WEBVTT - I WANT POLLING ON A PRESIDENTIAL RECALL VOTE - 4.7.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:25.195 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. As 0:00:25.275 --> 0:00:29.155 Wall Street prepares for its worst stock market crash since 0:00:29.275 --> 0:00:34.155 nearly Thursday. I want to see polling numbers on a 0:00:34.355 --> 0:00:39.875 presidential recall vote. I know there is no such thing 0:00:39.995 --> 0:00:43.675 as a presidential recall vote, but what the hell? The 0:00:43.755 --> 0:00:47.235 Republicans are always making up laws these days, inside the 0:00:47.275 --> 0:00:50.515 Supreme Court and out, demanding to have their way because 0:00:50.515 --> 0:00:53.155 they say the public wants it, trying to scam the 0:00:53.235 --> 0:00:56.675 Constitution for a third term, claiming the nation voted for Trump, 0:00:56.715 --> 0:00:59.595 and if Trump wants national suicide, then the nation has 0:00:59.635 --> 0:01:03.755 already pre approved national suicide. If they can do this crap, 0:01:04.155 --> 0:01:10.435 so can we. Because I want Republican congressmen and senators 0:01:10.635 --> 0:01:14.995 and state and city and village officials to understand right 0:01:15.035 --> 0:01:18.195 now that if we put it to a vote tomorrow, 0:01:18.395 --> 0:01:21.995 Trump and nearly all of them would be out on 0:01:22.075 --> 0:01:26.635 their asses out of office by Wednesday. I don't want 0:01:26.635 --> 0:01:30.315 to wait for the midterms and for this involuntary harakiri 0:01:30.515 --> 0:01:33.475 to be complete, for the pressure to begin to mount 0:01:33.675 --> 0:01:37.435 on Trump's prostitutes, who continue to insist the Emperor does 0:01:37.515 --> 0:01:41.355 too have clothes and that the insane worm dictator is 0:01:41.395 --> 0:01:45.515 actually a rational human being, and what someone called economic 0:01:45.635 --> 0:01:49.515 Munchausen by proxy, in which you make a nation sick 0:01:49.555 --> 0:01:52.315 in order to claim to be healing a sick nation, 0:01:52.915 --> 0:01:57.195 is somehow survivable. I don't want to wait. I want 0:01:57.235 --> 0:02:00.835 Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise and the House congressman with 0:02:00.995 --> 0:02:05.835 the stronger instincts towards self preservation to understand and today 0:02:06.635 --> 0:02:11.195 that in a parliamentary system, their public careers would already 0:02:11.275 --> 0:02:15.875 be dead, That they are shackled to a corpse in 0:02:15.955 --> 0:02:19.515 the White House, that there is no master plan, that 0:02:19.595 --> 0:02:24.315 the country knows Trump is not playing some long game, 0:02:24.515 --> 0:02:29.115 that the country suddenly understands, there is no Trump derangement syndrome, 0:02:29.555 --> 0:02:35.275 only Trump is deranged syndrome. That the country knows. This 0:02:35.355 --> 0:02:41.395 is an unmitigated, irredeemable by partisan national disaster, and Trump 0:02:41.555 --> 0:02:45.595 caused it deliberately. And their only chance is for them, 0:02:45.875 --> 0:02:49.515 the Republicans, to use the powers they have right now, 0:02:49.715 --> 0:02:53.435 to extract him from office, or at minimum new to 0:02:53.595 --> 0:02:56.995 him where he stands and pull all his powers from him, 0:02:57.395 --> 0:03:01.835 or they, the Republicans, will perish from the earth. I 0:03:01.955 --> 0:03:05.595 want them to know that in five months it's gone 0:03:05.595 --> 0:03:10.955 from their futures, depending on enslaving themselves to Trump, to 0:03:11.155 --> 0:03:17.075 their futures, depending on them removing him from office immediately. 0:03:17.915 --> 0:03:24.755 Them the GOP, the MAGA cult, not Trump but his assholes. 