TRUMP DEMENTIA: 14TH TIME HE'S CLAIMED GAS PRICES "JUST HIT $1.98" - 12.8.25

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 38: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: It’s not simple gaslighting about the price of gas: It’s neurological disintegration; obsessive repetition of the same lie. He has now - for the 14th time in 28 weeks - announced with shock and excited surprise that gas has "just hit" $1.98 a gallon (or "$1.99" or "under $2.00"). It's not just a lie; it's something he heard, could not understand in the first place, and is repeating at regular intervals as if he just heard it moments earlier.

It is a classic sign of neurological crisis. And it is proof that invoking the 25th Amendment is imperative. And won’t happen. Any more than Trump realizing he already TOLD that lie.

ALSO: Jack Smith still has a way to make the second half of his report convicting Trump public, while it turns out he tried to get rid of Aileen Cannon a year ago. It is also becoming increasingly apparent that ESPN's Stephen A. Smith may be the Jill Stein of 2028 - a stalking horse pretending to be a Democrat while being pushed by fascists. We know this much: he's mailing it in. He thinks the name of the governor of Florida is named "Ron Santis."

AND TRUMP AND MELANIA talking about "Pile Driving" at night in the White House? That must be the first time in eighteen years.

B-Block (35:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Shamwow guy is back and, what else, running for Congress as a MAGA because he can't keep this up all day. Bari Weiss obviously never saw the Mary Tyler Moore Show: she's fired her old CBS News Anchors before she's fired her NEW CBS News Anchors. And Jake Tapper really does it: after he put his thumb on the scale for Trump in the Biden debate and wrote a book and sold it on CNN about Biden's acuity, he's defending Trump's mental instability.

C-Block (42:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Hal Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees whose franchise has increased in value by three billion in just the last four years, is trying to convince people that maybe the Yankees aren't profitable. This is clownage as old as sports itself: the saga of the year the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers insisted "we lost two million last year!"

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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.
0:26.2	It's not just simple gas lighting about the price of gas.
0:29.3	It is neurological disintegration.
0:32.7	It is obsessive repetition of the same lie.
0:39.0	And the most terrifying part of all, Trump seems to be unaware that he is presenting this as something brand new as if it were the first time when, in fact, he blurts out in shock and
0:44.9	excited surprise, this same goddamn thing, an average of once every two weeks.
0:54.2	And still thinks it's the first time.
0:56.9	Saturday on social media.
0:59.3	Gasoline hit $1.99 a gallon yesterday in certain states.
1:04.4	Since the 17th of April, this is the 14th time he has claimed, as if it were true, but more importantly, as if it were
1:12.1	breaking news that gas just hit $1.98 or $1.99, 14 separate times. And each time he has
1:23.0	been expecting the world to share his surprise. It's the goddamn Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore movie.
1:30.8	Fifty first dates, where she has no short-term memory and every day she forgets that
1:35.2	they're dating.
1:37.1	Only this is the president of the United States, not Drew effing Barrymore, and every day,
1:42.3	or nearly every day, he forgets where the F he is and what the
1:47.1	F just happened, even about the price of gas.
1:53.0	April 17th, quote, you have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.
1:58.7	April 18th, the next day, literally already forgot.
2:02.0	Quote, gasoline in three states hit $1.98 a gallon.
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