WEBVTT - I'M NOT SAYING IT WAS STAGED! YOU'RRRE SAYING IT WAS STAGED - 4.27.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.755 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Sure coincidence, 0:00:25.395 --> 0:00:28.355 It'll be funny, it'll be entertaining. There will be some 0:00:28.395 --> 0:00:32.995 shots fired tonight, the Press secretary to the President of 0:00:33.035 --> 0:00:36.475 the United States about an hour before what a coincidence? 0:00:36.955 --> 0:00:43.755 Shots were fired. I'm guessing you might have doubts about 0:00:43.795 --> 0:00:50.515 Saturday Nights not really an assassination attempt theater? Was what 0:00:50.555 --> 0:00:54.235 she said? Coincidence or a slip? Frankly, I think it's 0:00:54.235 --> 0:00:57.075 a coincidence. I don't think that event Saturday Night was staged, 0:00:58.115 --> 0:01:00.195 But I am beginning to think that among my fellow 0:01:00.235 --> 0:01:04.035 Americans who are not in the Trump mass hypnosis cult, 0:01:04.795 --> 0:01:09.035 I may be in the minority. Did Caroline Levitt use 0:01:09.035 --> 0:01:11.715 that phrase because she was thinking about shots being fired 0:01:12.395 --> 0:01:17.595 or just because she's so stupid and gross? I mean, 0:01:17.595 --> 0:01:20.875 that's a head scratcher of a choice. Huh. Did her 0:01:20.915 --> 0:01:24.035 sixty year old husband tell a Fox reporter before the 0:01:24.115 --> 0:01:28.475 non assassination attempt that you need to stay safe because 0:01:28.515 --> 0:01:31.355 he slipped or because he was just hitting on another 0:01:31.395 --> 0:01:34.355 woman and while she was reporting what he had told 0:01:34.395 --> 0:01:36.955 her on Fox? Did her phone line suddenly go dead 0:01:36.995 --> 0:01:41.675 because somebody cut her off or because cell phones go dead. 0:01:42.995 --> 0:01:47.155 Would Trump really stage some sort of non assassination theater 0:01:48.435 --> 0:01:51.955 maybe again? Would you think that was possible just because 0:01:51.955 --> 0:01:54.555 it's the Secret Service that's in charge of security wherever 0:01:54.635 --> 0:01:57.235 the president is and somehow the Secret Service never thought 0:01:57.235 --> 0:02:00.355 to see if Psycho's already staying at the DC, Hilton 0:02:00.715 --> 0:02:02.795 wouldn't have had to go through half of the checkpoints 0:02:02.835 --> 0:02:08.195 everybody else had. Is it suspicious that when CBS actually 0:02:08.235 --> 0:02:11.275 asks the Acting Attorney General how the guy got across 0:02:11.315 --> 0:02:15.515 state lines with a small arsenal of firearms, Todd Blanche says, 0:02:15.875 --> 0:02:17.955 I don't think that's something we should be focused on. 0:02:19.115 --> 0:02:20.995 Does that remind you of the fact that there's never 0:02:21.035 --> 0:02:25.835 been an investigation of the security disaster at Butler, PA, 0:02:25.995 --> 0:02:28.915 never mind anything else, and reportedly Trump has been the 0:02:28.915 --> 0:02:32.035 one to make sure of that. Do you wonder why 0:02:32.115 --> 0:02:34.795 they took so long to go and get Trump Saturday 0:02:35.275 --> 0:02:39.315 and when they got him, they basically dropped him and 0:02:39.395 --> 0:02:43.035 he face planted. Do you wonder why the White House 0:02:43.115 --> 0:02:46.115 is selling this as both an assassination attempt and not 0:02:46.195 --> 0:02:50.355 an assassination attempt at the same time, why White House's 0:02:50.475 --> 0:02:53.115 protocol chief said this was the hand of God saving 0:02:53.155 --> 0:02:55.035 Trump and the White House Chief of Staff tried to 0:02:55.035 --> 0:03:00.195 start a USA chant and failed, but the acting Attorney 0:03:00.195 --> 0:03:03.515 General said the attempted gunman quote was stopped before he 0:03:03.555 --> 0:03:08.555 got anywhere. You're the president. That means by definition that 0:03:08.635 --> 0:03:11.075 was not an assassination attempt. You have to be near 0:03:12.475 --> 0:03:16.715 Todd Blanche confirmed it not an assassination attempt, a security incident, 0:03:17.195 --> 0:03:19.915 and serious one, and by the way, it was contained 0:03:19.915 --> 0:03:24.795 by the pros with no fatalities. Obama had more than 0:03:24.835 --> 0:03:28.595 fifteen of these