WEBVTT - TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN WITH DISTURBING MAKE-OUT IMAGE - 4.16.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:28.635 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Jesus Christ. 0:00:30.075 --> 0:00:35.275 Trump appropriates the image of Jesus Christ again. This time 0:00:35.315 --> 0:00:40.435 it is not him pretending to be Jesus, it's him. 0:00:42.515 --> 0:00:46.035 How does one phrase something like this? It looks in 0:00:46.155 --> 0:00:50.435 this image like Trump is about to make out with Jesus. 0:00:51.995 --> 0:00:57.755 I mean, none of the components here would constitute my 0:00:57.915 --> 0:01:04.635 areas of expertise. But Jesus is clearly fondling Trump's chef, 0:01:05.195 --> 0:01:07.915 and Trump's eyes are closed in ecstasy. And I don't 0:01:07.955 --> 0:01:13.115 think it's religious ecstasy. Hey watch where you put your 0:01:13.155 --> 0:01:19.395 hands Jesus as Americans ranging from atheists to papists to 0:01:19.595 --> 0:01:24.035 Jesus impersonators recoil. Trump put this out just three days 0:01:24.075 --> 0:01:28.555 after his image of himself as Jesus or is doctor Jesus? 0:01:29.235 --> 0:01:32.355 Or is doctor Johnny Jesus or whatever he claimed it was. 0:01:32.715 --> 0:01:35.395 The radical left lunatics might not like this, but I 0:01:35.435 --> 0:01:42.555 think it's quite nice, he wrote. Apart from the fact 0:01:42.595 --> 0:01:45.755 that you are seeing how Trump's life of rationalization works, 0:01:46.115 --> 0:01:50.395 his existence fits the psychological phenomenon known as no true Scotsman. 0:01:50.875 --> 0:01:53.435 This is not trivial. This is not something that just 0:01:53.635 --> 0:01:56.915 pisss off a couple of religious nuts, It pisss off 0:01:56.955 --> 0:02:01.355 an amazing variety of Americans on a visceral level, somewhere 0:02:01.395 --> 0:02:08.155 approximating that of Trump, having insulted each of their mothers individually. Trump, 0:02:08.195 --> 0:02:11.995 though reflexively tells himself his supporters get it, and of 0:02:11.995 --> 0:02:15.515 course anybody who doesn't get it is a lunatic, so 0:02:16.035 --> 0:02:19.195 isn't a supporter, so doesn't count. So he has one 0:02:19.275 --> 0:02:23.515 hundred percent support. How does he sleep at night? You ask? 0:02:24.115 --> 0:02:27.195 That's how? In point of fact, if we accept the 0:02:27.235 --> 0:02:31.595 idea that Trump's cult, his beneficiaries, his enablers, his junta, 0:02:31.955 --> 0:02:34.315 have long since come to terms with the fact that 0:02:34.355 --> 0:02:36.915 they don't care if he's crazy, they don't care if 0:02:36.915 --> 0:02:39.435 he's evil, They don't care if every moment he is 0:02:39.475 --> 0:02:43.035 in power threatens the life of everybody and every animal 0:02:43.075 --> 0:02:46.515 and every plant on the planet, including them. So long 0:02:46.555 --> 0:02:48.755 as the power and the money keep on rolling in, 0:02:49.955 --> 0:02:54.435 we are, from their point of view, watching something worse 0:02:54.515 --> 0:02:57.835 than all of that end of the world. So what 0:02:58.515 --> 0:03:04.795 there's the rapture? This threatens the power and the money now, Oh, 0:03:05.835 --> 0:03:09.555 because it touches something that his dwindling base is enslaved 0:03:09.755 --> 0:03:14.275 to that entire spectrum running from deeply considered belief at 0:03:14.275 --> 0:03:17.675 the one end and then superstition and fear on the 0:03:17.675 --> 0:03:21.435 other end. I mean, this is so bad that after 0:03:21.515 --> 0:03:27.155 the first one, even Speaker Mike Johnson, who is Speaker 0:03:27.235 --> 0:03:30.595 Mike Johnson rather than ex Speaker Mike Johnson, because he 0:03:30.675 --> 0:03:34.035 is capable of greeting any evidence of Trump's brain turning 0:03:34.035 --> 0:03:37.555 to tapioca by saying, I didn't see it, I didn't 0:03:37.555 --> 0:03:39.955 hear I didn't read it, I didn't smell it, I 0:03:39.995 --> 0:03:43.275 didn't taste it. I didn't put my hands on its chest. 0:03:43.795 --> 0:03:48.035 Even Mike Johnson has noticed the Jesus stuff. 