Keith Olbermann has issued a plea to Donald Trump: "Resign!"
Why should Trump resign? Because Trump is literally crazy, says Olbermann.
If Trump resigns because of Olbermann's plea, I would then believe Olbermann. Trump really is crazy.
You can see his rant here.
It is common for people to dismiss other people as being crazy. That is simply rhetoric. Nobody who hears someone say this takes it literally.
This is not what Olbermann does in his video. He says literally that Donald Trump no longer connects with reality. Trump is literally crazy.
If Trump does not resign, he says, Congress should remove him from office.
It seems to me that Olbermann has completely lost touch with reality. I mean this literally. He imagines that a crazy man in the White House, who Olbermann says may literally destroy civilization by starting a nuclear war, is going to pay attention to what Olbermann recommends.
Then he upped the ante. He said that if Donald Trump, who is literally crazy, does not listen to Olbermann and resign, then the Congress of the United States, which is controlled by the Republican Party, must intervene and remove Trump from office.
The problem is, constitutionally speaking, that Congress cannot remove a President from office for being crazy. There is no such constitutional provision.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Olbermann is literally calling for a coup d'état run by Congress in order to make Pence the President.
This is crazy, if we take his definition of crazy literally. Olbermann has lost touch with anything remotely resembling reality. When you issue a call to a crazy man to resign his office less than one week after he took over as President of the United States, and then you call on Congress to intervene and somehow throw him out of office because he has not resigned, you are crazy. You have lost touch with reality. You have created your own world of alternative facts.
I don't think Trump is literally crazy. I don't think Olbermann is literally crazy. I think Olbermann is simply obsessed with Trump, and it has distorted his judgment to the extent that he has made a complete fool of himself, and, more to the point, he has made complete fools of the management at GQ Magazine if they keep him on the payroll.
Olbermann is a minor player in the mainstream media. I think he is one of the loosest of loose cannons in the history of television journalism. He and MSNBC split over political matters in 2011. Then, a year later, the outfit that hired him also fired him. That had to be settled in a court case.
Until the election of Trump, he had an anti-Trump online program for GQ, a men's fashion magazine. He then changed the name of his show to Resistance after Trump was elected.
For 20 years before he got involved in political journalism, he was a sports journalist. He is liberal, although he denies this.
When a man is too liberal to hold his post at MSNBC, I think it would be safe to call him a liberal. Maybe even a lefty. Speaking from the perspective of my youth, I would call him a pinko.
Anyway, back to his rant. I have never seen a political journalist go before his audience and insist that the President of the United States is literally crazy. He makes it clear in the presentation he is not using rhetoric. He says there is a real possibility that Trump will start a nuclear war, because Trump thinks that his family will not be hurt in a nuclear retaliation. He literally says this.
Think about this accusation. Trump is a multibillionaire in the field of real estate. Do you think he might considered the possibility that a nuclear exchange could adversely affect his real estate holdings? But Olbermann obviously has not consider this possibility.
I regard his rant as the outcome of a man who is obsessed. I don't know the clinical psychological distinction between obsessed and deranged, but I don't think they are very far apart. I do think that anyone who would go in front of his audience and seriously suggest that the American public has just elected a literally crazy man as President, and that the Congress of the United States should recognize this and remove him from office on what would instantly be called Trumped-up charges, is not a man to be taken seriously. When he jeopardizes his career once again, then I would say that there is a pattern of behavior here that does not inspire confidence.
He really does think that members of Congress are willing to commit political suicide based on the psychological speculations of an ex-sports newscaster.
Imagine what it would do to the political structure of the United States if this man's advice were taken by the Congress of the United States? He is saying that it has to be done now, because if it is not done now, there is a possibility the Trump will start a nuclear war with some nation or other. Of course, the only nation that is capable of starting a nuclear war with the United States is Russia, and the mainstream media are insisting that Russia is in cahoots with Trump. So, this line of reasoning on Olbermann's part does not inspire confidence.
Let us assume that Congress takes his advice. Let us assume that a majority in the House of Representatives will impeach the President on charges that are not found in the Constitution, and the Senate will then convict. He is saying that must start now if Trump does not resign, meaning one week after the inauguration of the President. He wants us to believe that this is a plausible, rational, real-world possibility.
Why would a man risk his career for a third time by going in front of the public and presenting a tirade that indicates that he is devoid of common sense? By any standard that I can imagine, this is not rational behavior. It is simply further evidence that the man is a loose cannon.
Why would anybody pay a loose cannon a lot of money, when the loose cannon fires a shot that will not hit its target, which supposedly is a crazy man occupying the White House, but which surely will hit the management of GQ magazine? It makes the management of the magazine look as though it does not have common sense.
I hope that the management of the magazine has an emergency meeting and then fires Keith Olbermann. If management does not do this, then management is subsidizing a loose cannon that is rattling all over management's deck. This says: "Loose Cannons R Us!" Olbermann is not a threat to Donald Trump. He is a threat to the management of GQ. Let us hope that the management at GQ has enough sense to recognize this.
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