WEBVTT - WHY DO THEY KEEP GIVING TRUMP COGNITIVE TESTS? - 10.30.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.075 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 0:00:24.195 --> 0:00:28.835 correct question has been lying there, hidden invisible in the 0:00:28.955 --> 0:00:34.675 forest for the trees. Mary Trump finally saw it, and 0:00:34.715 --> 0:00:38.955 she has asked it. Quote, why the hell do they 0:00:39.795 --> 0:00:46.115 keep giving him cognitive tests? That's it, isn't it? I'll 0:00:46.115 --> 0:00:48.515 add a corollary, why the hell do they keep giving 0:00:48.595 --> 0:00:55.395 him cognitive tests? Almost exactly six months apart? He's boasting 0:00:55.435 --> 0:00:58.235 again about having passed one. We believe it was three 0:00:58.235 --> 0:01:01.795 weeks ago Friday, October tenth, that Walter Reid, but who knows, 0:01:02.475 --> 0:01:05.795 during what they first called his annual physical until somebody 0:01:05.835 --> 0:01:09.195 realized he'd already had his annual physical last spring when 0:01:09.275 --> 0:01:14.115 he also boasted about having just taken one April eleventh. 0:01:14.235 --> 0:01:19.115 That's two cognitive tests April eleventh and probably October tenth. 0:01:19.275 --> 0:01:23.315 Those dates are six months apart, one hundred and eighty 0:01:23.315 --> 0:01:27.435 two days. If they are not giving him pre scheduled 0:01:27.475 --> 0:01:31.595 cognitive tests every six months, that's a hell of a coincidence. 0:01:33.155 --> 0:01:36.355 Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 0:01:37.075 --> 0:01:40.195 And I'll add a second carollary to Mary Trump's real question, 0:01:40.675 --> 0:01:43.955 why did they give him an MRI this time? Is 0:01:43.995 --> 0:01:47.635 this the first MRI. What was it of I mean, 0:01:47.635 --> 0:01:49.715 it may be irrelevant. I once had an MRI to 0:01:49.755 --> 0:01:52.915 see how my sinuses were draining into the back of 0:01:53.035 --> 0:01:57.515 my throat. You really can get MRIs for almost trivial stuff, 0:01:57.675 --> 0:02:01.635 but you do not get cognitive tests for trivial stuff 0:02:01.915 --> 0:02:06.275 every six months. And we know all this because Trump 0:02:06.355 --> 0:02:09.635 can't stop himself. He keeps talking about these tests. He 0:02:09.715 --> 0:02:13.835 keeps thinking he's he's won some sort of game show 0:02:14.195 --> 0:02:21.835 or scholarship or Nobell cognitive test prize. On board air 0:02:21.875 --> 0:02:24.915 Force one this week he boasted reporters about acing the 0:02:25.075 --> 0:02:29.235 MRI and about passing the cognition test three weeks ago. 0:02:30.195 --> 0:02:32.835 Trump first tried to insist it was an IQ test 0:02:32.875 --> 0:02:36.315 so he could insult representatives of Casio Cortes and Crockett. 0:02:36.395 --> 0:02:40.075 Then he slipped and he admitted it was a cognitive test, 0:02:40.235 --> 0:02:44.555 and then he described the test. This was this past Monday, 0:02:44.595 --> 0:02:45.795 a board air Force one. 0:02:46.115 --> 0:02:49.635 Have her passed. Like the exams that I decided to 0:02:49.675 --> 0:02:52.435 take when I was at Walter Reine, I took that 0:02:52.555 --> 0:02:55.995 was a very hard They really have to do tests, 0:02:56.035 --> 0:02:58.555 I guess in a certain way. But the cognitive tests 0:02:59.275 --> 0:03:03.475 let AOC go against Trump, Let Jasmin go against from 0:03:03.515 --> 0:03:05.955 why do they get a jazz? And the first couple 0:03:06.035 --> 0:03:08.675 of questions, there is a tiger an elephant that you have, 0:03:08.875 --> 0:03:11.715 you know, when you get up to about five or six, 0:03:11.795 --> 0:03:13.595 and then when you get up to ten and twenty 0:03:13.595 --> 0:03:17.915 and twenty five, they couldn't come close to answering any 0:03:17.915 --> 0:03:18.875 of those questions. 0:03:19.355 --> 0:03:22.555 And this why do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 0:03:22.595 --> 0:03:26.315 The audio a little less clear was also from onboard 0:03:26.355 --> 0:03:30.075 Air Force one from April eleventh, twenty twenty five. 0:03:30.475 --> 0:03:32.995 I wanted to be a little different than they took 0:03:33.035 --> 0:03:34.235 a cocnitive tests. 