0:03:25.475 --> 0:03:30.555 They are the Roman senators, and metaphorically he is Julius 0:03:30.555 --> 0:03:38.555 Caesar figuratively speaking, obviously, I want to see polling on 0:03:38.635 --> 0:03:45.835 a presidential recall vote. I want one of these moribund, terrified, 0:03:46.035 --> 0:03:51.235 formerly journalistic media outlets to ask voters of every possible 0:03:51.275 --> 0:03:55.875 flavor if the election were rerun today, would you vote 0:03:55.915 --> 0:04:00.115 for Trump or a Democrat? Or would you vote for 0:04:00.155 --> 0:04:04.035 Trump or another Republican? Or would you vote for Trump 0:04:04.155 --> 0:04:09.875 or a fairly intelligent farm animal. I want the poster 0:04:09.995 --> 0:04:14.995 to ask, would you support a special emergency recall vote 0:04:15.275 --> 0:04:18.715 to potentially reverse the outcome of the twenty twenty four 0:04:18.835 --> 0:04:23.875 presidential election. I want them to ask, would you describe 0:04:23.955 --> 0:04:28.035 the current financial panic and the upcoming tsunami of inflation 0:04:28.355 --> 0:04:34.475 and unemployment as a national emergency? I want them to ask, 0:04:34.555 --> 0:04:38.115 do you think Donald Trump has taken leave of his senses? 0:04:39.955 --> 0:04:42.675 I want them to ask, do you think Donald Trump 0:04:42.755 --> 0:04:47.635 is mentally fit to run this country? I want them 0:04:47.635 --> 0:04:50.475 to ask, do you think Donald Trump is acting to 0:04:50.635 --> 0:04:54.875 destroy the United States on behalf of a foreign country. 0:04:56.195 --> 0:04:58.195 I want them to ask, do you think it is 0:04:58.315 --> 0:05:04.235 necessary to act once and only once outside the constitution? 0:05:04.395 --> 0:05:09.075 If necessary to save the United States of America from 0:05:09.435 --> 0:05:14.155 Donald Trump? I want them to ask, if the midterm 0:05:14.195 --> 0:05:16.995 elections for the Senate and the House, where tomorrow would 0:05:17.075 --> 0:05:23.675 you vote Republican or Democrat. Let's see where we really 0:05:23.715 --> 0:05:29.155 stand right now, because we're not going to have a 0:05:29.235 --> 0:05:34.635 presidential recall vote. We're not going to rerun the election. 0:05:36.115 --> 0:05:40.355 We're not going to just this once act outside the constitution. 0:05:42.275 --> 0:05:49.875 We're not Republicans, but the Republicans without whose support Trump 0:05:49.955 --> 0:05:54.075 could not remain in office past noon need to see 0:05:54.115 --> 0:05:58.955 these numbers, need to see that they're elected offices, and 0:05:59.035 --> 0:06:02.195 their hopes for reelection, and their hopes for higher office, 0:06:02.275 --> 0:06:06.635 and their hopes for post governmental money are flying out 0:06:06.715 --> 0:06:10.275 to the effing window because Trump wants to make America 0:06:10.355 --> 0:06:14.315 eighteen ninety four again. Because Trump doesn't know what he's doing, 0:06:14.435 --> 0:06:18.475 because Trump's mind is shattered beyond repair, shattered beyond rational thought. 0:06:18.795 --> 0:06:21.715 They need to see Trump has summoned doomsday, and the 0:06:21.795 --> 0:06:24.395 sooner they stick him with the bill for it, the 0:06:24.435 --> 0:06:30.715 better chance they have of surviving it, because this is 0:06:30.795 --> 0:06:34.875 neither as hopeless nor as complicated as it looks. A 0:06:34.955 --> 0:06:37.835 quarter of Republicans in the House and Sented are full 0:06:37.995 --> 0:06:44.115 kool aid drinkers. A quarter have doubts. The other half no, 0:06:44.435 --> 0:06:49.035 damn well, he's nuts. They've always known he's nuts. They've 0:06:49.115 --> 0:06:52.275 just enjoyed the power and the money and the popularity 0:06:52.315 --> 0:06:56.875 too much to ever dream of letting it go unless 0:06:57.515 --> 0:07:03.155 the choice became he goes or they go. In which 0:07:03.235 --> 0:07:09.075 case he goes, they could force him to resign, more 0:07:09.195 --> 0:07:12.795 likely to simply flee the country, to leave office and 0:07:12.995 --> 0:07:17.995 avoid prison, avoid prison, flee the country, then resign. They 0:07:17.995 --> 0:07:20.075 could force him to resign by making it clear that 0:07:20.195 --> 0:07:22.795 after his travesty of a mockery of a sham, of 0:07:22.795 --> 0:07:24.955 a mockery of two mockeries of a sham, there are 0:07:24.995 --> 0:07:27.555 now enough Republican votes to impeach him in the House 0:07:27.595 --> 0:07:29.915 and convict him in the Senate. They could force him 0:07:29.915 --> 0:07:39.315 out by simply introducing the measure to impeach themselves. Because 0:07:39.315 --> 0:07:43.715 there are two truths about American politics. Everything seems permanent 0:07:44.635 --> 0:07:49.835 and isn't, and the other one is, and it's true 0:07:49.875 --> 0:07:53.075 in this century. It was true last century. It's true 0:07:53.075 --> 0:07:56.115 the century before that. It's that there are always lots 0:07:56.155 --> 0:08:00.475 of politicians who will risk themselves for their leader, as 0:08:00.515 --> 0:08:04.075 long as he demands, they do so one at a time, 0:08:04.915 --> 0:08:07.235 or as long as the nation's business demands, they do 0:08:07.395 --> 0:08:10.355 so one at a time. But there is no group 0:08:10.395 --> 0:08:14.195 of politicians who will collectively risk themselves for their leader. 