in his presidency, by the way. But 0:03:28.635 --> 0:03:31.355 back to the point, if you have doubts, and a reminder, 0:03:32.315 --> 0:03:35.115 I don't, even though I'm the guy who said Bush 0:03:35.195 --> 0:03:39.035 was manipulating the terror threats twenty years ago for political advantage, 0:03:39.035 --> 0:03:40.915 and everybody looked at me like I had three heads, 0:03:41.595 --> 0:03:45.075 and then years later his first chief of Homeland Security said, no, 0:03:45.515 --> 0:03:50.075 they were manipulating the terror threats for political advantage. I 0:03:50.115 --> 0:03:52.715 don't have doubts. But if you have doubts, might you 0:03:52.795 --> 0:03:55.955 have them just because two in a row now, a 0:03:56.035 --> 0:03:59.035 guy with long guns somehow got through all the outer 0:03:59.235 --> 0:04:05.635 security Trump perimeters. Would you consider your doubts possible just 0:04:05.675 --> 0:04:10.355 because this this Saturday night, defined it this is Donald 0:04:10.395 --> 0:04:15.675 Trump's America, donald Trump's America where violence is the primary currency, 0:04:16.275 --> 0:04:21.595 or the threat of violence, or because Donald Trump eliminated 0:04:21.635 --> 0:04:24.395 the peaceful transfer of power in this country, or because 0:04:24.435 --> 0:04:26.995 on January sixth, Donald Trump started the coup attempt by 0:04:26.995 --> 0:04:30.515 shouting fight like hell, and then in Pennsylvania Trump shouted 0:04:30.635 --> 0:04:33.475 fight fight. But at his news conference after the non 0:04:33.515 --> 0:04:36.635 assassination attempt Saturday night, he changed it back to claiming 0:04:36.715 --> 0:04:43.995 he fought like hell. That's a coincidence, Or because Trump's 0:04:43.995 --> 0:04:46.715 instinct was to take what he wants you to believe 0:04:46.795 --> 0:04:49.355 was his near martyrdom and you should feel guilty, you 0:04:49.475 --> 0:04:52.555 lib trd and turn that event into a homily at 0:04:52.555 --> 0:04:56.115 his news conference about insecure locations and how this is 0:04:56.155 --> 0:04:58.635 the final word is the reason for him to build 0:04:58.675 --> 0:05:03.675 his goddamned ballroom he is obsessed with? Is it coincidence 0:05:03.915 --> 0:05:08.875 that Trump has obsessed, deranged, in other words, worse than 0:05:08.915 --> 0:05:12.515 his usual self about what he is now actually calling 0:05:12.555 --> 0:05:20.435 his quote militarily top secret ballroom. And one night he 0:05:20.475 --> 0:05:24.515 goes to another DC ballroom, like why are you going there? 0:05:25.355 --> 0:05:27.755 And the ballroom security doesn't cut it, and there's an 0:05:27.755 --> 0:05:31.275 incident in the ballroom, and then he and literally dozens 0:05:31.275 --> 0:05:33.515 of his social media sock puppets, from Katie Miller to 0:05:33.555 --> 0:05:37.435 Megan McCain to John fing Fetterman were ready with posts 0:05:37.835 --> 0:05:40.435 insisting this settles it forever, no more discussion. You have 0:05:40.515 --> 0:05:42.755 to build the ballroom, and you're a communist and you 0:05:42.795 --> 0:05:44.915 want Trump dead if you don't support the ballroom, and 0:05:44.995 --> 0:05:46.915 we have to have a ballroom. And then they sing 0:05:46.955 --> 0:05:51.275 the national anthem and they get the words wrong, as 0:05:51.315 --> 0:05:54.475 if any Reporters Association ever would agree to hold its 0:05:54.555 --> 0:05:58.995 annual banquet at a government military facility, no matter who 0:05:59.035 --> 0:06:02.875 the president is, unless it had decided to let the 0:06:02.915 --> 0:06:07.115 government take over control of the Reporters Association, or the 0:06:07.155 --> 0:06:09.955 government simply announced it was taking over control of the 0:06:09.995 --> 0:06:13.955 Reporters Association. That's why you would have it at the 0:06:13.995 --> 0:06:18.395 White House. Of course, half the MAGA thought when they 0:06:18.395 --> 0:06:21.355 saw White House Correspondence Association that it was at the 0:06:21.395 --> 0:06:25.155 White House. They also thought it was correspondent says in 0:06:25.195 --> 0:06:30.395 writing letters. Or maybe the point is, maybe you would say, 0:06:30.795 --> 0:06:34.755 you would say