Former MSNBC and ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann says he's "mad as hell" at GOP front-runner Donald Trump – and is moving out the Trump-owned building where he's lived for nine years.
In an op-ed piece for
the Washington Post, Olbermann says he's making the move "because of the degree to which the very name 'Trump' has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself."
He blasts the real estate billionaire as a "cartoon character" who engages in "a string of insults the rest of us abandoned in the seventh grade" mixed in with "half-crazed boasts."
And he argues there are likely enough "idiots" in the country that Trump has a credible shot at being elected president of the United States.
Olbermann also writes he has one big complaint about his Trump digs.
"One day Trump appeared in person and, with what I only later realized was the same kind of sincere concern and respect that Eddie Haskell used to pay 'Beaver' Cleaver’s mother, asked me how I liked the place and to let him know personally if anything ever went wrong," Olbermann writes.
"About 15 months ago, when the elevators failed and many of the heating-unit motors died and the water shut off, I wrote him. He sent an adjutant over to bluster mightily about the urgency of improvements and who was to blame for the elevators and how there would be consequences, and within weeks Trump’s minions were obediently and diligently installing — a new revolving door at the back of the lobby."
It took three months to complete, he writes.
"If there is a President Trump and he decides to build this ludicrous wall to prevent the immigration from Mexcio that isn’t happening, and he uses that same contractor, it’ll take them about a thousand years to finish it."
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