0:08:14.395 --> 0:08:17.955 When the choices are, they go down with him, or 0:08:17.995 --> 0:08:19.955 he goes down all by himself. 0:08:20.235 --> 0:08:24.395 It is always, always, always. 0:08:24.155 --> 0:08:28.475 He goes down by himself. Damn shame. He had a 0:08:28.475 --> 0:08:35.035 great run. Where are we going to lunch? You don't 0:08:35.035 --> 0:08:41.795 believe me? Ask Richard Nixon. The Democrats didn't finish Richard Nixon. 0:08:43.075 --> 0:08:48.755 Republican Senate and House leadership finished Richard Nixon. Hell, ask 0:08:48.875 --> 0:08:53.715 Abraham Lincoln. Two months before the eighteen sixty four presidential election, 0:08:54.675 --> 0:08:58.875 the referendum on the future of the Civil War, Republican 0:08:58.955 --> 0:09:02.355 leaders were trying to figure out how to remove Lincoln 0:09:02.515 --> 0:09:06.955 from the ballot to two months because he was clearly 0:09:06.995 --> 0:09:10.715 going to lose to McClellan in the election, and McClellan 0:09:10.835 --> 0:09:15.515 was going to surrender days before Sherman took Atlanta. This 0:09:15.715 --> 0:09:18.755 was seven months before Robert E. Lee surrendered the South, 0:09:19.155 --> 0:09:21.715 seven months before. They were going to win the war, 0:09:21.995 --> 0:09:28.315 and they were going to kick Lincoln to the curb. Oh, oh, 0:09:28.395 --> 0:09:31.795 we got it, We got Atlanta. Okay, never mind, not 0:09:31.995 --> 0:09:36.915 enough examples. Try other places. The British Conservatives were the 0:09:36.915 --> 0:09:40.595 ones who knifed Margaret Thatcher, not the Liberals christ They 0:09:40.675 --> 0:09:44.995 knifed David Cameron, then Teresa May, then Boris Johnson, then 0:09:45.035 --> 0:09:49.555 Liz trust All while they were Prime Minister. In the 0:09:49.595 --> 0:09:56.035 last fifteen years, Trump has an iron grip on MAGA, 0:09:56.035 --> 0:09:58.195 on the Republican Party, on the House majority, on the 0:09:58.195 --> 0:10:03.595 Senate majority, on the nation U untill eight maybe ten 0:10:03.675 --> 0:10:07.115 Republicans in the House decide Trump is going to destroy 0:10:07.515 --> 0:10:12.635 them personally, and they get together and they go, let's 0:10:12.715 --> 0:10:19.955 not get destroyed personally until fourteen count them, fourteen Republicans 0:10:19.995 --> 0:10:23.155 in the Senate decide Trump is going to destroy them personally. 0:10:23.675 --> 0:10:28.155 Trump's iron grip is at its largest exactly twenty four 0:10:28.715 --> 0:10:36.035 self interested, amorl disloyal Republicans wide twenty four and trust 0:10:36.075 --> 0:10:39.875 me at least twenty four. House and Senate Republicans have 0:10:40.035 --> 0:10:43.795 always hated Trump's guts and right now at least twenty 0:10:43.795 --> 0:10:46.475 four House and Senate Republicans, probably closer to two hundred 0:10:46.515 --> 0:10:53.195 and four of them hate Trump's guts. So I want 0:10:53.275 --> 0:11:26.355 to see polling numbers on a presidential recall vote? Am 0:11:26.395 --> 0:11:30.475 I expecting to see polding numbers on a presidential recall 0:11:30.555 --> 0:11:40.395 vote commissioned by ABC, by cowering CNN, by MSNVC more 0:11:40.475 --> 0:11:43.795 unlikely still commissioned by some aspect of the Democratic Party. 0:11:43.875 --> 0:11:51.115 I am not. I mean, who listens to me? I 0:11:51.155 --> 0:11:54.315 am right with surprising frequency, but who listens to me? 0:11:56.315 --> 0:11:59.355 On the other hand, I have been pounding for weeks 0:11:59.355 --> 0:12:01.995 the idea of a shadow Democratic Cabinet and a weekly 0:12:02.035 --> 0:12:05.635 news conference every Sunday morning at eight am, which steals 0:12:05.675 --> 0:12:08.595 the agenda for the Sunday morning news shows for all 0:12:08.675 --> 0:12:12.395 of local television news all day Sunday, which steals the 0:12:12.435 --> 0:12:15.435 news agenda for almost all of media for at least 0:12:15.435 --> 0:12:19.475 part of Monday. And what did we get? The new 0:12:19.635 --> 0:12:25.715 DNC chair Ken Martin announced the People's Cabinet to provide 0:12:25.755 --> 0:12:28.595 stuff with which to hit the trumpests in the groin. 