WEBVTT - NOW IT'S MAGA THAT CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH TRUMP - 11.24.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:27.995 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 0:00:28.035 --> 0:00:30.995 the first time in more than a decade, the far 0:00:31.195 --> 0:00:36.875 right and the far left and everybody in between is 0:00:36.955 --> 0:00:43.035 in full agreement. None of us knows what the hell 0:00:43.875 --> 0:00:49.635 is wrong with Trump, for sometimes when a cult leader 0:00:49.755 --> 0:00:53.275 goes crazy, it actually can be a negative for the cult, 0:00:53.795 --> 0:00:58.195 like oh now ish when the cult realizes that while 0:00:58.235 --> 0:01:00.875 they usually love it when Trump goes crazy, this time 0:01:00.915 --> 0:01:07.075 he's gone crazy for somebody else and crazy against them. 0:01:08.795 --> 0:01:13.675 Trump was so smitten with Mayor Elect Zoran Mamdani of 0:01:13.715 --> 0:01:18.155 New York that the disturbingly sincere looking grin on his 0:01:18.275 --> 0:01:21.795 face Friday and the tone of sure, call me a 0:01:21.835 --> 0:01:26.035 fascist friend in the Oval office was just the start 0:01:26.075 --> 0:01:29.955 of it. By Saturday, he was dressing like Mam Donnie, 0:01:30.155 --> 0:01:34.955 a neat black overcoat that fit him and a scarf 0:01:34.995 --> 0:01:39.795 that enveloped his neck, and hair combed with something other 0:01:39.835 --> 0:01:44.155 than a garden claw, and the overall appearance of somebody who, 0:01:44.195 --> 0:01:47.115 for the first time in his life, had actually asked 0:01:47.195 --> 0:01:52.995 somebody else for their advice about the overall appearance and 0:01:53.115 --> 0:01:58.355 actually listened to the advice. Mom Donnie was somehow so 0:01:58.675 --> 0:02:01.755 appealing to Trump that from Trump's point of view, he 0:02:01.835 --> 0:02:06.035 might as well have been I don't know, Jeffrey Epstein. 0:02:07.995 --> 0:02:11.875 Remember some far right commentators, not all, to be certain, 0:02:11.995 --> 0:02:16.955 but some as close to sanity as say the Newsmax 0:02:17.155 --> 0:02:21.395 level of Hell had almost expected that when Mayor elect 0:02:21.395 --> 0:02:23.755 mam Donni arrived at the White House, he would be 0:02:23.795 --> 0:02:28.795 greeted by Trump and Tom Homan and hooded ice Gestapo 0:02:28.915 --> 0:02:32.595 agents on horseback who would fabricate some story about Mam 0:02:32.635 --> 0:02:35.555 Donny lying on paperwork, and they would seize him, and 0:02:35.595 --> 0:02:38.075 they would expel him or at least put him in 0:02:38.155 --> 0:02:42.795 a prison somewhere. They are still all the way over 0:02:42.875 --> 0:02:47.355 there in a probably chemically induced fantasy, a world cobbled 0:02:47.355 --> 0:02:51.435 together from graphic novels and the worst streaming sci fi. 0:02:52.915 --> 0:03:02.595 Trump instead thought he was Nito. At the same hour, 0:03:02.955 --> 0:03:07.115 Marjorie Taylor Green was in a fact excommunicated by Trump. 0:03:07.315 --> 0:03:11.675 She announced her quote resignation unquote from Congress effective in 0:03:11.755 --> 0:03:15.395 January because a she realized Trump would not support her 0:03:15.395 --> 0:03:18.075 and therefore the cult would not support her, and she 0:03:18.195 --> 0:03:21.635 felt Trump had lost his way and done nothing but 0:03:21.755 --> 0:03:25.915 to make America worse. The role of Marjorie Taylor Green 0:03:26.035 --> 0:03:29.635 will now be played by Laura Lumer, and Laura Lumer 0:03:29.715 --> 0:03:32.955 was so aghast about Mam Donnie that she asked why 0:03:32.995 --> 0:03:37.115 she or any other maga should even bother to vote 0:03:37.115 --> 0:03:39.835 in the midterms next year, to which I reply with 0:03:39.995 --> 0:03:47.195 a manly supportive hurrah, you go girl. They do not 0:03:47.435 --> 0:03:53.115 know what's wrong with Trump. Trump's malfunctions are usually a delight. 