WEBVTT - TOP MAGA MAGAZINE HEADLINE: "TRUMP IS LOSING HIS MIND" - 4.23.26 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.635 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Quote 0:00:24.675 --> 0:00:30.635 Donald Trump is losing his mind unquote the Washington Examiner, 0:00:31.115 --> 0:00:33.395 seven and seventy three words in one of the most 0:00:33.475 --> 0:00:38.075 prominent mega magazines in this country. Headlines elsewhere in the 0:00:38.115 --> 0:00:42.875 same issue, quote Chris Murphy, Democrat of Tehran and New 0:00:42.955 --> 0:00:45.515 York City crime part of promise is broken by mom 0:00:45.595 --> 0:00:49.555 Donnie and why Trump should not rush back to talks 0:00:49.595 --> 0:00:54.115 where they're on quote donald Trump is losing his mind? 0:00:55.035 --> 0:00:58.635 Is that me writing that? It's not Jimmy Kimmel, It's 0:00:58.675 --> 0:01:02.275 the Washington goddamned Examiner, where the same columnist who wrote 0:01:02.315 --> 0:01:06.795 Donald Trump is losing his mind once authored monarchical Obama. 0:01:07.235 --> 0:01:11.435 Real monarchs are humbler and a whole lot cheaper. And 0:01:11.555 --> 0:01:16.475 this conservative magabastion published this Donald Trump is losing his 0:01:16.595 --> 0:01:20.875 mind before Trump threatened yesterday to go all General Sherman 0:01:21.035 --> 0:01:24.915 on Tehran. They published it before he overshadowed his own 0:01:24.995 --> 0:01:29.035 claim that the Virginia redistricting vote was fixed by also 0:01:29.155 --> 0:01:32.395 insisting in the same post quote, as everyone knows I 0:01:32.435 --> 0:01:37.715 am an extraordinarily brilliant person, insisting that as an asshole does. 0:01:38.675 --> 0:01:41.955 This was published before Trump compared his war in Iran 0:01:42.195 --> 0:01:47.795 to Vietnam, a war he avoided serving in, and said 0:01:47.795 --> 0:01:51.395 he could have quote won Vietnam very quickly, you know, Vietnam, 0:01:51.395 --> 0:01:55.955 which he dodged, and before Trump exhausted this that's not 0:01:56.075 --> 0:01:58.635 the flex you think it is and found a second 0:01:58.635 --> 0:02:01.035 one like that quote, I would have won Iraq in 0:02:01.075 --> 0:02:06.235 the same amount of time. The Washington Examiner column claiming 0:02:06.275 --> 0:02:10.235 Trump is losing his mind preceded all that. It even 0:02:10.275 --> 0:02:15.315 preceded Trump's proclamation that nobody should be allowed to criticize 0:02:15.435 --> 0:02:20.035 him about Iran anymore. He didn't threaten his critics, but 0:02:20.115 --> 0:02:23.875 he came right up to that point. Never allow the 0:02:23.955 --> 0:02:28.635 trader Democrats like low IQ person a Keem Jeffries. Low 0:02:28.675 --> 0:02:32.435 IQ person is, of course, Trump's euphemism for black or 0:02:32.595 --> 0:02:36.075 crying Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt fake news media 0:02:36.235 --> 0:02:39.475 such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the 0:02:39.555 --> 0:02:43.475 failing New York Times subscriptions way down or dying sixty 0:02:43.515 --> 0:02:48.955 minutes to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally 0:02:48.995 --> 0:02:54.195 obliterated the nuclear dust locations. Editor's note, There's no such 0:02:54.275 --> 0:02:58.155 thing as nuclear dust moron nuclear dust locations to the 0:02:58.155 --> 0:03:00.915 point where blood thirsty Iran has been unable to get 0:03:00.955 --> 0:03:06.315 to it or dig it out, not allowed to criticize 0:03:06.355 --> 0:03:09.955 what I've done. He wrote, I'm the best. I bombed Iran. 0:03:10.115 --> 0:03:12.635 I would have won an Iraq in Vietnam. I would 0:03:12.635 --> 0:03:15.635 have won Antietam. I would have won at Waterloo. Never 0:03:15.915 --> 0:03:21.275 never allow, never allow, Who are we kidding? Trump doesn't 0:03:21.355 --> 0:03:29.035 know what Waterloo was? Quote Donald Trump is losing his mind. 0:03:29.515 --> 0:03:29.995 I would have. 0:03:29.955 --> 0:03:33.835 Won Vietnam very quickly. I would have if I were president, 0:03:34.355 --> 0:03:36.235 I would have won a RAQ in the same amount 0:03:36.275 --> 0:03:40.395 of time that we won, because essentially we won here. 0:03:40.875 --> 0:03:44.635 And if you disagree, you can't disagree. You're not allowed. 