On November 27, 2017, Olbermann announced his retirement from political commentary after episode 147 had aired,[4][5] citing his belief that "this .

[7][8] After Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it was retitled The Resistance with Keith Olbermann.

[9][10] Among the series' segments is one in which he criticized Rudy Giuliani for questioning Hillary Clinton's health, noting that Clinton did not question Giuliani's health when she was running for the Senate from New York, even though he previously had prostate cancer.

[11] As of March 2017, this series has nearly 170 million views on GQ's YouTube and Facebook.

[9] The web series also yielded a book adaption of the commentaries, "Trump is F*cking Crazy (This is not a joke)", announced in September 2017[14] and released in October 2017.