0:03:54.355 --> 0:03:59.995 They are their joy, they are their reason debtre Yet 0:04:00.035 --> 0:04:03.155 this makes no sense to them. Big strong men coming 0:04:03.195 --> 0:04:06.915 up to Zorn Mamdanie and saying, sir, I like your coat. 0:04:07.355 --> 0:04:09.755 Where did you get that coat? You mean? They can 0:04:09.795 --> 0:04:13.075 actually make a coat bigger or smaller, so it doesn't 0:04:13.075 --> 0:04:15.315 look like it was dropped on you by a company 0:04:15.355 --> 0:04:22.715 that makes tents and bouncy houses. The fascists are so confused, 0:04:22.915 --> 0:04:26.515 so bereft, that not even the thrill of Trump advocating 0:04:26.555 --> 0:04:30.275 for the hanging of the Democratic senators and representatives who 0:04:30.355 --> 0:04:34.595 reminded the military they are obliged to not obey illegal orders, 0:04:34.755 --> 0:04:40.555 not even that, not even that warm glow could last. 0:04:41.435 --> 0:04:45.115 It's almost as if he never meant it. Where are 0:04:45.155 --> 0:04:49.995 the construction cranes with Democrats swinging from the hooks like 0:04:50.075 --> 0:04:54.555 the Taliban or the Iranian lunatics to it. The far 0:04:54.675 --> 0:04:57.795 right hates the Taliban and Iran, but they got to 0:04:57.875 --> 0:05:02.275 hand it to them. You and I should not forget 0:05:02.275 --> 0:05:06.995 the Trump threat. Representative Hulahan didn't forget the Trump threat. 0:05:07.195 --> 0:05:10.355 She told Greg Sergeant. She actually filed a threat report 0:05:10.395 --> 0:05:12.795 with the Capitol Police. And in the place where he's 0:05:12.795 --> 0:05:16.635 supposed to write who threatened you, Hulihan wrote, quote the President. 0:05:18.075 --> 0:05:21.675 She thinks some of her colleagues in that video, whom 0:05:21.675 --> 0:05:25.515 Trump then threatened with hanging for sedition, also filed complaints 0:05:25.515 --> 0:05:30.355 with the Capitol Police. On Trump and Trump, he just 0:05:31.195 --> 0:05:36.715 drifted off. He just drifted off from the whole topic again. 0:05:37.875 --> 0:05:40.435 He drifted off metaphorically to the edge of a river. 0:05:41.475 --> 0:05:45.275 It's a wide river, to be certain, there's no indication 0:05:45.355 --> 0:05:47.755 that there's any real way over to the other side. 0:05:47.835 --> 0:05:49.875 But on the other side of that river there is 0:05:49.915 --> 0:05:53.075 a land in which Trump resigns the presidency so he 0:05:53.155 --> 0:05:58.035 can join the Zoran Mamdani administration as the ninety seventh 0:05:58.075 --> 0:06:01.755 Building Commissioner of the City of New York, and they 0:06:01.755 --> 0:06:06.515 give him an office and legos and blocks and a 0:06:06.555 --> 0:06:09.315 big model of Manhattan, and you can move the buildings 0:06:09.355 --> 0:06:15.075 all around and shit. They thought Mamdanni would leave the 0:06:15.115 --> 0:06:21.555 Oval Office in chains. Instead Trump left the Oval Office 0:06:22.475 --> 0:06:28.515 in love. I am not suggesting for a moment Trump 0:06:28.555 --> 0:06:31.035 has been pacified, or he's mellowed, or he's not a 0:06:31.115 --> 0:06:33.675 danger to every living thing on this planet every moment 0:06:33.675 --> 0:06:36.595 of every day. I am, however, suggesting that between whatever 0:06:36.715 --> 0:06:40.235 is wrong with him and now accelerating into an active 0:06:40.275 --> 0:06:44.315 stage and this kind of second giddy childhood we saw 0:06:44.435 --> 0:06:47.835 Friday with Mamdanni and a slightly new strategy from some 0:06:47.915 --> 0:06:50.795 of his opponents, among all that there has been a 0:06:50.835 --> 0:06:55.435 noteworthy change in the vibe. Mamdani obviously played Trump like 0:06:55.475 --> 0:06:58.595 a two dollars ban Joe, and the sooner the Democrats 0:06:58.595 --> 0:07:01.795 figure out exactly what he did in there, and basically 0:07:01.835 --> 0:07:04.235 that was he flattered Trump by telling Trump that he 0:07:04.275 --> 0:07:07.915 was often right and insightful and even he's seeming enemies 0:07:08.075 --> 0:07:12.315 like many of Trump's ideas. The sooner the Democrats figure 0:07:12.355 --> 0:07:16.035 that out and bottle it, the better for them and 0:07:16.155 --> 0:07:20.075 for us. There was also a new strategy offered by 0:07:20.115 --> 0:07:23.515 ABC and Disney. He attacked their reporter Mary Bruce during 0:07:23.515 --> 0:07:27.955 the Mohammed Bin Salman photo op disaster dressing her down 0:07:28.315 --> 0:07:30.755 when he barely knew who the hell she was, made 0:07:30.795 --> 0:07:33.155 her the focus of his hatred of all media, and 0:07:33.315 --> 0:07:37.195 at that moment, of ABC, perhaps because they are first alphabetically. 