0:12:30.675 --> 0:12:35.635 It still sounds a little diffuse to me. He's going 0:12:35.715 --> 0:12:40.235 to have experts and random press conferences and data and 0:12:40.355 --> 0:12:43.155 stuff that you at home? Can you I want prominent, 0:12:43.195 --> 0:12:47.475 popular young Democrats in front of microphones outdoors every Sunday 0:12:47.755 --> 0:12:55.075 raising hell but the people's cabinet. It's a start, do 0:12:55.155 --> 0:12:58.955 you know, Ken Martin? I mean, tell him about polling 0:12:58.995 --> 0:13:02.875 on a presidential recall vote and the impact symbolic at 0:13:02.955 --> 0:13:06.955 least that a large number like seventy percent of the 0:13:06.955 --> 0:13:11.275 public wanting a new vote or or forty seven percent 0:13:11.315 --> 0:13:14.315 of the public wanting a new vote might have on 0:13:14.435 --> 0:13:20.515 current events, namely our twenty four Republicans. I mean, for months, 0:13:20.555 --> 0:13:23.755 I have been putting out apbs on Barack Obama, and 0:13:23.795 --> 0:13:29.075 what happened? He emerged. He did a Q and A 0:13:29.075 --> 0:13:35.075 at Hamilton College and not only spewed facts, spilled teas 0:13:35.275 --> 0:13:41.315 of infinite variety, but he underscored why he is an essential, 0:13:41.435 --> 0:13:45.995 maybe the essential messenger right now, even if it still 0:13:45.995 --> 0:13:48.155 doesn't seem clear to him that he needs to get 0:13:48.155 --> 0:13:50.355 out there at minimum every two weeks and he has 0:13:50.395 --> 0:13:55.675 to stop avoiding calling Trump out by name. But this 0:13:55.795 --> 0:14:05.435 message delivered this way is quietly, concisely, magnetically, brilliantly in inspirational. 0:14:07.355 --> 0:14:08.915 Just sit for two minutes and listen. 0:14:09.315 --> 0:14:14.035 Imagine if I had done any of this. Let me just, 0:14:14.115 --> 0:14:16.355 I just, I just want to be clear about this. 0:14:18.915 --> 0:14:29.995 It may imagine that imagine if I. 0:14:29.915 --> 0:14:32.995 Had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press Court. 0:14:34.275 --> 0:14:40.035 You're laughing, but no, that this is what's happening. It 0:14:40.075 --> 0:14:43.955 may imagine if I had said to law firms that 0:14:44.035 --> 0:14:48.635 were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration 0:14:48.715 --> 0:14:55.915 had initiated that you will not be allowed into government buildings. 0:15:01.155 --> 0:15:10.075 We will punish you economically for decent from the Affordable 0:15:10.115 --> 0:15:20.275 caret or the Around Deal. We will ferret out students 0:15:23.195 --> 0:15:38.395 who protest against my policies. It's unimaginable that the same 0:15:38.715 --> 0:15:43.995 parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like 0:15:44.075 --> 0:15:48.435 that for me or a whole bunch of my predecessors. 0:15:51.035 --> 0:15:57.755 So and I say this. I say this not on 0:15:57.795 --> 0:16:05.115 a partisan basis. This has to do with something more ruscious, 0:16:06.275 --> 0:16:10.275 which is who are we as a country and what 0:16:10.395 --> 0:16:11.555 values do we stand for? 0:16:11.915 --> 0:16:17.475 Now you know why he got elected twice. Additionally, very 0:16:17.475 --> 0:16:20.035 matter of factly, President Obama noted that the divide in 0:16:20.075 --> 0:16:23.155 the Democratic Party stick to the kitchen table issues, no, 0:16:23.275 --> 0:16:27.515 stick to the democracy issues. They're the same issue. It's 0:16:27.555 --> 0:16:32.035 one thing without democracy. Trump sets tariffs, and tariffs set 0:16:32.075 --> 0:16:39.395 the prices of what's at your kitchen table. The cost 0:16:39.435 --> 0:16:47.155 of everything is going up under fascism. Again, Obama remains 0:16:47.195 --> 0:16:51.955 the best political speaker in this country. Clinton was once better, 0:16:52.115 --> 0:16:54.955 but age has and I mean this literally hurt his 0:16:55.155 --> 0:17:00.755 instrument and as an unavoidable aside for which I apologize. 