0:03:44.795 --> 0:03:48.395 You're not allowed by whom are you not allowed? Well, 0:03:48.435 --> 0:03:54.435 he hasn't said yet. As an aside, note please that 0:03:54.555 --> 0:03:57.275 most of Trump's TV interviews tend to be not just 0:03:57.395 --> 0:04:01.915 with fascist stooges like Joe Kernan there, but with fascist 0:04:01.995 --> 0:04:05.795 stooges like Joe Kernan there, who's is actually worse than 0:04:05.795 --> 0:04:12.555 his own. Think Kennedy, Think Maria Bartiromo. What is perhaps 0:04:12.555 --> 0:04:15.075 the most amazing of all the details buried in this 0:04:15.155 --> 0:04:17.995 reality we now accept as part of our daily lives 0:04:18.155 --> 0:04:22.835 that the President is a functioning insane person. Was the 0:04:22.835 --> 0:04:25.435 Wall Street Journal report that when the two American airmen 0:04:25.835 --> 0:04:29.995 went down in Iran and a rescue operation was being forged, quote, 0:04:30.275 --> 0:04:34.355 aides kept the President out of the room as they 0:04:34.355 --> 0:04:38.755 got minute by minute updates because they believed his impatience 0:04:38.835 --> 0:04:44.475 wouldn't be helpful. A senior administration official said, unquote, they 0:04:44.515 --> 0:04:50.995 wouldn't let Trump in the situation room for the planning meeting. 0:04:51.395 --> 0:04:56.115 They updated him when there were meaningful developments, and in 0:04:56.195 --> 0:05:00.715 between they just left him too. I don't know, play 0:05:00.755 --> 0:05:06.035 with his own toes. Back to The Washington Examiner. Author 0:05:06.115 --> 0:05:09.715 Dan Hannon's other columns before Donald Trump Is Losing his 0:05:09.795 --> 0:05:13.795 Mind included such Pulitzer Prize winners as better Trump than 0:05:13.915 --> 0:05:18.075 Starmer and reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination reveal a 0:05:18.155 --> 0:05:21.515 nation on the brink, and the epic The Kids Are 0:05:21.675 --> 0:05:25.275 Alt Right, which I understand has been optioned as a 0:05:25.275 --> 0:05:30.515 major motion picture, presumably by Jeff Bezos. I'll spare you 0:05:30.595 --> 0:05:34.915 the whole column. I wrote this better and sooner in 0:05:34.955 --> 0:05:39.715 twenty sixteen. George Conway wrote it in twenty nineteen. But 0:05:39.835 --> 0:05:43.275 Hannon underscores that the breaking point to the degree that 0:05:43.355 --> 0:05:46.715 MAGA has broken with Trump, and that is still only 0:05:46.795 --> 0:05:49.035 showing up marginally and pulling, but it is showing up. 0:05:49.075 --> 0:05:51.395 We'll get to that in a moment. The breaking point 0:05:51.475 --> 0:05:58.955 from MAGA has been the attack on the Pope. Fascism. Okay, heresy, 0:05:59.115 --> 0:06:03.275 we draw the line at heresy quote. Imagine it was 0:06:03.395 --> 0:06:06.715 someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader 0:06:06.755 --> 0:06:09.875 were posting deranged grants in the small hours, insulting the 0:06:09.875 --> 0:06:13.435 spiritual leader of one point three billion Catholics, threatening the 0:06:13.715 --> 0:06:17.595 entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What 0:06:17.675 --> 0:06:21.195 would be the reaction. We all know the answer. Both 0:06:21.275 --> 0:06:23.635 parties would be rushing to bundle him out of office 0:06:23.675 --> 0:06:26.795 before he did irreversible harm to the Republic. Yet, as 0:06:26.795 --> 0:06:30.475 we all know, different rules apply to Trump. Democrats, having 0:06:30.515 --> 0:06:35.475 had their fingers burned by two failed impeachment attempts, you think, 0:06:35.835 --> 0:06:39.875 are reluctant to try again. You think, for they know 0:06:39.955 --> 0:06:42.195 that there is no sure way to boost his support. 0:06:43.915 --> 0:06:47.555 Republicans who privately despair at the electoral damage he is doing, 0:06:47.675 --> 0:06:51.115 let alone the constitutional damage, are paralyzed by fear of 0:06:51.235 --> 0:06:54.955 upsetting their primary voters. The president he went on whom 0:06:55.035 --> 0:06:58.515 critics accused of having a God complex. No, those are 0:06:58.555 --> 0:07:01.115 his followers who accuse him of having a God complex. 