TRUMP HAS LOST THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO RULE THIS COUNTRY - 1.15.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 50: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: The newest crimes this week mean he's now committed 32 of the 40 "sins" Thomas Jefferson accused King George III of in The Declaration of Independence:
He's telling those protesting the dead on the streets of Iran that he'll defend them while telling those protesting the dead on the streets of Minneapolis that his 'government' was right to kill them.
He's raided the home of a journalist, trampling the 1st Amendment
He's threatened taxation without representation over sanctuary cities
He's unilaterally cut off visas from 75 countries (including thirteen countries headed here in June for soccer's World Cup)
Trump has now lost any remaining moral authority to continue as president of this country. We must peacefully counteract his increasingly repressive and immoral and violent actions and threats and what looks like only two options regarding the midterms and 2028: he wants to either fix the elections for Trumpists or eliminate them outright. Object? He’ll buy you or blackmail you or hire somebody to KILL you. I mean, what are ICE agents if not private paramilitary gangsters, hired by Trump, to kill you? On what Trump promises is “the day of reckoning and retribution” against Minnesota.
What do we do next?
B-Block (30:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Bill Maher bristles at a joke (well, when was the last time he actually made, or heard, a joke?) There's another new idiot Congresswoman who wants Tim Walz arrested over the murder of Renee Good. And the Fox News writer who believes we are under attack by gangs of ANTIFA WINE MOMS.
C-Block (41:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The "Ford Finger" incident with Trump reminded me of the day the right wing tried to bury Tom Hanks over what they thought was disrespect to staffers at a movie event.
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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. Donald Trump has lost the moral authority to continue to rule this country. |
| 0:35.2 | I have asserted this before. |
| 0:37.3 | Donald Trump has lost the moral authority to continue to rule this country. |
| 0:43.5 | And he does not give one good goddamn that that is true. |
| 0:47.6 | He may never have had the moral authority to govern this country. |
| 0:51.6 | His enablers and those like him who are draining the financial and |
| 0:55.3 | moral resources of this nation don't care what I think, don't care what you think, don't |
| 1:01.1 | care what the world thinks. But it is time for us to think, to think about what to do about the |
| 1:07.8 | fact that Trump retains control over us, and there can be no question of |
| 1:13.0 | it now, is seeking to expand his control to true dictatorial levels through increasingly |
| 1:20.3 | repressive and immoral and violent actions and threats. And what looks like only two options |
| 1:27.2 | regarding the midterms and |
| 1:28.9 | 2028 he wants to either fix the elections for trumpists or eliminate them outright |
| 1:35.0 | object to any of this he will buy you or blackmail you or hire somebody |
| 1:42.1 | dress them up in an ice uniform, hire somebody to kill you. |
| 1:48.3 | I mean, what are ICE agents, if not private, paramilitary gangsters hired by Trump to kill you? |
| 1:57.0 | Or at least to put it in your mind that if you disagree with him, they might kill you. |
| 2:03.4 | Kill you on what Trump promises is, quote, the day of reckoning and retribution against Minnesota. |
| 2:12.8 | At no point in the history of this country, since the civil war ended, would anybody who talked like |
| 2:18.3 | that still be in public service the next day? At no point. And he is enabled in all of this, |
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