0:17:00.995 --> 0:17:04.155 Barack Obama's first political proto speech was also in New 0:17:04.235 --> 0:17:08.195 York State at my high school, the one Will Bunch 0:17:08.315 --> 0:17:11.275 and Chris Berman and I went to years earlier, obviously 0:17:12.555 --> 0:17:16.435 nineteen ninety one, at the behest of the history teacher 0:17:17.595 --> 0:17:20.555 who told me on graduation day the sportscasting thing was nice, 0:17:20.555 --> 0:17:22.915 but someday I would wind up in politics, covering it 0:17:22.995 --> 0:17:25.915 or running in it. I was sixteen. I laughed at him. 0:17:25.915 --> 0:17:29.155 His name was Walter Schneller, and Walter was right about 0:17:29.195 --> 0:17:32.355 me and more importantly about Obama. As he put him 0:17:32.395 --> 0:17:34.515 on the train in Tarrytown, New York, he said, have 0:17:34.635 --> 0:17:39.195 you considered running for office? Now? Back to the point, 0:17:39.195 --> 0:17:42.235 put all these ideas together, the shadow cabinet, the Sunday 0:17:42.235 --> 0:17:45.315 morning news agenda, setting press conference, and having the speaker 0:17:45.395 --> 0:17:47.435 at it be at least once in a while Barack 0:17:47.475 --> 0:17:52.475 Obama armed with polling on a presidential recall vote and 0:17:53.195 --> 0:18:03.395 large protests like this past weekend, at least every other weekend. 0:18:03.435 --> 0:18:07.555 Give Ken Martin my email or just a link to 0:18:07.595 --> 0:18:22.075 the podcast. Christ Why is this such elabyrinth? Wouldn't it 0:18:22.155 --> 0:18:24.995 have been nice to have had Obama doing news conference 0:18:25.075 --> 0:18:29.315 yesterday morning instead of an event at Hamilton College yesterday 0:18:29.315 --> 0:18:33.515 morning Sunday morning, and forced Trump's parade of idiots on 0:18:33.555 --> 0:18:37.675 the Sunday shows to try to follow that, to have 0:18:37.795 --> 0:18:41.235 the headlines now not be about disproving these awful, imbecilic 0:18:41.315 --> 0:18:44.915 liars and their awful, imbecilic lies, but how awful and 0:18:44.995 --> 0:18:50.395 imbecilic they sounded compared to Obama. Also that president will 0:18:50.395 --> 0:18:56.995 recall vote. Dato. That's a stunner, isn't it? Steve Cornecki. Ordinarily, 0:18:57.915 --> 0:19:00.795 even if you were Trump, you would keep radio silence 0:19:00.875 --> 0:19:03.355 after a week in which you imposed tariffs based on 0:19:03.395 --> 0:19:07.155 a formula that you dreamt up. That is basically the 0:19:07.275 --> 0:19:12.955 ratio of our trade deficit with each country and that 0:19:12.995 --> 0:19:18.315 country's total exports to this country, divided by two. In 0:19:18.395 --> 0:19:20.475 Layman's terms, this is the equivalent of how much of 0:19:20.515 --> 0:19:23.595 your money you have lost to one guy when you 0:19:23.675 --> 0:19:26.955 play poker and he's better than you, are, divided by 0:19:26.955 --> 0:19:29.955 how much money he actually won from you, divided by 0:19:29.955 --> 0:19:32.835 two oh, and then you announce that number is the 0:19:33.035 --> 0:19:37.875 cheated by winning. Ordinarily, after a week like that, you 0:19:38.035 --> 0:19:41.755 keep radio silence after not only making up an unbelievably 0:19:41.795 --> 0:19:44.875 bullshit excuse for how Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlanta got 0:19:44.875 --> 0:19:49.595 added to the illegal signal chat about bombing Yemen. I'll 0:19:49.675 --> 0:19:52.715 just read this explanation the way Hugo Lowell scooped it 0:19:52.755 --> 0:19:56.515 in The Guardian. Hugo's got it right, but I still 0:19:56.555 --> 0:20:00.435 think they just made it up. Are you ready you 0:20:00.435 --> 0:20:03.755 have a drink nearby, because if you don't need alcohol 0:20:03.835 --> 0:20:05.395 after this, at least you I want a drink so 0:20:05.435 --> 0:20:09.995 you can do a spit take quote. According to three 0:20:10.035 --> 0:20:13.955 people briefed on the internal investigation, Goldberg had emailed the 0:20:13.995 --> 0:20:16.795 campaign about a story that criticized Trump for his attitude 0:20:16.955 --> 0:20:20.875 towards wounded service members. To push back against the story, 0:20:21.035 --> 