0:07:01.355 --> 0:07:03.475 Then followed up with an image of himself as Jesus 0:07:03.555 --> 0:07:06.915 healing the sick. The image was offensive not only the Catholics, 0:07:06.915 --> 0:07:09.755 but to almost every practicing Christian and come to that, 0:07:10.275 --> 0:07:14.435 to almost every Muslim. The Iranian Ayatolas used one of 0:07:14.435 --> 0:07:16.955 the lego videos with which they have been trolling the 0:07:16.995 --> 0:07:20.955 president to condemn what they sincerely saw as blasphemy. They 0:07:20.955 --> 0:07:24.355 were not alone. Catholic vote dot org, which turned out 0:07:24.395 --> 0:07:28.115 millions of voters for Trump in three successive elections, condemned 0:07:28.195 --> 0:07:31.995 the post as impious. At the same time, according to 0:07:32.035 --> 0:07:36.315 its president, Kelsey Reinhardt, quote President Trump's post insulting Pope 0:07:36.395 --> 0:07:42.835 Leo crossed again a line of decorum. Mister Hannon in 0:07:42.955 --> 0:07:47.755 his column you know what It's called, then asks if 0:07:47.795 --> 0:07:51.315 there is some strategy, some chess move. He writes that 0:07:51.475 --> 0:07:54.275 requires picking a quarrel with the pope, and lists a 0:07:54.275 --> 0:07:58.355 few options, and then he dismisses them and dismisses Trump's 0:07:58.395 --> 0:08:02.115 sanity and quoting his column again, these things are possible. 0:08:02.155 --> 0:08:05.075 I suppose the likelier explanation, though, is that this is 0:08:05.195 --> 0:08:08.195 exactly what it looks like. A seventy nine year old 0:08:08.235 --> 0:08:10.955 man who has long dealt in chaos is now being 0:08:11.035 --> 0:08:15.115 consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, 0:08:15.355 --> 0:08:18.155 his good days further apart. What he has lost is 0:08:18.155 --> 0:08:20.755 not a sense of decency or decorum he never had those, 0:08:20.915 --> 0:08:25.755 but any remaining self sense of control. Everyone around him 0:08:25.755 --> 0:08:29.915 can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, 0:08:30.035 --> 0:08:33.275 they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The 0:08:33.355 --> 0:08:38.875 tragedy is no longer Trump's, it is now America's. Column 0:08:38.915 --> 0:08:40.715 kind of fizzles out at the end there, but the 0:08:40.755 --> 0:08:45.515 point remains. This is written about Trump in as Trump Sucking, 0:08:45.555 --> 0:08:49.075 a magazine as still publishes in this country, and the 0:08:49.155 --> 0:08:53.035 details may be instructive, but the takeaway remains the headline, 0:08:53.315 --> 0:08:57.675 Donald Trump is losing his mind. By the way, this 0:08:57.795 --> 0:09:00.915 point the essence of the Emperor, has no close argument 0:09:00.995 --> 0:09:03.515 some of us have been making about Trump since nineteen 0:09:03.555 --> 0:09:07.395 eighty three, let alone twenty fifteen. This is finally beginning 0:09:07.435 --> 0:09:11.715 to catch on. People are afraid of this issue of 0:09:11.755 --> 0:09:15.475 Trump's acuity and sanity, even though he constantly brings it up. 0:09:16.395 --> 0:09:19.315 I suppose that is because once you ask if one 0:09:19.395 --> 0:09:25.115 particular public figure is insane, where do you stop? But 0:09:25.155 --> 0:09:29.475 finally somebody's actually asking. A little publicized IPSOS poll for 0:09:29.515 --> 0:09:33.595 Reuter's this week has Trump's mental sharpness. That's the phrase 0:09:33.635 --> 0:09:37.115 they use, mental sharpness gotten worse over the last year, 0:09:37.595 --> 0:09:41.435 gently phrased mental sharpness. A lot of wiggle room mental sharpness, 0:09:41.555 --> 0:09:44.755 but a majority say yeah, it has fifty one percent 0:09:45.275 --> 0:09:49.235 his mental sharpness has gotten worse, and the interior numbers 0:09:49.355 --> 0:09:54.155 are even more telling. Eighty five percent of Democrats. Okay, 0:09:54.195 --> 0:09:55.835 I'd like to see the fifteen percent of you who 0:09:55.835 --> 0:09:57.635 think he has not gotten worse in the last year 0:09:57.915 --> 0:10:01.355 raise your hands, which may be difficult since you must 0:10:01.395 --> 0:10:05.515 be in Coma's fifty four percent of into and it'd say, yes, 0:10:05.715 --> 0:10:09.155 his