0:03:35.475 --> 0:03:38.635 Yeah, I don't know. I want to tell you whether. 0:03:38.515 --> 0:03:40.595 That I got a reanswer, right as I've. 0:03:40.395 --> 0:03:43.755 Done about lord times and I've taken I've taken the 0:03:43.795 --> 0:03:44.915 cognitive tests. 0:03:44.635 --> 0:03:45.515 Any four times. 0:03:45.675 --> 0:03:46.035 I'm done. 0:03:47.075 --> 0:03:51.235 I've got nothing wrong. That's when the American people want. 0:03:51.995 --> 0:03:55.355 That was during his twenty twenty five annual physical, his 0:03:55.475 --> 0:04:00.755 first annual physical. Why the hell do they keep giving 0:04:00.835 --> 0:04:04.515 him cognitive tests? And it's not like these are the 0:04:04.755 --> 0:04:08.795 only two person woman man camera TV. That was now 0:04:08.915 --> 0:04:11.355 five years and three months ago, Like. 0:04:11.475 --> 0:04:19.555 You'll go person, woman, man camera TV. So they say, 0:04:19.635 --> 0:04:24.035 could you repeat that? So I said, yeah, so it's 0:04:24.115 --> 0:04:30.795 person woman, man camera TV. Okay, that's very good. If 0:04:30.835 --> 0:04:32.675 you get it in order, you get extra points. 0:04:32.955 --> 0:04:36.315 He said he had taken that test recently at Walter 0:04:36.515 --> 0:04:41.635 Reed recently in twenty twenty. Sometime after that, his own 0:04:41.675 --> 0:04:44.395 White House physician said that Trump had taken the Montreal 0:04:44.635 --> 0:04:49.515 Cognitive Assessment in twenty eighteen. Why the hell do they 0:04:49.595 --> 0:04:54.075 keep giving him cognitive tests? A cognitive test and he 0:04:54.195 --> 0:04:57.955 has used the word this time A dementia or other 0:04:58.155 --> 0:05:04.595 brain impairment screening test simple triage on October tenth. That's one. 0:05:05.355 --> 0:05:08.115 Then there's the one in April. That's two. He was 0:05:08.195 --> 0:05:11.475 boasting in January of last year about having passed one, 0:05:11.755 --> 0:05:16.635 kept boasting about it through the spring. Only the animals 0:05:16.675 --> 0:05:18.915 they asked him about in that one were different than 0:05:18.955 --> 0:05:21.315 the ones he just mentioned in the one he just took. 0:05:22.355 --> 0:05:26.595 Was that a third test? Last year? Throughout Biden's presidency, 0:05:26.675 --> 0:05:29.755 Trump talked about these tests. In twenty twenty, he repeatedly 0:05:29.875 --> 0:05:32.795 challenged Biden to take one. He said in twenty twenty 0:05:32.835 --> 0:05:36.755 he had recently taken one. That's three or four. We 0:05:36.915 --> 0:05:39.915 know for sure. He took the Montreal Cognitive in twenty eighteen. 0:05:40.195 --> 0:05:43.195 That was definitely at least the fourth, probably the fifth. 0:05:43.435 --> 0:05:48.075 Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 0:05:50.155 --> 0:05:53.435 That's two in the last six months, seemingly time to 0:05:53.515 --> 0:05:57.395 be six months apart. That is certainly four in the 0:05:57.475 --> 0:06:01.155 last six years. He has previously said he's taken four 0:06:01.235 --> 0:06:05.635 of these tests, maybe five, he can't remember. It could 0:06:05.635 --> 0:06:08.835 easily be five. In fact, it could easily be six. 0:06:09.635 --> 0:06:14.675 Anybody remember when he disappeared way back when, around oh 0:06:15.395 --> 0:06:18.435 decades a labor day after that three and a half 0:06:18.515 --> 0:06:22.115 hour farewell roast of a cabinet meeting, where was he? 0:06:23.395 --> 0:06:26.715 Did they test him then? Then he disappeared for another 0:06:26.795 --> 0:06:29.035 five days at the end of September. Did they test 0:06:29.115 --> 0:06:32.675 him then? Well, we are deep in the woods again. 0:06:32.755 --> 0:06:35.595 Let us return to the simplicity of the Mary Trump question. 