allowed or silently for a second or 0:06:34.755 --> 0:06:39.475 for a week, that one word sure, because these people 0:06:39.475 --> 0:06:41.235 have lied so many times about so many things that 0:06:41.315 --> 0:06:44.515 is no longer worth the energy required to say no, no, 0:06:44.675 --> 0:06:47.435 We must give them the benefit of the doubt. Lives 0:06:47.475 --> 0:06:53.755 were at stake, people suffered emotional trauma Saturday night, while 0:06:53.755 --> 0:06:55.875 they are literally whining that The New York Times did 0:06:55.915 --> 0:06:58.635 not put their Little Dog and Pony show on its 0:06:58.675 --> 0:07:01.115 front page in the edition of the paper that was 0:07:01.115 --> 0:07:08.635 published half an hour before the event. Because Psychic Hotline, 0:07:11.275 --> 0:07:16.875 are we all beginning to think maybe, well, maybe a lot. 0:07:17.235 --> 0:07:24.075 Maybe Most of Trump's cult they believe Butler Pennsylvania was staged, 0:07:24.995 --> 0:07:26.475 and some of them are so past the point of 0:07:26.515 --> 0:07:28.675 caring that it might have been staged. It doesn't matter 0:07:28.715 --> 0:07:31.155 to them if it was staged, or if Saturday was staged, 0:07:31.195 --> 0:07:35.875 because anything for the cause. But this reaction, their reaction 0:07:35.995 --> 0:07:40.235 to this not an assassination attempt, is so over the 0:07:40.275 --> 0:07:42.955 top that it is clear they are desperate to convince 0:07:42.995 --> 0:07:46.915 people this was the real thing when the acting Attorney 0:07:46.915 --> 0:07:51.395 General says it wasn't. And by the way, the people 0:07:51.435 --> 0:07:56.195 they are most desperate to convince are themselves. Maybe the 0:07:56.235 --> 0:07:58.835 real point is it doesn't even matter if it was 0:07:58.875 --> 0:08:01.555 staged or it wasn't. It's the reality that I would 0:08:01.595 --> 0:08:03.515 defy you to tell me with certainty that you are 0:08:03.555 --> 0:08:07.115 confident that nobody in that administration suggested something like this, 0:08:07.515 --> 0:08:10.675 discussed something like this during the twenty twenty four campaign, 0:08:10.795 --> 0:08:15.195 or now now as he's hemorrhaging support, trapped in a 0:08:15.235 --> 0:08:17.355 war he doesn't have the intellect to get out of, 0:08:18.315 --> 0:08:24.275 still facing the Epstein outcomes, and fifty five percent say 0:08:24.315 --> 0:08:26.915 he no longer has the mental soundness to serve as 0:08:26.995 --> 0:08:29.715 president when it was only forty eight percent late in 0:08:29.795 --> 0:08:32.675 the campaign, and fifty seven percent say he doesn't have 0:08:32.715 --> 0:08:34.955 the judgment to be president, at sixty percent say he 0:08:34.955 --> 0:08:37.195 didn't have the temperament to be president, at sixty three 0:08:37.235 --> 0:08:39.995 percent say no, as president, he does not care about me. 0:08:40.155 --> 0:08:43.395 And all of those numbers are from a Fox News poll. 0:08:46.395 --> 0:08:51.835 There's no chance they sat there and thought, ohh hose 0:08:51.875 --> 0:08:55.275 correspondence dinner. That'd be so easy to do it there. 0:08:56.675 --> 0:08:59.355 You ever been to the Hilton. I gonna bring a 0:08:59.395 --> 0:09:03.875 tank in there, and nobody would notice. The gun doesn't 0:09:03.875 --> 0:09:06.635 even have to get anywhere I'm near the president, And 0:09:06.675 --> 0:09:09.755 then somebody else would have said, you're crazy, and somebody 0:09:09.795 --> 0:09:12.755 else would have said, all the reporters will be drunk 0:09:13.155 --> 0:09:16.515 and they're scared anyway, and they'll be unable to report, 0:09:17.195 --> 0:09:19.715 and they'll all try to get the limited cell phone 0:09:19.755 --> 0:09:24.475 service notoriously bad at that DC Hilton, And if we're lucky, 0:09:24.955 --> 0:09:27.955 we can wind up blaming all this, not just on 0:09:28.035 --> 0:09:33.595 the left, but on those scum reporters. Are you sure 0:09:33.635 --> 0:09:37.835 there's no chance of that? Matter of fact, As I 0:09:37.955 --> 0:09:42.675 have said, I don't think it was staged. I think 0:09:42.755 --> 0:09:49.235 security perimeters do have holes. I think the Secret services overworked, unimaginative. 