Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Impeach
Speaker 1: Trump now again. No, it will not pass. No, it
Speaker 1: will not work, not now, but it will pass, and
Speaker 1: it will work next year, and it will win the
Speaker 1: Democrats the midterms and the year after that. It will
Speaker 1: brand Trump yet again, impeached yet again, as the most
Speaker 1: treacherous garbage in our history. Because lost in the avalanche
Speaker 1: of evil he has perpetrated since beginning his second dictatorship,
Speaker 1: lost in the astonishment and even the despair of true Americans,
Speaker 1: lost in the numbed, terrified, capitulatory media coverage, is the
Speaker 1: reality that his pardoning of the January sixth Traders is
Speaker 1: amazingly unpopular, literally unpopular enough to cost him at least
Speaker 1: forty three House seats right now, right now, before he
Speaker 1: mindlessly signs even more red meat, Stephen Miller slides under
Speaker 1: his piggish face. And the second part of this is
Speaker 1: he has also already literally intentionally violated the Constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States, already not forty eight hours on the job,
Speaker 1: and he is already guilty of violating one of the
Speaker 1: amendments and doing so deliberately. He is already guilty of
Speaker 1: at least two impeachable offenses. Already, there is almost nothing
Speaker 1: to do to stop Trump now. The Democrats are minorities
Speaker 1: in both houses, the courts are The Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: just another Trump scam company. The billionaires like Musk and
Speaker 1: Bezos and Zuckerberg and the other tech scum have lined
Speaker 1: up besides him, just as Kroup and I G. Farbin
Speaker 1: and Opal stood next to and behind Hitler. There is
Speaker 1: nothing to do today except to borrow from the musical
Speaker 1: version of the lyrics of the fascists to make sure
Speaker 1: tomorrow belongs to us. Introduce a bill today, or even
Speaker 1: multiple bills today, to impeach Trump. Keep the crimes he
Speaker 1: has already committed, including the ones he has been convicted
Speaker 1: of and the ones he wriggled out of with dubious
Speaker 1: legality and non existent morality front of mind, and the
Speaker 1: new ones too. Fight back, thwart him, anger him, waste
Speaker 1: his time, make him play defense, enrage his base, and
Speaker 1: terrify those billionaire idiots. Because you could see on that
Speaker 1: little mouse Zuckerberg's face during the inauguration that he wasn't
Speaker 1: so sure anymore. He picked the right side and fight
Speaker 1: back against these bastards moreover, give the opposition, not the
Speaker 1: resistance this time, but instead the defiance. Give the defiance
Speaker 1: something to do with our time other than just sit
Speaker 1: here and replay November fifth and all the days leading
Speaker 1: up to it in some PTSD doom loop. Nothing that
Speaker 1: has ever been wrong in the history of the world
Speaker 1: has ever stopped being wrong without the same goddamned first step,
Speaker 1: people standing up and saying this is wrong, this must
Speaker 1: be stopped. Seventy six and one half million people voted
Speaker 1: against Trump, forty nine and two fifths percent of the population,
Speaker 1: the voting population, and we are all just sitting here
Speaker 1: saying nothing, doing nothing, feeling sorry for ourselves, watching Trump
Speaker 1: wreck train after train, and insisting to ourselves there's nothing
Speaker 1: to do about it. Well, there is. Few of us
Speaker 1: have even noticed that gift he gave us by pardoning
Speaker 1: nearly sixteen hundred convicts and suspects to start within freeing them.
Speaker 1: Trump and MAGA and their Republicans have gained full ownership
Speaker 1: of January sixth, in a way they had spent four
Speaker 1: years denying and trying to avoid. The Republican Party is
Speaker 1: now officially pro vigilante. It is now officially pro militia.
Speaker 1: It is now officially pro political violence. It is now
Speaker 1: officially pro politicization of the Department of Justice. It is
Speaker 1: now officially anti law and order. Make every Republican answer
Speaker 1: for this every day until Tuesday, November three, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Make them answer for it because they will not be
Speaker 1: able to. Because if you want something with which to
Speaker 1: figuratively beat Trump over the head every month, every week,
Speaker 1: every day until the midterms, if you want to defy
Speaker 1: this idiot, just handed you the stick just a week ago.