0:06:35.995 --> 0:06:39.995 It is absolutely certain that they keep giving the President 0:06:40.115 --> 0:06:43.275 of the United States tests to see if he can 0:06:43.435 --> 0:06:48.035 pass the minimum standard for cognitive capacity, to pass the 0:06:48.195 --> 0:06:53.715 minimum simplest threshold for not having some form of impairment, 0:06:54.155 --> 0:06:59.395 maybe dementia. It certainly is a reasonable inference to suggest 0:06:59.475 --> 0:07:03.115 that giving them on April eleventh and October tenth suggests 0:07:03.155 --> 0:07:09.635 they are now scheduling for regular tests, and although he 0:07:09.715 --> 0:07:11.595 slipped in his rush to try to explain how much 0:07:11.755 --> 0:07:14.875 smarter he is than Jasmine Crockett or Alexandria or Casio 0:07:14.995 --> 0:07:18.595 Cortes or whichever elected Democratic woman of color is next 0:07:18.635 --> 0:07:20.915 on his shit list, it is clear that at some 0:07:21.195 --> 0:07:26.595 point somebody convinced him, or he convinced himself, that this 0:07:26.835 --> 0:07:30.475 was an IQ test and that he's, to quote his 0:07:30.595 --> 0:07:33.715 own words again, a very stable genius. It says so 0:07:33.915 --> 0:07:37.155 on the test with the picture of the giraffe on it. 0:07:39.395 --> 0:07:41.555 Even though the only word in that description of very 0:07:41.595 --> 0:07:46.035 stable genius that appears to apply is very. We can 0:07:46.075 --> 0:07:52.155 all agree Donald Trump is very There are two little 0:07:52.235 --> 0:07:54.235 side points I'd like to make before we drop this 0:07:54.395 --> 0:07:59.155 for now. I often wonder where he conflated the concept 0:07:59.275 --> 0:08:05.155 of political asylum and mental asylums. He can't shake it. 0:08:05.475 --> 0:08:07.795 He says it every two weeks. He will never be 0:08:07.915 --> 0:08:11.755 convinced that people were here because they were granted asylum 0:08:12.475 --> 0:08:18.075 are therefore from asylums. This can be simple, good old 0:08:18.115 --> 0:08:21.555 fashioned American stupidity. He deduced this when he was a kid, 0:08:22.155 --> 0:08:25.115 the way a kid I knew at age thirteen insisted 0:08:25.155 --> 0:08:31.195 the phrase was for all intensive purposes, and for whatever reason, 0:08:31.875 --> 0:08:34.715 Trump would not and could not shake his mistake about 0:08:34.715 --> 0:08:40.075 the word asylum or this asylum stuff is somehow wedged 0:08:40.115 --> 0:08:42.755 into his mind because it's connected to his own experience 0:08:42.835 --> 0:08:47.835 with psychological exams, which he must have taken as a kid, since, 0:08:47.915 --> 0:08:51.315 as his own father euphemistically put it decades ago, Trump 0:08:51.475 --> 0:08:54.195 was a rough kid who had to be taken out 0:08:54.195 --> 0:08:55.915 of the public schools and sent to the New York 0:08:55.995 --> 0:09:00.475 Military Academy NIMA because well, in my prep school days, 0:09:00.475 --> 0:09:02.995 when our football and hockey and basketball and baseball teams 0:09:03.075 --> 0:09:05.875 used to play against NIMA, all the kids at NeiMa 0:09:05.915 --> 0:09:09.795 were supposedly there because some authority had given Dad a choice. 0:09:10.475 --> 0:09:15.035 It's there or it's the reformatory. I just keep wondering 0:09:15.115 --> 0:09:19.715 if the word asylum is stuck inside Trump because he 0:09:19.835 --> 0:09:23.955 had to face that as a kid. Did the folks 0:09:24.035 --> 0:09:29.355 threaten him with it? The second point is less speculative. 0:09:29.715 --> 0:09:33.435 I hadn't heard this before that clip I played from April. 0:09:33.555 --> 0:09:36.155 The last time he was boasting about the last cognitive 0:09:36.235 --> 0:09:39.195 test he passed. He said that at Walter Reed they 0:09:39.235 --> 0:09:41.715 gave him a thorough physical exam as well, and it 0:09:41.835 --> 0:09:46.035 showed he had a good heart and a very good soul. 0:09:49.155 --> 0:09:57.675 You heard me a good song. Your physical showed that 0:09:57.875 --> 0:10:03.395 your soul is just fine. It's not an irregular soul, 0:10:03.835 --> 0:10:07.155 and your soul is not hyper extended, and you don't 0:10:07.235 --> 0:10:15.555 have Pyrone's soul disease. Why the hell do they keep 0:10:15.595 --> 0:10:19.395 giving him cognitive tests? I think contained in that last 0:10:19.555 --> 0:10:47.235 clip that might be our answer right there. Meanwhile, in 0:10:47.355 --> 0:10:51.115 another endless