0:07:37.795 --> 0:07:40.355 He then went on a series of tirades about Jimmy 0:07:40.435 --> 0:07:44.195 Kimmel again, even though the last time he did that 0:07:44.635 --> 0:07:47.355 he suffered one of the few, no doubt humiliations of 0:07:47.395 --> 0:07:52.595 his presidency of intimidation. ABC and Disney and Bob Eiger 0:07:52.715 --> 0:07:57.955 then tried something new. They ignored all of it. They 0:07:57.995 --> 0:08:00.995 made a bland statement defending their news but not Mary 0:08:01.035 --> 0:08:04.075 Bruce by name. She took the hit, and their network 0:08:04.115 --> 0:08:07.835 and their staate. They defended them, but not Kimmel. Kimmel 0:08:07.835 --> 0:08:11.075 then turned it into a joke Trump, I'll go when 0:08:11.115 --> 0:08:18.275 you go. Otherwise, ABC ignored Trump, and again Trump moved 0:08:18.315 --> 0:08:24.835 on while his cultists simmered where are the construction cranes? 0:08:27.195 --> 0:08:29.595 It can be argued correctly, I think that, of course 0:08:29.675 --> 0:08:32.955 ABC ignored Trump this time. Bob Iger had already tried 0:08:32.955 --> 0:08:38.075 everything else, Bribing that didn't work, capitulating that didn't work, 0:08:38.275 --> 0:08:43.115 Suspending Kimmel that didn't work, defying Trump that didn't work, 0:08:43.475 --> 0:08:47.355 and frankly, Iigers out of ideas. They were just too 0:08:47.475 --> 0:08:50.475 tired to actually try anything this time. Well, at least 0:08:50.515 --> 0:09:00.515 occasionally apparently that works. I cannot describe to you diving in, 0:09:00.715 --> 0:09:03.475 not wearing my best shoes as I have done this, 0:09:04.235 --> 0:09:08.875 diving into the right wing streams. I cannot describe to 0:09:08.875 --> 0:09:14.275 you how disoriented this has left his cult. Charles Gasparino, 0:09:14.435 --> 0:09:18.075 the Fox Business commentator with the shortest fuse in the world, 0:09:18.475 --> 0:09:21.555 watched the Mamdani event and wrote, I really think the 0:09:21.595 --> 0:09:27.835 wheels are coming off the Trump presidency. Wow. Countless right 0:09:27.875 --> 0:09:31.755 wingers were appalled when this Moscow composed twenty eight point 0:09:31.795 --> 0:09:35.995 plan for Ukrainian victory that merely requires Ukraine to give 0:09:36.075 --> 0:09:40.995 up everything turned out to be Moscow composed not just that, 0:09:41.115 --> 0:09:46.755 but composed in Russian clumsily translated into English, complete with 0:09:46.875 --> 0:09:57.115 backwards Russian conjugation, backwards conjugation. Rusky and then Marco Rubio 0:09:57.195 --> 0:09:59.875 first told some Republican senators that this was not the 0:09:59.915 --> 0:10:02.555 Trump plan at all, but the Putin plan written in 0:10:02.755 --> 0:10:06.355 Moscow suggested deliver by the Russians. And then he said, no, 0:10:06.435 --> 0:10:09.675 he didn't, he didn't say that when he called to 0:10:09.715 --> 0:10:13.075 tell these senators that, they say he literally said that, 0:10:13.515 --> 0:10:15.235 Oh no, no, no, no, he never did that. He 0:10:15.355 --> 0:10:19.875 meant it was a plan that recognized Russian desires. And then, 0:10:20.435 --> 0:10:24.035 and then, and then Marco might as well have paused 0:10:24.035 --> 0:10:26.155 for a moment and then run off camera again to 0:10:26.275 --> 0:10:32.115 chug a small water bottle of Poland spring or vodka. 0:10:34.235 --> 0:10:39.755 Apart from the implications heads Russia winds tails, Oh oops, no, 0:10:39.915 --> 0:10:43.435 it's a two headed coin. Tails is also heads Russia wins. 0:10:44.435 --> 0:10:47.075 Apart from the implications, the State Department and the entire 0:10:47.115 --> 0:10:50.315 Trump foreign policy and operation looked like idiots, not just 0:10:50.475 --> 0:10:54.235 internationally but within MAGA. And just to round it out, 0:10:54.235 --> 0:10:57.315 when MAGA thought Trump had finally destroyed Ukraine and this 0:10:57.515 --> 0:11:00.715 was final, he has come back with more of a stall, 0:11:00.995 --> 0:11:04.995 this appeasement of Putin, who can no longer afford to 0:11:05.155 --> 