Speaker 1: The Protect Democracy nonprofit. The board and advisors there include
Speaker 1: everybody from my friend John Dean to historian Tim Snyder,
Speaker 1: from Matt Dowd to Ian Bassen. Protect Democracy conducted a
Speaker 1: YouGov in the forty three most competitive House districts. Seventy
Speaker 1: five percent of voters in those districts opposed pardoning anybody
Speaker 1: using a deadly or just a dangerous weapon on January sixth,
Speaker 1: three quarters that includes fifty five percent of the Republicans
Speaker 1: in those districts. Fifty four percent of Republicans who will
Speaker 1: vote for those House seats next year opposed pardoning anybody
Speaker 1: who assaulted Capitol police officers, and among all voters. It's
Speaker 1: seventy three percent. Fifty five percent of voters in these
Speaker 1: districts oppose any pardons for anybody convicted in federal court.
Speaker 1: Let me just do this again. Three quarters of voters
Speaker 1: in the forty three swingiest House swing seats oppose basically
Speaker 1: the first thing Trump did upon taking the dictatorship. Again,
Speaker 1: a clear majority of the Republicans in those districts also
Speaker 1: feel that way, and even among those who support him,
Speaker 1: this was not what they voted for. Out of seventeen priorities,
Speaker 1: choose three, these voters said pardoning the January sixth thugs
Speaker 1: was the fifteenth most important thing. Seven percent support for
Speaker 1: pardoning the January sixth mob seven percent. Trump Ism is
Speaker 1: a blinding, deluding, psychological disorder, but there are degrees of it.
Speaker 1: Forty five percent of them said curbing inflation was the priority.
Speaker 1: Forty one percent said the border and immigration. Pardoning the
Speaker 1: January sixth perpetrators was down at the bottom, next to
Speaker 1: nine percent support for gutting healthcare and five percent support
Speaker 1: for ending Title nine protections for transgendered students. That is
Speaker 1: more important to Trump voters in these forty three districts
Speaker 1: that could not only take back the House next year,
Speaker 1: but give the Democrats the modern equivalent of a super
Speaker 1: House majority. That nonsense is more important to the ones
Speaker 1: voting against the Democrats than was freeing Trump's stochastic terror squads.
Speaker 1: He blew it for whatever short term gain he will get,
Speaker 1: for whatever loyalty he will now buy from the bullies
Speaker 1: and the criminals, Trump has really really screwed this up.
Speaker 1: If the issue is pressed, hammered, enshrined in legislation, if
Speaker 1: it becomes unavoidable, it becomes the basis of a new
Speaker 1: impeachment bill every month from now until the midterms. If
Speaker 1: we do that, it will mean that Trump and MAGA
Speaker 1: and the Republican Party will have committed electorals suicide. When
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of anything any president did, especially
Speaker 1: in the brilliant honeymoon unforgettable light of his first goddamned day.
Speaker 1: When have you ever heard of anything producing polling that
Speaker 1: says three quarters of swing voters in swing districts hated it.
Speaker 1: It is now imperative that we the Defiance, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats in the House, and the Democrats in the Senate,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats in every state, the Democrats on every street,
Speaker 1: take this pardon nonsense, this pardon bullshit, and shove the
Speaker 1: pardons up Trump's ass. And then there is and also
Speaker 1: the small matter on this issue of the reality that
Speaker 1: impeaching Trump is a moral necessity. Simply put, it's the
Speaker 1: right thing to do, because freeing sixteen hundred violent gangsters
Speaker 1: is morally wrong. It is the equivalent of what Putin
Speaker 1: did to fill the ranks of his army in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It is morally wrong on so many levels, in so
Speaker 1: many ways that the levels are almost uncountable. And not
Speaker 1: the least of those background moral issues is that he
Speaker 1: who inspired them to commit these crimes has now let
Speaker 1: them out of jail, which is the definition of a
Speaker 1: quid pro quo. It is also part of a cover
Speaker 1: up conspiracy about Trump's own crimes related to trying to
Speaker 1: overthrow the government, exactly like Watergates cover up conspiracy was
Speaker 1: about Nixon's own crimes. What Trump did was morally wrong,
Speaker 1: and taken in concert with his other impeachable offense on
Speaker 1: day one, which I will get to, it is clear
Speaker 1: and inarguable evidence that he's already violated the constitution sufficiently
Speaker 1: to be removed from office. Now today, where the House
Speaker 1: Democratic right now, there would be a rush to promulgate
Speaker 1: impeachment bills. It is wrong, it is illegal, it is impeachable.