topic, Trump has said something that sounds like 0:10:51.315 --> 0:10:53.675 he's not going to try to stay in office past 0:10:53.755 --> 0:10:57.195 January twentieth, twenty twenty nine, and since it was preceded 0:10:57.275 --> 0:11:00.875 by only one full minute of lies about how great 0:11:00.915 --> 0:11:03.355 the economy is and how he got peace in the 0:11:03.355 --> 0:11:05.755 Middle East, and how nobody's ever been as popular as 0:11:05.795 --> 0:11:08.755 he is, Why the hell do they keep giving him 0:11:08.795 --> 0:11:13.275 cognitive tests? The nation's most gullible people, the Washington Press Corps, 0:11:13.555 --> 0:11:17.675 seems to have concluded that he's not trying to mislead, dissemble, 0:11:17.955 --> 0:11:22.435 or you know, just lie to them again. The British kid, 0:11:22.915 --> 0:11:26.235 it's always a goddamn British kid, who they supposedly had 0:11:26.275 --> 0:11:29.555 fired as the editor of the playbook newsletter for Politico 0:11:29.755 --> 0:11:33.195 months ago, but he's still there. Yesterday, wrote, So even 0:11:33.315 --> 0:11:36.675 Trump says the Constitution is clear on this point. Can 0:11:36.795 --> 0:11:40.635 we all now put this to bed? No, Sonny, we 0:11:40.795 --> 0:11:45.555 can't because you didn't ask Trump what the word clear means, 0:11:45.995 --> 0:11:46.915 did you? Huh? 0:11:47.315 --> 0:11:48.035 Huh huh. 0:11:48.555 --> 0:11:51.515 Persuading for Johnson says that he told you that there's 0:11:51.555 --> 0:11:54.395 no time to amend the constitution to allow. 0:11:54.195 --> 0:11:55.275 You to serve a third term. 0:11:55.795 --> 0:11:57.835 Is that an accurate representation. 0:11:57.355 --> 0:12:00.315 Of I don't want to even talk about that, because 0:12:00.915 --> 0:12:04.075 you know, the sad thing is I have my highest 0:12:04.155 --> 0:12:06.955 numbers I've ever had, and I would say that if 0:12:06.995 --> 0:12:09.675 you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. 0:12:09.915 --> 0:12:11.115 Stumid I missed him. 0:12:11.635 --> 0:12:14.075 Dear listener, if you would please get out your meme 0:12:14.355 --> 0:12:16.995 of the guy tapping his head to indicate how smart 0:12:17.075 --> 0:12:20.715 he is. Can't be accused of trying to run for 0:12:20.715 --> 0:12:23.155 a third term if you cancel the twenty twenty nine 0:12:23.195 --> 0:12:28.075 election or make some other extra constitutional violence based attempt 0:12:28.115 --> 0:12:33.715 to not leave the White House. Huh? There is still 0:12:33.835 --> 0:12:37.835 something rattling around in that damaged brain of Trump's. Hi 0:12:38.275 --> 0:12:42.155 the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests that 0:12:42.315 --> 0:12:45.635 assumes there will be some sort of mass uprising by 0:12:45.835 --> 0:12:50.555 others to keep him in power forever, one that he 0:12:50.715 --> 0:12:56.075 may or may need to himself stoke or can happen organically. 0:12:57.075 --> 0:12:58.915 And if you don't believe that, let me ask you 0:12:59.555 --> 0:13:05.115 what was January sixth. Trump has specifically said he didn't 0:13:05.155 --> 0:13:07.515 think he would want to run as vice president and 0:13:07.675 --> 0:13:11.715 let somebody else occupy the presidency ceremonially while he runs 0:13:11.795 --> 0:13:15.075 the country. But again, what part of that is a no? 0:13:15.875 --> 0:13:17.435 I don't think I'd like to do it. Oh I 0:13:17.515 --> 0:13:20.515 did it anyway. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, 0:13:20.595 --> 0:13:23.995 taking time off from and acting the passive aggressive dissolving 0:13:24.155 --> 0:13:26.755 of Congress and taking even more time off from his 0:13:26.835 --> 0:13:30.035 busy schedule of not knowing anything about the latest news 0:13:30.155 --> 0:13:32.915 or controversy or the rules of the House, he said 0:13:32.955 --> 0:13:35.195 he didn't see a path for Trump to serve a 0:13:35.275 --> 0:13:38.555 third term, quoting, Hey, and I have talked about the 0:13:38.635 --> 0:13:44.035 constrictions of the Constitution. Again, where's the no. On the 0:13:44.115 --> 0:13:48.075 other hand, the only escaped circus elephant in the Senate, 0:13:48.235 --> 0:13:51.955 Tommy Tubberville, said, if Trump wanted to quote, go round 0:13:52.075 --> 0:13:56.715 the constitution quote, don't ever close a book on him. 0:13:59.275 --> 0:14:01.515 And of course, Steve Bannon told the economists that you 0:14:01.555 --> 0:14:03.595 shouldn't listen to Trump that there is a plan in 0:14:03.675 --> 0:14:06.595 place to keep Trump in place in office, and quote 0:14:06.835 --> 0:14:09.515 at the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. 