0:11:09.755 pay his own Russian troops. Trump says that's not his 0:11:09.755 --> 0:11:17.275 final answer. Shrug emoji. Meanwhile, while they wanted Trump to 0:11:17.355 --> 0:11:21.035 actually hang Mark Kelly or Chrissy Hulahan or the others, 0:11:21.235 --> 0:11:25.635 the US military apparently did issue illegal orders last week, 0:11:25.755 --> 0:11:29.035 and a bunch of military contractors went and put up 0:11:29.315 --> 0:11:34.635 keep out signs marked National Defense Area three where the 0:11:34.715 --> 0:11:39.035 Rio Grande River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, and 0:11:39.075 --> 0:11:42.875 that's hardly like ordering Pete kaboom hegseth to blow up 0:11:42.915 --> 0:11:48.355 some mythical Antifa city Oregon. But it did become another 0:11:48.395 --> 0:11:50.515 problem for MAGA when it turned out the signs had 0:11:50.555 --> 0:11:54.555 been put up in Mexico, not in the United States. 0:11:54.595 --> 0:11:57.675 And once again the entire Trump foreign policy and military 0:11:57.715 --> 0:12:05.115 operation looks like idiots. Looks like idiots to MAGA. Could 0:12:05.155 --> 0:12:09.035 it get worse? Oh? Why yes, yes it could. Remember 0:12:09.075 --> 0:12:14.635 the outrageous twenty billion dollar bribe to Argentina. Re elect 0:12:14.635 --> 0:12:18.155 that FOP president Wolverine or whatever his name is, and 0:12:18.195 --> 0:12:21.155 we'll pay your way out of the financial collapse he created. 0:12:21.955 --> 0:12:26.515 That's gone. Now scaled it back a little, did we now? 0:12:27.595 --> 0:12:34.315 Maybe Trump will pay Malay maybe four billion to help 0:12:34.395 --> 0:12:40.275 him with his debt payment in January. Maybe even the 0:12:40.315 --> 0:12:43.795 domestic terrorism thing seems to have petered out. Cash Bettel 0:12:43.875 --> 0:12:47.795 is now the subject of more investigations than he is conducting. 0:12:48.595 --> 0:12:52.395 The latest The Times report that he sent SWAT teams 0:12:52.435 --> 0:12:58.115 to protect his girlfriend the country quote singer unquote, presumably 0:12:58.195 --> 0:13:03.875 to defend her against people who have heard her sing. Meanwhile, 0:13:03.835 --> 0:13:06.355 a group of European has built a kind of Wikipedia 0:13:06.515 --> 0:13:11.155 of ice raids and tactics and agent identifications. It is 0:13:11.315 --> 0:13:17.155 in Europe. So who's Christyinome gonna arrest? The EU will 0:13:17.195 --> 0:13:19.955 simply tell her Fu and the horse you rode in 0:13:19.995 --> 0:13:25.555 on Christy. Moreover, the Guardian reports the FBI infiltrated a 0:13:25.635 --> 0:13:29.515 signal chat of anti ice organizers in this country, and 0:13:29.555 --> 0:13:32.715 nobody in Maga could object to that, except they got caught, 0:13:33.915 --> 0:13:37.235 and they had to shut down the infiltration because they 0:13:37.275 --> 0:13:42.475 got caught, and worst of all, worse than you can 0:13:42.595 --> 0:13:47.555 possibly imagine, worse from the Maga point of view. Their 0:13:47.755 --> 0:13:54.795 dream of dreams sending the military or ICE or Seal 0:13:54.995 --> 0:13:59.635 Team six or somebody into New York City to be 0:14:00.035 --> 0:14:02.955 the real rain that will come and wash all this 0:14:03.315 --> 0:14:12.275 come off the street. Yes, they're not getting that. No 0:14:12.435 --> 0:14:17.555 ice raids in New York, no military in New York. Maga, 0:14:17.835 --> 0:14:21.955 you are getting the undiscussed, too terrible to contemplate, but 0:14:22.155 --> 0:14:26.115 very real possibility that instead of the trumpest destruction of 0:14:26.235 --> 0:14:33.635 Sin City, you will be getting Trump Attending Zoraan Mamdani 0:14:33.715 --> 0:14:37.155 swearing in shortly after midnight on January first, Good to 0:14:37.195 --> 0:14:39.595 see you see do you mind. I wore one of 0:14:39.595 --> 0:14:43.035 your plain black suits and white shirts and them skinny 0:14:43.075 --> 0:14:47.195 black ties. You know that Olberman guy used to dress 0:14:47.275 --> 0:14:52.955 like that. Remember the wheels really are coming off. Charlie 0:14:52.955 --> 0:14:59.795 Gasperino better hitch. I keep harping on Trump and Mam 0:14:59.915 --> 0:15:03.555 Donnie's appearance, and this is not idle. Yes, Trump