THEY SHOW TRUMP A SPORTSCENTER VERSION OF HIS IRAN WAR EVERY MORNING - 3.26.26

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Mar 26, 2026

A scathing take on how a steady diet of explosion highlights is shaping one leader's dangerous view of a foreign war. Discussion of cascading global fallout from oil and fertilizer control to energy rationing and higher fares. Critiques of calls for ground troops, chaotic cabinet dynamics, media spin loops, and a parade of political missteps and media hypocrisy.

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Trump Sees War As A Two Minute Highlights Reel

Donald Trump is treating the Iran conflict as a highlight reel of explosions, perceiving war as "stuff blowing up" rather than human or geopolitical complexity.
Keith Olbermann cites NBC reporting that aides show Trump two-minute daily clips of successful strikes, explaining his simplistic view and inability to process broader consequences.

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Trump's Iran Policy Triggered Global Economic Shockwaves

Olbermann argues Trump's actions have escalated a regional conflict into a de facto global crisis affecting energy, fertilizer supply, and international rationing.
He lists concrete consequences: Iran striking Tel Aviv, Russian tanker to Cuba, 30% of fertilizer control, Philippines energy emergency, Slovenia rationing, and airline fare hikes.

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Editorial Pressure Pushes Toward Invasion Despite Costs

Media and some commentators are pressuring military escalation, arguing boots on the ground are required to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Olbermann highlights the Wall Street Journal editorial urging invasion and warns of multiyear occupation casualties and strategic madness.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 72: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has started World War 3 and has no idea how to stop it - and he doesn't know he's LOSING World War 3.

How could he NOT know this? Because reportedly every morning they show him two minutes of highlights of "stuff blowing up" in Iran. His own personal SportsCenter

Conflagration in the Middle East. Trump insisting Iran is dead. And yet Iran has struck Tel Aviv. Putin has sent a Russian oil tanker to Cuba just to remind us he can. Trump has now handed Iran de facto control of the worldwide price of a barrel of oil. Iran now controls 30 percent of worldwide fertilizer distribution. Because of Trump’s World War 3, the Philippines declares an energy emergency and Slovenia institutes energy rationing and United Airlines raised airfares twenty percent. Trump insists peace could be imminent and sends thousands more troops there. He mumbles about a peace proposal. It may be LAST year’s peace proposal and he's confused. Ukraine-Russia continues. Now the PAKISTANIS think they are mediators about Trump’s World War 3. Trump's World War 3, which is apparently being conducted, so crooks can make billion dollar bets on oil futures. And in the ultimate insanity: the military POINT of Trump’s World War 3 is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the Strait of Hormuz was closed by… Trump’s World War 3.

All this while Rupert Murdoch insists if Trump DOESN’T put boots on the ground in Iran it will mean “American collapse.” World War 3 (TRUMP’S World War 3) in the new Thursday Countdown dropping at midnight.

IT IS ALMOST SCAPEGOAT TIME: He's beginning to give Hegseth way too much of the credit he normally gives himself. That's what he's always done when he's about to fire somebody. He did it to Noem. Hegseth could be next. Or maybe MarkWayne Mullin, he's been on the job two days and already made an idiot out of himself (again). And talk about scapegoats: who's going to get it at CBS where the morning show's target audience is now 33% smaller than the target audience I had the last week I did Countdown on MSNBC.

B-Block (26:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: When Patel's federally-funded girl friend Alexis Wilkins trashes Mike Flynn, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent - this must be some list: The Blaze, Glenn Beck, Scott Jennings, and Lauren Boebert,

C-Block (40:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A new baseball season is underway and this might be our last Opening Week until 2028 or later. My career began with covering the two most calamitous sports strikes in American history: MLB 1981 and NFL 1982. Of a drunken night with the football guys, and a broadcast in which a then-prominent sports columnist called them all communists (for the same kind of proposal OWNERS now offer TO players).

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