0:14:11.515 --> 0:14:15.035 It's easy to dismiss morons like Tubberville and mentally damaged 0:14:15.115 --> 0:14:18.195 fascists like Bannon and presume this is all bluster. It 0:14:18.315 --> 0:14:22.195 is not all bluster if it is not obvious that 0:14:22.315 --> 0:14:25.075 while you and I and a vast majority of Americans 0:14:25.115 --> 0:14:28.235 have been raised to believe the Constitution and the laws are, 0:14:28.515 --> 0:14:31.515 if perhaps not, the sacred documents the Republicans like to 0:14:31.595 --> 0:14:35.115 pretend they believe they are. We believe they are there 0:14:35.555 --> 0:14:40.355 to keep chaos and evil in relative check. But Trump 0:14:40.435 --> 0:14:44.275 and the snakes he has enabled and supported see them 0:14:44.355 --> 0:14:50.475 merely as inconvenient impediments. For at least four years, they 0:14:50.515 --> 0:14:54.235 have been building up the phony resume for the revisionists 0:14:55.235 --> 0:14:57.715 drawn out of thin air. View of the twenty second 0:14:57.715 --> 0:15:02.595 Amendment term limits, it's two terms. That's it. Plus you 0:15:02.755 --> 0:15:06.075 can serve out up to two years of somebody else's 0:15:06.235 --> 0:15:11.315 unexpired term and then get elected twice. That's it. Two elections. 0:15:11.515 --> 0:15:15.115 An absolute hard time limit of nine years and one 0:15:15.195 --> 0:15:17.435 hundred and eighty three days, not one hundred and eighty 0:15:17.475 --> 0:15:19.795 two days, because there'd have to be a leap year 0:15:20.115 --> 0:15:23.235 if you took the end of somebody else's unserved term. 0:15:25.235 --> 0:15:27.475 The revisionist version of this, of course, is that this 0:15:27.595 --> 0:15:32.595 only applies to someone being elected to two concective terms. 0:15:34.635 --> 0:15:39.555 This useful bullshit rationalizes that from the twenty second Amendment 0:15:39.635 --> 0:15:42.155 point of view, Trump is right now only in his 0:15:42.275 --> 0:15:46.515 first term. As I've pointed out countless times, this bullshit 0:15:46.555 --> 0:15:50.995 also has the invaluable benefit of keeping Obama or Bill 0:15:51.075 --> 0:15:54.675 Clinton or George Bush, for whatever that's worth, from ever 0:15:54.835 --> 0:16:01.635 running again. Only Trump. It's nonsense, of course. Presidential immunity 0:16:01.715 --> 0:16:05.875 is nonsense. Of course, masked anonymous thug probably recruited from 0:16:05.955 --> 0:16:09.035 right wing militia shooting ministers in the face with tear 0:16:09.115 --> 0:16:14.915 gas while calling themselves ice is also nonsense. Actually, thanks 0:16:14.955 --> 0:16:17.675 to Trump, and thanks to this corrupt decrepit soul is 0:16:17.795 --> 0:16:22.195 Supreme Court, what sixty percent, seventy percent, one hundred percent 0:16:22.275 --> 0:16:26.475 of American public life is now nonsense. Go to the 0:16:26.515 --> 0:16:29.795 Supreme Court with the non consecutive terms fantasy and see 0:16:29.795 --> 0:16:34.795 how quickly sam Alito can turn that into law. Still, 0:16:36.475 --> 0:16:39.115 my gut has always told me that the extra constitutional 0:16:39.195 --> 0:16:41.795 theft that Trump favors and really dreams about the most 0:16:41.915 --> 0:16:45.315 is not some loophole shot into the twenty second Amendment 0:16:46.315 --> 0:16:50.715 by Missus Alito and her flags, nor even a military takeover. 