Speaker 1: That it will not happen for two years does not
Speaker 1: mean you sit back and let it die. The concept
Speaker 1: of moral right and wrong has long since fallen into
Speaker 1: obscurity in the political cesspool of our damaged nation, well
Speaker 1: behind the current primary organizing principle of the United States
Speaker 1: of America. What can I get away with this time?
Speaker 1: But right and wrong still exists, and the first step
Speaker 1: towards defeating wrong is to stand up for what is right.
Speaker 1: Move to impeach Trump today and again in February and
Speaker 1: in March, and on television and at rallies and in campaigns,
Speaker 1: and as we build out and build up defiance. The
Speaker 1: Republicans are the party of criminals. The Republicans are the
Speaker 1: party of circumventing the law. The Republicans are the party
Speaker 1: of immorality. The Democrats are the party of justice and
Speaker 1: enforcing the law, and of moral force. And not incidentally,
Speaker 1: the idea of deliberately being a broken record about these
Speaker 1: cynical evil pardons is not as stagnant as it may
Speaker 1: first sound. As Brian Boutler, who also by utter non coincidence,
Speaker 1: titled his newsletter yesterday Impeach Trump, emphasizes the story of
Speaker 1: the January sixth pardons does not end with the release
Speaker 1: of these manifest threats to the safety not just of
Speaker 1: democracy but of other citizens. Here. What do you think
Speaker 1: they're all going to retire from thuggery and political violence?
Speaker 1: You think they're all going to take their undeserved wins
Speaker 1: and go home. Now, what they do next will not
Speaker 1: be sixteen hundred gangsters signing up to go to monasteries
Speaker 1: and nunneries to become priests and sisters. Thus, what they
Speaker 1: do next will be its own, continuing, evolving, disgusting story.
Speaker 1: And we must make Trump and the Republicans own each
Speaker 1: of those stories, Boiler writes, quoting him. Democratic operatives should
Speaker 1: be in the business of tracking the public conduct of
Speaker 1: freed insurrectionists. What do they say on social media? Which
Speaker 1: of them recidivates with what crimes? Trump will bear direct
Speaker 1: responsibility for all their future transgressions, whether that's violence in
Speaker 1: his name or run of the mill criminal activity. They
Speaker 1: should not want memories of his action to fade, or
Speaker 1: for the consequences to go unnoticed unquote, he's Enrique Trump.
Speaker 1: Now they're all Trump. This, of course, will probably require
Speaker 1: figuratively decapitating the leadership of the Democratic Party at all levels.
Speaker 1: Bouler quotes Chuck Schumer, or I should say, more correctly,
Speaker 1: he quotes both. Chuck Schumer's the one who says the
Speaker 1: January sixth convicts quote should not have been pardoned. Trump
Speaker 1: is ushering in a golden age for people that break
Speaker 1: the law and attempt to overthrow the government. And then
Speaker 1: Bouler quotes the other Chuck Schumer. It is time to
Speaker 1: look to the future. The Senate must respond with resolve,
Speaker 1: by partisanship and fidelity to the working and middle class
Speaker 1: of this country. By partisanship with whom, Chuck, the party
Speaker 1: that just freed those you just said, attempted to overthrow
Speaker 1: the government. So you are standing up for bipartisanship. Betwe
Speaker 1: the pro government Democrats and the pro violent overthrow Republicans.
