WEBVTT - DEFEATED BY KIMMEL AND AN ESCALATOR, TRUMP SHOULD RESIGN - 9.25.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.355 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. After 0:00:24.475 --> 0:00:29.435 perhaps the most hapless ninety six hours of his presidency, 0:00:29.955 --> 0:00:33.715 the most hapless, worst ninety six hours of the worst 0:00:33.755 --> 0:00:38.755 presidency of all time, the most fail in the shortest span, 0:00:39.635 --> 0:00:45.395 the mentally deteriorating, untethered from reality, Trump must resign and 0:00:45.555 --> 0:00:49.315 take his idiot sick ephants with him. The last ninety 0:00:49.355 --> 0:00:53.115 six hours, his un speech sounding like an escape ee 0:00:53.155 --> 0:00:57.035 from a psych ward, his tailenol news conference sounding like 0:00:57.075 --> 0:00:59.515 an escapee from a psych ward who's been living on 0:00:59.555 --> 0:01:03.515 the street for a month. His suggestion NATO country shoot 0:01:03.595 --> 0:01:07.675 down Russian jet. His sudden embrace of Zelenski either another 0:01:07.755 --> 0:01:12.115 stall or stupid dared putin Maga's rage at his sudden 0:01:12.155 --> 0:01:15.475 embrace of Zelenski. The cover of a London right wing daily, 0:01:15.595 --> 0:01:18.475 his picture on it in seventy two point type, the 0:01:18.475 --> 0:01:24.195 word deranged. The ice shooting in Dallas, His sidistic Homeland 0:01:24.275 --> 0:01:27.635 Chief pretending the victims were agents when they were detainees, 0:01:27.915 --> 0:01:31.835 His idiots simpering Vice President pretending the victims were agents 0:01:31.835 --> 0:01:36.115 when they were detainees. His corrupt, venal, cross eyed FBI 0:01:36.235 --> 0:01:39.795 director pretending the victims were agents when they were detainees, 0:01:40.395 --> 0:01:44.035 his Ice chief not denying he took fifty thousand dollars 0:01:44.035 --> 0:01:47.555 in a paper bag, his staff then denying the man 0:01:47.595 --> 0:01:51.035 took fifty thousand dollars in a paper bag. His cancelation 0:01:51.115 --> 0:01:53.915 of a meeting with Democrats, making certain that if there 0:01:53.995 --> 0:01:57.755 is a government shutdown, it is all his fault. His 0:01:57.955 --> 0:02:02.835 crack pot pal melay of the Sideburns, crashing the Venezuelan 0:02:02.915 --> 0:02:06.155 economy and needing us to base ail him out. His 0:02:06.355 --> 0:02:10.075 paranoia over the stopped teleprompter at the UN that was 0:02:10.155 --> 0:02:14.035 the White House staff's fault. His paranoia over the stopped 0:02:14.155 --> 0:02:17.955 escalator at the UN that was his own vanity videographer's fault. 0:02:18.195 --> 0:02:22.355 His desire to arrest the UN escalator technician or the 0:02:22.515 --> 0:02:27.075 UN escalator button pusher, his desire to arrest the escalator 0:02:27.435 --> 0:02:32.115 and James Comy. The election of Raoul Grihalva's daughter to Congress, 0:02:32.195 --> 0:02:35.395 the fact that Adalita Grihalvo will be the last representative 0:02:35.475 --> 0:02:38.595 needed to force a vote on releasing the Trump. Epstein 0:02:38.715 --> 0:02:43.835 files his self humiliation at the Kirk Memorial, ABC reinstating 0:02:43.915 --> 0:02:47.275 Jimmy Kimmel meaning Disney told him to f off, meaning 0:02:47.275 --> 0:02:50.235 the National Football League told him to f off, meaning 0:02:50.275 --> 0:02:54.435 they all told his propagandists it Sinclair to f off Kimmel, 0:02:54.515 --> 0:02:58.475 then shoving him in a locker using only a monologue. 0:02:58.595 --> 0:03:02.675 Kimmel getting a record six million viewers and twenty two 0:03:02.835 --> 0:03:06.835 more million online in just the first twenty hours, Kimmel 0:03:06.955 --> 0:03:10.115 and his show getting new life and maybe a new contract. 0:03:10.595 --> 0:03:13.835 His self owning confession that he and his goons used 0:03:13.875 --> 0:03:18.515 threats to get Kimmel canceled, except they didn't get Kimmel canceled. 0:03:18.835 --> 0:03:22.155 The fact that Kimmel and ABC and Bob Iger and 0:03:22.275 --> 0:03:27.795 Disney at America told Trump to shove his threats up 0:03:28.195 --> 0:03:36.475 his ass. And that's just since Sunday night. Resign. Take 0:03:36.595 --> 0:03:41.715 Vance with you, Take Nome with you, Take Home Man 0:03:41.835 --> 0:03:49.275 with you, Take me Lay with you. Leave the Epstein files. 