0:16:51.195 --> 0:16:54.275 What he wants is for everybody to just agree with 0:16:54.435 --> 0:16:58.795 him that a he deserves another term because those evil 0:16:58.835 --> 0:17:01.395 Democrats wasted so much of his first term with the 0:17:01.475 --> 0:17:08.035 investigation of the Russia Russia Russia truth about his conspiracies 0:17:08.115 --> 0:17:12.235 with Putin, and that b he deserves another term, maybe 0:17:12.275 --> 0:17:14.595 a fourth one, because the twenty twenty election was quote 0:17:14.755 --> 0:17:18.115 stolen from him, even though he was president at the 0:17:18.195 --> 0:17:22.355 time and all the institutions that supervised the elections and 0:17:22.555 --> 0:17:26.435 investigated his nonsensical charges for the last five years were 0:17:26.555 --> 0:17:30.595 under his control. Either way, Trump does not want to 0:17:30.755 --> 0:17:33.595 have to be elected again in twenty twenty nine because 0:17:33.595 --> 0:17:37.715 another election means another chance to lose an election. He 0:17:37.835 --> 0:17:40.995 wants to remain president because everybody says he's so wonderful 0:17:41.115 --> 0:17:45.115 that there's no need to even have a vote. He 0:17:45.155 --> 0:17:48.555 could lose an election. He could lose a coup attempt. 0:17:49.155 --> 0:17:52.315 Hell son of a bitch, did lose a coup attempt? 0:17:52.315 --> 0:17:56.635 Didn't he a simple acclamation though, in which everybody names 0:17:56.755 --> 0:18:02.635 him homecoming King and scored a perfect score on his 0:18:03.515 --> 0:18:12.035 acuity IQ test and President again, simple acclamation. That's what 0:18:12.155 --> 0:18:14.955 he wants. And if you have to do something with 0:18:15.075 --> 0:18:17.555 that annoying constitution to make that happen, what you do 0:18:17.635 --> 0:18:19.635 is simply find a way to say, of course he 0:18:19.755 --> 0:18:22.955 only gets two terms, and of course he knows he 0:18:23.075 --> 0:18:24.835 can't run for a third one. It says so in 0:18:24.915 --> 0:18:28.875 the Constitution. He just said it on tape. But where 0:18:28.915 --> 0:18:31.795 does it say we can't change how long his second 0:18:31.955 --> 0:18:35.235 term is. Why don't we just amend that other part 0:18:35.275 --> 0:18:38.355 of the Constitution that nobody looks at, Article two, Section one, 0:18:38.435 --> 0:18:40.835 clause one, so that it says a president shall hold 0:18:40.875 --> 0:18:42.835 his office during the term of four years, but this 0:18:43.075 --> 0:18:47.435 president shall hold his office during the term of eight 0:18:47.595 --> 0:19:00.235 years or twelve or eleveny billion. Also of interest here, Oh, 0:19:00.435 --> 0:19:04.635 it's more Brits running American news operations into the ground, 0:19:05.835 --> 0:19:09.395 the one they found to finally complete the destruction of CNN. 0:19:09.595 --> 0:19:12.275 Went to the White House to kiss Trump's ass and 0:19:12.395 --> 0:19:15.515 the ass of every Trump staffer, and before he got 0:19:15.555 --> 0:19:18.475 to his home, there was a tweet from a Trump 0:19:18.555 --> 0:19:26.595 spokesman mocking him for trying to appease Trump. Congratulations Neville Chamberlain. 0:19:27.355 --> 0:19:30.875 But don't worry. CNN is going to be merged into MSNBC, 0:19:31.235 --> 0:19:35.675 and the right wing has its candidate to run MSNBCNN. 0:19:36.795 --> 0:19:40.275 It's a former Miss Arizona now studying for a doctorate 0:19:40.515 --> 0:19:48.475 in Bible studies at Liberty University. Who reads the most 0:19:48.555 --> 0:19:52.595 Bazooka Joe comic strips shall get the doctorate in Bible 0:19:52.675 --> 0:19:55.915 Studies at Liberty. You know who this is. They want 0:19:55.995 --> 0:20:03.875 to run a combined MSNBC CNN Charlie Kirk's widow. Because 0:20:06.395 --> 0:20:10.675 this is hell, isn't it? That's next? This is Countdown. 0:20:12.515 --> 0:20:17.435 This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, who can predict almost anything. 