0:09:50.235 --> 0:09:52.875 I think the screening equipment and is it not anywhere 0:09:52.875 --> 0:09:59.155 close to infallible as the experts like to pretend. Most importantly, 0:09:59.195 --> 0:10:03.235 I think there are coincidences. I mean I said it 0:10:03.315 --> 0:10:06.235 here and on social media over and over again for 0:10:06.635 --> 0:10:10.075 more than a week. Do not correspondence go to the 0:10:10.075 --> 0:10:14.475 White House correspondent's dinner, and if you do, be prepared 0:10:14.515 --> 0:10:19.875 to storm out of the dinner because of Trump. Now, 0:10:19.875 --> 0:10:22.955 because I said that, does it mean I knew that 0:10:23.155 --> 0:10:26.875 was going to happen? Did it even crossed my mind? 0:10:28.075 --> 0:10:34.035 It didn't. There are coincidences I was talking about. Don't 0:10:34.075 --> 0:10:38.435 go there, because you soil yourself whenever you're in Trump's presence. 0:10:41.915 --> 0:10:43.755 As it turned out, as many of them have learned. 0:10:43.795 --> 0:10:46.555 If you're at this security breach and you try to 0:10:46.595 --> 0:10:49.395 report and you've had about six glasses of wine and 0:10:49.475 --> 0:10:52.275 you go on CNN and you can't say anything other 0:10:52.355 --> 0:10:57.275 than and then, uh uh, perhaps that's not doing your 0:10:57.275 --> 0:11:02.475 career any good, Jake. And yes, I think what Caroline 0:11:02.515 --> 0:11:05.275 Levitt said about shots will be fired was a incidents, 0:11:05.635 --> 0:11:08.075 although how will she ever live that down? Not that 0:11:08.115 --> 0:11:10.955 I want her to, but it was coincidence because people 0:11:10.955 --> 0:11:15.115 say shit like that every day, especially violent, stupid people 0:11:15.155 --> 0:11:18.315 like Caroline Levitt and Donald Trump who are losing their 0:11:18.355 --> 0:11:21.835 grip on power and are panicking and beginning to understand 0:11:21.875 --> 0:11:25.115 what happens to them unless the Republicans never lose the 0:11:25.155 --> 0:11:29.115 White House ever again. And maybe some of them like 0:11:29.195 --> 0:11:33.435 Levitt and Cash Bttel are shorting out. And Politico has 0:11:33.555 --> 0:11:36.595 just reported Saturday morning, in fact, the cash Betel is 0:11:36.595 --> 0:11:40.555 going to be the next one Trump fires. I don't 0:11:40.595 --> 0:11:43.635 think it was state, but goddamn it, these putrid, despicable, 0:11:43.795 --> 0:11:47.995 pond scum people Trump and the retread failures he surrounds 0:11:48.035 --> 0:11:50.955 himself with, they have long since erased my confidence that 0:11:51.075 --> 0:11:54.195 nobody would ever try something this stupid and this risky 0:11:54.235 --> 0:11:56.955 and this deceitful with the life of the president of 0:11:56.955 --> 0:11:58.995 the United States, even if he is the worst one 0:11:59.035 --> 0:12:01.555 we've ever had, because he is the president of the 0:12:01.635 --> 0:12:07.675 United States, and the FAFO rule actually applies. And this 0:12:07.835 --> 0:12:10.395 is a country that two centuries ago tried a twenty 0:12:10.435 --> 0:12:14.035 one gun salute for an admiral at a dock, and 0:12:14.075 --> 0:12:16.195 they put to the guns too close to the admiral 0:12:16.475 --> 0:12:19.835 and guess what, they never found the admiral's body. So 0:12:19.875 --> 0:12:23.795 you're not supposed to play FAFO games with a president, 0:12:24.275 --> 0:12:28.875 even if he thought it was a good idea. And 0:12:28.955 --> 0:12:32.395 yet now I confess I don't have the energy anymore 0:12:32.435 --> 0:12:35.995 required to say no, no, we must give them the 0:12:35.995 --> 0:12:40.475 benefit of the doubt. Here lives, lives were at stake. 0:12:42.115 --> 0:12:44.315 I now do not have the energy to at least 0:12:44.355 --> 0:12:47.115 try to put up the pretense that something that callous 0:12:47.115 --> 0:12:50.115 and that cynical, to say nothing of something that dangerous 0:12:50.155 --> 0:12:58.195 and stupid could never be attempted in my America, my America. 0:12:58.235 --> 0:12:59.915 When was the last time you thought of it like that? 0:13:00.675 --> 0:13:03.995 If there is a tear in your eye about your America, 0:13:04.715 --> 0:13:07.515 out of pride anymore and a confidence that we are 0:13:07.595 --> 0:13:10.715 always at bare minimum, the worst country in the world 0:13:10.835 --> 0:13:15.155 except for all the other countries that is no longer. 