0:03:50.915 --> 0:03:57.955 He lost to a escalator. Let me start with the 0:03:57.955 --> 0:04:01.235 biggest surprise of all these things. Remember the South African 0:04:01.315 --> 0:04:04.315 pastor who woke up from a dream couple weeks back 0:04:04.475 --> 0:04:08.555 and proclaimed there would be a rapture at sunset in Israel, 0:04:08.995 --> 0:04:12.035 which would have been eleven thirty six am this Tuesday. 0:04:13.195 --> 0:04:16.235 I think there was a rapture because something sure disappeared 0:04:16.275 --> 0:04:18.995 into the sky the hours before and after that sunset. 0:04:19.155 --> 0:04:26.555 And that's something, was Trump's feeling of invulnerability. That collection 0:04:26.635 --> 0:04:30.435 of disasters that's two dozen in four days, is worse 0:04:30.475 --> 0:04:34.395 than it seems because they are all self owns, all 0:04:34.475 --> 0:04:40.275 of them mistakes, self delusions, obsessions, self indulgences, self destructions, 0:04:40.435 --> 0:04:45.395 quicksand that Trump and Trump alone could voluntarily dive into 0:04:45.515 --> 0:04:51.875 an average of one every four hours. Kimmel looms above, around, 0:04:51.955 --> 0:04:53.755 and behind every one of them, and I'll get to 0:04:53.835 --> 0:04:56.075 him in a moment, But cause, to paraphrase the Baseball 0:04:56.155 --> 0:05:00.195 Hall of Famer and builder Rube Foster, Kimmel is the ship. 0:05:00.635 --> 0:05:06.035 All else is the sea. However, the Zelensky surprise is 0:05:06.075 --> 0:05:09.155 the most meaningful because we have yet to hear Putin's reaction, 0:05:09.315 --> 0:05:11.835 and the silence lends more credence to the theory that 0:05:11.915 --> 0:05:16.755 this is just another new, admittedly novel, way for Trump 0:05:16.795 --> 0:05:19.755 to further stall on Putin's behalf. And even if it isn't, 0:05:19.795 --> 0:05:23.435 it still included Trump's insistence that any action taken and 0:05:23.475 --> 0:05:27.595 any money spent be taken and spent by Europe, including 0:05:27.595 --> 0:05:31.635 shooting down Russian planes or drones during incursions over Pole 0:05:31.675 --> 0:05:36.395 and Estonia, maybe Denmark, maybe Wherever's next. Nothing for us 0:05:36.475 --> 0:05:39.475 to worry about here, of course, because we have an 0:05:39.595 --> 0:05:45.555 ocean between us, and as another president wants asked rhetorically, 0:05:45.915 --> 0:05:49.835 shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the 0:05:49.875 --> 0:05:53.235 ocean and crush us at a blow? Never, all the 0:05:53.435 --> 0:05:55.755 armies could not by force take a drink from the 0:05:55.755 --> 0:05:58.275 Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in 0:05:58.315 --> 0:06:03.115 a trial of one thousand years. Of course, the president 0:06:03.115 --> 0:06:06.715 who said that was Lincoln said it in eighteen thirty nine, 0:06:07.155 --> 0:06:11.355 and there were no airplanes or rockets, or battleships or 0:06:11.475 --> 0:06:15.035 submarines in eighteen thirty nine. And apparently, either Trump has 0:06:15.115 --> 0:06:18.195 not yet found out that there are now airplanes and 0:06:18.355 --> 0:06:23.755 rockets and battleships and submarines, or more likely Trump still 0:06:23.915 --> 0:06:29.715 thinks it's still eighteen thirty nine. The Grijalva election, of course, 0:06:29.755 --> 0:06:32.435 will be the most meaningful going forward, because the new 0:06:32.475 --> 0:06:35.715 representative is not only the daughter of as quiet and 0:06:35.795 --> 0:06:39.155 effective and strategic a progressive as the House has had 0:06:39.195 --> 0:06:42.835 in this century, my friend Raoul Grijalva, but she has 0:06:42.875 --> 0:06:45.315 said that the day she is sworn in by the Speaker, 0:06:46.115 --> 0:06:48.715 she will sign on to the Massy motion to force 0:06:48.755 --> 0:06:52.715 a House vote on releasing the Epstein files. Massy has 0:06:53.035 --> 0:06:56.395 two hundred and seventeen votes right now he needs two 0:06:56.435 --> 0:06:59.955 hundred and eighteen. Atalida Grihava will be number two hundred 0:06:59.955 --> 0:07:02.075 and eighteen. And this now means that to stop the 0:07:02.155 --> 0:07:06.275 vote and stop putting his pet speaker Mike Johnson in 0:07:06.315 --> 