to interview this Trump guy
Speaker 1: there and looked at me like he was trying to
Speaker 1: guess my weight. Then we put the camera light on
Speaker 1: and there it was this big fake smile out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and I asked some questions about the New Jersey Generals,
Speaker 1: and he boasted he was hiring a new name coach
Speaker 1: who used to coach the Jets. When we turned out
Speaker 1: he hadn't hired him yet, and he spent a week
Speaker 1: cleaning up that mess. And when I said thank you,
Speaker 1: when we turned the light off, he turned off the
Speaker 1: big fake smile zap, it was gone, and the blank
Speaker 1: look repeated in his eyes. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: on a cold night, I turned a corner here and
Speaker 1: a familiar but older face shouted Keith. And suddenly I
Speaker 1: realized it's a CNN cameraman I haven't seen in thirty years.
Speaker 1: Remember when we covered Trump at that sports thing, he says,
Speaker 1: And I realized he was the cameraman that day at
Speaker 1: the post thing. Remember what you said about him? And
Speaker 1: I didn't. And he laughs, and he says, we were
Speaker 1: walking back to the truck and you didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: and that worried us, because when have you ever shut
Speaker 1: up for five minutes? And so finally I say, what's
Speaker 1: bothering you? And you stopped and you turning, you looked
Speaker 1: at me and Jimmy, and you said that last guy
Speaker 1: we interviewed Trump, what the f is wrong with that guy.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, our
Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers
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Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are
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Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my Friends Stevie
Speaker 1: van Zant. This program was produced by Ted. Everything else
Speaker 1: was as always my fault. That's countdown for today. Day
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty three of America held hostage again,
Speaker 1: but just one and thirty days until the scheduled end
Speaker 1: of his lame duck and lame brained term, unless he's
Speaker 1: removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein, or affordability or
Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, it's on tape. The next schedule Countdown is Monday.
Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight,
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