0:03:48.195 --> 0:03:53.835 Speaker Johnson asked you at the Presidence, and how Jesus 0:03:55.035 --> 0:03:56.755 I'm talked with the President about it, as says, I 0:03:56.795 --> 0:03:59.115 saw it and told him. 0:03:58.995 --> 0:04:01.195 That I don't think it was being received in the 0:04:01.235 --> 0:04:03.395 same way he intended, as he agreed, and he pulled 0:04:03.435 --> 0:04:03.755 it down. 0:04:03.955 --> 0:04:06.915 That was the very thing. He explained how he saw that. 0:04:07.035 --> 0:04:09.595 And I don't think he thought it was sacrilegious at all. 0:04:09.675 --> 0:04:10.955 So do you think he should have to? 0:04:11.395 --> 0:04:13.915 I think he respect to other facts. 0:04:13.915 --> 0:04:14.435 We're doing it. 0:04:14.995 --> 0:04:16.955 So, Mike, what about this new one with him and 0:04:18.475 --> 0:04:23.555 Jesus and the chest rub no comment. There is no 0:04:23.715 --> 0:04:27.835 question that the Iran war, the Epstein files, the economy, 0:04:27.955 --> 0:04:31.075 half a dozen other crises are causing Republican support to 0:04:31.235 --> 0:04:34.675 bleed out as the midterms approach. But if they do 0:04:34.795 --> 0:04:37.475 lose the House, especially if they lose the Senate, and 0:04:37.635 --> 0:04:41.435 Chuck Schumer, not a reliable source, but certainly not a 0:04:41.475 --> 0:04:44.475 wild eyed one, said yesterday he thinks the Democrats are 0:04:44.475 --> 0:04:48.115 going to take the Senate this year. I guess he's 0:04:48.115 --> 0:04:49.675 going to resign and put somebody else in charge of 0:04:49.715 --> 0:04:52.075 the campaign. But he thinks the Democrats are going to 0:04:52.115 --> 0:04:55.515 win the Senate in the midterms. And if the Republicans 0:04:55.555 --> 0:04:58.675 lose the House at especially the Senate, depending on your viewpoint, 0:04:58.755 --> 0:05:03.995 either thank Jesus or blame Jesus, but not the Pope. 0:05:04.755 --> 0:05:08.115 The Republicans are in fact enjoying Trump doubling down on 0:05:08.195 --> 0:05:11.475 that part of this equation. Will someone please tell the Pope? 0:05:11.515 --> 0:05:15.195 He wrote, then his tired line about Iran killing protesters, 0:05:15.555 --> 0:05:18.715 the protesters Trump said he would protect and then didn't 0:05:18.755 --> 0:05:22.955 protect them, and saying all this is if Trump doesn't 0:05:22.995 --> 0:05:28.875 have protesters killed here, but about the Pope. If you're 0:05:28.955 --> 0:05:32.875 like me, spiritual, but you think all religions are wrong 0:05:33.635 --> 0:05:38.795 and maybe their leaders are a step down from telemarketers. 0:05:39.395 --> 0:05:41.955 You have to stand back and try to understand this. 0:05:42.475 --> 0:05:44.715 You have to look at it carefully and understand. This 0:05:44.915 --> 0:05:48.355 is as if three quarters of the world's population identified 0:05:48.475 --> 0:05:52.635 as firm fundamental believers in and to some degree is 0:05:52.675 --> 0:05:56.275 having based important decisions in their own lives, including how 0:05:56.275 --> 0:05:58.195 they live, who they marry, who they vote for, who 0:05:58.195 --> 0:06:02.475 they will comfort, who they will kill, based on which 0:06:02.875 --> 0:06:09.755 Marvel Entertainment French they like best. These are not Marvel 0:06:09.875 --> 0:06:14.315 Comics fans who have preferences and sort of chuckled at 0:06:14.315 --> 0:06:17.475 the other guys like the other ones. These are Spider 0:06:17.555 --> 0:06:20.715 Man fans who in their heart want to see all 0:06:20.755 --> 0:06:26.795 the Avengers fans dead. The Pope is the Pope Catholic? 0:06:26.955 --> 0:06:30.635 Why yes, yes he is. Is Mike Johnson Catholic? Why no, 0:06:30.635 --> 0:06:33.355 No he's not. He's a leader in the Baptist Church. 0:06:33.995 --> 0:06:35.715 Is Trump's base Catholic? 0:06:36.035 --> 0:06:36.235 No? 0:06:36.515 --> 0:06:41.675 Almost, not at all. Would Trump's space actually have supported 0:06:42.075 --> 0:06:46.275 John F. Kennedy, a Catholic for president alive or as 0:06:46.315 --> 0:06:51.875 a reincarnated Catholic. No, no, of course not. Is Congressman 0:06:51.915 --> 0:06:56.475 Troy Nell's Catholic. No, no, and I really would find 0:06:56.475 --> 0:06:58.675 it hard to believe he's religious at all, but he's 0:06:58.675 --> 0:06:59.795 certainly not Catholic. 