0:07:10.115 an untenable position, Trump has only one option then, which 0:07:10.155 --> 0:07:13.755 is to force Johnson and House Republicans to actually shut 0:07:13.795 --> 0:07:18.275 the government down. Because a government shut down delays swearing 0:07:18.315 --> 0:07:21.835 in Adalita Grihalva vote number two hundred and eighteen, and 0:07:21.995 --> 0:07:26.755 delaying swearing in Adalita Grihalva may be Trump's last way 0:07:27.155 --> 0:07:57.715 out of the Epstein files. And now to the Gettysburg 0:07:57.875 --> 0:08:01.515 Address of Late Night Comedy Monologues, The I'm as mad 0:08:01.555 --> 0:08:03.075 as hell and I'm not going to take it any 0:08:03.075 --> 0:08:07.395 more of Late Night Comedy Monologue, the Ten Commandments of 0:08:07.515 --> 0:08:12.875 Late Night Comedy Monologues. I can confess this now. I 0:08:12.955 --> 0:08:18.155 really thought even Jimmy Kimmel, who makes my Nate palming 0:08:18.195 --> 0:08:23.515 of Bridges look like nothing, was returning to save the 0:08:23.635 --> 0:08:26.275 jobs of his staff and the other two hundred people 0:08:26.395 --> 0:08:29.635 or so whose livelihoods depend on his show still existing. 0:08:30.155 --> 0:08:33.795 I thought he would pull a lot of punches, or 0:08:34.115 --> 0:08:39.115 a couple or maybe one, or at minimum, not do 0:08:39.715 --> 0:08:44.715 a monologue so searing, so masterful, so declaring of his 0:08:44.875 --> 0:08:48.675 ownership of Trump that Jimmy had to take a commercial 0:08:48.755 --> 0:08:51.435 break in the middle of it before he even got 0:08:51.475 --> 0:08:54.875 to the part about Robert de Niro playing in perfect 0:08:54.915 --> 0:09:01.395 form a mafioso version of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Well, 0:09:01.435 --> 0:09:05.675 I got that wrong. Huh If that was done without 0:09:05.755 --> 0:09:08.635 Bob Eiger's approval, I'll be just as shocked and just 0:09:08.715 --> 0:09:11.875 as wrong. Again, he knew that was coming. Is it 0:09:11.915 --> 0:09:15.355 a compromise, Maybe, jim you say whatever you want now 0:09:15.715 --> 0:09:19.035 and we'll just shut the show down in a year. 0:09:20.275 --> 0:09:22.035 Or is it Eiger waking up to the fact that 0:09:22.075 --> 0:09:25.115 the sixteen million dollar settlement bribe with Trump bought him nothing, 0:09:26.155 --> 0:09:29.035 nothing but more trouble, nothing but more threats, nothing but 0:09:29.075 --> 0:09:35.235 more blackmail. Was it Eiger's realization that he chairs the 0:09:35.355 --> 0:09:39.715 leading entertainment company in the country and Trump's true approval 0:09:39.835 --> 0:09:43.115 rating is down to around thirty two percent. Here and 0:09:43.235 --> 0:09:46.515 even most right wingers realized that if Trump could get 0:09:46.635 --> 0:09:52.235 Kimmel fired, President Fritzker or President AOC. We'll be able 0:09:52.235 --> 0:09:55.075 to get everybody at Fox News fired and maybe all 0:09:55.115 --> 0:10:00.275 of their podcasts canceled. What is Ted Cruz? If there 0:10:00.315 --> 0:10:04.955 is no Ted Cruz podcast, He's just an idiot asshole, Senate. Sure, 0:10:06.835 --> 0:10:11.235 it doesn't matter which it was, either way or any 0:10:11.275 --> 0:10:14.955 other way. This is a landmark moment. This is a 0:10:14.995 --> 0:10:20.115 bullying victim coming back and hitting Scott Farcus Trump in 0:10:20.195 --> 0:10:26.035 the nuts and better than that. After Trump's long suffering, 0:10:26.275 --> 0:10:29.675 perpetual rake stepping Minion spent a week insisting Trump had 0:10:29.715 --> 0:10:32.795 nothing to do with it, and Brendan Gebbel's car had 0:10:32.835 --> 0:10:34.955 nothing to do with it, and the FCC had nothing 0:10:34.995 --> 0:10:38.035 to do with it, nothing to do with Kimmel's sidelining. 0:10:38.235 --> 0:10:40.195 Trump then boasted that he and car and the FCC 0:10:40.275 --> 0:10:46.195 had not only done it, they thought that ABC had surrendered. Quote. 