Speaker 1: This is madness. Resign from the leadership, Resign from the Senate,
Speaker 1: get the hell out of the way. By partisanship got
Speaker 1: us the second Bush term by partisanship. And this now
Speaker 1: antique thought that the voters will reward the most bipartisan
Speaker 1: party got us the second Trump term. It is a
Speaker 1: hell of a way to run a country. But we
Speaker 1: have re entered the kill them and eat them stage
Speaker 1: of the politics of the United States of America. We
Speaker 1: have been here before in eighteen sixty one. You have
Speaker 1: two choices, Chuck Schumer, you metaphorically kill them because they
Speaker 1: are scum and they are wrong, and Trump is a
Speaker 1: madman and a dictator. You do that, or you can
Speaker 1: be metaphorically eaten by them. To Chuck Schumer and all
Speaker 1: the Chuck Schumers, busy or get out now. I apologize
Speaker 1: for having repeatedly referenced, but not explained, the dictator's other
Speaker 1: immediately impeachable act. A little afternoon Monday, Trump, his hand
Speaker 1: not on the Bible, presumably out of fear that the
Speaker 1: book would burn the effing flesh off his bones, swore
Speaker 1: he would to the best of my ability to preserve, protect,
Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet within
Speaker 1: hours he not even bothering to get his horrors on
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to pretend to do what is after all,
Speaker 1: their job and do this for him. He was overruling
Speaker 1: the Constitution, specifically the Fourteenth Amendment, and birthright citizenship, and
Speaker 1: rewriting that amendment, and rewriting our Constitution to deny the
Speaker 1: right of citizenship to anybody born here, whether they're the parents,
Speaker 1: are here legally or not. This was not, just, as
Speaker 1: Trump promised, terminating the Constitution as it pertains through undocumented immigrants. However,
Speaker 1: this was not just a Trump action vaguely within that
Speaker 1: framework of the migration dilemma he caused. This was an
Speaker 1: act against all immigrants, and all foreigners, and all minorities.
Speaker 1: It is an act of white supremacism. And the writers
Speaker 1: of the executive order that the white supremacist Trump may
Speaker 1: or may not have read, didn't even try to pretend
Speaker 1: this wasn't an act violating what has been the accepted
Speaker 1: interpretation of the Constitution by every Supreme Court and every
Speaker 1: other court, and every Congress and every Senate since ratification
Speaker 1: of the Fourteenth Amendment in eighteen flipping sixty eight. If
Speaker 1: the drafters of that amendment and the state legislators that
Speaker 1: passed it meant no children of immigrants, they would have said,
Speaker 1: no children of immigrants. Trump's order simply pretends none of
Speaker 1: that is true. It is Orwellian memory holding. It is gaslighting,
Speaker 1: quoting the order. The fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted
Speaker 1: to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.
Speaker 1: The fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons
Speaker 1: who were born in the United States but not subject
Speaker 1: to the jurisdiction thereof. And Oceania has always been at
Speaker 1: war with East Asia. Bullshit, nonsensical, obvious, and impeachable bullshit.
Speaker 1: So impeach him for it, because what I said before
Speaker 1: is true. If only Democrats and whichever Republicans still believe
Speaker 1: in representative government, get off off the goddamned floor sees
Speaker 1: the gift Trump has moronically and unnecessarily handed us. He
Speaker 1: has already committed impeachable acts. So introduce resolutions to impeach
Speaker 1: him every month, every week, every day, every hour, if
Speaker 1: you have to introduce enough of them, so he will
Speaker 1: not be able to see over them as they pile
Speaker 1: up in his office. Bury him alive under impeachment bills.
Speaker 1: Think of those forty three swing house districts and the
Speaker 1: three quarters of voters in them, and the fifty five
Speaker 1: percent of Republicans in them who oppose Trump. Letting the
Speaker 1: bubonic play rats out of the prisons and back out
Speaker 1: into our homes. Think of them, and impeach Trump now.
Speaker 1: Impeach Trump now and later. And lastly, if you are
Speaker 1: shying away from this because you are still on the floor,
Speaker 1: it's understandable. Now get off the efing floor. If you
Speaker 1: hesitate to do this because you see democratic leaders folding
Speaker 1: looking at you, John Fetterman, get back on the spaceship,
Speaker 1: or more accurately, if you see democratic leadership going mia.