0:20:24.875 the campaign enlisted the help of Mike Waltz, their national 0:20:24.915 --> 0:20:30.475 security surrogate. Goldberg's email was forwarded to then Trump's spokesperson 0:20:30.555 --> 0:20:34.115 Brian Hughes, who then copied and pasted the content of 0:20:34.155 --> 0:20:38.675 the email, including the signature block with Goldberg's phone number, 0:20:39.235 --> 0:20:42.595 into a text message that he sent to Waltz so 0:20:42.635 --> 0:20:46.235 that he could be briefed on the forthcoming story. Waltz 0:20:46.275 --> 0:20:49.755 did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in 0:20:49.835 --> 0:20:55.675 an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg's number in 0:20:55.755 --> 0:21:00.395 his iPhone under the contact card for Hughes, now the 0:21:00.435 --> 0:21:10.235 spokesperson for the National Security COUNCILOT. It took them thirteen 0:21:10.355 --> 0:21:14.435 days to make that up. And you don't think they're 0:21:14.515 --> 0:21:19.555 vulnerable to pressure from twenty four Republicans who would become 0:21:19.635 --> 0:21:24.155 convinced that their careers depend on Trump leaving the White House. 0:21:26.995 --> 0:21:28.475 Day seven, you got anything. 0:21:28.235 --> 0:21:29.235 No on anything. 0:21:29.835 --> 0:21:32.435 Day nine, well, I may have something, something about something 0:21:32.435 --> 0:21:35.395 about cutting and pasting. I'll put a team on it. 0:21:36.235 --> 0:21:40.875 Thirteen days to make that up. The entire Cuban missile 0:21:40.915 --> 0:21:47.755 crisis took thirteen days. We nearly blew up the world, 0:21:47.915 --> 0:21:50.875 then steered it all back from the edge of doomsday 0:21:51.315 --> 0:21:53.995 in thirteen days. And that's how long it took them 0:21:53.995 --> 0:21:57.555 to make that bullshit up. Ordinarily, after that, you'd keep 0:21:57.635 --> 0:21:59.795 radio silence, You keep all of your people off TV. 0:22:00.035 --> 0:22:05.315 You deny there was an attorney general. Sorry, we don't 0:22:05.315 --> 0:22:08.315 have one. No, I went out with that dodge stuff. 0:22:10.555 --> 0:22:13.955 Ordinarily you'd keep radio silence. After you crashed the stock 0:22:14.035 --> 0:22:16.795 market and the economy and then reposted a video saying 0:22:16.795 --> 0:22:22.675 you crashed the stock market intentionally, leaving Janine Piro to say, 0:22:23.155 --> 0:22:25.595 I don't really care about my four oh one K 0:22:25.715 --> 0:22:32.635 today you know why I believe in this man, and 0:22:32.715 --> 0:22:35.435 of course in wine, and you left Benny Johnson to 0:22:35.475 --> 0:22:39.715 say losing money needs nothing digital ones and zeros. In 0:22:39.755 --> 0:22:42.115 the end, you won't miss any of it. Losing your 0:22:42.155 --> 0:22:44.395 country costs you everything. You'll never get that back. Your 0:22:44.435 --> 0:22:47.155 kids will be slaved to foreign powers who hate us. 0:22:47.235 --> 0:22:52.115 Without America First policies, we become slaves. Fight this after 0:22:52.155 --> 0:22:55.275 promising Trump would make all his suckers rich, and Benny 0:22:55.315 --> 0:22:59.835 doesn't have to worry about money. There's always Russia. This 0:22:59.995 --> 0:23:03.355 reminds me of the famous line from the late great 0:23:03.395 --> 0:23:08.835 comic genius Ernie Cooe. The money means nothing. The money 0:23:08.955 --> 0:23:14.835 is nothing. Therefore the money means nothing. Ordinarily, after a 0:23:14.875 --> 0:23:18.075 week like that, you'd shut the f up and shut 0:23:18.115 --> 0:23:20.795 your cabinet, the f up, and not parade your dumbest 0:23:20.835 --> 0:23:24.635 people in front of even the milk toast cowering Sunday shows, 0:23:24.715 --> 0:23:30.155 not trumpy. I really can't decide who was dumbest. On Fox, 0:23:30.355 --> 0:23:33.995 Pam Bondy, who is actually the Attorney General? When she's 0:23:34.035 --> 0:23:37.115 so legally illiterate, she makes Alena Habba sound like Oliver 0:23:37.315 --> 0:23:41.475 fing Wendell Holmes interviewer, do you believe there's a method 0:23:41.515 --> 0:23:44.875 by which Trump could seek a third term? Bondy? I 0:23:44.955 --> 0:23:47.555 wish we could have him for twenty years as our president, 0:23:49.715 --> 0:23:52.515 maybe ninety eight, but I think he's going to be finished, 0:23:52.515 --> 0:23:59.235 probably after this term. Interviewer, Probably, Bondy, we'd have to 0:23:59.235 --> 0:24:04.355 look at the constitution. You do that, Pam, go look 0:24:04.395 --> 0:24:07.715 for of the Constitution, and while you're at it, look 0:24:07.715 --> 0:24:09.555 for a copy of your law degree, because I don't 0:24:09.595 --> 0:24:13.995 believe that exists either, at least you don't have one. 0:24:14.155 --> 0:24:19.675 On CNN, the Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins interviewer, you're imposing 0:24:19.675 --> 0:24:23.275 a ten percent charge on the Herd and MacDonald Islands. 