0:13:15.195 --> 0:13:22.115 Why the tear is there? So about the correspondent's dinner thing, 0:13:23.595 --> 0:13:35.795 there's sure cynical, and then there's also sure exhausted, And 0:13:35.835 --> 0:13:41.915 I am now the latter sure on one other thing. 0:13:41.955 --> 0:13:44.835 I've lost the energy to argue about anymore. Nobody is 0:13:44.875 --> 0:13:48.995 in favor of political violence in this country, and shooting 0:13:49.115 --> 0:13:58.155 Charlie Kirk remains indefensible. But goddamnit, Van Jones and every 0:13:58.195 --> 0:14:01.635 other handwringer on the air, goddamn it, stop with. There 0:14:01.715 --> 0:14:04.715 is no room for violence in our politics. And this 0:14:04.555 --> 0:14:07.835 is not how we resolve our differences in this great country. 0:14:07.875 --> 0:14:11.715 Holy crap. This is at best the second most frequently 0:14:11.875 --> 0:14:17.115 used way we do resolve our political differences. Reagan was shot, 0:14:17.435 --> 0:14:20.875 Ford was shot at point blank, Kennedy was shot and killed. 0:14:21.115 --> 0:14:24.515 Franklin Roosevelt was shot at teddy. Roosevelt was shot as 0:14:24.515 --> 0:14:27.835 an ex president running for reelection, so was Trump. McKinley 0:14:27.915 --> 0:14:30.315 was shot and killed. Garfield was shot and killed. Lincoln 0:14:30.395 --> 0:14:32.675 was shot and killed. Andrew Jackson was targeted by a 0:14:32.675 --> 0:14:35.675 man with two guns, both of which jammed as he 0:14:35.755 --> 0:14:39.155 shoved them at him. Count all the credible plots that 0:14:39.195 --> 0:14:42.275 didn't get to a gun being drawn, and more than 0:14:42.315 --> 0:14:46.875 a quarter of all presidents have faced assassination attempts. RFK 0:14:47.115 --> 0:14:50.035 was shot and killed, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X Med Gravers, 0:14:50.195 --> 0:14:53.555 Mayor Harrison of Chicago, Mayor Sirmac of Chicago, Mayor Moscow 0:14:53.675 --> 0:14:59.155 of San Francisco, Harvey Milk, Huey Newton, Huey Long. What 0:14:59.155 --> 0:15:02.555 do you think the goddamn Civil War was? It became 0:15:02.675 --> 0:15:05.555 many things, but it started and it that ended with 0:15:06.555 --> 0:15:14.155 political violence. There is no room for violence in our politics. 0:15:15.515 --> 0:15:19.475 There should be no room. But that list that I 0:15:19.635 --> 0:15:22.795 just read, those are just the dead ones. No room 0:15:22.995 --> 0:15:29.395 for violence in our political system, My god, there is 0:15:29.515 --> 0:15:55.555 room for almost nothing else. Just don't be hypocritical about it. 0:15:55.635 --> 0:15:57.915 Just don't pretend that we are better than we are. 0:15:58.995 --> 0:16:01.555 For two hundred and fifty years, we have done often 0:16:01.595 --> 0:16:04.515 the best we possibly could, and sometimes it doesn't work. 0:16:05.435 --> 0:16:09.835 Sometimes you can't control lunatics. But don't say it doesn't 0:16:09.875 --> 0:16:16.635 have a place in our politics. Say you wish it didn't. 0:16:19.955 --> 0:16:22.835 And by the way, how desperate are they? Nancy Mace 0:16:23.995 --> 0:16:27.395 the last of her cheese whiz sliding off her. Ritz 0:16:27.395 --> 0:16:31.515 Cracker sees a tweet from Ben Stiller's Saturday Night reading 0:16:31.875 --> 0:16:36.195 just three words, got it done, and she jumps on 0:16:36.235 --> 0:16:41.235 it with a furiously paranoid reply, God, what done. Turned 0:16:41.275 --> 0:16:43.995 out the tweet was the last of a series by 0:16:44.035 --> 0:16:47.915 Ben about the New York Knicks beating the Atlanta Hawks 0:16:47.955 --> 0:16:52.195 in a playoff game. I don't know what's wrong with Mace, 0:16:53.155 --> 0:16:55.795 but you have to remember that literally these people are 0:16:55.875 --> 0:16:59.795 nuts or impaired, or drugged up or all the veterans 0:16:59.835 --> 0:17:05.115 have PTSD or CTE. Look Ben Stiller is. It is 0:17:05.195 --> 0:17:08.595 celebrating the non assassination attempt, where Trump was never in danger, 0:17:08.595 --> 0:17:17.875 according to his own Attorney General, Jesus suffering f I 0:17:17.915 --> 0:17:21.835 have found in these last eleven years that the safest 0:17:22.115 --> 0:17:25.755 and most emotionally economical way to think of it is 0:17:25.795 --> 0:17:29.675 to think of it this way. Those Walking Dead shows 0:17:30.155 --> 0:17:34.195 and the ten million zombie movies, they are not horror films. 