is 0:15:03.595 --> 0:15:06.155 an endless front run and kiss ass. And he really 0:15:06.195 --> 0:15:10.875 did even once write me a fan letter a year 0:15:10.915 --> 0:15:13.755 before he declared me an enemy of the people because 0:15:13.795 --> 0:15:16.355 I lived in one of his buildings and he used 0:15:16.355 --> 0:15:22.115 to watch me on ESPN. He does that. There's no 0:15:22.195 --> 0:15:26.715 such thing as time or consistency. Better still, for Mam Donnie, 0:15:26.715 --> 0:15:29.755 Mam Donnie is somebody who literally cannot become what Trump 0:15:29.795 --> 0:15:32.675 has become president, So he's no real threat to Trump. 0:15:33.355 --> 0:15:37.595 But there's something else, appearance wise that I noticed last week, 0:15:37.635 --> 0:15:40.395 and it's really weird. But I've been thinking a lot 0:15:40.435 --> 0:15:50.355 about this, Mam Donnie, Muhammad, Ben Salmon, jd Vance, guys 0:15:51.515 --> 0:16:00.395 with beards, beards. Trump defers to guys with beards, full 0:16:00.715 --> 0:16:06.355 prominent beards, big heavy beards. Think about this is not unanimous. 0:16:06.355 --> 0:16:09.835 He sure didn't defer to Jack Smith's beard, and it 0:16:09.875 --> 0:16:12.955 has to be a big beard. Not the beat Nick 0:16:13.035 --> 0:16:18.755 fringe style that President Zelensky favors. Looks good on him. 0:16:19.155 --> 0:16:21.635 But once you make a list of big beards that 0:16:21.715 --> 0:16:23.995 Trump defers to, it's kind of hard to unsee it. 0:16:24.275 --> 0:16:33.835 Vance Nbs, ma'm Donnie Howard Lutnick Russell, vote, Brad Barscale, 0:16:33.955 --> 0:16:39.315 Trump's crazy dead doctor, Harold Bornstein, ma'm donnie owen uh 0:16:39.435 --> 0:16:46.675 Beard's Donald Trump Junior. Which brings us back to the 0:16:46.715 --> 0:16:51.435 great MAGA disillusionment. Steve Bannon doesn't have a beard. He's tried, 0:16:51.635 --> 0:16:55.715 it didn't work, And right now Steve Bannon has the sads, 0:16:56.235 --> 0:16:59.875 and not just because he doesn't have the beards. Late 0:16:59.955 --> 0:17:04.235 Saturday night, Bannon reposted a screenshot from somebody calls themselves 0:17:04.315 --> 0:17:10.515 Free be Speaker. It is a creed tour. Creed to 0:17:10.595 --> 0:17:14.035 something Kerr means heart, ain't no heart in MAGA, and 0:17:14.155 --> 0:17:16.955 this thing, whatever it is, sums it up. Right now 0:17:17.155 --> 0:17:21.275 the Trump castle has collapsed and they know it. It is, 0:17:21.515 --> 0:17:28.235 in essence, a note to Steve Bannon from freeb Speaker. Steve, 0:17:29.435 --> 0:17:32.555 please let President Trump know what he must already know 0:17:32.635 --> 0:17:35.875 that many of US MAGA supporters are heartbroken these days 0:17:36.275 --> 0:17:40.555 watching him squander that powerful electoral mandate we gave him. 0:17:42.875 --> 0:17:45.875 He won forty nine percent of the vote freeb speaker, 0:17:47.635 --> 0:17:50.875 on which he executed so magnificently in the first months 0:17:50.875 --> 0:17:55.035 of his term. Those are the golden years, the first 0:17:55.075 --> 0:17:58.035 few months making nice with the vile Mandan. He is 0:17:58.115 --> 0:18:00.715 probably understandable at this stage, but don't think many of 0:18:00.795 --> 0:18:03.435 us fathom a Ukraine plan that puts the US on 0:18:03.435 --> 0:18:06.995 the hook for that corrupt country security and enforcement, a 0:18:07.075 --> 0:18:11.435 bizarre congratulatory meeting with the ISIS terrorist dictator of Syria, 0:18:11.595 --> 0:18:14.955 an executive order barring every American state from protecting its 0:18:14.955 --> 0:18:18.035 own citizens against the worst hours of AI, while he 0:18:18.155 --> 0:18:21.995 enthusiastically promotes AI freedoms and subsidies and cozies up to 0:18:22.075 --> 0:18:25.955 big tech CEOs who'll abandoned him in a nanosecond. His 0:18:26.075 --> 0:18:30.315 seeming blindness through remaining america destroying immigration flaws like the 0:18:30.715 --> 0:18:33.995 H one B VISUS scam you've exposed, and the flood 0:18:33.995 --> 0:18:37.195 of Chinese student workers still in the US, all to 0:18:37.355 --> 0:18:44.075 such cruel detriment to American workers. This guy's on a 0:18:44.075 --> 0:18:48.195 bridge