mental sharpness is worse than last year. Fourteen percent 0:10:09.195 --> 0:10:12.395 of Republicans think Trump's mental sharpness has gotten worse than 0:10:12.435 --> 0:10:16.115 the last year. The rest of the world was ahead 0:10:16.155 --> 0:10:18.235 of us on this, of course, and now they are 0:10:18.275 --> 0:10:21.995 ahead in using Trump's dementia or stupidity or insanity against him. 0:10:22.275 --> 0:10:24.755 The New York Times reports that some leaders in Ukraine 0:10:24.835 --> 0:10:28.115 think they might be able yet to sway Trump into 0:10:28.115 --> 0:10:32.115 fully supporting their nation, especially in the continuing demands by 0:10:32.195 --> 0:10:35.275 Russia for Ukraine to see the don Bas region to 0:10:35.595 --> 0:10:43.875 Russia by simply renaming the don Vas quote Donnie Land 0:10:45.115 --> 0:10:48.075 well that that, of course, is ridiculous. Trump would never 0:10:48.115 --> 0:10:51.235 go against Putin and repudiate a decade of enmity towards 0:10:51.355 --> 0:10:54.195 Ukraine and Zelensky simply because they would rename part of 0:10:54.235 --> 0:11:02.075 their country. Donni Land now rename it Trumpylvania, and he's in. 0:11:04.435 --> 0:11:09.035 Donald Trump is losing his mind, rights the Washington Examiner, 0:11:09.675 --> 0:11:34.755 which I guess makes it unanimous. Trump is also approaching 0:11:34.875 --> 0:11:38.995 unanimity in none is he crazy? Polling a new Associated 0:11:39.035 --> 0:11:46.395 Press NRC poll thirty three percent approval, thirty three. He's 0:11:46.395 --> 0:11:50.755 now nineteen points underwater on immigration, and that's his best 0:11:50.835 --> 0:11:55.075 poll number. He's thirty five points underwater on Iran, forty 0:11:55.195 --> 0:12:01.755 on the economy, fifty three on inflation. Even Politico stenographer 0:12:01.915 --> 0:12:05.155 to the Western World, reports that White House affers have 0:12:05.195 --> 0:12:08.515 accepted they will not only lose the House significantly, but 0:12:08.635 --> 0:12:11.755 probably will lose the Senate as well. There is an 0:12:11.755 --> 0:12:14.675 outside chance that the Democrats could come up with enough 0:12:14.715 --> 0:12:16.755 of a swing in the upper Chamber to get enough 0:12:16.835 --> 0:12:19.155 votes to not merely impeach Trump in the House, but 0:12:19.315 --> 0:12:23.035 convict him and remove him in the Senate, which is 0:12:23.115 --> 0:12:27.235 dandy because there is a separate poll strength in numbers. Verisite, 0:12:27.395 --> 0:12:31.995 fifty five percent of Americans support impeaching Trump, fifty five 0:12:32.595 --> 0:12:36.115 forty five percent strongly support impeaching him, only thirty percent 0:12:36.155 --> 0:12:39.475 are strongly opposed. And if you say, and blah blah blah, 0:12:39.555 --> 0:12:41.995 there's been an impeachment bill somewhere in the House every 0:12:42.075 --> 0:12:44.675 day Trump has been president. And yeah, that point from 0:12:44.715 --> 0:12:47.075 before there's been two impeachments. What good did they do? 0:12:47.315 --> 0:12:51.955 Ponder this number. Impeachment in this poll is supported by 0:12:52.315 --> 0:12:58.075 twenty one percent of Republicans, by twenty one percent of 0:12:58.115 --> 0:13:02.755 Trump's twenty twenty four voters, a fifth of them want 0:13:02.795 --> 0:13:08.875 their money back. Now, how will Trump's crack team redeem him? 0:13:09.395 --> 0:13:11.635 And by crack team, I am not just referring to 0:13:11.715 --> 0:13:16.955 RFK Junior. They have bellowed the clarion call save me 0:13:17.275 --> 0:13:22.195 Joe Rogan. Politico reported yesterday that when you saw little 0:13:22.275 --> 0:13:24.875 Joe Rogan and his cue ball noggin up on his 0:13:24.915 --> 0:13:27.315 tippy toes trying to peer over the top of Trump's 0:13:27.355 --> 0:13:30.675 head as Trump sat at the Oval Office Saturday. It 0:13:30.715 --> 0:13:32.275 was part of a meeting with him to try to 0:13:32.275 --> 0:13:35.635 get him back on their side after Rogan trashed Trump 0:13:35.755 --> 0:13:40.275 about Iran. Rogan was there because it is assumed that 0:13:40.395 --> 0:13:43.675 Rogan prioritizes the new White House initiative to make some 0:13:43.755 --> 0:13:49.435 psychedelic drugs available to treat severe depression. Once again, seems 0:13:49.475 --> 0:13:52.635 like they got the wrong guy there, Joe Rogan. This 0:13:52.795 --> 0:13:57.955 is RFK Junior's area of expertise. There are also strong 0:13:57.995 --> 0:14:01.795 indications that one of the other solutions to the Trump slump. 