Trump's 'stupidity problem' frustrates his efforts and emboldens his opponents

The Rachel Maddow Show

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow looks at how even on ideas that Donald Trump emphasized on the campaign trail he is doing a poor job executing or he is panicking and backpedaling when he realizes how many people he is upsetting, and the more his incompetence is exposed, the more his opponents are emboldened to find ways to stop him.

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0:00.0	Really happy to have you here. Do you ever watch track and field at the Olympics?
0:04.1	I never watch it any other time, but I always watch it at the Olympics.
0:07.2	The Summer Olympics in 2008 was in Beijing, you might remember.
0:12.2	During the trials for those 2008 Olympics, an American on the track and field team, a man named Tyson Gay,
0:19.1	ran an absolutely blistering 100-meter dash, 9.68 seconds.
0:24.6	Arguably, that might have been a world record at the time. That might have been the fastest 100-meter dash ever run on Earth.
0:33.6	Technically, there was some dispute over how windy it was that day, whether he benefited from
0:39.5	a tailwind, so they didn't count it as a world record.
0:43.3	But still, it was amazing.
0:45.4	With that just incredibly fast performance, he definitely made the Olympic team, and then some.
0:50.9	He actually set at least an American all-time record for that event.
0:57.4	That time made Tyson Gay the fastest American sprinter in U.S. history. And because of that,
1:04.5	it was really big news. Got headlines all over the country, all over the world.
1:08.1	Headlines like these, gay sets American record in 100 meters.
1:12.0	That was in the Los Angeles Times. Also in this one, the New York Times, in 100 meter win,
1:16.5	gay pushes the limits. Also, this one, homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials.
1:25.7	Hold on.
1:33.2	Quote, Tyson homosexual was a blur in blue,
1:36.6	sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has.
1:42.7	Homosexual ran 9.7 seconds, breaking the American record that had stood since 1990.
1:44.9	Okay, homosexual ran... What's going on here? What is... breaking the American record that had stood since 1990. Okay. Homosexual, Rand?
1:46.4	What's going on here?
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