PATEL JOCK SNIFFS AT OLYMPICS ON OUR DIME; TRUMP OWES US $293 BILLION - 2.23.26

Feb 23, 2026

A furious takedown of a taxpayer-funded trip to the Olympic hockey locker room and the hypocrisy around it. A tally of alleged money Trump owes, focusing on tariffs and past spending. A look at a Supreme Court ruling that punctures political theatrics. Debate over sending peacekeepers to Ukraine and critiques of foreign policy and media power plays.

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FBI Director's Olympics Trip Looked Personal

Kash Patel used taxpayer-funded FBI resources to attend the Olympics and celebrate with the U.S. hockey team, costing an estimated $400,000.
Keith Olbermann highlights leaked dressing-room video showing Patel drinking, dancing, and behaving like a fan while his office claimed it was official security duty.

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Quantifying What Olbermann Calls Trump's Theft

Olbermann tallies Trump's alleged stolen funds at roughly $291.3 billion from tariffs and White House expenditures, then rounds to a trillion including broader corruption.
He proposes symbolic remedies like seizing Trump assets on January 20, 2029 and public restitution.

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Court Ruling Exposed Trump's Tariff Haphazardness

The Supreme Court struck down aspects of Trump's tariff actions, exposing inconsistencies in his legal defense and prompting rapid policy reversals.
Olbermann argues this judicial pushback signaled to Trump's base that he improvises rather than follows a plan.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 62: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: In case you somehow missed it, Kash Patel's enablers at the FBI (Fan Boys International) were busily denying he went to Italy for the Olympics just to see the hockey game and jock-sniff the victorious U.S. team when all sorts of video leaked out of the dressing room showing him doing exactly that - dancing, drinking, cringing. And then Patel himself couldn't resist Supposedly we sent 100 agents to help with security and he just had to be there. Guesstimated cost just for his latest stage of his perpetual vacation on our dime? $400,000.

It would be bad - a future administration will probably address it as misappropriation of funds. But what makes it worse is there's a piece by Patel from 2022 complaining about previous FBI directors wasting money on vacation, and a clip about his FBI predecessor Christopher Wray's vacation travel.

Simply impeaching him is insufficient. He needs to go to prison.

NOT THAT TRUMP WOULD DO THAT; THIS IS THE BEHAVIOR TRUMP TEACHES: Trump is a thief and he owes you and me at least 293 billion dollars - and we want it back.

The worst thief in American history - and 270 billion of that is in tariffs. Because on tariffs, the Supreme Court has given him his COMEUPPANCE. Well – it’s given him A comeuppance. Because his new argument for the new REPLACEMENT Monday tariffs was his old argument AGAINST overturning the old Friday tariffs.

But the key thing the Court actually did was give his cult a mortal shock. It is the first official body to give the Trump-Town Guyana Death Cult the message: that he is making this crap up, as he goes ALONG.

Plus: an actual good idea from Boris Johnson: to send peacekeepers to Ukraine – NOW. And I’M the guy who thinks the Hockey Gold Medal is a BAD THING. And no, the John Barron who called into C-SPAN wasn’t Trump – he was too coherent.

B-Block (40:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Mark Zuckerberg manages to lose a lawsuit before the trial starts, Kid Rock proves he's not charging $5000 for front row tickets by confessing he IS charging $5000 for front row tickets, and Stephen Miller's wife has another one of those Freudian slips that may be desperate pleas for help from inside a bad situation.

C-Block (50:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Baseball has already started so time for my annual explanation: why I don't work for baseball's TV network even though they offered me my own show and I accepted it. It has to do with a big league club threatening them if they didn't renege.

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