0:24:23.475 --> 0:24:26.635 They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs 0:24:26.635 --> 0:24:31.555 on islands that are entirely populated by Penguins. Brook Rollins, 0:24:32.035 --> 0:24:36.235 Come on, Jake, whatever, listen. The people that are leading 0:24:36.275 --> 0:24:40.475 this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest people I've ever 0:24:40.515 --> 0:24:45.875 worked with. When the nineteen ninety two Cotton Bowl, Queen 0:24:46.515 --> 0:24:51.235 brook Rollins tells you that these are the most serious, intentional, patriotic, 0:24:51.675 --> 0:24:55.475 smartest people she's ever worked with, you do realize, sir, 0:24:56.155 --> 0:25:03.395 she's including the likes of Lou Holtz and George W. Bush. 0:25:03.795 --> 0:25:06.715 Since we're invoking the sweeping stupidity of college football. Theres 0:25:06.755 --> 0:25:10.755 coach Tommy Tubberville, still a senator on Fox. Tommy also 0:25:10.795 --> 0:25:16.435 believes in brownies and elves. Tubberville quote, we have entire 0:25:16.515 --> 0:25:21.515 men's teams crosses country now that are turning trans. Women's 0:25:21.555 --> 0:25:25.155 teams are turning trans. That's gonna be a situation where 0:25:25.155 --> 0:25:29.875 it's gonna pick up speed because these woke globalists are 0:25:29.915 --> 0:25:37.315 pushing these kids. Tommy actually does very well, considering he 0:25:37.355 --> 0:25:41.835 was born without a brain. There are, by the way, 0:25:42.195 --> 0:25:47.635 an estimated nine transgendered athletes in American college sports. Nine. 0:25:49.515 --> 0:25:51.515 And of course you remember when my eye doctor, Rene 0:25:51.555 --> 0:25:54.195 Richards transitioned and played in the US Open starting in 0:25:54.235 --> 0:25:58.155 nineteen seventy seven, and won twenty seven consecutive US women's titles, 0:25:58.195 --> 0:26:00.675 and she destroyed the sport of women's tennis. And nobody 0:26:00.715 --> 0:26:03.315 ever heard of, say Chris Evert or Martinez Averertalova, and 0:26:03.355 --> 0:26:05.435 they don't play women's tennis any more. Oh right, you 0:26:05.475 --> 0:26:12.115 don't remember any of that because it didn't happen, because 0:26:12.115 --> 0:26:16.795 there are nine transgendered college athletes in this country in 0:26:16.915 --> 0:26:19.115 high school. The only data we have is from Michigan, 0:26:19.195 --> 0:26:21.635 where they say they have won. They might have a 0:26:21.715 --> 0:26:27.075 second whole teams is women is changing into what would 0:26:27.075 --> 0:26:35.395 the other one be? Man? Man could be changing into 0:26:35.435 --> 0:26:40.955 the third gender? Tubberville on NBC. Scott besson the Secretary 0:26:40.995 --> 0:26:43.715 of Treasury and if ever there was actually a reason 0:26:43.715 --> 0:26:45.995 to go check if the gold is still at Fort Knox, 0:26:46.115 --> 0:26:49.315 Scott Bessant, is it? Interviewer? The markets lost more than 0:26:49.355 --> 0:26:53.195 six trillion dollars in value? Was this disruption always part 0:26:53.195 --> 0:26:57.475 of the plan? Bessent. We had record volume on Friday, 0:26:57.595 --> 0:27:00.435 and everything is working very smoothly, So the American people 0:27:00.435 --> 0:27:07.955 can take great comfort in that record volume. Oh and 0:27:08.075 --> 0:27:10.395 the machine didn't break great like the day of the 0:27:10.475 --> 0:27:15.435 nineteen twenty nine crash. Well, it's every moment of it 0:27:15.475 --> 0:27:18.355 as a disaster. But look, the machine is just ticking 0:27:18.435 --> 0:27:25.195 out like nobody's business, those humming machines. Besson actually gets 0:27:25.235 --> 0:27:27.995 two entries. He was also asked Trump promised he was 0:27:28.035 --> 0:27:29.955 going to improve the economy starting on day one. What 0:27:30.035 --> 0:27:32.515 is your message to Americans who want to retire right 0:27:32.555 --> 0:27:35.675 now and have just seen their lifetime savings drop significantly? 