0:06:59.875 --> 0:07:02.315 Not after this, I've obviously the Pope needs to keep 0:07:02.315 --> 0:07:07.195 his business into leading his so to speak, leading the church, 0:07:07.235 --> 0:07:09.555 and probably stay out of the political arena. He doesn't 0:07:09.595 --> 0:07:11.835 need to be getting involved in the political arena. Go 0:07:11.995 --> 0:07:14.155 lead your church, but stay out of the politics. 0:07:14.395 --> 0:07:15.435 Right elect it. 0:07:15.515 --> 0:07:17.315 We didn't elect the Pope to be the president or 0:07:17.355 --> 0:07:20.915 be anything else. So just keep his nose in the 0:07:20.995 --> 0:07:23.475 church's business and stay out of the political arena. 0:07:23.755 --> 0:07:28.755 This is nothing new. Obviously, MAGA views Pope Leo as 0:07:28.835 --> 0:07:32.915 just another impediment, in large part because right wing governments 0:07:32.955 --> 0:07:35.995 have been attacking the Catholic Church since King Henry the Eighth, 0:07:36.315 --> 0:07:40.835 often with great reason. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. 0:07:42.435 --> 0:07:45.915 As I said, I don't care, especially although I have 0:07:46.035 --> 0:07:47.995 been told that in the nineties the Pope used to 0:07:48.035 --> 0:07:51.235 watch me on SportsCenter, and of course, to borrow from 0:07:51.275 --> 0:07:54.755 the other legendary Chicago White Sox fan besides the Pope, 0:07:54.915 --> 0:07:59.075 Jeene Shepherd the o tour of a Christmas story, I 0:07:59.395 --> 0:08:03.435 will tend to listen to a white Sox fan more 0:08:03.475 --> 0:08:06.715 than any other human and about eternity and suffering, because, 0:08:06.755 --> 0:08:10.035 as shep wrote, if I were going to storm a pillbox, 0:08:10.115 --> 0:08:13.115 going to shear utter certain death, and the colonel said, 0:08:13.155 --> 0:08:17.115 Shepherd picked six guys, I'd pick six white Sox fans 0:08:17.435 --> 0:08:20.435 because they have known death every day of their lives 0:08:20.675 --> 0:08:26.115 and it holds no terror for them. That's your Pope. 0:08:26.395 --> 0:08:30.075 The problem with the strutting of clowns like Troy Nells, 0:08:30.515 --> 0:08:33.155 who took the cigar out of his mouth briefly to 0:08:33.195 --> 0:08:36.595 give those comments is when they try to expand, as 0:08:36.675 --> 0:08:40.875 Nils did, their potshots at one religion, which I can 0:08:40.915 --> 0:08:44.435 support in principle, into some kind of dictum against going 0:08:44.435 --> 0:08:50.155 into the political lane by all Bible thumpers. Well, if 0:08:50.395 --> 0:08:54.275 religionists can't talk about politics, that means no support for 0:08:54.355 --> 0:08:57.715 Trump from Franklin Graham or from the crazy White House 0:08:57.755 --> 0:09:03.795 advisor PAULA White, or from you know, any megachurch or 0:09:03.875 --> 0:09:10.075 evangelic or that whole crowd that cheered as Trump said 0:09:10.075 --> 0:09:13.235 he was eliminating the Johnson rule and now pastors could 0:09:13.315 --> 0:09:16.235 campaign for him from the pulpit, or any of the 0:09:16.395 --> 0:09:19.435 End Time's clowns or any of the dozens of active 0:09:19.435 --> 0:09:22.195 Republicans who have insisted in the last two months, we 0:09:22.275 --> 0:09:27.795 are in Iran because Israel is owned biblical support. In 0:09:27.835 --> 0:09:30.915 other words, explain that the Pope has no right to 0:09:30.955 --> 0:09:34.955 talk politics, and you wipe out virtually the entire rationale 0:09:36.155 --> 0:09:40.715 for supporting Israel as it is understood by Trump's own cult, 0:09:40.915 --> 0:09:43.155 because Israel to them is only one thing. It's a 0:09:43.275 --> 0:09:49.275 means towards the rapture, which some days I sit around 0:09:49.395 --> 0:10:17.275 thinking the rapture can't happen soon enough. The other question 0:10:17.475 --> 0:10:22.235 raised by Trump's continuing fights with the Pope and Jesus 0:10:23.475 --> 0:10:26.235 is simply how many wars can Trump start and handle 0:10:26.275 --> 