0:14:02.475 --> 0:14:07.115 The firings will continue until Trump's rady improve. Tulsey Gabbard 0:14:07.155 --> 0:14:11.555 and her Minion Harmy Dylan on the block because well 0:14:11.555 --> 0:14:16.235 they're women and Trump is a flaming misogynist. But also 0:14:16.835 --> 0:14:21.115 Cash Paateel Cash Patel may be on the way because 0:14:21.115 --> 0:14:24.075 Cash Hotel not only sued The Atlantic over its drunken 0:14:24.235 --> 0:14:29.555 unreliability story, but a streisand affected that story and that 0:14:29.715 --> 0:14:32.955 suit by relisting every detail of the story in his 0:14:33.075 --> 0:14:37.475 lawyer letter. B left a series of embarrassing typos in 0:14:37.555 --> 0:14:40.995 the lawyer letter, and c at a news conference he 0:14:41.075 --> 0:14:43.915 did not know that the lawyer letter confirmed the framework 0:14:43.955 --> 0:14:46.995 of a story in the story, the one about him 0:14:46.995 --> 0:14:49.195 getting locked out of a device on the FBI computer 0:14:49.275 --> 0:14:53.395 system while he stood there, and contradicted his own lawyer letter, 0:14:53.595 --> 0:14:58.155 insisting no, he never got locked out of anything computer, iPad, 0:14:58.435 --> 0:15:02.235 his government funded private jet, the bedroom of his quote girlfriend, 0:15:02.675 --> 0:15:07.715 the locker room of some hockey team somewhere. Patel also 0:15:07.755 --> 0:15:13.395 did not sound the sharpest at his news conference. But 0:15:13.435 --> 0:15:15.515 if we still took that as an indicator, and what 0:15:15.635 --> 0:15:19.755 has been dubbed the Trump liquor Cabinet, RFK Junior would 0:15:19.755 --> 0:15:22.035 have been long gone and hag Seth and Patel and 0:15:22.075 --> 0:15:26.235 of course Trump himself. But the unfortunate and perhaps unfair 0:15:26.315 --> 0:15:29.715 reality for Patel in particular is whatever that is with 0:15:29.835 --> 0:15:34.915 his eyes makes him look like he is worse for wear. 0:15:35.675 --> 0:15:39.915 They call it cock eyed drunk for a reason. The Democrats, 0:15:39.955 --> 0:15:43.715 once again showing the wisdom to kick a man when 0:15:43.755 --> 0:15:48.035 he's down, are now demanding that Patel take an alcoholism 0:15:48.195 --> 0:15:53.875 screening tests. His choices amount to a are you an alcoholic? B? 0:15:54.595 --> 0:15:56.835 Are you so full of alcohol that you're at risk 0:15:56.875 --> 0:16:02.115 of bursting into flames? Or c are you j Edgar Boozer. 0:16:03.675 --> 0:16:06.915 Some highlights of the Act Actual Test Alcohol Use Disorders 0:16:06.955 --> 0:16:13.035 Identification Test Audit questionnaire. Please circle the answer that is 0:16:13.115 --> 0:16:18.115 correct for you and it doesn't say if you can One. 0:16:18.195 --> 0:16:21.235 How often do you have a drink containing alcohol? A? Never, 0:16:21.595 --> 0:16:24.555 B monthly or less, C two four times a month, 0:16:25.435 --> 0:16:28.795 e is four more times a week. How many standard 0:16:28.875 --> 0:16:30.915 drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day 0:16:30.955 --> 0:16:33.435 when drinking A one or two, B three or four, 0:16:33.635 --> 0:16:36.915 C five or six, D seven to nine, E ten 0:16:37.315 --> 0:16:41.475 or more? Three? How often do you have six or 0:16:41.475 --> 0:16:43.795 more drinks on one occasion? You can see where this 0:16:43.915 --> 0:16:49.315 is going. Number six? Question number six during the past year, 0:16:49.315 --> 0:16:51.555 how often have you needed a drink in the morning 0:16:51.795 --> 0:16:55.435 to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session? A never, 0:16:55.515 --> 0:16:58.995 B less than monthly, CE, monthly, D weekly, E daily 0:16:59.275 --> 0:17:02.555 almost daily F should be I can't tell the difference 0:17:02.595 --> 0:17:06.755 between night and morning anymore. Seven is during the past year, 0:17:06.795 --> 0:17:08.555 how often have you had a feeling of guilt or 