0:17:36.635 --> 0:17:49.915 They are actually documentaries. I have to repeat the political 0:17:49.955 --> 0:17:52.275 report that Patel will be the next one fired. This 0:17:52.395 --> 0:17:55.235 is because of the rash of bad stories about him, 0:17:55.435 --> 0:17:58.755 which now appear to be being fed to receptive outlets 0:17:58.795 --> 0:18:02.675 deliberately the Intercept, which still has friendly connections to lots 0:18:02.675 --> 0:18:05.915 of Republicans usually never Trumps got hold of a letter 0:18:05.955 --> 0:18:09.035 that Patel wrote a decade and a half ago about 0:18:09.035 --> 0:18:14.715 two public urination incidents. If you had gotten the list 0:18:14.715 --> 0:18:17.755 of all the possible crimes that he could have committed, 0:18:18.355 --> 0:18:22.075 you would have drafted public urination either with the first 0:18:22.155 --> 0:18:28.315 or second draft choice, wouldn't you public urination incidents and 0:18:28.435 --> 0:18:30.675 arrests and encounters with cops when he was a young 0:18:30.715 --> 0:18:33.155 idiot as opposed to the older idiot he has become. 0:18:34.875 --> 0:18:37.315 It'll be sad, though, if the public peing does cash 0:18:37.315 --> 0:18:41.235 betel In, because bluntly, that was the most intelligent thing 0:18:41.275 --> 0:18:48.315 ever to come out of him. I have two clips 0:18:48.355 --> 0:18:50.835 I have saved now that I want to play that 0:18:50.915 --> 0:18:55.715 are like all the Trumpian streams see what I did there, 0:18:56.075 --> 0:19:00.395 streams of stupidity crossing. God bless him. Every time you 0:19:00.435 --> 0:19:03.155 think Trump might wriggle out of this bottomless pit in Iran, 0:19:03.355 --> 0:19:06.395 he does something new and stupid about it. First it 0:19:06.515 --> 0:19:09.395 was to invoke Vietnam, which is still a third rail, 0:19:09.675 --> 0:19:12.675 still our measuring stick for forever wars with no moral 0:19:12.795 --> 0:19:16.595 justification and no truth, and which oh, by the way Vietnam, 0:19:16.875 --> 0:19:24.555 which Trump dodged. Now he has, in the way his 0:19:24.635 --> 0:19:26.915 mind works, or more accurately, the way his mind does 0:19:26.955 --> 0:19:29.755 not work, managed to convince himself that because we had 0:19:30.555 --> 0:19:34.955 people military advisors, I don't know, tourists in Vietnam, he says, 0:19:34.995 --> 0:19:39.755 for nineteen years, because Vietnam happened and it was nineteen years. 0:19:40.275 --> 0:19:43.795 That means nineteen years is an acceptable length for his 0:19:44.035 --> 0:19:49.795 undeclared illegal war in Iran. And now because he's convinced himself, 0:19:49.835 --> 0:19:52.755 he is getting pissed when nobody agrees with him, and 0:19:53.115 --> 0:19:59.635 he keeps comparing Iran to Vietnam. The worst comparison he 0:19:59.675 --> 0:20:03.915 could make, the comparison between Iran and the war he 0:20:04.115 --> 0:20:07.475 personally he dodged. How long are you willing to wait 0:20:07.555 --> 0:20:09.235 until you get a squad? 0:20:09.315 --> 0:20:12.515 Don't rush me, Jeff? You know guys like you you 0:20:12.595 --> 0:20:15.195 want to saw So we were in Vietnam like for 0:20:15.235 --> 0:20:15.915 eighteen years. 0:20:15.995 --> 0:20:18.315 What do you say to the American people who question 0:20:18.475 --> 0:20:21.275 how much longer this will take? Obviously you know that 0:20:21.315 --> 0:20:23.395 they are having You are such a disgrace. So you 0:20:23.435 --> 0:20:25.355 know what I just said? Vietnam? 0:20:25.435 --> 0:20:26.835 How many years was Vietnam? 