Speaker 1: Consider this. After Trump freed sixteen hundred hardened criminal January
Speaker 1: sixth slime, after he officially and immediately and forever sided
Speaker 1: with the domestic terrorist attack on this nation and on
Speaker 1: democracy itself, the Republicans were still out there trying to
Speaker 1: sell the idea that Biden's last minute, tiny preemptive pardons
Speaker 1: of his family and Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci and
Speaker 1: others that that was somehow criminal, and moreover, that it
Speaker 1: certainly meant the recipients were guilty. By that Republican logic,
Speaker 1: a pardoned criminal or just a pardoned potential politicized prosecutorial
Speaker 1: target is guilty than what are these sixteen hundred January
Speaker 1: sixth scumbags? And what are they guilty of. They are
Speaker 1: guilty of, as Schumer even phrased it, attempting to overthrow
Speaker 1: the government. And on whose behalf? At whose instigation were
Speaker 1: they trying to do this? Who is as guilty as
Speaker 1: anybody just pardoned Trump? This is easy. Trump has convicted
Speaker 1: himself of insurrection, trying to overthrow the government, and treason,
Speaker 1: and he has bought off his little stochastic army. This
Speaker 1: isn't complicated, it isn't risky, and among things to be
Speaker 1: defiant about, it isn't even all that defiant. It must, however,
Speaker 1: be exploited. It is being handed to us on a
Speaker 1: silver platter, or since it's Trump, it's being handed to
Speaker 1: us on a fake, dull, ugly restolium gold platter. Take it,
Speaker 1: impeach Trump, and then take the platter and shove that
Speaker 1: up Trump's ass as well. A scheduling note barring Bolton News,
Speaker 1: this episode live just as Tuesday the twenty first became
Speaker 1: Wednesday the twenty second will take the place of the
Speaker 1: regular Thursday edition. I could have stuck to the schedule
Speaker 1: or spread the good news about impeachment. Now, it's the
Speaker 1: point was to do it. Now, I think I made
Speaker 1: the right choice by doing it now all se of
Speaker 1: interest here bluntly, Jake Tapper needs to resign. Talk about
Speaker 1: going to a monastery somewhere to a tone. Jake Tapper's
Speaker 1: performance at the Trump Biden debate was pathetic and desperate,
Speaker 1: and he has somehow now outdone himself. Of course, very
Speaker 1: few people noticed that because he and CNN began to
Speaker 1: destroy their outlet in twenty twenty three, and the inauguration
Speaker 1: ratings are now in and they suggest congratulations are in order.
Speaker 1: CNN has completed its task of self immolation. CNN finished
Speaker 1: third on inauguration coverage behind MSNBC in primetime, the last
Speaker 1: area of CNN semi relevance covering breaking news, and Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper helped reduce it to last place. He's in worse persons.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Oberman stell ahead on countdown. Trumpists who can put together
Speaker 1: actual sentences and have more than three digits on each
Speaker 1: hand and foot but less than eight digits on each
Speaker 1: hand and foot often say, aldermin, what do you know
Speaker 1: about Trump? And I do enjoy stunning them by explaining
Speaker 1: I first met him in nineteen eighty three, and I
Speaker 1: knew him well enough that just over a decade ago
Speaker 1: he wrote me a goddamned fan letter. And I know
Speaker 1: him well enough to say when I say he's nuts
Speaker 1: and dangerous, I have credentials. I said the same thing
Speaker 1: about him forty one years ago, ahead on things I
Speaker 1: promised not to tell the first time I met Trump.
Speaker 1: By the way, impeach him first. There are still more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily round up of
Speaker 1: the misgrids, morons and Dunning Krueger effect specimens who constitute
Speaker 1: two days other worst persons in the world. The first
Speaker 1: is Christy eight nine, three, one, two, six, seven seven,
Speaker 1: And if I mentioned Trumpsts who have the ordinary number
Speaker 1: of fingers and toes, at the opposite end of the
Speaker 1: spectrum is Christy. Christy is a moron. Christy is Trump's base.
Speaker 1: Christy could be a bot, But looking at the Twitter
Speaker 1: x of Christy, I don't think so. I just think
Speaker 1: she's the kind of person who a century ago never
Speaker 1: reached maturity because one day, while out of the house,
Speaker 1: they forgot how doors worked, and they couldn't get back inside,
Speaker 1: and thus they died of exposure. Still trying to remember
Speaker 1: what knobs were for I swear to God, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: reading this verbatim. It is a defense of Trump pardoning
Speaker 1: the Sewer rats. In a reply to a clip of
Speaker 1: Daniel Dale of CNN eviscerating Trump's lies about the pardons.