0:17:08.595 --> 0:17:11.075 remorse after drinking? Eight is during the past year, have 0:17:11.155 --> 0:17:13.315 you been unable to remember what happened the night before 0:17:13.395 --> 0:17:16.235 because you've been drinking? Nine Have you or someone else 0:17:16.275 --> 0:17:18.795 been injured as a result of your drinking? Ten has 0:17:18.795 --> 0:17:21.915 a relative or friend, doctor or other health worker been 0:17:21.955 --> 0:17:25.475 concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down A no, 0:17:25.595 --> 0:17:27.875 B yes, but not in the past year. See yes 0:17:27.955 --> 0:17:29.835 during the past year. Once again, I will suggest d 0:17:30.515 --> 0:17:35.715 only the President. As to the typos in the lawsuit, 0:17:36.075 --> 0:17:42.835 Patel's lawyers misspelled policies and the word discussed as in 0:17:42.915 --> 0:17:47.675 we discussed this, and most tellingly, the word feeble. Press. 0:17:47.755 --> 0:17:52.035 For a response to these typos in the lawsuit, his 0:17:52.155 --> 0:17:54.475 lawyer said, if the worst that critics come up with 0:17:54.515 --> 0:17:57.395 about the lawsuit just some misspelled words, he felt good 0:17:57.395 --> 0:18:00.715 about their chances, even though the point of the lawsuit 0:18:00.795 --> 0:18:03.315 is to deny that Patel is failing at his job 0:18:03.475 --> 0:18:07.315 and letting others fail at their job because he is impaired, 0:18:08.155 --> 0:18:12.595 or if you prefer, because he's no longer able to 0:18:12.675 --> 0:18:22.595 successfully discuss administration politizes because he's too feeble. That's FEA 0:18:22.755 --> 0:18:35.235 B l E feeble. Lastly, in the news, White House 0:18:35.235 --> 0:18:39.075 Correspondence Dinner is Saturday, still only Huffington Post as officially 0:18:39.115 --> 0:18:43.915 and entirely pulled out. Trump will be there. Heg Seth 0:18:43.955 --> 0:18:48.635 and Stephen Miller have been invited some by multiple news organizations, 0:18:48.675 --> 0:18:53.275 possibly by CBS FCC chairman Brendan Carr, the Gibbels of 0:18:53.315 --> 0:18:56.675 our time, says he will be there. He's not saying 0:18:56.715 --> 0:18:59.635 who invited him, He's saying it is not CBS. Some 0:18:59.835 --> 0:19:02.795 media analysts think he'll be there at the Paramount table, 0:19:03.075 --> 0:19:05.315 and only Brendan Carr would deny he's going to be 0:19:05.355 --> 0:19:07.715 there with CBS when he's going to be there with Paramount, 0:19:07.715 --> 0:19:15.075 which owns CBS. Now not a bright guy. People will 0:19:15.075 --> 0:19:21.115 go to this because the Chuck Todd Chris Silizza construction 0:19:22.355 --> 0:19:28.595 still fits. There is nothing reporters yearn more for than 0:19:28.995 --> 0:19:31.995 what they would want to see still happening in their 0:19:32.035 --> 0:19:37.515 own profession, rather than what is happening the past, the 0:19:37.555 --> 0:19:40.795 world in which there were only about six different kinds 0:19:40.795 --> 0:19:44.075 of news political stories and they all fit neatly to 0:19:44.155 --> 0:19:48.355 a series of maybe three different cubby holes, the way 0:19:48.395 --> 0:19:50.955 it used to be, when news and the news media 0:19:51.035 --> 0:19:55.275 were not imploding and not being bombed from above by 0:19:55.315 --> 0:20:00.835 the president. When no, the few fair news organizations were 0:20:00.835 --> 0:20:04.475 not being bought, subverted and sabotaged by the fascists, and no, 0:20:04.675 --> 0:20:10.075 so all the jobs weren't disappearing, And no, you wouldn't 0:20:10.075 --> 0:20:15.075 have impossible trouble finding a new job, and no, you 0:20:15.115 --> 0:20:17.955 aren't going to have trouble making the rent, paying the mortgage. 