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VIDEO WATCH: Olbermann Tells 'Man-Baby-Elect' Trump to Get Used to Americans Booing Him 'Every Day' Keith Olbermann advises Trump to grow a thicker skin. Photo Credit: Screen Capture

Keith Olbermann has put out a new video urging President-elect Donald Trump to grow a thicker skin—because if he can’t handle light booing from a Broadway audience, the next four years will make him miserable.

In his new video, Olbermann took Trump to task for going on whiny Twitter tirades against both the cast of Hamilton and Saturday Night Live for allegedly showing disrespect to both him and his administration.

“If he and Pence cannot handle booing, they should get new jobs in a new country,” Olbermann said. “Because whether they hear it or not, they will be booed every day for the rest of their lives.”

Olbermann then went on to discuss how Trump said that being booed by Broadway theater goers “should not happen,” while also calling on the cast of Hamilton to “apologize” for their mildly critical statement delivered to Pence after the show. Olbermann said that while on the surface, this just seemed like “more petulance from the man-baby-elect,” the reality is that “those tweets did not come in a vacuum.”

“Before the election, Trump threatened to loosen up libel laws, singled out reporters by name to encourage abuse from the crowd at his rallies, promise to sue the New York Times, and had an adviser who criticized a TV host and tweeted, ‘Watch what happens to her after this election is over,'” Olbermann recalled, before making a broader argument about Trump’s disturbing views on the first amendment.

Check out the whole video below. Brad Reed is a writer living in Boston. His work has previously appeared in the American Prospect Online, and he blogs frequently at Sadly, No!.

