THEY SHOW TRUMP A SPORTSCENTER VERSION OF HIS IRAN WAR EVERY MORNING - 3.26.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 72: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has started World War 3 and has no idea how to stop it - and he doesn't know he's LOSING World War 3.
How could he NOT know this? Because reportedly every morning they show him two minutes of highlights of "stuff blowing up" in Iran. His own personal SportsCenter
Conflagration in the Middle East. Trump insisting Iran is dead. And yet Iran has struck Tel Aviv. Putin has sent a Russian oil tanker to Cuba just to remind us he can. Trump has now handed Iran de facto control of the worldwide price of a barrel of oil. Iran now controls 30 percent of worldwide fertilizer distribution. Because of Trump’s World War 3, the Philippines declares an energy emergency and Slovenia institutes energy rationing and United Airlines raised airfares twenty percent. Trump insists peace could be imminent and sends thousands more troops there. He mumbles about a peace proposal. It may be LAST year’s peace proposal and he's confused. Ukraine-Russia continues. Now the PAKISTANIS think they are mediators about Trump’s World War 3. Trump's World War 3, which is apparently being conducted, so crooks can make billion dollar bets on oil futures. And in the ultimate insanity: the military POINT of Trump’s World War 3 is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the Strait of Hormuz was closed by… Trump’s World War 3.
All this while Rupert Murdoch insists if Trump DOESN’T put boots on the ground in Iran it will mean “American collapse.” World War 3 (TRUMP’S World War 3) in the new Thursday Countdown dropping at midnight.
IT IS ALMOST SCAPEGOAT TIME: He's beginning to give Hegseth way too much of the credit he normally gives himself. That's what he's always done when he's about to fire somebody. He did it to Noem. Hegseth could be next. Or maybe MarkWayne Mullin, he's been on the job two days and already made an idiot out of himself (again). And talk about scapegoats: who's going to get it at CBS where the morning show's target audience is now 33% smaller than the target audience I had the last week I did Countdown on MSNBC.
B-Block (26:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: When Patel's federally-funded girl friend Alexis Wilkins trashes Mike Flynn, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent - this must be some list: The Blaze, Glenn Beck, Scott Jennings, and Lauren Boebert,
C-Block (40:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A new baseball season is underway and this might be our last Opening Week until 2028 or later. My career began with covering the two most calamitous sports strikes in American history: MLB 1981 and NFL 1982. Of a drunken night with the football guys, and a broadcast in which a then-prominent sports columnist called them all communists (for the same kind of proposal OWNERS now offer TO players).
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| 0:51.5 | Trump has started World War III. |
| 0:55.2 | And Trump has no idea how to stop World War III. |
| 1:13.8 | And if you are trying to understand how Trump could be in a fugue state about his own World War III, NBC has reported that each morning they show him a video of the most successful strikes, the most successful bombing runs in Iran from the previous day, two minutes, which one source, quote, described each daily video as a series of clips of, quote, |
| 1:22.2 | stuff blowing up. |
| 1:26.3 | His own personal edition of Sports Center. |
| 1:31.4 | From way downtown, bang. |
| 1:35.0 | Or if you like the other guy, gone. |
| 1:38.7 | This is all he sees, because this is all he understands. |
| 1:42.4 | That's not two minutes of people dying. That's two minutes of |
| 1:45.9 | stuff blowing up. And he's mentally ill. And he is a sadist. And on top of that, he is physically |
| 1:53.7 | deteriorating. Stuff blowing up is all Trump understands. And it's all he thinks war is. Of course we're winning. He has |
| 2:03.6 | never seen any video of Iran blowing any of our stuff up. So Trump comes out of this wondering |
| 2:10.6 | why all the newscasts aren't just showing him blowing stuff up in Iran. The rest of it doesn't even confused him. It just |
| 2:19.4 | doesn't exist to him. There aren't other people there. Hell, there aren't other people on |
| 2:26.7 | earth. Only him. From way downtown bang. So when the new polling comes out, Associated Press, Nork, and it says 59% of Americans now think his military action in Iran is excessive, and 45% are extremely concerned or very concerned. |
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