0:20:27.555 --> 0:20:31.235 God? Is he stupid? Wait? It's worse than that. You 0:20:31.315 --> 0:20:33.715 heard the new plan to expand the numbers of means 0:20:33.715 --> 0:20:38.075 of executions for death penalty cases, that they want to 0:20:38.075 --> 0:20:42.235 bring back the firing squad, which I remember they used 0:20:42.235 --> 0:20:46.435 in Utah when I was a teenager against that murderer 0:20:46.475 --> 0:20:54.595 Gary Gilmore. The firing squad a very efficient means of execution. Well, 0:20:54.635 --> 0:20:57.235 this led to the resurrection of a clip of Trump 0:20:57.275 --> 0:21:02.115 from last August which somehow I missed top ten Trump, 0:21:02.475 --> 0:21:05.515 in which it is clear that this ignoramus believes that 0:21:05.555 --> 0:21:10.395 the phrase capital punishment has something to do with the 0:21:10.515 --> 0:21:15.155 nation's capital. Oh God, is he stupid. 0:21:15.635 --> 0:21:21.795 Anybody murders something in the capitol, capital punishment, capital capital punishment. 0:21:23.075 --> 0:21:28.115 If somebody kills somebody in the capitol Washington, DC. 0:21:29.195 --> 0:21:33.875 That was last August. How did I miss that? The 0:21:33.915 --> 0:21:36.075 next stage, of course, would be Trump insisting we have 0:21:36.155 --> 0:21:40.075 to have capital punishment for serious corporate crimes, because of 0:21:40.115 --> 0:21:51.275 course those involve business capital. Also of interest here it 0:21:51.315 --> 0:21:53.475 is one of the great dumb quotes of twenty first 0:21:53.515 --> 0:21:57.435 century politics, and for once, it's not Trump, another bullying 0:21:57.475 --> 0:22:00.915 Republican elected announcing that Iran is going to meet its match, 0:22:00.995 --> 0:22:05.875 not on the battlefield but in the bargaining room. They've 0:22:05.915 --> 0:22:09.475 never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. They've 0:22:09.515 --> 0:22:12.075 never sat across the table negotiating with the guy that 0:22:12.155 --> 0:22:16.755 wrote the Art of the Deal. Sparky. I hate to 0:22:16.755 --> 0:22:20.675 break this to you, but Trump didn't write the Art 0:22:20.755 --> 0:22:25.035 of the Deal? Who said that? All time great quote? 0:22:25.075 --> 0:22:30.635 That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith 0:22:30.635 --> 0:22:54.115 Olberman still ahead on this initiative. Countdown going to take 0:22:54.115 --> 0:22:57.075 a break from reality and the possibility of the twenty 0:22:57.155 --> 0:23:00.995 twenty eight election actually being the twenty twenty election and 0:23:01.155 --> 0:23:05.115 White House obey in advanced dinners and let's all get 0:23:05.115 --> 0:23:09.475 a photo with a Nazi night and skip things I 0:23:09.595 --> 0:23:12.995 promised not to tell and instead read you some thurber 0:23:14.435 --> 0:23:19.795 Mondays with Thurber the Black Magic of Barney Holler, partly 0:23:19.915 --> 0:23:22.915 more brilliant Thurber humor and partly more fun being made 0:23:22.995 --> 0:23:27.395 of German Americans, And as one of them, I say, 0:23:27.475 --> 0:23:31.155 you can never have enough of that. In the interim, 0:23:31.195 --> 0:23:33.995 we always have more new idiots to talk about. The 0:23:34.075 --> 0:23:37.235 roundup of the mis grants, morons and Dunning krug effects 0:23:37.235 --> 0:23:42.995 specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. 0:23:44.155 --> 0:23:48.955 The medallists the brons worst James Gio van Santi of 0:23:49.115 --> 0:23:53.115 Staten Island, New York. You need more than the fact 0:23:53.155 --> 0:23:56.915 that he's from Staten Island, okay. The news site streets 0:23:56.955 --> 0:24:01.115 blog NYC reports that since the year twenty twenty two, 0:24:01.555 --> 0:24:06.235 the cities quote, traffic cameras have caught his pickup truck 0:24:06.755 --> 0:24:10.595 blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 0:24:11.195 --> 0:24:15.435 five hundred and forty seven times in that one burrow. 0:24:16.755 --> 0:24:20.195 He received one hundred and eighty seven camera issued tickets 0:24:20.395 --> 0:24:23.915 in twenty twenty five alone, an average of one every 0:24:24.115 --> 0:24:28.435 other day unquote. The blog also points out that the 0:24:28.475 --> 0:24:33.475 cameras can't prove he's always the one driving, But what 0:24:33.595 --> 0:24:36.515 he just loans his vehicle to other people who also 0:24:36.635 --> 0:24:39.275 like to be menaces to life and limb on Staten Island. 