0:10:29.395 at the same time, War against the Pope, war against Iran, 0:10:29.675 --> 0:10:34.195 war against reality. The last two have become the same. 0:10:34.275 --> 0:10:37.115 Now he again insists he is blockading the Strait of Hormoz, 0:10:37.435 --> 0:10:39.915 when the Navy is clearly not blockading the Strait of 0:10:39.915 --> 0:10:43.235 horm moves the Navy is blockading the ports of Iran. 0:10:43.915 --> 0:10:47.195 He can't tell the difference. Many of the ships from 0:10:47.235 --> 0:10:50.475 the ports of Iran would go through the Strait of Hormuz, 0:10:50.915 --> 0:10:53.115 but that's not a blockade of the Strait of Horror moves. 0:10:53.955 --> 0:10:57.075 Trump does not understand this. It's too much trouble for him. 0:10:57.835 --> 0:11:01.315 He probably also doesn't understand when Iran comes back as 0:11:01.315 --> 0:11:03.275 it did yesterday, to say, it will now raise the 0:11:03.275 --> 0:11:05.915 ante and if Trump doesn't down from the blockade, he 0:11:06.155 --> 0:11:09.235 literally couldn't tell where it is from his assor's elbow. 0:11:09.475 --> 0:11:12.435 It will now attack and block shipping in the Red Sea. 0:11:13.235 --> 0:11:17.155 But don't worry about that, explains Scott Besant, adjusting his 0:11:17.195 --> 0:11:19.555 glasses for the four millionth time and making sure his 0:11:19.595 --> 0:11:22.715 head doesn't fall off. Gas will be back under four 0:11:22.795 --> 0:11:26.355 dollars a gallon in the summer, the summer which was 0:11:26.395 --> 0:11:27.955 when it was supposed to be under two dollars a 0:11:27.995 --> 0:11:31.555 gallon before Trump's plans were screwed up by that evil trader, 0:11:32.715 --> 0:11:38.675 checks notes Trump. It's just too bad Trump's brain did 0:11:38.715 --> 0:11:42.355 not live long enough to see any of this. These 0:11:42.475 --> 0:11:46.075 quotes are from the transcript of Maria Bartiromo's interview with 0:11:46.155 --> 0:11:49.675 him yesterday. I just can't play clips of Maria Bartiromo. 0:11:49.715 --> 0:11:51.955 I don't think I can legally. I just can't listen 0:11:51.995 --> 0:11:56.715 to that voice. She says about the war. You keep saying, 0:11:56.835 --> 0:11:59.595 what was is this war over? Trump says, I think 0:11:59.635 --> 0:12:02.915 it's close to over. Yeah, he's previously said it's over. 0:12:03.635 --> 0:12:05.835 I view it as very close over. If I pulled 0:12:05.875 --> 0:12:07.915 up stakes right now, it would take them twenty years 0:12:07.915 --> 0:12:11.195 to rebuild that country. We're not finished. We'll see what happens. 0:12:11.355 --> 0:12:14.035 I think they want to make a deal. He has 0:12:14.075 --> 0:12:16.755 no concept that there is anything to a war besides 0:12:16.835 --> 0:12:21.355 blowing stuff up. Second topic, Bartaromo, did you see that 0:12:21.355 --> 0:12:24.635 Britain suffered the biggest growth forecast downgrade in the G seven, 0:12:24.875 --> 0:12:28.955 so their economy is impacted. Trump's answer, they got to 0:12:29.035 --> 0:12:36.835 stop with the windmills. No, true, Scotsman, Bartiomo. Moving to 0:12:36.915 --> 0:12:39.475 domestic issues. What are your top priorities now for the 0:12:39.515 --> 0:12:42.435 economy for the rest of the year. Trump, to be honest, 0:12:42.475 --> 0:12:45.275 we are doing so well. You look at this. I 0:12:45.355 --> 0:12:49.835 hit the fifty thousand dow mark. Look at me. I 0:12:49.915 --> 0:12:54.915 made poopy in the potty trainer, mommy. Trump really is 0:12:55.355 --> 0:12:59.395 fighting reality now, not just avoiding it. He again insists 0:12:59.395 --> 0:13:03.755 he's already beaten Iran, while insisting there will be ceasefire 0:13:03.795 --> 0:13:06.715 talks again minutely, or at least talks about starting new 0:13:06.755 --> 0:13:11.435 talks or I wonder if Trump is even being told 0:13:11.635 --> 0:13:14.155 how bad it is going for America, in the Gulf 0:13:14.235 --> 0:13:17.115 right now and in the world generally. Or is this 0:13:17.395 --> 0:13:21.875 like Germany nineteen forty two, where citizens and many government 0:13:21.915 --> 0:13:25.195 officials were actually told don't worry about it. The