Speaker 1: For the record, so you understand what I'm reading, let
Speaker 1: me emphasize the word is pardons pa r do ns Christy.
Speaker 1: That's Christy eight nine three one two six seven seven.
Speaker 1: She does not know this quote. Christy eight nine three
Speaker 1: one two six seven seven, replying to at CNN, why
Speaker 1: don't you say anything about Joe Biden partying his whole
Speaker 1: family and, by the way, parted eight thousand more people
Speaker 1: than any other president, CNN, look at your ratings partying.
Speaker 1: Biden parted way more people than Trump did. He partying
Speaker 1: his whole family, he issued pardons. Why are we in
Speaker 1: this situation this country? Because Christy and several million other
Speaker 1: Christie's are utter idiots the runner up worser. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, she does have CNN about the ratings part
Speaker 1: not that this is unexpected given who would have been
Speaker 1: watching the inauguration, but during midday Monday, while it was
Speaker 1: actually happening, CNN was actually in second place in cable news,
Speaker 1: CNN had more than double MSNBC's ratings. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: Fox had more than six times CNN's ratings. And then
Speaker 1: the numbers got bad for CNN. By noon, CNN had
Speaker 1: fallen into a tie in the demo audience with MSNBC.
Speaker 1: By seven PM, CNN had collapsed into a total audience
Speaker 1: tie with MSNBC. By eight pm, MSNBC a million one,
Speaker 1: CNN a million, third in a three team race in
Speaker 1: breaking news, Why welser when from the days we put
Speaker 1: it on the air, and I do mean we. I
Speaker 1: started there. As year two began in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: CNN increasingly dominated first cable ratings and then all TV
Speaker 1: ratings in breaking news. That's what it was. For the
Speaker 1: rest of the time. They couldn't charge as much for
Speaker 1: the commercials. Breaking news made them all the money they
Speaker 1: would ever make. And that's gone. And I have no
Speaker 1: means of proving this, but I think I know something
Speaker 1: about cable news audiences. I was there when they started,
Speaker 1: and I was there when they finished, and I believe
Speaker 1: this collapse due to CNN is now simply the reality
Speaker 1: that CNN is just the TV version of the Washington
Speaker 1: Post and Penny Saber and Hot Sex News. Some people
Speaker 1: still go there by habit, Oh, something's happening They've put
Speaker 1: on CNN. Some people are not yet personally offended enough
Speaker 1: to have found it alternative television Viewers are not required
Speaker 1: to be fully informed about the quality of the product
Speaker 1: they are about to watch. But most of the viewers
Speaker 1: of CNN got the message three years ago, and Chris
Speaker 1: lickt took over and started pandering to the fascists, and
Speaker 1: anybody left probably dropped out when Dana Bash and Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper refused to fact check Trump's lies at the Biden
Speaker 1: Trump debate. And you can frame that anyway you want,
Speaker 1: but that is doing Trump's job for him. That is
Speaker 1: Dana Bash and Jake Tapper and CNN having successfully put
Speaker 1: their fingers on the scale to help get Trump elected.