0:27:35.795 --> 0:27:39.515 Bessen't Most Americans who have put away for years in 0:27:39.555 --> 0:27:42.555 their savings account don't look at the day to day 0:27:42.875 --> 0:27:48.635 fluctuations of what's happening. My heroes, Bob Elliott and Ray 0:27:48.675 --> 0:27:50.755 Goulding did a sketch that I heard first when I 0:27:50.795 --> 0:27:54.315 was fourteen fifteen years old, about a paper clip factory 0:27:55.355 --> 0:27:59.635 somewhere in Ohio, of all places. Their news reporter Wallybloo 0:27:59.635 --> 0:28:02.675 played by Bob, is interviewing the owner of the place, 0:28:03.275 --> 0:28:07.875 the handmade paper clip factory. Literally, they were handmade paper clips, 0:28:07.915 --> 0:28:11.475 cut and bent into shape by hand. Ray, as the 0:28:11.515 --> 0:28:15.675 owner explains, how's that possible, Blue asks they must cost 0:28:15.675 --> 0:28:20.075 a fortune handmade. No, the owner says, they're ten cents 0:28:20.075 --> 0:28:23.475 a box. Fob Akron, we just signed a ninety nine 0:28:23.555 --> 0:28:26.875 year sweetheart deal with our union. We pay our employees 0:28:26.915 --> 0:28:31.195 eight cents a week. Blue screams eight cents a week? 0:28:32.475 --> 0:28:34.555 How do your people live on eight cents a week? 0:28:35.435 --> 0:28:39.315 And the owner says, mister Blue, we don't pry into 0:28:39.315 --> 0:28:45.755 the private lies of our employees. We don't pry into 0:28:45.755 --> 0:28:49.955 the private lives of our employees. People don't have any 0:28:49.995 --> 0:28:52.915 money in their checking account and savings account. They don't 0:28:52.955 --> 0:28:55.515 know that. They don't look day to day fluctuations in 0:28:55.555 --> 0:29:03.395 their account. To that point, possibly the dumbest person in 0:29:03.475 --> 0:29:07.595 any cabinet ever, excluding Trump himself obviously on CBS, Commerce 0:29:07.715 --> 0:29:12.795 Secretary Howard Lutnik, or as he has been unfortunately renamed 0:29:13.515 --> 0:29:20.875 Howard nut Lick Lutnick, you realize tillions of dollars in 0:29:20.955 --> 0:29:23.715 factories are going to be built in America. That's huge, GDP. 0:29:24.155 --> 0:29:27.835 The factories being built in America are huge, interviewer. That 0:29:27.955 --> 0:29:30.715 takes years. And you said that robots are going to 0:29:30.755 --> 0:29:34.675 fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs, Lutnick, 0:29:34.995 --> 0:29:37.635 it's automated factories. The key is who is going to 0:29:37.675 --> 0:29:44.315 build and operate the factories, interviewer, You said robots, Lutnik, 0:29:44.555 --> 0:29:47.915 the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing 0:29:47.955 --> 0:29:51.595 in little screws to make iPhones. That kind of thing 0:29:51.715 --> 0:30:01.075 is going to come to America unquote oh child labor, 0:30:05.515 --> 0:30:09.715 which they are moving to make legal in Florida, where 0:30:09.755 --> 0:30:12.475 they can screw in little screws to make iPhones better 0:30:12.515 --> 0:30:19.195 if you have little hands screwing in little screws ten 0:30:19.275 --> 0:30:24.035 cents of box. Fob Ackron, the Bob and Ray sketch 0:30:24.075 --> 0:30:27.715 had another punchline. When pressed on the living conditions of 0:30:27.755 --> 0:30:30.435 his staff, the head of the handmade paper clip factory 0:30:30.635 --> 0:30:34.275 explained that it was his understanding that most of his 0:30:34.355 --> 0:30:38.795 employees wore old newspapers wrapped around their feet instead of shoes, 0:30:39.195 --> 0:30:42.915 and that they lived in caves on the outskirts of town. 0:30:49.395 --> 0:30:57.835 Twenty four Republicans I want pulling on a presidential we 0:30:57.955 --> 0:31:02.555 call vote. Also of interest on this whole new episode, 0:31:02.555 --> 0:31:04.915 the entire history of who was the first person an 0:31:04.915 --> 0:31:10.075 ever to be photographed giving the cameraman the finger now 0:31:10.195 --> 0:31:16.995