0:10:46.275 --> 0:10:49.475 I can't believe ABC, fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his 0:10:49.555 --> 0:10:53.275 job back. The White House was told by ABC that 0:10:53.355 --> 0:10:58.755 his show was canceled. That's a confession. Something happened between 0:10:58.795 --> 0:11:01.395 then and now, because his audience is gone and his 0:11:01.475 --> 0:11:03.795 talent was never there. Well, he's wrong about that too, 0:11:03.915 --> 0:11:06.555 as the numbers will show. Why would they want someone 0:11:06.595 --> 0:11:11.195 back who does so poorly? All things considered, more people 0:11:11.235 --> 0:11:15.755 watch Kimmel than watch Trump's inauguration this year. Why would 0:11:15.755 --> 0:11:18.715 they want something made prob not funny? Puts the network 0:11:18.715 --> 0:11:22.675 in jeopardy, but puts the network in jeopardy. What does 0:11:22.675 --> 0:11:26.115 he mean? Oh, he is yet another arm of the DNC, 0:11:26.355 --> 0:11:28.115 and the best of my knowledge, that would be a 0:11:28.155 --> 0:11:32.995 major illegal contribution, illegal campaign contribution. I think we're going 0:11:33.075 --> 0:11:35.395 to test ABC out on this. Well, there are no 0:11:35.555 --> 0:11:37.435 laws that would allow him to test this out. So 0:11:37.475 --> 0:11:39.995 what's the plan. Let's see how we do. Last time 0:11:40.035 --> 0:11:43.515 I went after them, they gave me dollars, signed sixteen 0:11:43.595 --> 0:11:47.275 million dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true 0:11:47.315 --> 0:11:54.795 bunch of losers. Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings. Yo, h, 0:11:55.515 --> 0:11:57.555 they didn't have bad ratings. He had four times his 0:11:57.595 --> 0:12:01.275 normal ratings. It's one thing if you bully a company 0:12:01.275 --> 0:12:04.595 into bribing you because it has business before the f 0:12:04.755 --> 0:12:08.035 TC or FCC or any other government agency. You have 0:12:08.075 --> 0:12:12.355 perverted it into many pollot bureaus using Trump brand coercion. 0:12:12.515 --> 0:12:15.995 It's another, though, if you have convinced yourself that the 0:12:16.115 --> 0:12:19.195 bribes these other people paid to shut you up for 0:12:19.235 --> 0:12:22.235 ten minutes were in fact something you earned in some way, 0:12:22.475 --> 0:12:25.075 or something that a court awarded to you in some way. 0:12:25.835 --> 0:12:28.795 Trump should sue ABC over Kimmel, and then Kimmel should 0:12:28.795 --> 0:12:33.355 sue the FCC for tortious interference, and ABC should sue 0:12:33.395 --> 0:12:37.315 the FCC and Sinclair and Next Star for damages. All right, 0:12:37.355 --> 0:12:40.875 they don't have to. I haven't worked in local news 0:12:40.955 --> 0:12:43.875 since nineteen ninety one, at a local station since the 0:12:44.035 --> 0:12:47.275 end of nineteen ninety one. But guess what, the local 0:12:47.315 --> 0:12:51.435 station arrangement hasn't changed all that much. Local stations that 0:12:51.555 --> 0:12:55.795 are not owned by the networks used to regularly silence 0:12:55.875 --> 0:12:58.755 network shows. The Smothers Brothers used to be preempted. The 0:12:58.835 --> 0:13:03.275 ABC evening News wasn't considered good enough for like Zanesville, Ohio, 0:13:03.955 --> 0:13:06.395 every late night show of the sixties and seventies. At 0:13:06.395 --> 0:13:10.475 some point on February fifth, nineteen sixty nine, Channel five, 0:13:10.595 --> 0:13:14.075 the ABC station in Cleveland, allegedly bailed out of the 0:13:14.115 --> 0:13:19.275 network's new comedy show Turn On during the first commercial break. 0:13:20.795 --> 0:13:24.155 But then, and it turns out, now this comes at 0:13:24.195 --> 0:13:27.275 a price if you are an ABC affiliate and you 0:13:27.315 --> 0:13:29.675 do not run an ABC show, you have to pay 0:13:29.715 --> 0:13:33.315 a postponement fee each time you don't run it. In 0:13:33.395 --> 0:13:35.875 Kimmel's case, that's five nights a week. And if you 0:13:35.955 --> 0:13:39.355 cancel enough network shows, ABC has the right to cancel 0:13:39.395 --> 0:13:43.195 your contract. And the next thing you know, Sinclair stations 0:13:43.195 --> 0:13:46.355 aren't running Dancing with the Stars or any sports or 0:13:46.355 --> 0:13:50.195 the twenty twenty seven Super Bowl, but non Sinclair stations 0:13:50.355 --> 0:13:53.755 in the same cities are. Oh and even before that, 0:13:53.875 --> 0:13:56.115 in the short run, if the Sinclair station will not 0:13:56.275 --> 0:14:00.155 show Kimmel long term, ABC can offer it to other 0:14:00.235 --> 0:14:04.155 stations in those markets for like two dollars an episode. 