Luftwaffe 0:13:25.235 --> 0:13:28.915 has already totally destroyed New York City. There are lots 0:13:28.955 --> 0:13:31.795 of things in history. I don't know. One of the 0:13:31.835 --> 0:13:34.395 fun things about history is finding out those things. But 0:13:34.435 --> 0:13:37.275 it still startles me when I read something like this. 0:13:37.275 --> 0:13:41.995 This was in the in house magazine of NBC. The 0:13:42.275 --> 0:13:47.195 transmitter was just radio then from January nineteen forty three, 0:13:47.235 --> 0:13:50.355 and I tripped over this doing some other online research 0:13:50.435 --> 0:13:54.315 the other day. Quoting it, German prisoners transported to the 0:13:54.395 --> 0:14:00.035 United States express amazement that New York Skyline remains intact. 0:14:00.475 --> 0:14:05.355 Say they heard broadcasts describing how their planes had smashed 0:14:05.475 --> 0:14:10.755 our skyscrapers to rubble. There's just a sample of how 0:14:10.835 --> 0:14:14.075 our enemies use the radio to delude their own people. 0:14:14.355 --> 0:14:17.635 Put into practice Hitler's despicable theory that if lies are 0:14:17.635 --> 0:14:21.475 big enough, everyone will believe them. Make a Nazi perversion 0:14:21.555 --> 0:14:23.955 of an invention that is one of the world's greatest 0:14:24.115 --> 0:14:32.035 sources of good. One quote, NBC nineteen forty three apart 0:14:32.035 --> 0:14:34.715 from the fact that what you heard described in there 0:14:34.875 --> 0:14:37.795 is the America that much of MAGA wants to see 0:14:37.875 --> 0:14:40.915 in our future. And I mean I often get the 0:14:40.915 --> 0:14:44.235 feeling that given enough time FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, even 0:14:44.235 --> 0:14:47.875 from that influential but pretty dry office, even Brendan Carr, 0:14:47.955 --> 0:14:51.195 will somehow commit war crimes someday. I keep thinking that 0:14:51.235 --> 0:14:55.275 our present day version of the astonished German POWs finding 0:14:55.355 --> 0:15:01.635 out Goebbels was lying is Trump. I don't think it 0:15:01.715 --> 0:15:04.875 takes much effort to convince him not to listen to 0:15:04.915 --> 0:15:06.835 the bad news you don't want to tell him, But 0:15:06.915 --> 0:15:10.675 I think they don't tell him like the bad news 0:15:10.715 --> 0:15:14.115 about how it's going abroad, where the newly elected leader 0:15:14.155 --> 0:15:18.875 of Hungary, mad gr Pater Peter Magir if you prefer, 0:15:19.835 --> 0:15:23.475 just announced his government will not continue Victor orbn's policy 0:15:23.515 --> 0:15:35.035 of funding Seapack. The what now Hungary was funding Seapack? 0:15:36.515 --> 0:15:39.875 Wait wait wait wait wait. As my old colleague Juliet 0:15:39.915 --> 0:15:45.195 Kayam noted, Trump directed aid to Hungary, then Hungary sent 0:15:45.275 --> 0:15:49.875 money to Seapack. So is this a story of Trump 0:15:50.115 --> 0:15:53.715 washing taxpayer money and illegally contributing it to his own 0:15:53.755 --> 0:15:58.395 campaign if anybody would like to look at that, or 0:15:58.555 --> 0:16:01.595 talking about foreign bad news, the whole Pope thing. Guess 0:16:01.675 --> 0:16:04.875 where that's not going down? Well, Italy, you know where 0:16:04.875 --> 0:16:09.395 the Vatican is. We're an Italian reporter called Trump Trump 0:16:09.395 --> 0:16:12.755 who was apparently listed in the Yellow Pages under both 0:16:12.795 --> 0:16:16.955 despot and crackpot, and he got Trump to trash the 0:16:16.995 --> 0:16:20.995 Pope and Georgia Maloney, Or how it's going in England, 0:16:21.035 --> 0:16:23.715 where a Prime Minister Starmer once again yesterday insisted the 0:16:23.795 --> 0:16:26.395 UK will not get involved in Trump's war in Iran. 0:16:26.875 --> 0:16:29.675 But Ed Davey, who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 0:16:29.675 --> 0:16:32.075 who may be the third most influential party right now, 0:16:32.075 --> 0:16:36.395 maybe the second. What with the Conservatives melting trying to 0:16:36.435 --> 0:16:40.595 coalesce an all party move to convince King Charles not 0:16:40.995 --> 0:16:44.075 to make his scheduled state visit here, the King of 0:16:44.115 --> 0:16:47.155 England not to show up for the two hundred and 0:16:47.195 --> 0:16:49.435 fiftieth anniversary of this country. 