somewhere, any not to mention the seemingly endless delays 0:18:48.275 --> 0:18:50.875 in justice for the worst the Deep State has done 0:18:50.955 --> 0:18:54.835 to him and this country, although we cling to remnants 0:18:54.875 --> 0:19:02.435 of trust in his overworked, understaffed DOJ. Yeah, overworked traveling 0:19:02.475 --> 0:19:09.075 to see cash Betel girlfriend the quote singer unquote, I 0:19:09.115 --> 0:19:13.715 doubt I'm alone after believing in his uniquely heroic intentions 0:19:13.755 --> 0:19:17.235 for this country and supporting him since twenty sixteen, struggling 0:19:17.355 --> 0:19:21.515 now to understand so much of what he's doing. It's 0:19:21.595 --> 0:19:24.435 like I said, now they don't know what he's doing. 0:19:25.195 --> 0:19:28.795 Without question, the political and social alternative is certain death 0:19:28.875 --> 0:19:34.355 for this country. Yeah, they've been predicting this since twenty fifteen. 0:19:34.955 --> 0:19:37.195 Hasn't even come close to happening yet. But go on, 0:19:37.795 --> 0:19:40.515 But how can he expect his average MAGA voter to 0:19:40.555 --> 0:19:43.195 stay warmly close to him when he appears to be 0:19:43.195 --> 0:19:46.435 pushing him farther and farther out into the cold. And 0:19:46.515 --> 0:19:49.715 if he doesn't remain the herculean mainstay of this country's 0:19:49.755 --> 0:19:53.675 MAGA reforms, how can the feckless, cowardly GOP expect to 0:19:53.755 --> 0:20:00.075 keep hold of Congress narrator? They couldn't. And how can 0:20:00.115 --> 0:20:03.515 we navigate our way through the nasty GOP MAGA infighting? 0:20:03.755 --> 0:20:07.475 Now Gurgley to the Service at the same time, we 0:20:07.635 --> 0:20:12.355 put not our trust in princes. By the way, that's 0:20:12.395 --> 0:20:16.395 a quote from Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. We put not 0:20:16.555 --> 0:20:20.315 our trust in princes, but we have trusted that Almighty 0:20:20.395 --> 0:20:24.195 God empowered Donald Trump to do the good, near impossible 0:20:24.275 --> 0:20:29.075 things this country needs to survive. Please, Lord continue to 0:20:29.155 --> 0:20:34.235 be with him. Well, they embraced Zamba and them zam 0:20:34.235 --> 0:20:38.155 DONI didn't that indicate the Lord is doing his miraculous 0:20:38.155 --> 0:20:45.315 works through Trump. Ah, that's where they are. They don't 0:20:45.395 --> 0:20:48.355 understand what's happening. It's their turn. May they live the 0:20:48.395 --> 0:20:52.515 rest of their lives not understanding what went wrong with Trump? 0:20:54.995 --> 0:20:59.595 And sorry about your last point, freeb speaker. The Lord 0:20:59.675 --> 0:21:03.955 cannot find Trump right now because Trump is busily trying 0:21:03.955 --> 0:21:35.635 to find out if Zorn Mamdani plays golf. Remember a 0:21:35.675 --> 0:21:37.915 couple of episodes back when I asked if it's actually 0:21:37.955 --> 0:21:40.075 possible that when Trump said he did not know what 0:21:40.195 --> 0:21:42.515 part of his body they had scanned in his MRI 0:21:42.795 --> 0:21:46.315 last month, that he wasn't lying that he wasn't not 0:21:46.435 --> 0:21:49.155 paying attention. I mean, how could you literally not know 0:21:49.235 --> 0:21:52.835 which part the MRI was for. I mean, if you 0:21:52.875 --> 0:21:58.315 were unconscious or sedated. Even after that, when they were 0:21:58.315 --> 0:22:01.275 telling you how great your score was on your MRI, 0:22:01.635 --> 0:22:03.995 like that's a thing, and how it was the greatest 0:22:04.155 --> 0:22:09.075 MRI ever recorded, you'd probably just figure out what party 0:22:09.155 --> 0:22:12.475 part it was, even unintentionally, How how how could that 0:22:12.555 --> 0:22:20.675 not have? I forgot entirely about anosognosia ironic because basically 0:22:20.675 --> 0:22:30.195 anopsygnosia is sophisticated, medically explained forgetting stuff. I have discussed 0:22:30.235 --> 0:22:32.635 this before. What if he doesn't know what the MRI 0:22:33.075 --> 0:22:37.755 was for, because whatever it was, he has anosgnosia about it. 0:22:38.755 --> 0:22:41.875 In brief, this is the disease that makes it impossible 0:22:41.875 --> 0:22:45.555 for you to recognize that you have a