TRUMP IS A LAME DUCK NOW - AND THE (LATEST) OLIVIA NUZZI STORY - 11.20.25
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 35: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-BLOCK (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is now a lame duck.
A lame Donald. A lame duck Donald. A lame Donald Duck. I like it.
It’s not just that MAGA stood up to him and a GOP/Democratic coalition beat him 427 to 1 on Epstein. It's that that was something even most of the Washington political media industrial complex can understand, can process, can WRITE using the cliches in which they trafficked until Trump and his unprecedented madness came along. This looked all too familiar and they jumped on it with both feet and the same cliché: LAME DUCK.
Fortune used it. NBC. Semafor. The National Review. Nate Silver's site asked "Is Trump A Lame Duck?" CNN's went further: "Is Trump A Lame Duck NOW?" It's so bad there was a Politico Lame Duck Listicle! "Seven signs Trump is losing his groove." And then the final nail: “It’s Official: Donald Trump is a lame duck by President”by Chris Cillizza, part of his weekly conversation with Chuck Todd.
It's never over til it's over, Yogi, but it's over.
B-BLOCK (25:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: I'm the character in The (Latest) Olivia Nuzzi story who gets shot in the first scene, but I still know more about her than almost any outsider and there is a lot to correct on her epically bad book excerpt in Vanity Fair, and the riposte by the more recent ex, Ryan Lizza, who was apparently told by Olivia that I was stalking her at the same time as Olivia was telling me there was a guy in Washington stalking her, named Ryan Lizza. The Nuzzi News is a Doozy and we all lose. This was to be a comeback; now she'll need an entirely new comeback to come back from her come back. And how does Vanity Fair keep her employed after the Mark Sanford accusation made her explanation of her RFK Jr lies into a separate lie?
C-BLOCK (1:00:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Trump accuses himself of rigging the 2020 census. It was in July, but Bill O'Reilly insisted that Jeffrey Epstein was prosecuted by Biden and Garland, and refused to correct himself even after he was reminded Epstein died during Trump's first presidency. And Bill Maher says he's giving up touring because people who are half as funny are selling twice as many tickets. Who does he mean? The New York Jets?
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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. Trump is now a lame duck. |
| 0:29.8 | A lame Donald. A lame duck Donald. |
| 0:33.6 | A lame Donald duck. I like it. It's not just that Marjorie Taylor Green stood up to him, |
| 0:40.4 | and her side won the Epstein fight nearly unanimously. It's not just that even when Trump switched |
| 0:45.6 | sides, so he could pretend he didn't lose by 427 to 1, one of his stalwart psychos, Clay Higgins, stood up to him in the opposite direction |
| 0:57.6 | and voted against him from the other way. It's that there has been a sea change within the |
| 1:03.6 | mainstream media. Trumpstein has damaged Trump, probably irretrievably, but not in the way any of us expected. |
| 1:13.0 | The Republican House caucus rebelling against him, handing him a rebuke so powerful, so large, |
| 1:19.8 | that he not only gave up, but he did a 180, and he made the Speaker of the House to a 180 with him. |
| 1:25.7 | That's something that even most of the Washington |
| 1:29.2 | political, media, industrial complex of morons can understand, can process, can write |
| 1:36.6 | using the cliches in which they trafficked until Trump and his unprecedented madness came |
| 1:43.4 | along a decade ago. |
| 1:45.7 | This looked familiar to them, like they were back from a trip through the desert, |
| 1:52.7 | and they jumped on it with both feet and both cliches. |
| 1:57.9 | Fortune, quote, in 2030 he's not going to be the president. Even Republicans are warning of |
| 2:03.7 | Trump's lame duck status as affordability Epstein threatened to derail tenure. NBC News, quote, |
| 2:11.5 | lame duck Trump inside Trump losing his grip on the Republican Party after nearly a decade. |
| 2:17.2 | Wall Street Journal, Trump's grip on Republican shows first signs of slipping. |
| 2:23.7 | Semaphore, the Epstein vote, quote, |
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