0:14:05.675 --> 0:14:12.595 Don't bring a tweet to a businessman's fight Trump. By 0:14:12.635 --> 0:14:15.235 the way, this is how unprepared MAGA was for a 0:14:15.235 --> 0:14:19.475 full one hundred percent humiliation and extinction level loss an 0:14:19.515 --> 0:14:23.955 ass kicking like Kimmel and ABC utterly destroying Trump as 0:14:23.995 --> 0:14:27.795 he did. The attempt to both sides this thing. Steven 0:14:27.875 --> 0:14:31.515 Miller's wife, Katie got off of her broom and screamed 0:14:31.555 --> 0:14:35.155 that the left didn't scream free speech when Tucker Carlson 0:14:35.235 --> 0:14:39.475 was canceled, so there, neglecting obviously that Carlson had a 0:14:39.475 --> 0:14:42.595 cable show, and the worst any government could ever do 0:14:42.835 --> 0:14:46.195 to a cable show as to threaten the Fox broadcast 0:14:46.235 --> 0:14:49.315 station licenses, which wouldn't have done a thing to Fox 0:14:49.395 --> 0:14:53.235 News and very little to Rupert Murdoch. So other MAGA 0:14:53.275 --> 0:14:56.595 then moved on from Tucker Carlson a losing comp to 0:14:56.715 --> 0:14:59.355 asking why the left didn't scream free speech when Lou 0:14:59.395 --> 0:15:06.795 Dobbs was fired again Cable, no FCC jurisdiction, Plus Carlson 0:15:06.875 --> 0:15:10.155 and Dobbs were fired by Rupert Murdock entirely by surprise, 0:15:10.515 --> 0:15:14.115 entirely without government prodding or pushing or posting or podcasts 0:15:14.275 --> 0:15:16.355 in which the head of the FCC says, we can 0:15:16.435 --> 0:15:18.235 do this easy way, or we can do this the 0:15:18.275 --> 0:15:21.435 hard way. That's my impression of Ted Cruz doing an 0:15:21.475 --> 0:15:25.115 ethnic accent. Incidentally, Lou Dobbs is dead now, and I 0:15:25.155 --> 0:15:28.675 always heard that he'd had enough event at Fox or 0:15:28.715 --> 0:15:31.355 events at Fox that they had to act that it 0:15:31.435 --> 0:15:34.435 wasn't just editorial. He had an event when I was 0:15:34.475 --> 0:15:38.715 at CNN, he had an event in Atlanta involving CNN management. 0:15:38.915 --> 0:15:42.195 The head of CNN Sports, my boss, Bill McPhail, took 0:15:42.275 --> 0:15:46.675 Dobbs's wife off long form sports anchoring after she walked 0:15:46.795 --> 0:15:49.875 off a show in the middle live when she got 0:15:49.915 --> 0:15:53.635 irretrievably lost trying to read the script and worse, read 0:15:53.715 --> 0:15:58.515 the prompter. Dobbs allegedly then burst into Bill mcphial's office 0:15:58.755 --> 0:16:01.315 and told him to stand up and start throwing punches. 0:16:02.435 --> 0:16:06.555 Dobbs challenged him to a fistfight. Dobbs was thirty eight 0:16:06.955 --> 0:16:12.875 and Bill McPhail was sixty three. Anyway, that's the best 0:16:12.875 --> 0:16:17.075 they had, Tucker Carlson and lou Dobbs and Trump confessing 0:16:17.355 --> 0:16:21.435 to personally using the government to attack the free press 0:16:21.515 --> 0:16:26.915 part of the First Amendment. And then, of course all 0:16:26.995 --> 0:16:31.675 of those viewers what twenty two nearly twenty three million 0:16:31.755 --> 0:16:35.875 viewers combined for Jimmy Kimmel, and now ABC is thinking 0:16:36.915 --> 0:16:41.595 maybe we want to give him a new ten year contract. Also, 0:16:42.795 --> 0:16:45.235 who was that who told you Kimmel was coming back 0:16:45.875 --> 0:16:48.995 before the end of the month, maybe before the end 0:16:49.035 --> 0:17:05.235 of the week. Okay, what before the tile and all idiocy? 0:17:05.355 --> 0:17:09.115 Trump and anybody he might have told bought advil stock. 0:17:10.395 --> 0:17:13.915 Since that disaster, hours have been spent analyzing Trump and 0:17:13.955 --> 0:17:17.035 tailanol and internet rumors being inflated to the level of 0:17:17.075 --> 0:17:19.835 a presidential news conference, when the whole thing could have 0:17:19.875 --> 0:17:23.635 been summarized by this simple reality. Thailand All was introduced 0:17:23.635 --> 0:17:29.755 in nineteen fifty five. Autism was discovered classified defined in 0:17:29.835 --> 0:17:34.395 nineteen forty three. Of all the stupid arguments in the world, 0:17:34.515 --> 0:17:39.115 to argue tailanol causes autism is stupider even than it 0:17:39.115 --> 0:17:45.195 would be to argue