Speaker 1: I hope that Dana Bash and Jake Tapper lived to
Speaker 1: be one hundred and eight years old each. And I
Speaker 1: also hope that their last thoughts on this earth are
Speaker 1: I helped get Trump elected. What you did was you
Speaker 1: let Trump lie while you just stood there Bash and
Speaker 1: you just stood there Tapper, which is like a cop
Speaker 1: or two cops letting a thug beat up a victim,
Speaker 1: and now, as if this were possible, Tapper may have
Speaker 1: chased the rest of once was CNN's default audience away
Speaker 1: at two pm Eastern on Monday in the post inauguration glow,
Speaker 1: and they were still a factor in the ratings. Quote Tapper,
Speaker 1: I think it's important to point out that the Trump
Speaker 1: dvance campaign in twenty twenty four was a very disciplined
Speaker 1: campaign and did a decent job of depicting Trump as
Speaker 1: somebody who was within the realm of normalcy. He said,
Speaker 1: this aster God, he said, this disciplined campaign depicting Trump
Speaker 1: is within the realm of normalcy, Jake, Which part the
Speaker 1: part where they spent a week insisting that Haitian immigrants
Speaker 1: were eating pets in Ohio, the Madison Square Garden part
Speaker 1: where the alleged Trump comedian called Puerto Rico an island
Speaker 1: of garbage, when he said all the FEMA money had
Speaker 1: already been spent and Biden had spent it on immigrants
Speaker 1: to fly them in and Kamala Harris had brought them
Speaker 1: into Chicago. Which part was the realm of normalcy and
Speaker 1: which part was the discipline Trump's constant moronic consistence that
Speaker 1: the migrants were coming from insane asylums, because Trump is
Speaker 1: so stupid and brain dead that he does not realize
Speaker 1: that what we used to kind of crassly call insane asylums,
Speaker 1: those aren't the same thing as political asylum, you efing moron.
Speaker 1: Which part of the campaign was the most within the
Speaker 1: realm of normalcy? Jake Tapple, your hapless ass kisser. We
Speaker 1: are left with two choices, Jake. You have either joined
Speaker 1: the line of vhy collaborators, and in that line you're
Speaker 1: like two thousandth behind Bezos and Lauren Sanchez who was
Speaker 1: so affected by the inauguration speech that she almost managed
Speaker 1: to move her face. It's that, Jake, or you need
Speaker 1: to see a neurologist today. Either way, Jake Tapper, f
Speaker 1: you but our winner, speaking of the face almost moving
Speaker 1: during the inauguration, it's Milagna. Do you know already about
Speaker 1: the crypto scam she and her employer. I'm sorry she
Speaker 1: and her husband ran over the weekend, but I have
Speaker 1: to point this out. All the advertising done to rip
Speaker 1: off the Rubes with Milanya's meme coin, they are all
Speaker 1: variations of her pictures grinning hands in front of her nose,
Speaker 1: eyes so covered over by liner that it looks like
Speaker 1: they're closed, and then prominently displayed or written in the
Speaker 1: text the name of the meme coin she was selling.
Speaker 1: And meme coin names consists of a dollar sign and
Speaker 1: then the name. But of course a dollar sign is
Speaker 1: just an s with a vertical line through it. And
Speaker 1: I defy you to find anybody who doesn't see that
Speaker 1: dollar sign when it has a name or word directly
Speaker 1: attached to it, with no spacing between them, as in
Speaker 1: mean coin names. I defy you to find any who
Speaker 1: doesn't see dollars sign millennia and here in their minds
Speaker 1: smell onya as in ah, what's that awful smell on
Speaker 1: YOUA Milania hereafter to be called Smellania Trump invest in
Speaker 1: distens to day's first person indiverse.
Speaker 2: Smell Anya.
Speaker 1: I have had the misfortune to meet Trump in person
Speaker 1: four times, the first late in nineteen eighty three, and
Speaker 1: each time I saw the exact moment that his face
Speaker 1: went from an emotionless, almost lifeless, certainly non human mask
Speaker 1: to a beaming, phony smile. That's who he is, That's
Speaker 1: what he thinks is his asset, an irresistible smile. You
Speaker 1: and I look at him and see a face of
Speaker 1: evil and debauchery, and mostly a guy who claims to
Speaker 1: be rich and yet clearly buys his makeup at the
Speaker 1: cheap end of the notions department at Filein's basement. But
Speaker 1: he really thinks he can sell anybody anything, and somewhere
Speaker 1: early in life he decided his means of doing that
Speaker 1: was to mimic a human smile and really make it
Speaker 1: as big and as preposterous as possible. And he's done
Speaker 1: this now for at least seventy years, from his childhood
Speaker 1: dementia to this dementia. And the way he registers a
Speaker 1: sail with people, his receipt for convincing them to do
Speaker 1: his bidding is their smile in return. So the jury
Speaker 1: didn't smile at him, so the jury was biased against him,
Speaker 1: So the jury was corrupt, so the trial was rigged.