0:20:17.955 --> 0:20:21.075 And no, it's still okay to dress up on a 0:20:21.115 --> 0:20:25.155 clammy Saturday night in April and sit on the oldest, 0:20:25.555 --> 0:20:30.995 clammiest chairs left in any Washington hotel. And it's okay 0:20:30.995 --> 0:20:32.795 to sit in the same room as Trump and pretend 0:20:32.795 --> 0:20:35.995 it's still nineteen ninety six or something, and that you 0:20:36.035 --> 0:20:39.515 can pretend that the president up there wouldn't enjoy watching 0:20:39.555 --> 0:20:45.075 you get killed. Look, I get it. We were all 0:20:45.195 --> 0:20:48.835 raised on all the president's men, and that image of reporting, 0:20:50.595 --> 0:20:55.635 or at least the broadcast news version of reporting. It's gone. 0:20:56.515 --> 0:20:59.875 It's dead. We might be able to get it back, 0:21:00.155 --> 0:21:02.195 but it doesn't exist right now. And if you're looking 0:21:02.195 --> 0:21:06.955 for it to protect you two and I get the 0:21:06.995 --> 0:21:09.715 other part. The high end people in the business who 0:21:09.715 --> 0:21:13.835 are slowly sliding into the abyss of obeying in advance 0:21:14.075 --> 0:21:17.915 of collaborating with Brendan Carr and the Ellisons and Barry 0:21:17.915 --> 0:21:20.075 Weiss and the rest of them who would erase the 0:21:20.115 --> 0:21:24.315 First Amendment or like Jeff Bezos, sell it to buy 0:21:24.435 --> 0:21:30.835 extra implants for his wife's breasts. The money they offer 0:21:30.915 --> 0:21:34.195 can still be much more than any of these people 0:21:34.235 --> 0:21:37.195 could ever make doing anything else. The trap of that 0:21:37.315 --> 0:21:39.515 money is you don't just look at a couple of 0:21:39.675 --> 0:21:44.555 years of a multimillion dollar salary and say, as I 0:21:44.595 --> 0:21:47.075 honestly said, how can I make this last the rest 0:21:47.115 --> 0:21:49.995 of my life? If I have to, or if I 0:21:50.075 --> 0:21:54.275 decide one day I don't want to go to work anymore. No, 0:21:54.435 --> 0:21:58.755 you don't do that. Suddenly you reset your floor that money. 0:21:58.875 --> 0:22:01.795 I'm making seven million dollars a year, I will never 0:22:01.835 --> 0:22:05.115 work for less than seven million again. It becomes the 0:22:05.155 --> 0:22:08.795 minimum you need, and you will do anything to keep 0:22:08.835 --> 0:22:13.475 it coming. At the pinnacle of my income, I like 0:22:13.555 --> 0:22:15.995 to think of the days when I started and made 0:22:16.075 --> 0:22:18.715 sixteen five hundred dollars a year as a sports reporter 0:22:18.795 --> 0:22:21.755 at UPI in New York, and I did stuff like 0:22:21.875 --> 0:22:23.475 this with Oberman rev. 0:22:23.915 --> 0:22:26.675 After receiving gifts serious and comical and the phrase of 0:22:26.675 --> 0:22:29.755 his teammates's manager and the fan Jetfish. Hutter marked his 0:22:29.835 --> 0:22:32.835 retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could not 0:22:32.955 --> 0:22:37.635 attend three people that way come in here. 0:22:40.595 --> 0:22:42.715 I used to do stuff like that every day, and 0:22:42.755 --> 0:22:44.555 on my off nights I would still go back to 0:22:44.595 --> 0:22:46.635 the ballpark because I had a pass to get into 0:22:46.635 --> 0:22:49.475 the press box, and dinner was still free in those 0:22:49.555 --> 0:22:51.755 days in the press box, and then later they would 0:22:51.755 --> 0:22:54.475 give you a snack and I could get there on 0:22:54.515 --> 0:22:57.035 the subway and then usually get a free lift downtown 0:22:57.155 --> 0:22:59.355 after the game from a friend. And if I did 0:22:59.355 --> 0:23:01.355 it right, my cost for an evening of food and 0:23:01.475 --> 0:23:05.355 entertainment and fellowship was the sixty cents the sub way cost, 0:23:05.955 --> 0:23:08.795 instead of the three dollars and twenty five cents that 0:23:08.835 --> 0:23:12.755 the dinner at Burger King cost to this day. In 0:23:12.835 --> 0:23:16.475 a real sense, the two dollars and sixty five cents 0:23:16.475 --> 0:23:19.635 I used to save while I beat the nineteen seventy 0:23:19.715 --> 0:23:23.675 nine system was the largest amount of money I have 0:23:23.795 --> 0:23:29.755 ever had in my hands. I beat the system. I 0:23:29.795 --> 0:23:33.675 made sure I remembered that others in media remember something 0:23:33.715 --> 0:23:35.995 like that, only to do a Scarlett O'Hara and insist, 0:23:36.235 --> 0:23:38.795 as God as their witness, they'll never be hungry again. 