that autism caused tailandhol What's more, 0:17:45.835 --> 0:17:49.675 that news conference was not what he and pantiless Bobby 0:17:49.755 --> 0:17:53.715 Kennedy had reportedly agreed upon. Politico has quoted a series 0:17:53.755 --> 0:17:57.075 of White House sources who said Trump overruled even the 0:17:57.195 --> 0:18:01.875 quacks that masturbating Bob relied on to go on and 0:18:01.995 --> 0:18:04.195 try to make sure that people got sick the way 0:18:04.235 --> 0:18:07.515 that Trump made sure people got sick during COVID I'll 0:18:07.595 --> 0:18:11.515 quote Politico. The initial plan was to release a literature 0:18:11.555 --> 0:18:14.675 review on the state of research into autism causes and 0:18:14.715 --> 0:18:18.715 treatment options on September twenty ninth. Thailand All is one 0:18:18.715 --> 0:18:23.235 of thirty one hypotheses. Next, they planned an announcement that 0:18:23.315 --> 0:18:26.955 working groups would begin new studies next year. They expected 0:18:27.035 --> 0:18:30.995 initial findings from those efforts. To their frustration, Trump wanted 0:18:31.035 --> 0:18:35.755 to move forward anyway. Politico didn't say that, but of 0:18:35.795 --> 0:18:39.715 course moving forward anyway amounted to Trump just standing there yelling, 0:18:39.795 --> 0:18:42.395 don't take Dailand, all, don't take tailand all take what 0:18:42.475 --> 0:18:47.675 I take. Paint thin A. It is, in retrospect surprising 0:18:47.715 --> 0:18:50.035 that Trump didn't declare the makers of tailanhol to be 0:18:50.075 --> 0:18:54.555 a domestic terrorist organization. He did that to Antifa, even 0:18:54.595 --> 0:18:58.235 though a there is no such organization. It's like declaring 0:18:58.875 --> 0:19:03.155 short people to be a terrorist organization, or, to be fair, 0:19:03.435 --> 0:19:07.075 declaring tall people to be a terrorist organization, or men 0:19:07.115 --> 0:19:12.155 who wear eyeliner to be a terrorist organization. The president 0:19:12.195 --> 0:19:14.955 also has new legal right or route to declare anything 0:19:15.115 --> 0:19:20.675 a domestic terrorist organization. Congressman Dan Goldman pretty much summed 0:19:20.675 --> 0:19:25.075 this up and pretty much stuffed Trump into yet another locker. 0:19:25.755 --> 0:19:30.035 He's asking Trump, via social media, quote name one member 0:19:30.155 --> 0:19:34.315 of Antifa if it quote explicitly calls for the overthrow 0:19:34.355 --> 0:19:38.555 of the US government. Where can I find that statement? Trump, 0:19:38.635 --> 0:19:42.475 Goldman says, is trying to suppress opposition by labeling anyone 0:19:42.475 --> 0:19:45.995 who dissents as a domestic terrorist. Do not be fooled. 0:19:46.235 --> 0:19:52.515 This is lawless and unconstitutional, and of course now Trump 0:19:52.515 --> 0:19:55.955 may yet declare building maintenance and teleprompter operations at the 0:19:56.035 --> 0:20:02.595 United Nations terrorist organizations. He posted a nice, calm one 0:20:02.635 --> 0:20:06.675 thousand word run on paragrap at sunset last night about 0:20:06.715 --> 0:20:14.515 arresting somebody for something. I mean, maybe they can charge 0:20:14.595 --> 0:20:18.875 Jim Comey with this. I think it actually improves the 0:20:18.915 --> 0:20:21.995 story to tell the conclusion first. The reality is reported 0:20:21.995 --> 0:20:25.955 by the Associated Press UN correspondent for nush Amiri quote. 0:20:25.995 --> 0:20:29.155 A UN official said, the UN understands that someone from 0:20:29.235 --> 0:20:33.555 the President's party who ran ahead of him inadvertently triggered 0:20:33.555 --> 0:20:37.715 the stop mechanism on the escalator and just says don't 0:20:37.795 --> 0:20:42.115 run on escalators or escalator will stop. That's what happened, 0:20:43.115 --> 0:20:46.355 she continues. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 0:20:46.395 --> 0:20:50.955 the White House was operating the teleprompter for Trump. This, 0:20:50.995 --> 0:20:54.555 of course, did not stop the Trump's freak shows of paranoids, 0:20:54.555 --> 0:20:59.315 conspiracy theorists, idiots, bullshit artists, and Saint Paul beer girl 0:20:59.395 --> 0:21:04.035 press secretaries from insisting the thing with the escalator was 0:21:04.195 --> 0:21:13.435 really an assassination attempt. Caroline live it if someone at 0:21:13.475 --> 0:21:17.835 the UN intentionally stopped the escalator, as the President and 0:21:17.915 --> 0:21:21.115 First Lady we're stepping on. They need to be fire 0:21:21.155 --> 0:21:26.755 red and investigated immediately. The Times reported this on Sunday. 