0:24:41.115 --> 0:24:44.075 So there's a bad human on Staten Island. Oh no, 0:24:44.715 --> 0:24:48.555 whatever shall we do? Now? There's a twist to this one. 0:24:48.755 --> 0:24:54.075 Streets Blog NYC reports that mister Giovancanti is actually Officer 0:24:54.195 --> 0:25:01.835 Geo Vancenti NYPD one hundred twentieth Precinct on Staten Island. 0:25:01.835 --> 0:25:05.035 He's a cop since twenty nineteen. Officer g Jo Van 0:25:05.155 --> 0:25:09.915 Sante as Streets Blog NYC summarized it, quoting again to 0:25:10.115 --> 0:25:14.235 protect and swerve. I would like to offer as a 0:25:14.315 --> 0:25:22.875 repost NYC Blue through the intersection. They're runner up worser 0:25:22.995 --> 0:25:26.355 Jeff Bezos, dictator in chief of the Washington Post and 0:25:26.475 --> 0:25:30.875 chief supplier of plastics to Lauren Sanchez. We have to 0:25:30.955 --> 0:25:35.235 recognize now that the Post's path is to become maybe 0:25:35.675 --> 0:25:38.835 at best, at least damaging to America, a kind of 0:25:39.035 --> 0:25:43.155 small letters version of the Wall Street Journal, occasional journalism 0:25:44.755 --> 0:25:48.075 when Bezos doesn't know about it and it doesn't cost 0:25:48.155 --> 0:25:52.115 him up to thirty dollars somewhere, But editorially it's going 0:25:52.155 --> 0:25:57.115 to be fascism today, USA fascism today. Eric Wemple, the 0:25:57.115 --> 0:26:00.035 New York Times formerly of the Post, pushed out there 0:26:00.115 --> 0:26:06.675 for being good reports, this little journalistic from Bezos's toilet 0:26:06.715 --> 0:26:11.595 paper with pictures. The paper blasted a bill called the 0:26:11.755 --> 0:26:15.795 Faster Labor Contracts Bill, which would have allowed the government 0:26:15.835 --> 0:26:18.915 to pressure management when it is stalling to weaken a 0:26:18.995 --> 0:26:21.595 union or just avoid talking contract. And when we're talking 0:26:21.595 --> 0:26:25.315 about stalls here, they're talking about stalls of multiple years. 0:26:25.795 --> 0:26:30.355 While the Post wrote an editorial condemning this, they're in 0:26:30.435 --> 0:26:35.755 favor of stalling labor negotiations because it's Jeff Bezos, and 0:26:35.795 --> 0:26:38.795 the Teamsters wanted to write a letter to the editor 0:26:38.875 --> 0:26:44.075 in reply. Now we're talking a letter to the editor 0:26:44.235 --> 0:26:47.195 of a newspaper. I don't know the last time you 0:26:47.275 --> 0:26:51.155 read a letter to the editor from a union about 0:26:51.155 --> 0:26:56.315 how fast labor contracts should be negotiated. Important. I don't 0:26:56.355 --> 0:26:58.115 think though it would be on my top one hundred 0:26:58.155 --> 0:27:01.875 things to read if I had the moment. It couldn't be, 0:27:02.235 --> 0:27:06.515 practically speaking, a big deal, even to Jeff effing Bezos. 0:27:06.595 --> 0:27:09.955 Could it even to the Post, even to old cuball 0:27:10.075 --> 0:27:15.955 noggin Bezos, Oh sure it could. The teamster's letterc contained 0:27:15.995 --> 0:27:21.235 two criticisms, two paragraphs that actually mentioned Bezos by name 0:27:21.955 --> 0:27:27.755 and detailed his stalling maneuvers at Amazon. Again, this is 0:27:27.955 --> 0:27:31.195 sharp edged, but it's not going to start riots and 0:27:31.235 --> 0:27:34.755 it's not going to knock Amazon's price down. The Post 0:27:35.075 --> 0:27:40.635 refused to print the letter to the editor refused to 0:27:40.715 --> 0:27:45.275 print an opposing opinion to one of its editorials in 0:27:45.395 --> 0:27:49.035 the letter's column unless the Teamsters took out the references 0:27:49.075 --> 0:27:53.235 to Bezos. The teamsters pointed out they weren't being gratuitous 0:27:53.235 --> 0:27:56.235 they weren't just taking cheap shots at Bezos like I do. 0:27:57.195 --> 0:28:00.315 Amazon's ability to just bury its unions and would be 0:28:00.435 --> 0:28:03.955 unions as already the stuff of labor legend. They didn't 0:28:03.955 --> 0:28:07.755 include him just to embarrass him. They included Jeff Bezos 0:28:07.755 --> 0:28:10.395 because to not include Jeff Bezos in an article about 0:28:10.475 --> 0:28:14.315 stalling labor contract negotiations would be like writing about baseball 0:28:14.475 --> 0:28:18.675