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🗓️ 24 November 2025
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 35: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-BLOCK (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Well here's a switcheroo. For the first time in more than a decade, the far right and the far left and everybody in between are in full agreement: NONE OF US knows… what the hell is wrong with Trump.
Trump was so smitten with Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani that by Saturday he was DRESSING like Mamdani; a neat black overcoat that fit him – and a red scarf that enveloped his neck – hair, combed with something other than a garden claw. And remember: some far right commentators had almost expected that when Mamdani arrived at the White House he would be greeted by Trump and Tom Homan and hooded ICE gestapo agents who would fabricate some story about Mamdani lying on paperwork, seize him, and expel him. They expected Mamdani to leave the Oval Office in chains; instead, Trump left the Oval Office in love.
AND NOW MARGE GREENE is out, and Laura Loomer is asking 'why bother to vote next year?' and Charles Gasparino is saying the wheels are off the Trump presidency and even the MAGAs think Trump has gone nuts and it's over. It's not - but it's nice to watch them squirm. Plus the Kash Patel/Girlfriend/SWAT team fiasco and even the Ukraine proposal literally written in Russian by Russians has embarrassed them. It's fabulous.
PLUS A NEW THOUGHT ON TRUMP'S INEXPLICABLE MRI. Maybe he really doesn't know what happened. Maybe he has anosognosia, the disease that makes it impossible for you to acknowledge or even remember that you have a disease. Maybe they told him why he got that MRI - and he immediately blocked it out.
B-BLOCK (34:00) YOUR LATEST NUZZI DOOZY NEWS. Yes, the big screaming uh, RECYCLING headline is gross. But it's not the real story. The real story is: Ryan Lizza now claims that for a year, before the election, while she was working for New York Magazine, my ex was doing Catch and Kill operations on RFK's behalf. Very bad news for all involved. And that she told him if anybody ever found out about her and Bob, he'd kill her. She exaggerates, but he doesn't think this was one of those. Plus, Vanity Fair is about to get rid of her. Feel free to skip this update.
C-BLOCK (1:02:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Rookie Chicago cop shoots himself in the silver bullets, the Ellisons are willing to fire any CNN anchor Trump doesn't want in exchange for him letting them buy CNN, and Laura Loomer and Catturd are so stupid they fell for the oldest joke in the "Arabic" book.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:08.7 | Thank you. For the first time in more than a decade, the far right and the far left and everybody in between is in full agreement. None of us knows what the hell is wrong with Trump. |
| 0:47.0 | For sometimes when a cult leader goes crazy, it actually can be a negative for the cult, |
| 0:53.3 | like, oh, now-ish, when the cult realizes that while they usually love it when Trump goes crazy, |
| 1:00.1 | this time he's gone crazy for somebody else and crazy against them. |
| 1:08.3 | Trump was so smitten with mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani of New York that the disturbingly sincere-looking |
| 1:16.7 | grin on his face Friday and the tone of, sure, call me a fascist, friend, in the Oval |
| 1:23.8 | office was just the start of it. By Saturday, he was dressing like Moundani, |
| 1:29.8 | a neat black overcoat that fit him, and a scarf that enveloped his neck and hair, combed, |
| 1:38.7 | with something other than a garden claw, and the overall appearance of somebody who for the first time in his life had actually asked |
| 1:46.7 | somebody else for their advice about the overall appearance and actually listened to the advice. |
| 1:56.2 | Mom Dani was somehow so appealing to Trump that from Trump's point of view, he might as well have been, |
| 2:02.7 | I don't know, Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 2:07.5 | Remember, some far-right commentators, not all to be certain, but some as close to sanity as, say, |
| 2:14.9 | the newsmax level of hell, had almost expected that when mayor-elect |
| 2:21.0 | Mamdani arrived at the White House, he would be greeted by Trump and Tom Homan and hooded |
| 2:27.2 | ICE Gestapo agents on horseback, who would fabricate some story about Mamdani lying on paperwork, |
| 2:33.6 | and they would seize him, and they would expel him, |
| 2:36.6 | or at least put him in a prison somewhere. |
| 2:38.8 | They are still all the way over there in a probably chemically induced fantasy, |
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