0:21:27.715 --> 0:21:30.915 To mark Trump's arrival, UN staff members have joked they 0:21:30.955 --> 0:21:34.275 may turn off the escalators and elevators and simply tell 0:21:34.355 --> 0:21:36.275 him they ran out of money, so he has to 0:21:36.315 --> 0:21:40.595 walk up the stairs. Cute, Caroline, and it's nice that 0:21:40.635 --> 0:21:44.275 you recognize the word elevator or escalator in there. Except 0:21:44.315 --> 0:21:46.595 what they're saying here is that they were going to 0:21:46.675 --> 0:21:49.395 turn them all off so he'd have to walk up 0:21:49.395 --> 0:21:52.715 from the front door, which as we know, is medically impossible. 0:21:52.835 --> 0:21:55.715 They didn't say something about stopping the escalator after he 0:21:55.795 --> 0:22:00.035 got on, but those words from Caroline Levitt. It's one 0:22:00.075 --> 0:22:02.275 of the rare times when Caroline Levitt does not look 0:22:02.315 --> 0:22:06.195 like the biggest asshole in the bunch, the guy Cernovich. 0:22:07.075 --> 0:22:09.275 What happened today at the UN was a dry run 0:22:09.315 --> 0:22:12.155 for an assassination. Our enemies were able to see the 0:22:12.195 --> 0:22:15.715 reaction or lack thereof. Trump was a sitting duck. Extreme 0:22:15.835 --> 0:22:19.315 measures will now be taken against the UN, including leaving 0:22:19.355 --> 0:22:26.115 the UN totally. Mike Lee, Senator from the Internet. Is 0:22:26.115 --> 0:22:28.235 the UN trying to give us a hint by orchestrating 0:22:28.355 --> 0:22:31.755 escalator and teleprompter malfunctions, or is this just random coincidence. 0:22:31.915 --> 0:22:36.835 Either way, we should defund the UN. Mike also believes 0:22:36.835 --> 0:22:41.835 nobody knows he has a comb over Brendan Dilley, who's 0:22:42.195 --> 0:22:46.755 an influencer for morons. If we discover that the UN 0:22:46.795 --> 0:22:49.475 deliberately turned off the escalator and risk injuring the president 0:22:49.555 --> 0:22:54.475 first lady, we should bomb them, all of them. Presume 0:22:54.555 --> 0:22:59.035 he means the individual nations in the UN, or or 0:22:59.075 --> 0:23:03.755 he means over there to Tutor City in Manhattan, right 0:23:03.755 --> 0:23:06.595 across the street from Trump Building. Gotta tell you, one 0:23:06.595 --> 0:23:08.755 of the safest places in the city. When Trump finally 0:23:08.795 --> 0:23:11.915 loses it and stops starts, you know, blowing things up 0:23:11.915 --> 0:23:14.115 in the country, one of the safest places will be 0:23:14.155 --> 0:23:16.275 in the UN because it's across the street from the 0:23:16.275 --> 0:23:21.435 Trump UN Plaza, Wall Street mav which I believe is 0:23:21.475 --> 0:23:25.155 one of those India bots, or it's a guy in 0:23:25.155 --> 0:23:28.515 India who's an influencer gets paid for this. Trump's escalator 0:23:28.515 --> 0:23:29.995 stopped as soon as he stepped on it, then his 0:23:30.075 --> 0:23:32.835 teleprompter goes out right when he starts his speech. No way, 0:23:32.915 --> 0:23:35.595 those were accidents. I'd bet UN staff, which wouldn't have 0:23:35.715 --> 0:23:39.555 jobs without our taxes, conspired to embarrass President Trump. Now 0:23:39.595 --> 0:23:41.875 why would they waste their time doing that when, as 0:23:41.875 --> 0:23:44.475 I just mentioned, Trump embarrassed himself twenty four times in 0:23:44.555 --> 0:23:48.555 ninety six hours. You do not need to embarrass Donald Trump. 0:23:48.635 --> 0:23:54.155 He is self embarrassing a muse poetic justice. Someone thought 0:23:54.195 --> 0:23:56.635 it would be funny to break the escalator as soon 0:23:56.635 --> 0:23:59.555 as Trump stepped on. Presumably the same people broke his 0:23:59.675 --> 0:24:02.955 teleprompter just as he began his fifteen minute speech. Due 0:24:02.995 --> 0:24:07.235 to the malfunction, Trump extended his speech is speech an 0:24:07.235 --> 0:24:10.595 additional forty minutes. Those who sought to silence him were 0:24:10.675 --> 0:24:14.715 awarded with almost an hour of solid gold from the President. 