0:20:38.435 --> 0:20:42.555 Still ahead on this all new episode of Countdown. All 0:20:42.675 --> 0:20:49.955 this La Dodgers World Series stuff reminds me to remind 0:20:50.035 --> 0:20:52.075 you that not only did I correctly predict the Kirk 0:20:52.155 --> 0:20:55.155 Gibson home run that won Game one of the nineteen 0:20:55.155 --> 0:20:57.355 eighty eight World Series and then sent them on their 0:20:57.395 --> 0:20:59.875 way to their upset of the Oakland A's to win 0:20:59.955 --> 0:21:03.675 that World series, but I did it as the innings 0:21:03.755 --> 0:21:06.635 started in which he hit it, and I predicted it 0:21:06.715 --> 0:21:09.275 as part of an answer to a question that my 0:21:09.395 --> 0:21:13.555 friend Alexis Denny, who you just heard, asked me, and 0:21:13.795 --> 0:21:17.835 she was a witness to this impossible prediction that was 0:21:17.875 --> 0:21:20.675 not at all serious, the Kirk Gibson home run, and 0:21:21.355 --> 0:21:25.875 I told you so. Next in things I promise not 0:21:25.995 --> 0:21:28.715 to tell first believe it or not, there's still more 0:21:28.795 --> 0:21:31.515 new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, 0:21:31.595 --> 0:21:35.755 morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 0:21:36.755 --> 0:21:44.715 worst persons in the world at the Bonds worse Steve Bannon. 0:21:45.995 --> 0:21:49.675 Steve Bannon says Zoran Mom, Danny has quote got to 0:21:49.755 --> 0:21:53.355 be sent out of the country, that they have to 0:21:53.715 --> 0:21:59.235 denaturalize him. But think about what would happen if we 0:21:59.315 --> 0:22:03.035 did this instead, to Steve Bannon, think of how much 0:22:03.115 --> 0:22:06.635 affordable housing we could be filled in the space that 0:22:06.795 --> 0:22:14.675 this fat, ugly slob now wastes and occupies. Runner up 0:22:14.715 --> 0:22:18.915 Rich Greenfield, who is a conservative media pest, identifies as 0:22:18.955 --> 0:22:25.475 a critic, as quoted by Max Tenney of Semaphore, this 0:22:25.755 --> 0:22:31.115 is his genius idea. Let's take this a step further. 0:22:31.355 --> 0:22:36.835 Merging NBC Universal with Warner Bros. Discovery would combine NBC, MSNBC, 0:22:37.035 --> 0:22:40.995 and CNN. Under one roof, he writes, We've been thinking 0:22:41.035 --> 0:22:45.675 about how NBC Universal could completely shift the perceived biased 0:22:45.795 --> 0:22:51.355 narrative at NBC, MSN NOW and CNN, similar to what 0:22:51.475 --> 0:22:53.835 Paramount is attempting with its acquisition of the Free Press 0:22:53.875 --> 0:22:56.475 and appointing Barry Weiss as editor in chief of CBS 0:22:56.595 --> 0:23:01.515 News enter Erica Kirk, who leads the nonprofit Turning Point 0:23:01.635 --> 0:23:04.995 USA and is the widow of Charlie Kirk. What if 0:23:05.075 --> 0:23:08.395 Comcast agreed to bring Kirk in as editor in chief 0:23:08.435 --> 0:23:12.195 of the combined news unit upon closing Sure, at first, 0:23:12.275 --> 0:23:16.715 blush it sounds crazy, by the way, sir, at four 0:23:16.875 --> 0:23:20.755 three hundred and twenty second, blush, it sounds crazy. Err 0:23:21.515 --> 0:23:25.435 But Trump loves a deal. F Trump f his deals, 0:23:26.315 --> 0:23:29.635 and Brian Roberts needs to think big and differently. Yes, 0:23:30.435 --> 0:23:33.195 kick Trump in the metaphorical nuts. That would be a 0:23:33.275 --> 0:23:38.235 different thought. The combined NBC, MSNBCCNN could also add a 0:23:38.355 --> 0:23:42.835 conservative ombudsman, as CBS News did with Kenneth R. Weinstein. 0:23:43.755 --> 0:23:48.155 Ombudsman here is used metaphorically. What they have as a snitch, 0:23:48.475 --> 0:23:51.675 what they have as a a collaborator, what they have 0:23:51.755 --> 0:23:54.995 as a political officer inside CBS News, who is there 0:23:55.075 --> 0:23:58.715 to turn in the liberals? Worth noting Comcast made a 0:23:58.955 --> 0:24:03.515 sizable donation to Trump's White House ballroom renovation, which is 0:24:03.595 --> 0:24:08.715 unsurprisingly harfy. NBC and MSNBC staff, Well that's because, mister 0:24:08.835 --> 0:24:12.595 rich Greenfield, it's a bribe. News organization should not be 0:24:12.675 --> 0:24:15.515 anywhere near something like this, especially if it's a bribe 0:24:15.555 --> 0:24:19.795 of a corrupt president leading a corrupt movement full of 0:24:19.875 --> 0:24:22.275 corrupt people who have no soul and are all going 0:24:22.355 --> 0:24:27.115 to hell. Have a nice day, maggot, What a great idea. 0:24:27.475 --> 0:24:32.955 Scowling angry, justifiably angry, mind you widow of an assassinated 0:24:33.035 --> 0:24:36.075 right wing nutjob who all the members of the right 0:24:36.155 --> 0:24:39.395 wing think was Jesus or Trump or Jesus Trump or something. 