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English (Automatic Captions) 0:00I'm Keith Olbermann and this is the 0:05resistance somewhere Benjamin Franklin 0:07base and Matthew lion are saying I told 0:10you so these men went to jail in this 0:12country under our Constitution for 0:15criticism base was in new media lion was 0:19a congressman from the party it was not 0:20in power they were guilty of criticizing 0:23the president and other media which 0:25defended the President and mr. beishin 0:27congressman lion would remind us that we 0:29have previously completely and nearly 0:31fatally screwed up how to handle 0:33resistance and they were remind us that 0:35the right to resist has been destroyed 0:37and the country nearly destroyed with it 0:39by better men than donald john Trump the 0:42man behind the jailing a base and lion 0:44and 20 or so other publishers 0:46politicians and citizens one of whom for 0:48making a joke in public 0:50the man base and lion opposed was 0:53president John Adams that John Adams 0:57founding father john adams even a man of 1:00the vision of John Adams could not see 1:02that demonizing descent and 1:03criminalizing resistance could buy 1:05themselves and democracy the stains upon 1:08the atoms legacy were called the Alien 1:10and Sedition Acts and they threaten jail 1:13for anyone daring to quote right print 1:16butter or publish any false scandalous 1:19and malicious writing against the 1:21government and 59 days before his 1:24inauguration Trump and his mob are 1:26already clearly laying the groundwork 1:27for new criminalisation if you're right 1:29to publicly criticized that which will 1:31begin on day one as the worst 1:34presidential administration in our 1:36history which has been made of the 1:38distraction from provided by tweeting 1:40petulantly about how the cast of 1:42Hamilton addressed the Vice 1:43president-elect when he attended their 1:45performance last Friday the criticism of 1:47the coverage paid is valid the fighter 1:50pilots call this calf spraying strips of 1:54metal into the air to screw up radar we 1:57spent a day talking about more on 1:59Trump's moronic tweets instead of his 2:01confession and everything but name to 2:03fraud accusations in the Trump 2:04University lawsuit we spend another day 2:07talking about Hamilton and pence instead 2:09of about Trump totally mixing 2:11residency with his businesses we spend 2:14another day talking about disrespect and 2:16respect instead of yesterday's gasps 2:18from Trump's voter repression expert in 2:21which he walked into a meeting with 2:22Trump carrying a document easily 2:24readable in the photographs laying out 2:26details of registries religious test for 2:29people entering this country and defense 2:31against lawsuits we spent several entire 2:34news cycles talking about actors and 2:36wrap and not about the anti-semites the 2:39racist the fascist Trump is appointing 2:41to his White House the bands and 2:43Giuliani's and sessions and their ilk so 2:46scummy it led the great John Cleese to 2:48conclude that it looks as if Trump quote 2:50is assembling the crew for a pirate ship 2:53a distraction 2:55yes but that does not mean his seeming 2:58disbelief at the evidence that he is 3:00hated is not real and not important 3:03bluntly if he or pants cannot handle 3:06booing they should get new jobs in a new 3:08country because whether they hear it or 3:11not they will be booed every day for the 3:13rest of their lives and more importantly 3:15that also does not mean Trump is not 3:17intended to create a 21st century 3:19version of the Alien and Sedition Acts 3:21of John Adams a president elected by a 3:24minority of the voters as again made 3:26threats against those who criticize him 3:29or his administration to be as again 3:31made threats against the First Amendment 3:33taken out of the context of the 3:35anti-democratic anti criticism snowball 3:38already beginning its descent in this 3:40country the takeaways from his tweets 3:43this should not happen and apologize 3:45would seem merely like more petulance 3:48from the man baby elect and the 3:50complained about lack of respect merely 3:52more amazing self awareness from 3:54President pussy grabber but those tweets 3:57did not come in a vacuum before the 3:59election Trump threatened to loosen up 4:01libel laws singled out reporters by name 4:04to encourage abuse from the crowds at 4:06his rallies promise to sue the New York 4:08Times and an advisor criticized a TV 4:10host and tweeted watch what happens to 4:13her after this election is over the day 4:16after it was over a contestant from one 4:19of his TV shows set of those who did not 4:21vote for him quote mr. Trump has a long 4:23memory 4:24and we're keeping a list responding to 4:26criticism from Senate Minority Leader 4:28Reid Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne 4:30Conway said he quote should be very 4:33careful about characterizing somebody in 4:35a legal sense in a legal sense nine days 4:40after the election of federal judge in 4:41san antonio swearing and hundreds of new 4:43American citizens told them that Donald 4:46Trump quote will be your president and 4:48if you do not like that you need to go 4:50to another country 4:53he then also lashed out against pro 4:55athletes who have not stood for the 4:56national anthem then reportedly claimed 4:58his remarks are not political 5:01if you would like to resist by trying to 5:03get this judge now stood his name is 5:06John primo and he can be removed by the 5:08US district court or perhaps at least 5:11they can send him a copy of the 5:12Constitution he appears to lack of 5:16course professional demonizing of 5:18dissent requires blaming the victim 5:20campaign manager Conway said descent 5:22anger resistance your resistance is the 5:25fault of the media most of the media did 5:28the world a disservice she said why not 5:30preparing them for the possibility of 5:32Donald Trump winning the presidency it 5:34simply was not part of the conversation 5:35so fascism isn't the problem 5:39American media's reluctance to soften up 5:41the public to accept fascism that's the 5:44problem 5:46which brings us back to the Alien and 5:48Sedition Acts and a state senator in 5:49Washington named Doug ericsson allowed 5:52Trump sycophant another one of the 5:54banana Republicans who are friends 5:56publisher Benjamin Franklin base and 5:59congressman Matthew lion would recognize 6:01immediately I respect the right to 6:04protest he said but when it endangered 6:06people's lives and property it goes too 6:08far 6:09fear intimidation and vandalism are not 6:12a legitimate form of political 6:13expression those who employ it must be 6:15called to account 6:17senator Erickson says he will propose a 6:19bill next year that would criminalize 6:21what he calls violent protesting 6:24creating a new class C felony punishable 6:27by fines of up to ten thousand dollars 6:29and/or imprisonment of up to five years 6:31crimes to be called economic terrorism 6:34we're not just going to go after the 6:37people 6:37who commit these acts of terrorism he 6:40continues still digging 6:42we're going after the people who fund 6:43them wealthy donors should not feel safe 6:47in disrupting middle-class jobs the 6:51wealthy donors to him senator ericsson 6:52refers would also be liable for any 6:54economic loss caused by the Assembly's 6:56supposedly protected by the First 6:59Amendment or as Ericsson wants to now 7:00call those assemblies economic terrorism 7:03so Trump's Twitter tantrum about how 7:07pence was treated at a play about a vice 7:09president so incapable of handling 7:10criticism that he shot the former 7:12secretary of the Treasury may have been 7:14a diversion and it may have seemed 7:16trivial compared to the other nightmares 7:18with which we wake each morning now but 7:22do not mistake them they are preface to 7:24New Alien and Sedition Acts legal ones 7:27or merely cultural ones to New 7:29demonizing of descent two at best 7:32chillin measures against your right to 7:35resist and how do you resist laws 7:38designed to criminalize resistance 7:40happily there is a method tried-and-true 7:43and you should prepare yourself for it 7:46it worked in south africa for Gandhi in 7:491908 when they tried to create a 7:51registry of people from India it worked 7:53for Gandhi again decades later in India 7:56it worked for the civil rights leaders 7:57here in the nineteen sixties if the laws 8:00come to pass 8:01do not seek to Eve aid them seek to 8:05break them have been broken so often by 8:08so many people that the jail's cannot 8:11hold all of us and the infrastructure 8:12collapses with the government than 8:15begging for our help 8:17moreover if resistance is denied us the 8:19act of being arrested for resistance 8:22becomes resistance because we are not 8:26going back to the time of the Alien and 8:28Sedition Acts Matthew lion and Benjamin 8:30Franklin base and yes he was Benjamin 8:33Franklin's favorite grandson they are 8:35alive in our history even atoms and 8:37those who supported them had a kind of 8:39excuse the country was barely 20 years 8:41old then Trump and his mom have no 8:43excuse no moral ground no precedent know 8:46right and no chance of success come 8:49after 8:50resistance Trump legally or culturally 8:53or both and America will kick your ass 8:56resist peace Published on Nov 22, 2016 Already dissent is being demonized in Donald Trump’s America CONNECT WITH GQ Web: http://gqm.ag/GQVIDE0S Twitter: http://gqm.ag/gqTWITTER Facebook: http://gqm.ag/gqFACEBOOK Google+: http://gqm.ag/gqGOOGLEPLUS Instagram: http://gqm.ag/gqINSTAGRAM Pinterest: http://gqm.ag/gqPINTEREST 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