'THE ONLY "SCUM" HERE IS TRUMP. THE ONLY "OBLITERATION" IS AMERICA'S REPUTATION - 6.26.25' & ***

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( *** see below for transcript on trump homophobia & anderson cooper)

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The new Countdown podcast drops at midnight: Trump's madness has now become monomania. He is obsessed with the "scum" who won't praise him for the "obliteration" of Iran's nukes - that didn't happen. The only scum here is Trump. At midnight

— Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T23:35:47.586Z

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: The only “scum” here is Trump and the only thing that’s been “obliterated” is America’s reputation. We have now descended to that level of hell in which the entire purpose of the government of the United States is to say and shout and lie so loudly and so often that the insane, deteriorating, mentally-dissolving, international joke that IS the current president doesn’t yell at the fools and whores who work for him.

He has now gotten the government of Israel to lie for him about his attack on Iran; he has now gotten his own government to issue assessments that not only completely contradict YESTERDAY’S assessments but completely contradict his OWN assessments; he has now gotten his own Director of National Intelligence – presumably under threat of being fired – to cherry-pick SOMEBODY’S intelligence, maybe ours, maybe Qatar’s, maybe Joe Rogan’s, who knows – and insist that it is NEW and it confirms his obsession that everybody in the country, everybody in the world, everybody in the universe, everybody YET TO BE BORN, agree with him that Iran’s nuclear capacity is quote “obliterated” and for all time and forever and no arguments and it’s the greatest military success since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and don’t you dare say otherwise, don’t you dare say inconclusive obliterated obliterated obliterated. Except that 24 hours ago Trump said… inconclusive.

THERE ARE SEVERAL SIDEBARS to Zohran Mamdani’s startling first-round win in the Democratic primary for mayor here in Fun City. First: the tepidness of national Democratic support for him. Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the gerontocracy better shape up fast because Mamdani won the MIDDLE class by doing the two things you idiots refused to even try to do last year: combine concern for the financial crushing OF the middle class, AND standing up for what’s right in the country and the world, including opposing Trump and ICE and punishing corrupt political cynics like Andrew Cuomo. The hesitation can only open an avenue for Eric Adams to whore himself out as a pro-business "centrist" who will be Trump's tool.

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And it's so easy to miss and to minimize, but Trump went full gay-bashing this week. Silence is compliance.

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in worst persons in the world: 33.30 in

"our winner: D-mentia trump himself.
We all know he hates black people, Jews, Hispanics, the truth, anybody who looks at him funny, Muslims, members of his own family, foreigners, sane people. And there's another like three thousand names on this list, but I'm going to skip them.

But we tend to overlook his homophobia.

It's transactional homophobia. Roy Cohn, who tutored Trump's psychoses and various expertises in the Evil Arts, he was gay, but of course Roy Cohn hated himself for that, so this fits.

This is not the first time he did this. He did this just before the election. But see if you can spot the homophobia:

"The sites that were hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows that only the fake news would say anything different in order to try and demean as much as possible, and even they say that they were pretty well destroyed. Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of fake News CNN."

Allison Cooper...

I have a long history with Anderson Cooper. I think he'd say hello to me if I said hello to him, and that'd be the end of the conversation, and probably fine. I think just too many times he missed opportunities to stand up for what was right. Other times he stood up for what was right. But that's irrelevant to this.

You don't judge whether or not to say something when you read something like that based on your own personal experience with somebody. Because one of the most reliable ways of mainstreaming hatred, vile filth, prejudice, repression in government, the death of freedom of speech, one of the most reliable ways to allow eventual murderers and persecutors to begin to lay the groundwork to try to extinguish a class of people, a group of people because of who they are is to stop calling them out every time they take a step towards that, "Ah, that's just Trump. Allison Coop..., So what?"

The hell it is. In any other time, any politician who made that reference once about anybody, let alone a public figure, would be finished. Within weeks you'd be saying: whatever happened to that Trump guy? Erased from public discourse because we stood for something, Because exhausted as we might have been by war or depression or conflict, or prejudice or hatred, we shamed the malefactors among us. The Cuomos of this world disappeared after what they did.

Donald Trump is the worst person who has ever lived in this country, the worst. It is no longer close.

The insult against Anderson Cooper, against gay men, against LGBTQ, against any minority group, against just anybody who dares to combat Trump's lies and delusions and delusions of grandeur with reality, anybody who dares to take reality and hit Trump in the fucking face with it. That insult against those people is an insult against you, and against me, and against everyone in America. And when we ignore it for one second, it lets Trump retain strength. And draining Trump of all of his strength is our only chance of survival.

Trump: homophobe. Truly unquestionably and permanently today's worst person in the world.