0:24:39.715 --> 0:24:43.475 Put her in charge of NBC News slash MS now 0:24:43.915 --> 0:24:47.755 slash CNN when she has no news experience and all 0:24:47.875 --> 0:24:51.275 of their combined news organizations are bailing water as it is, 0:24:51.835 --> 0:24:55.315 and incidentally, they're populated by people connected to me. The 0:24:55.435 --> 0:24:57.955 anchor of the NBC Nightly News used to be my 0:24:58.075 --> 0:25:04.035 production assistant. What could go wrong if you are hankering 0:25:04.115 --> 0:25:06.235 for the day is when there were only three TV 0:25:06.395 --> 0:25:10.395 networks doing only half an hour of news a night. Hey, 0:25:10.915 --> 0:25:14.395 we may get back there and damned fast. But this 0:25:14.555 --> 0:25:17.195 is the way they think. The presumption on the right 0:25:17.395 --> 0:25:19.395 is that the left has been making up the news 0:25:19.755 --> 0:25:23.035 because it contains things the right doesn't like. Therefore it 0:25:23.155 --> 0:25:26.155 can't be real. It must be some sort of propaganda. 0:25:26.555 --> 0:25:30.115 They really think this. If they wanted it to be 0:25:30.275 --> 0:25:32.795 sunny and it turns out to be rain, they will 0:25:32.955 --> 0:25:36.435 blame the liberal weather man rather than say, oh it's raining. 0:25:38.555 --> 0:25:43.835 So necessarily, the solution to a combined NBC, MSNBC and 0:25:43.995 --> 0:25:46.755 CNN under one roof would be to put a woman 0:25:46.835 --> 0:25:50.075 with absolutely no experience and nothing but vendettas in charge 0:25:50.115 --> 0:25:53.515 of the operation, because the Barry Weiss thing at CBS 0:25:53.635 --> 0:25:57.155 is already going so well. The point is, as has 0:25:57.195 --> 0:26:00.155 been pointed out here. I read the piece from what 0:26:00.355 --> 0:26:04.035 was her name, Emily le Pato. I may be getting 0:26:04.035 --> 0:26:07.635 that wrong, that all Barry Weiss is going to get 0:26:07.635 --> 0:26:10.155 to do is preside over the end of CBS News 0:26:10.195 --> 0:26:12.915 and the firing of everybody there. And if she has 0:26:12.955 --> 0:26:16.475 a reputation, it will be destroyed. So if you want 0:26:16.515 --> 0:26:19.795 to ruin Erica Kirk's life again, put her in charge 0:26:19.835 --> 0:26:29.155 of NBC, CNN, MSNBC people are too stupid, but our winner, 0:26:29.235 --> 0:26:35.955 speaking of ruining television news, Mark Thompson of CNN once again, 0:26:36.035 --> 0:26:39.275 it's funny that the fascists are on this anti immigrant 0:26:39.395 --> 0:26:43.075 kick when it's clear the most dangerous immigrants to this 0:26:43.195 --> 0:26:47.435 country are pasty white guys from England or countries that 0:26:47.595 --> 0:26:53.395 were English colonies, Australia and the Murdochs South Africa and 0:26:53.635 --> 0:26:57.395 musk and the other guys the UK and people like 0:26:57.555 --> 0:27:04.075 Mark Thompson. More impressively, why do so many submissive, loser 0:27:04.675 --> 0:27:08.515 Trump appeasers from England get put in charge of America 0:27:08.715 --> 0:27:12.275 news organizations and then promptly give in to Trump and 0:27:12.395 --> 0:27:18.035 then immediately get humiliated by Trump. A story from our 0:27:18.075 --> 0:27:21.875 friends at Oliver Darcy's newsletter status. During a trip to 0:27:22.035 --> 0:27:26.355 DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit 0:27:26.795 --> 0:27:29.635 to the White House, where he promoted the network's new 0:27:29.755 --> 0:27:34.235 streaming service. He wanted to get members of the Trump 0:27:34.275 --> 0:27:38.555 administration up to speed on what the new CNN streaming operation. 0:27:38.995 --> 0:27:41.115 I remember the last guy they put in charge of CNN. 0:27:41.435 --> 0:27:43.995 His big deal was getting rid of the new CNN 0:27:44.075 --> 0:27:46.795 streaming operation. Now we have a whole new approach, which 0:27:46.875 --> 0:27:50.035