Olli Schulz

That we don't have a federal government in this phase of the new order with a racist or some completely insane at the top. Can still come. Can still come. But Friedrich Merz is also not a racist and not a completely insane. Just like Robert Habeck or Olaf Scholz, the other probable chancellor candidates. But I find it amazing that you suddenly agree with Friedrich Merz.

You're just getting over it. No, I'm not satisfied, but if you look at it, we have 34% in the current polls. Of course, if a question of trust is asked in January, which is also awesome. We haven't even talked about what happened. In the morning there were the election results. Woke up, completely tired, slept in the company. And then all day, dude, one fucking e-mail after the other.

And then in the evening these press conferences. I watched so much Phoenix. I didn't even take my cell phone with me. I just watched Phoenix. I watched Phoenix press conferences. And that was spectacular, that Olaf Scholz on last Wednesday The government let it burst, or rather Christian Lindner threw it out and then the government burst.

And all day long at BILD.de you checked, oh, tonight is somehow coalition committee and Christian Lindner is doing one of his stunts again. And again a cell phone somehow with Axel Springer, through violence always. I have at the BILD show just once, I'll just let you walk with me. Is it okay for you if we do the coalition committee during that time? That's how it was the last time and again.

And then in the evening, things turned out quite differently, because Christian Lindner obviously could not imagine that other people also have thoughts behind them and maybe also think strategically like him. And then he was so completely perplexed that he was thrown out. And then it was of course about who makes the press conference first, who sets the message first.

And I thought, okay, dude, now Scholz really threw him out, he let it fall for years, he just pulled the plug. And then there were really these live feeds from the FDP's parliamentary hall in the Bundestag and next to it in the Kanzleramt. I just thought, who comes out first? Who comes out first, he expected that to happen.

And it was of course Scholz, because Christian Lindner had to sort himself out first, because he obviously couldn't imagine that someone would notice that he had been on the phone with the Bild-Zeitung for years while he was sitting in the coalition and running some other side quests. And then Olaf Scholz came out and the first thing I thought was ... Dude, why is this so cool performed?

Would there be a teleprompter there? Because that's my job. My job is to read from the teleprompter every week.

That's why I immediately see when people work with the teleprompter. It can't be. I've never heard a politician say such a perfect thing in such a situation. That's why we're always stumbling around, looking at the sheet and Angela Merkel's around. And then he really looked around in a circle. And then they showed a total from time to time. What is a teleprompter?

Until then, at some point, a colleague of mine circled it, made a screenshot. Look, he has these American teleprompters standing there. These, you know, these plexiglass things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I've been told from government circles, from the highest government circles, Olaf Scholz has only been on the road with these teleprompters for months and everyone is very jealous, would also like to do it, but they can't. So they can't do it from the teleprompter. There's only one and there's only the Kanzler teleprompter and that's Olaf Scholz.

But teleprompter, that's a really small excursion. Teleprompter is a science for itself. Der Teleprompter beim Fernsehen, das ist quasi ein Gerät, wo man einen Moderationstext so vor die Kamera gehalten bekommt, dass man mit so einem gekippten Spiegel in die Kamera schaut und es sieht so aus, als würde man die Leute anschauen, aber in Wirklichkeit liest man die ganze Zeit einen Text ab.

Und dieser Text, der wird natürlich von einer Person gesteuert, weil man muss ja immer genau, also einen kleinen Ausschnitt, und der Ausschnitt muss, den man gerade vorliest, genau in dem Moment da zu sehen sein, wenn er vor... If you have it in front of you. That's totally difficult. There are very few people who can control these teleprompters. The software for these teleprompters is super old.

That's not modern software, but that's really all Windows 3.11 and stuff. For us, for example, it's, shout out at this point, Teleprompter Frank. Prompter Frank, we call him. Frank is... A television milestone. Greetings, Frank.

No, Prompter Frank, without Prompter Frank, the German television would collapse. Among other things, Heidi Klum. When she moderates the final at Germany's Next Topmodel, then Prompter always sits on Prompter Frank. Because there are three in Germany who do that. And Prompter Frank is one who is always with us. The next day he is somehow, I don't know, with Günter Jauch or wherever he is.

Everyone uses Prompter Frank and Prompter Frank... Without them, nothing works. And I wonder if in politics, when the prompter is introduced, if it's like that now, if he's in his ... Olaf Scholz has to have someone in his staff who turns the prompter. So he always turns the text at the point. He definitely prompted.

And then Christian Lindner came out and I don't know if it was a calculation, if he was really shocked, or if he rubbed his eyes with tears. Then you thought, what is this? Is he playing the full range of feelings now? Of course, you had to think directly of the old story. Was man sich auch nicht vorstellen kann, aber wenn Hitler nicht mehr weiter wusste, hat er geweint.

Haben wir, glaube ich, schon mal drüber gesprochen. Weißt du, dass du... Der Führer hat angefangen zu weinen, er will einen Holocaust mit sechs Millionen Toten. Völlig zynisch und gemein, aber dass dann jemand, der immer so...

determined and outwardly self-confident and selfishly appears in such moments of defeat, suddenly stands there with watery eyes, I don't know exactly if I should take it from him, I'll be honest, or if it really breaks together. He stood there so watery and was really angry. And then the Greens came out. The Greens came out as second.

And then Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, as so often, stood at the exit of the chancellor's office in front of such a metal grid. They looked like they had just been released from the JVA Wiesbaden. And so light-headed and somehow swallowed up the words. Both always in moments, when it comes to it, always important to say the words to the end. It is now a historic press conference.