So we're gonna check in on the state of Trump derangement syndrome today. But first, there was a headline that caught my eye. Kevin Spacey, who you all remember was accused of some bad behavior with some young men years ago, has a new movie out. And here's the headline on CNN: "Kevin Spacey movie earns only $126 on day one." You heard that right. Not $126,000. Kevin Spacey's movie earned $126 on its first day. Ouch.

So there's a weird little trend that I've just noticed in just the last few days, and the trend goes like this: Even the people who are critics of the president are trying to call back other critics, like, "Oh, you're going too far." And this might be a sign that we've reached peak TDS, peak Trump derangement syndrome. And I'm gonna give you three examples. Some of them you might be familiar with, but if you see them in context, they're more powerful.

One of them is on Bill Maher's show, Real Time. One of the biggest critics of the president is Preet Bharara. I think I'm pronouncing it correctly. He was fired by the Trump administration, and he admits he's a critic of the president for a number of things. But I want you to watch him push back when Bill Maher accuses the president of being a traitor.

So we'll see if we can see this. Come on. Oops, I've got a sound problem here. Well, maybe I don't. I think the first part didn't have sound. So Bharara was fired. He was asked about President Trump's lawyer, blah blah blah. We'll get to the good part in a moment. Dammit, no sound.

Anyway, this is what it was supposed to say. Bill Maher referred to the president as a traitor. Preet Bharara actually stopped him and said that it degrades the criticism when you take it too far. "I don't think the president is on mute. Let's see if that was the problem." But yes, so I saw you. When I said "traitor," you looked like you were uncomfortable with the word. "You can subject yourself to criticism if you are sort of overstating, and I'm not saying necessarily you are, but if you're overstating what other people have done, say that."

So he's an attorney, one of the top ones in the country, top prosecutors, and he refers to calling the president a traitor as overstating. And he did that with Bill Maher. So that's your first example of a Trump critic calling back another Trump critic, saying, "You went too far."

Let me give you a couple more. These are fresh ones. So I've tweeted that even Rachel Maddow was calling out John Brennan on his BS. She wouldn't let him weasel word it. I know of course she wanted him to say treason, but she was sort of exposing him for being erratic. So the irony is that he lost his security clearance for allegedly being erratic, and then he goes on Rachel Maddow and Rachel Maddow can't even. What he's saying seems to me to be a little erratic. That's my opinion.

But here's the best one. I think it's Katy Tur's show on MSNBC, and Michelle Goldberg is a columnist for The New York Times. And Michelle Goldberg is encouraged to suggest that the president wants to round up and kill people. He just hasn't done it yet. So watch what happens when Katy Tur hears her guest, a New York Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, say this. Watch Katy Tur try to call her back.

So no, he's not. Michelle, we're in the world of politics right now, and he is very vocal. And I do agree with you that this does express a level of exasperation among his aides. They can't have any control over... Michelle Goldberg, New York Times columnist, who's on television and says with total confidence that she knows what the president is thinking and that he's thinking he wants to round people up and kill them. Now that is so far beyond the realm of sane behavior. I don't think she's medically insane, but certainly temporarily she's operating like she's got Trump derangement syndrome.

So there are three examples where you're seeing the anti-Trumpers pulling back the others. It's like, ah. And let me put a frame on this. The people who are anti-Trumpers are starting to embarrass themselves. In other words, it's starting to get embarrassing to be an anti-Trumper.

Do you remember, this was a prediction I got wrong, but probably only because of the timing. So the prediction I made prematurely was that the anti-Trumpers would start to be embarrassed by their criticism of the president. I just showed you three examples that happened this week in which you saw for yourself three anti-Trumpers being a little bit embarrassed by their own team.

I'm not going to claim that I got that prediction right because I missed it by about a year, but yeah, pretty mature prediction. Exactly the 48-hour rule. So yes, the 48-hour rule is in effect. But I didn't see anything that any of these folks said there would necessarily be something they would change in 48 hours. But if they do, if anybody clarifies in the next 48 hours, I will abide by the 48-hour rule for clarification and I will say I accept the clarification.

Do you know why? Because I don't want to be Michelle Goldberg. She believes she can read minds and she is so certain that she said it in public. Imagine going in public and saying with confidence you can read the mind of somebody else. You are a shill. Let's block that guy. Yeah, how do you clarify it? It would be a hard one to clarify. But hey, if somebody does clarify, I'm all in.