0:16:49.635 --> 0:16:54.755 A whole civilization will die tonight. Words I never thought 0:16:54.795 --> 0:16:59.035 I would hear from an American president, And though Donald 0:16:59.035 --> 0:17:03.515 Trump thankfully didn't follow through this time, these words are 0:17:03.555 --> 0:17:08.475 a start reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside 0:17:08.475 --> 0:17:14.195 the bounds of international law. This president is, regrettably he 0:17:14.275 --> 0:17:17.035 is no friend of the United Kingdom. He's no leader 0:17:17.515 --> 0:17:21.435 of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, 0:17:21.715 --> 0:17:24.355 and that is how we must treat him. So will 0:17:24.395 --> 0:17:27.235 the Prime Minister advise the King to cool off his 0:17:27.275 --> 0:17:31.155 state visits to Washington before it's too late, because I 0:17:31.195 --> 0:17:34.635 really fear for what Trump might say or do while 0:17:34.635 --> 0:17:37.915 our king is forced to stand by his side. We 0:17:37.995 --> 0:17:40.835 cannot put his majesty in that position. 0:17:41.195 --> 0:17:43.635 You know, that really is the correct play for the King. 0:17:43.675 --> 0:17:46.355 By the way, among other things that are calm now 0:17:46.395 --> 0:17:49.675 but will blow up when Charles gets here. He won't 0:17:49.715 --> 0:17:53.555 be meeting with Epstein survivors, which is just that bad. 0:17:53.595 --> 0:17:58.275 As bad a plan as you could consider very unfortunate, 0:17:58.475 --> 0:18:01.675 as the most significant world figure implicated in the Epstein 0:18:01.675 --> 0:18:05.795 files just happens to be the King's brother. I think 0:18:05.835 --> 0:18:10.675 that may come up and closer to home. There are 0:18:10.715 --> 0:18:13.115 problems here too that Trump probably doesn't know about. One 0:18:13.115 --> 0:18:15.595 group of Democrats in the House is gathering steam for 0:18:15.675 --> 0:18:19.955 an impeachment bill, which will not succeed for another nine months. 0:18:19.995 --> 0:18:22.955 It won't, and a second group is gathering steam for 0:18:22.995 --> 0:18:26.155 a bill demanding that the Trump cabinet invoke the twenty 0:18:26.155 --> 0:18:30.395 fifth Amendment to depose Trump, which would take us to 0:18:30.435 --> 0:18:35.035 truly novel constitutional areas. But what the hell, We're already 0:18:35.035 --> 0:18:38.955 in them. And of course then the blowback against Trump 0:18:38.995 --> 0:18:42.195 takes us back to finish where we began with religion 0:18:42.315 --> 0:18:46.755 in America. Have you heard the name Joel Webbin. Joel 0:18:46.875 --> 0:18:51.675 Webbin is one of those bearded evangelicals without whom Trump 0:18:51.755 --> 0:18:54.875 drives up and blows away the good news on the 0:18:54.875 --> 0:18:59.595 evangelical front from Trump. Webin, president and founder of Right 0:18:59.715 --> 0:19:04.555 Response Ministries, Senior pastor of the Covenant Bible Church, and 0:19:04.755 --> 0:19:08.795 consultant to the First Church of the Gooey Death Now 0:19:09.355 --> 0:19:12.995 has asked this rhetorical question. Joel Webbin asks, is Trump 0:19:13.035 --> 0:19:18.675 the Antichrist? He's answered it, No, no biblical definitions. Trump 0:19:18.755 --> 0:19:24.555 is not the Antichrist. Congratulations, mister President, You're not the Antichrist. 0:19:24.635 --> 0:19:27.435 The bad news for Trump, Joel Webbin does say, quote, 0:19:27.595 --> 0:19:34.875 I genuinely believe Trump is currently demon possessed. Now at 0:19:34.955 --> 0:19:41.995 least that would explain him making out with Jesus. All 0:19:42.115 --> 0:19:44.555 se of interest here, you know, in the good old days, 0:19:44.595 --> 0:19:47.395 when I tried to warn everybody about Fox News. Fox 0:19:47.435 --> 0:19:51.235 News at least did big things like Billo once asking 0:19:51.315 --> 0:19:54.195 John McCain what he was going to do to protect 0:19:54.555 --> 0:19:59.275 the white power structure in