0:24:16.555 --> 0:24:19.755 I hope you mean solid gold, actual gold, because there 0:24:19.795 --> 0:24:22.035 was none of it in the speech. And of course 0:24:22.795 --> 0:24:27.275 the Alexes chime in Alex bruce Witz is either in 0:24:27.395 --> 0:24:31.675 the government or is a government adjacent guy. Someone very 0:24:31.715 --> 0:24:35.675 clearly tried to sabotage Trump at the un completely unacceptable. 0:24:35.875 --> 0:24:41.595 Someone must be held accountable. Yeah, apparently it was one 0:24:41.835 --> 0:24:49.475 White House photographer. And whoever runs prompter Alex Jones sabotage 0:24:49.635 --> 0:24:53.195 escalator at the un HQ stops abruptly when Trump steps 0:24:53.235 --> 0:24:56.915 onto it and teleprompter malfunctions because before he begins speaking, 0:24:58.395 --> 0:25:00.955 when you read a whole bunch of conspiracy theorists and 0:25:01.075 --> 0:25:04.035 only Alex Jones sticks to the facts or close to 0:25:04.075 --> 0:25:06.395 the facts, you know we have a serious problem in 0:25:06.435 --> 0:25:11.155 this country. And then lastly, har Meet K. Dillon, the 0:25:11.195 --> 0:25:15.035 woman from the West Coast who is I don't know, 0:25:15.235 --> 0:25:23.395 Deputy Secretary of not doing anything, simply writes deport the UN. 0:25:25.475 --> 0:25:29.715 On Fox, Jesse Waters says, quote, this is an insurrection 0:25:29.995 --> 0:25:31.675 and what we need to do is either leave the 0:25:31.755 --> 0:25:36.435 UN or we need to bomb them. There is some 0:25:36.555 --> 0:25:38.475 evidence that Waters was trying to make a joke there, 0:25:38.515 --> 0:25:40.835 but it's hard to confirm because everything that Bill O'Reilly's 0:25:40.835 --> 0:25:43.835 former errand boy does is a joke. Besides, if that 0:25:43.915 --> 0:25:47.275 were a liberal saying something like that, even in jest, 0:25:47.355 --> 0:25:50.875 there there would be an immediate demand that the FBI 0:25:50.995 --> 0:25:54.835 or the FCC or the NCAA investigate that threat of violence, 0:25:55.075 --> 0:26:01.155 and the demand would come from Jesse Waters. So ultimately, 0:26:01.515 --> 0:26:04.955 amid all of this paranorleia, somebody has to say this, 0:26:05.635 --> 0:26:11.755 and it might as well be me, boy That escalatord quickly. 0:26:16.195 --> 0:26:18.155 Also of interest here, so The New York Post is 0:26:18.195 --> 0:26:20.475 making stuff up about me again. This is a ritual 0:26:20.515 --> 0:26:23.515 as old as time itself. They've been doing it since 0:26:23.515 --> 0:26:27.035 the nineties. The bullshit machine is pointed at a different 0:26:27.115 --> 0:26:30.475 liberal every day of the week, or maybe every week 0:26:30.515 --> 0:26:34.555 of the year. It's my turn again. And Derek Van 0:26:34.715 --> 0:26:39.275 Orden wants to defund No, not the un the Mayo 0:26:39.635 --> 0:26:48.355 Clinic because Charlie Kirk, because Charlie Kirk is Jesus, and 0:26:48.435 --> 0:26:52.915 you don't f with the Jesus. That's next. This is countdown. 0:26:54.515 --> 0:27:19.795 This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on this 0:27:19.915 --> 0:27:22.755 edition of Countdown. Yes, Brendan Carr of the FCC should 0:27:22.795 --> 0:27:27.755 be investigated, impeached, and if possible, prosecuted for threatening ABC, 0:27:27.915 --> 0:27:32.875 ABC News, Disney, Jimmy Kimmel, et cetera, and for whatever 0:27:32.995 --> 0:27:36.595 quid pro quo existed between him and the next star 0:27:36.795 --> 0:27:41.195 Sinclair people that he only revealed in public on a podcast. 0:27:41.435 --> 0:27:47.835 But other than that, face it, Kimmel and ABC single 0:27:47.915 --> 0:27:52.235 handedly defeated MAGA on this one, and defeated Trump on 0:27:52.275 --> 0:27:58.515 this one, and defeated all of their angry, stupid, terrified minions, 0:27:58.715 --> 0:28:03.595 especially the ones at Fox News and the other Murdoch 0:28:03.795 --> 0:28:08.715 crap shaft, so naturally they need new targets, and I'm 0:28:08.755 --> 0:28:13.355 beginning to suspect I've seen these tea leaves before that 0:28:13.875 --> 0:28:18.275 it's my turn again to be a Murdoch target. The 0:28:18.315 --> 0:28:21.395 New York Post has invented two stories about me this 0:28:21.435 --> 0:28:25.715