Speaker 1: So when he says these crazy things, there is a
Speaker 1: part of him that truly believes it is rigged, because
Speaker 1: they are, as the kids say, not buying what he's selling.
Speaker 1: He believes life is a transaction, and when he gives
Speaker 1: you his smile, you have to give him yours, and
Speaker 1: then he owns you. I met him in the lobby
Speaker 1: of the apartment building I used to live at here,
Speaker 1: the no longer Trump Palace. I saw him first, then
Speaker 1: he saw me. Then he whispered to one of his flunkies.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he was double checking it was me. Then
Speaker 1: he stared at me for a moment. Then when he
Speaker 1: thought I was first looking at him, his dead face
Speaker 1: turned immediately into that fake smile. Remember the Senko Demayo
Speaker 1: Taco bowl tweet from twenty sixteen where he says I
Speaker 1: love Hispanics, like there were actual Hispanics in the taco
Speaker 1: bowl and he was eating them that fake smile. But
Speaker 1: his eyesight is not as good as he lets on,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't know that you have seen him first.
Speaker 1: He had done the same thing twice in the lobbies
Speaker 1: of thirty Rock at NBC, once stopping just to shake hands,
Speaker 1: once actually stopping to tell me how good countdown was,
Speaker 1: and how pissed off his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get
Speaker 1: whenever he told him how good countdown was, and then
Speaker 1: striding off. And I watched to see if I could
Speaker 1: see that fake smile that had appeared so suddenly vanished
Speaker 1: justice suddenly, but his back was turned to me. However,
Speaker 1: December fifteenth, nineteen eighty three, CNN sends me to cover
Speaker 1: a New York Post sports forum where owner George Steinbrenner
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees, owner Fred Wilpond of the
Speaker 1: New York Mets, Sonny Werblin of the New York Rangers,
Speaker 1: and Nixon this real estate hump Trump who owned the
Speaker 1: sort of pro football team in New Jersey. They would
Speaker 1: speak and do interviews and meet fans and whatever. He
Speaker 1: interviewed them all briefly, and when it came time to
Speaker 1: interview this Trump guy, he stood there and looked at
Speaker 1: me like he was trying to guess my weight. Then
Speaker 1: we put the camera light on and there it was,
Speaker 1: this big fake smile out of nowhere, and I asked
Speaker 1: some questions about the New Jersey Generals, and he boasted
Speaker 1: he was hiring a new name coach who used to
Speaker 1: coach the Jets. When we turned out he hadn't hired
Speaker 1: him yet, and he spent a week cleaning up that mess.
Speaker 1: And when I said thank you, when we turned the
Speaker 1: light off, he turned off the big fake smile zap
Speaker 1: it was gone, and the blank look repeated in his
Speaker 1: eyes A couple of years ago, on a cold night,
Speaker 1: I turned a corner here and a familiar but older
Speaker 1: face shouted Keith, And suddenly I realized it's a CNN
Speaker 1: cameraman I haven't seen in thirty years. Remember when we
Speaker 1: covered Trump at that sports thing, he says, And I
Speaker 1: realized he was the cameraman that day at the post thing.
Speaker 1: Remember what you said about him? And I didn't? And
Speaker 1: he laughs, and he says, we were walking back to
Speaker 1: the truck and you didn't say anything thing, and that
Speaker 1: worried us, because when have you ever shut up for
Speaker 1: five minutes? And so finally I say, what's bothering you?
Speaker 1: And you stopped, and you turning, you looked at me
Speaker 1: and Jimmy, and you said that last guy we interviewed Trump,
Speaker 1: what the f is wrong with that guy? I've done
Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanell, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged,
Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled
Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass
Speaker 1: and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. We're satirical
Speaker 1: and fifty musical comments are by the baseball stadium organist
Speaker 1: Arran Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme
Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: My announcwer tod He was my friend Stevie van Zante.
Speaker 1: Everything else was, as ever my fault. So that he
Speaker 1: is countdown for today, just one thousand, four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty days until the scheduled end of his lame duck
Speaker 1: and lame reigned term. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.
Speaker 1: As always, bulletins, as the news warrants, remember in peach Trump,
Speaker 1: it won't work now. It will, however, win the Democrats
Speaker 1: the mid terms. Until next time. I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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