this country. Those are the 0:19:59.315 --> 0:20:04.115 words the O'Reilly used. Now O'Reilly's time slot successor is 0:20:04.155 --> 0:20:09.315 obsessed with when the appropriate point in time is to 0:20:10.835 --> 0:20:16.595 whip it out. I swear, I swear he said whip 0:20:16.715 --> 0:20:20.675 it out, and that's what he meant on Fox. And 0:20:20.715 --> 0:20:25.435 he said it to your crazy maga grandma. That's next. 0:20:25.875 --> 0:20:52.635 This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead. 0:20:52.675 --> 0:20:55.235 On this all new edition of Countdown. I promised you 0:20:55.275 --> 0:20:59.115 a story a few weeks back about the finest French 0:20:59.155 --> 0:21:03.195 restaurant in Washington, DC, and I'm gonna tell it as 0:21:03.235 --> 0:21:07.755 it was told to me by the alleged recipient. There 0:21:07.795 --> 0:21:11.395 was a candlelight meal, there was an aspiring reporter, there 0:21:11.515 --> 0:21:15.115 was Ted Turner still in his drinking days, and there 0:21:15.155 --> 0:21:20.115 was a really effective slap next in another thing I 0:21:20.275 --> 0:21:24.195 promised not to tell. In the interim, we always have 0:21:24.275 --> 0:21:27.475 more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, 0:21:27.555 --> 0:21:31.235 morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 0:21:31.955 --> 0:21:37.075 worst persons in the world. This edition is dedicated to 0:21:37.235 --> 0:21:43.275 Elizabeth Rose Halligan, a self proclaimed digital creator, for her 0:21:43.315 --> 0:21:47.675 threads bio, and she says she's working on a thesis 0:21:47.715 --> 0:21:51.675 on anti colonialism, which as a society we should encourage 0:21:51.715 --> 0:21:55.115 because this is a much bigger problem today, let alone 0:21:55.115 --> 0:21:59.035 through history, than most people acknowledge. On the other hand, 0:21:59.035 --> 0:22:02.715 as Marcus Aurelius observed, you are always entitled to not 0:22:02.915 --> 0:22:05.395 have an opinion on something. This was one of those 0:22:05.395 --> 0:22:08.755 occasions where she should have listened to the old Roman 0:22:08.835 --> 0:22:13.435 emperor and colonizer. This was after the Artemis mission. And 0:22:13.475 --> 0:22:16.075 I quote miss Halligan and clean it up just a 0:22:16.115 --> 0:22:20.115 little bit, so I'm not trying to knock the gesture here, 0:22:20.235 --> 0:22:23.475 she writes, I get the sentiment. I feel for the 0:22:23.555 --> 0:22:26.755 astronaut who lost his wife, as it was devastating to 0:22:26.795 --> 0:22:29.915 lose my father in law who I loved very much 0:22:30.315 --> 0:22:35.635 to gleoblastoma suddenly in twenty twenty three. But four astronauts 0:22:35.915 --> 0:22:39.635 deciding to name a spot on the efing Moon after 0:22:39.875 --> 0:22:43.595 one guy's wife, while the other eight billion of us 0:22:43.675 --> 0:22:48.995 down here have no input on naming s word on 0:22:49.195 --> 0:22:53.755 the efing Moon still feels like colonizer behavior to me, 0:22:55.035 --> 0:22:57.675 and she concluded, I don't care if one of them 0:22:57.755 --> 0:23:02.875 was a black dude, the one saving grace on that 0:23:02.875 --> 0:23:06.515 that last line that sounds really racist. No, she's an 0:23:06.515 --> 0:23:10.475 African American. The rest of it. Okay, let me just 0:23:10.715 --> 0:23:14.115 do some numbers here. There are two million craters on 0:23:14.155 --> 0:23:17.995 the Moon. One point three million craters have been mapped. 0:23:18.395 --> 0:23:21.475 The total number that have been named, like for the 0:23:21.595 --> 0:23:25.315 late Carol Weisman, the late wife of the astronaut, the 0:23:25.395 --> 0:23:28.515 total number of named craters out of two million is 0:23:28.635 --> 0:23:32.715 nine thousand and three. Apart from the idea that if 0:23:32.755 --> 0:23:36.555 this is colonizing behavior, it's not going very well for 0:23:36.635 --> 0:23:40.595 the colonizers, exactly how far do you want to take this, madam? 