disease or 0:22:45.595 --> 0:22:49.795 an injury, or that you've had a stroke, or that 0:22:49.835 --> 0:22:52.955 you have, say just to pick one at random, Alzheimer's. 0:22:54.075 --> 0:22:58.555 It is a brain injury. It is caused by a 0:22:58.635 --> 0:23:03.995 variety of things, often by stroke, but other things cause 0:23:04.075 --> 0:23:09.395 it too. Trump may not have had any idea that 0:23:09.475 --> 0:23:13.595 he has some kind of cognitive illness and that they're 0:23:13.635 --> 0:23:16.515 testing him for it. And even if somebody around him 0:23:16.555 --> 0:23:18.715 had had the courage to tell him, he would a 0:23:19.035 --> 0:23:22.595 not believe them, or he would instantly forget that they 0:23:22.595 --> 0:23:25.595 had just told him, like if he had an MRI 0:23:25.795 --> 0:23:28.675 of his brain to see if new Alzheimer's drugs are working, 0:23:29.075 --> 0:23:35.155 he'd only remember the letter's MRI. The immortal David Dunning 0:23:35.315 --> 0:23:38.915 of Dunning Krueger Syndrome once wrote the easiest to digest 0:23:39.035 --> 0:23:46.035 example defining anosagnosia quote, an anosognosic patient who is paralyzed 0:23:46.475 --> 0:23:49.275 simply does not know that he is paralyzed. If you 0:23:49.315 --> 0:23:51.315 put a pencil in front of them and ask them 0:23:51.435 --> 0:23:54.395 to pick up the pencil in front of their left hand, 0:23:54.755 --> 0:23:59.115 they won't do it. And you ask them why, and 0:23:59.195 --> 0:24:03.555 they'll say, ah, I'm tired, or I don't need a pencil. 0:24:05.475 --> 0:24:09.035 And presidents have been studied for this exact behavior before 0:24:09.315 --> 0:24:16.995 presidents and their pencils as latter day experts used new 0:24:17.075 --> 0:24:20.835 medical knowledge a few decades ago to study the stroke 0:24:20.915 --> 0:24:24.555 that Woodrow Wilson suffered while on his cross country tour 0:24:24.795 --> 0:24:27.195 to try to sell the League of Nations to America 0:24:27.515 --> 0:24:31.475 over the heads of a disapproving Senate. While all of 0:24:31.475 --> 0:24:34.435 that has been studied and studied and studied, the conclusion 0:24:34.435 --> 0:24:37.275 has now become widespread that whether or not he'd had 0:24:37.315 --> 0:24:42.595 it earlier after the stroke in nineteen twenty, Wilson showed 0:24:42.715 --> 0:24:47.515 all of the signs of anosagnosia. In the nineteen seventies, 0:24:47.555 --> 0:24:52.715 the neuropsychiatrist Edwin Weinstein was granted access to Woodrow Wilson's papers, 0:24:52.755 --> 0:24:56.755 and he wrote quote, following his stroke, the outstanding feature 0:24:56.795 --> 0:25:01.075 of the president's behavior was his denial of his incapacity. 0:25:01.355 --> 0:25:07.595 Denial of illness or ANO literally lack of knowledge of disease, 0:25:08.395 --> 0:25:11.995 is a common sequel of the type of brain injury 0:25:12.035 --> 0:25:16.555 received by President Woodrow Wilson. In this condition, the patient 0:25:16.635 --> 0:25:22.275 denies or appears unaware of such deficits as paralysis or blindness. 0:25:23.635 --> 0:25:29.155 To casual observers, anosygnosiac patients may appear quite normal and 0:25:29.235 --> 0:25:33.435 even bright and witty when not on the subject of 0:25:33.475 --> 0:25:36.715 their disability. They are quite rational, and tests of their 0:25:36.715 --> 0:25:42.955 intelligence may show no deficit unquote, who in the hell 0:25:42.995 --> 0:25:48.275 does that sound like? I don't know why they gave 0:25:48.315 --> 0:25:54.435 me an MRI. Unfortunately, when on the subject of his disability, 0:25:54.475 --> 0:25:57.355 President Wilson was anything but rational. His Secretary of State, 0:25:57.435 --> 0:26:00.915 Robert Lansing, summoned the cabinet to a meeting to discuss 0:26:00.955 --> 0:26:04.115 the crisis in Wilson's illness. And Wilson, or more likely 0:26:04.155 --> 0:26:07.955 missus will Wilson forced the Secretary of State Lancing to resign. 