0:23:39.235 --> 0:23:42.235 You think Jake Tapper wants to become a professional cartoonist 0:23:42.595 --> 0:23:44.635 and take a cut from seven million a year to 0:23:45.235 --> 0:23:49.675 one hundred and thirteen thousand if he's lucky. Does Mattow 0:23:49.675 --> 0:23:51.635 want to go back to being a dancing cell phone 0:23:51.635 --> 0:23:55.995 outside a cell phone store in suburban Boston. Does Sarah 0:23:56.075 --> 0:23:59.555 Eisen of CNBC want to go back to, I don't know, 0:23:59.795 --> 0:24:02.635 trying to find work in some other field. I think 0:24:02.635 --> 0:24:04.435 it was a bit of a trap to ask Kevin 0:24:04.435 --> 0:24:07.195 Wan about the election denial to get him to disagree 0:24:07.195 --> 0:24:11.115 with President Trump, she said yesterday on CNBC in a 0:24:11.155 --> 0:24:14.915 statement that should be framed and delivered to Brendan Carr 0:24:15.715 --> 0:24:19.075 or Vladimir Putin. You know, no FED chair is going 0:24:19.075 --> 0:24:23.355 to weigh in on politics like that, Senator Warren. Yes, 0:24:23.435 --> 0:24:28.435 that was CNBC declaring, you know, no FED chair is 0:24:28.475 --> 0:24:32.035 going to weigh in on politics like that. That CNBC 0:24:32.195 --> 0:24:35.515 declaring Trump's attempt to overturn an election and overthrow the 0:24:35.515 --> 0:24:38.715 government of the United States and end democracy here. That 0:24:38.715 --> 0:24:44.915 that's quote politics. Sarah Eisen should be fired and CNBC 0:24:44.955 --> 0:24:49.115 should be closed down and the building knocked down and 0:24:49.155 --> 0:24:53.235 the earth beneath it salted. But no, they'll have a 0:24:53.235 --> 0:24:56.995 table at the Washington Hilton, and maybe maybe this Eisen 0:24:57.035 --> 0:25:02.715 woman will be there applauding the Nazis in person. I 0:25:02.755 --> 0:25:05.275 still hold out some hope there there must be some 0:25:05.395 --> 0:25:08.635 people somewhere who had thought about leaving the media anyway 0:25:09.155 --> 0:25:12.555 and had saved their money for the day when the 0:25:12.675 --> 0:25:15.875 chance might come around, the roulette wheel might spin and 0:25:15.915 --> 0:25:18.755 they might at least make a statement about Trump that 0:25:18.795 --> 0:25:22.115 Trump might actually see that they might break through the 0:25:22.115 --> 0:25:25.115 bubble in which he lives, somebody who would stand up 0:25:25.115 --> 0:25:28.755 as he enters the room and scream if you Trump, 0:25:30.075 --> 0:25:32.435 or interrupt him if he actually gets up and talks, 0:25:34.915 --> 0:25:36.795 because if you can't do that, because you would get 0:25:36.835 --> 0:25:39.715 fired and blacklisted and they'd take your home within a month. 0:25:40.355 --> 0:25:44.035 I guess you get a pass. Though. Maybe if that's true, 0:25:44.195 --> 0:25:48.355 maybe you shouldn't go to the Damn Dinner anyway, which 0:25:48.355 --> 0:25:51.755 in its best years is boring and sad, with terrible 0:25:51.795 --> 0:25:56.235 food and too many chairs at each table. That was 0:25:56.275 --> 0:25:59.435 before the dinner was actually so corrupted that it's organizing 0:25:59.475 --> 0:26:03.435 committee would list Trump as they list Trump for this 0:26:03.715 --> 0:26:07.475 Saturday night, in this timeline, at this moment, they are 0:26:07.555 --> 0:26:11.915 listing Trump as an honoree of the White House Correspondence Association. 0:26:12.595 --> 0:26:16.515 Fuck you, White House Correspondence Association. Can I be any 0:26:16.515 --> 0:26:19.435 more blunt about that? Because the bottom line is, if 0:26:19.475 --> 0:26:22.195 you are attending the White House Correspondence dinner, and you 0:26:22.235 --> 0:26:26.435 are not storming out or otherwise protesting Trump's presence, Trump 0:26:26.475 --> 0:26:30.955 who wants to destroy you literally and your employers and 0:26:30.995 --> 0:26:34.315 your profession and decide which few of you get to live, 0:26:35.075 --> 0:26:36.995 which few of you get to continue in some kind 0:26:36.995 --> 0:26:41.355 of macabre perversion of journalism. If you are not protesting 0:26:41.355 --> 0:26:44.555 tomorrow at the White House Correspondent's dinner, you are not 0:26:44.715 --> 0:26:52.995 only a trader to journalism, you are a trader to America. 0:26:55.275 --> 0:27:00.075 All set of interest here talking about dinner on Saturday 0:27:00.115 --> 0:27:03.475 in DC. A little lighter note, time to tell you 0:27:03.515 --> 0:27:09.675