0:23:41.035 --> 0:23:44.195 If you buy one of those thirty five dollars certificates 0:23:44.275 --> 0:23:47.995 naming a star after your girlfriend and you give it 0:23:48.035 --> 0:23:51.595 to her for Christmas, are you colonizing one of the 0:23:51.915 --> 0:23:59.435 oh infinity stars in the oh infinite galaxy. Moreover, when 0:23:59.515 --> 0:24:02.115 the first human looked up and saw it up there 0:24:03.315 --> 0:24:07.315 there was no sign on the moon reading this is 0:24:07.395 --> 0:24:15.955 the moon. We humans named it the moon, and in 0:24:16.155 --> 0:24:20.235 several other languages it's other words that mean that and 0:24:20.275 --> 0:24:23.995 collectively we consider it our moon, Earth's moon, like the 0:24:24.075 --> 0:24:28.355 two moons going around Mars are Mars's moons. Is that 0:24:28.595 --> 0:24:33.235 colonizing it? Or should we let the moon name itself? 0:24:35.435 --> 0:24:37.835 Miss Halligan tried to answer everybody, pointing out that no, 0:24:38.035 --> 0:24:40.795 she is trying to knock the gesture here despite what 0:24:40.835 --> 0:24:43.515 she wrote, and no she doesn't feel for the astronaut, 0:24:43.555 --> 0:24:46.995 and that yes, anti colonialism is important. But if you 0:24:47.035 --> 0:24:50.075 see it in a guy naming basically a large pothole 0:24:50.155 --> 0:24:53.355 on the moon after his dead wife, if you think 0:24:53.435 --> 0:24:57.675 that's colonizing, you may urgently need to see a therapist. 0:24:58.115 --> 0:25:02.555 And whatever you do, do not call that person your 0:25:02.795 --> 0:25:08.755 therapist colonizing because they named a hole in the moon 0:25:08.875 --> 0:25:12.875 after the man's late life. Anyway, the metallists the worst 0:25:13.075 --> 0:25:20.075 bronze clavicular. If like me, you heard that name but 0:25:20.195 --> 0:25:23.035 don't know what that is. This is a college dropout 0:25:23.075 --> 0:25:28.635 twenty years old, learning challenged, takes excessive amounts of testosterone. 0:25:28.955 --> 0:25:33.275 Apparently hits his bone with bones with a hammer to 0:25:33.395 --> 0:25:36.275 recreate his face or something so he thinks he looks better, 0:25:36.555 --> 0:25:42.955 attaches the suffix max to everything he looks maxed, so 0:25:42.995 --> 0:25:46.595 he's dumb Maxed and hammer maxed, and in an interview 0:25:46.675 --> 0:25:50.035 with sixty Minutes Australia, he had a canned insult ready 0:25:50.035 --> 0:25:53.435 for the interviewer and it blew up in his face Maxed. 0:25:53.915 --> 0:25:56.115 So the only thing Maxed he could think to do 0:25:56.235 --> 0:25:59.915 after that was walk out Maxed of the interview. Maxed. 0:26:00.275 --> 0:26:04.235 You've obviously shared company with Andrew tight and now the 0:26:04.835 --> 0:26:07.115 dare I say, ratic controversial figures? 0:26:07.875 --> 0:26:10.875 Why do you spend time with pay for lock that? 0:26:11.675 --> 0:26:11.995 All right? 0:26:12.115 --> 0:26:15.635 Have an I say, are you trying to? I see 0:26:15.715 --> 0:26:17.955 you want to make this uh political? 0:26:18.515 --> 0:26:18.915 Too bad? 0:26:18.915 --> 0:26:22.795 I didn't have time to look into you know anything 0:26:22.835 --> 0:26:27.395 about potentially uh you know who's who your wife cheated with? 0:26:27.635 --> 0:26:30.435 But don't try to go down that line of questioning 0:26:31.275 --> 0:26:32.235 uh with me? 0:26:32.555 --> 0:26:32.875 All right? 0:26:32.875 --> 0:26:35.755 I mean, because I'm not doing any political I'm not married. 0:26:37.195 --> 0:26:42.355 Next time, Clavical, just try your mom. By the way, 0:26:42.475 --> 0:26:47.715 Clavicular's real name is Brayden and he's from Hoboken, New Jersey. 0:26:47.835 --> 0:26:52.675 So what he's maxed actually is he's loser Maxed. I'm 0:26:52.675 --> 0:26:58.075 Braden the runner up worser and the Oguls, the congressman 0:26:58.115 --> 0:27:00.875 who introduced the Assimilation Act a week or so ago 0:27:01.235 --> 0:27:04.195 to prevent nearly all immigration to this country, promising that 0:27:04.235 --> 0:27:07.395 then i'm Erica would look like America again, even though 0:27:07.395 --> 0:27:12.235 Andy o Ogels looks kind of vaguely foreign, maybe a 0:27:12.275 --> 0:27:18.235 little of Iranian, let me say. Anyway, Congressman Crazy is 0:27:18.315 --> 0:27:22.955