0:26:09.355 --> 0:26:13.635 Doctors who challenged President Wilson were dismissed. People who knew 0:26:13.675 --> 0:26:16.715 Wilson before his stroke were eased out or denied access 0:26:16.755 --> 0:26:20.075 to him. Wilson insisted until his death that while he 0:26:20.195 --> 0:26:23.555 had had a stroke, it only affected his walking and 0:26:23.675 --> 0:26:28.595 only a little. How the hell could you not know 0:26:28.915 --> 0:26:34.195 what they stuck you in the mritube four? Well you 0:26:34.315 --> 0:26:38.195 did know, but whatever is wrong with your brain immediately 0:26:38.235 --> 0:26:40.835 erased it. Like a dream you try to remember as 0:26:40.875 --> 0:26:43.835 you wake up, and it slips away from you, like 0:26:43.995 --> 0:26:47.155 mercury on the floor, or like somebody was closing and 0:26:47.195 --> 0:26:51.955 locking a door, keeping your dream away from you. So, 0:26:51.995 --> 0:26:54.915 in addition to needing to worry about Trump having had 0:26:54.915 --> 0:26:58.955 a stroke or flew into phasia or Alzheimer's or god 0:26:59.075 --> 0:27:02.355 knows what, we also have to worry about him having 0:27:02.395 --> 0:27:04.435 an illness that makes it impossible for him to ac 0:27:05.035 --> 0:27:07.795 or even remember that he'd had a stroke, or fluent 0:27:07.875 --> 0:27:10.995 aphasia or Alzheimer's, or even just the MRI to test 0:27:11.035 --> 0:27:17.555 for it. No, the MRI was for my toenails. I 0:27:17.595 --> 0:27:21.955 have ingrown toenails and not really bad ones. I got 0:27:21.955 --> 0:27:28.115 a great score on my ingrown Toenail MRI and so 0:27:28.275 --> 0:27:31.235 now in some for the first time in his dictatorship, 0:27:31.395 --> 0:27:36.875 none of us haters, lovers, supporters, Mam Danny's, none of 0:27:36.955 --> 0:27:41.355 us know what the hell is wrong with this guy Trump, 0:27:44.635 --> 0:27:48.755 And if he has annosagnosia, he does know what's wrong 0:27:48.795 --> 0:27:59.795 with him. But he just forgot it again, and yet 0:27:59.835 --> 0:28:04.515 he remembers he likes Mom Daddy. I can also guess 0:28:04.515 --> 0:28:07.555 that he did not read this weekend's worth of Olivia Newsy, 0:28:07.635 --> 0:28:10.595 Ryan Lizza, Robert F. Kennedy Junior News, because if he had, 0:28:10.635 --> 0:28:14.635 even Trump would have fired Kennedy by now already today, 0:28:14.915 --> 0:28:17.795 because Kennedy is now a clear and present danger to 0:28:17.955 --> 0:28:22.595 Trump's presidency, because Kennedy is scandal plagued and sloppy and 0:28:22.755 --> 0:28:26.475 nuts and he is in some way involved with a 0:28:26.515 --> 0:28:33.635 woman who may be nuttier than he is. If you 0:28:34.315 --> 0:28:37.555 read the updates on my ex over the weekend, I 0:28:37.555 --> 0:28:40.475 hope your stomach has settled down. I am not going 0:28:40.515 --> 0:28:47.555 to even reference the Kennedy love poetry to Olivia about 0:28:47.595 --> 0:28:52.675 his uh, well, what was it? Sterling Hayden called it 0:28:52.715 --> 0:28:58.755 in Doctor Strangelove his life essence, Man Drake the purity 0:28:58.795 --> 0:29:01.955 of his life essence. I deny them my life essence. 0:29:02.795 --> 0:29:05.315 What I am going to reference, though, is the important part, 0:29:05.555 --> 0:29:09.715 which is Ryan Lizz's assertion no evidence yet presented that 0:29:09.795 --> 0:29:14.595 Olivia Newsey ran catch and kill operations to barry scandals 0:29:14.875 --> 0:29:18.435 about Robert F. Kennedy Junior while she was employed by 0:29:18.475 --> 0:29:21.955 New York Magazine for more than a year before the election, 0:29:24.275 --> 0:29:27.755 and Liz's further insistence that Newsy told him that if 0:29:27.755 --> 0:29:31.475 anybody found out about her and Kennedy quote, I'm afraid 0:29:31.595 --> 0:29:37.355 Bobby will kill me. You can skip this next half 0:29:37.355 --> 0:29:40.435 hour update after the break, you can proceed directly to 0:29:40.515 --> 0:29:47.875 the C block and Worse Persons. If not, get a 0:29:47.995 --> 0:29:50.675 drink and pull up a chair and join me. It's 0:29:50.795 --> 0:29:55.315 the news of Newsy and it's a doozy that's next. 0:29:55.555 --> 0:29:57.515 This is Countdown. 0:29:58.515 --> 0:30:00.955 Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV 0:30:01.075 --> 0:30:06.195 show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've 0:30:06.235 --> 0:30:10.995 seen that program, only I believe it's now called Countdown 0:30:11.075 --> 0:30:12.315 with Keith Overman. 0:30:20.275 --> 0:30:24.035