Speaker 1: There are fifty five days until Donald Trump will raise
Speaker 1: his hand and swear the thirty five word oath that
Speaker 1: all presidents have taken from George Washington on. He will
Speaker 1: promise to do this time what he desecrated last time,
Speaker 1: which is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States. This is the warning. When we get
Speaker 1: to the end of Trump's term, I have some predictions
Speaker 1: he will be one of the most unpopular presidents in
Speaker 1: American history. His four years will be a failure. The
Speaker 1: economy will be a disaster, and the security situation around
Speaker 1: the world will be terrible. It will be dangerous, American
Speaker 1: forces will be in harm's way, and everything that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said that he was going to do will be
Speaker 1: either left undone, have resulted in a giant catastrophe, or
Speaker 1: had the opposite effect of what he was intending. During
Speaker 1: the four years, Donald Trump will go on a deregulatory binge.
Speaker 1: The federal government is too big, it is too sclerotic.
Speaker 1: The remedy to it isn't smashing it. But that's what
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will do. On the other side of this
Speaker 1: is a chance for renewal for Democrats, for progressives. Progress
Speaker 1: is the key part of progressivism. Piers Morgan, while denouncing
Speaker 1: the view and calling for its cancelation yesterday and the
Speaker 1: pages of The New York Post, made a number of
Speaker 1: claims from London about America and the American majority, which
Speaker 1: he is dead asked wrong about completely. A great many
Speaker 1: maga personalities and commentators are suggesting that we have entered
Speaker 1: a new age of trump Istan and that the American
Speaker 1: people have bequeathed to Donald Trump all of their decision making,
Speaker 1: all of their agency for all time. Daddy knows best,
Speaker 1: and he'll make a America great again, doing whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: This is fantastical. This is not what happened on election Day,
Speaker 1: and the American people will not stand for it. By
Speaker 1: a very slim number of votes in total, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was elected president of the United States. He was elected
Speaker 1: with no mandate to do whatever he wants. His mandate
Speaker 1: is specific, and it is to accomplish a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been given a clear mandate to communicate
Speaker 1: that the expectation of the American taxpayer is that the
Speaker 1: European countries will pay for their own defense if they
Speaker 1: are to be under America's protection. Under America's nuclear umbrella.
Speaker 1: The day must hould their own weight. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: that mandate. It's indisputable, and I support him in that effort.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has a mandate to deal with America's broken
Speaker 1: and grandstanders like the mayor of Denver who say I
Speaker 1: will not cooperate with federal authorities enforcing the law I
Speaker 1: intend to break it are no better than the lawless
Speaker 1: MAGA people who just won in the first place. This
Speaker 1: moment requires better. The truth of the matter is the
Speaker 1: people that will be deported are in the country illegally,
Speaker 1: and the American people voted and a lot of those
Speaker 1: people will be removed from the country. Now, there are
Speaker 1: no details, there is no budget, and an extremist sits
Speaker 1: in the White House who has a fetish for cruelty
Speaker 1: has asked in the Oval Office about the possibility of
Speaker 1: the military killing migrants with a missile strike off the
Speaker 1: coast of San Diego, where he was told to shut
Speaker 1: the fuck up by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Speaker 1: of Staff. Again, in the Oval Office is running the
Speaker 1: deportation program, so what could go wrong? There will be abuses,
Speaker 1: human rights, abuses, do process abuses, abuses of children and families,
Speaker 1: and women that take place during this and it will
Speaker 1: take place in our name, the name of the American people.
Speaker 1: And as this mass deportation comes into effect in the
Speaker 1: country is lashed by its cruelty and families are brutalized
Speaker 1: by the vindictiveness. The American people will get to process
Speaker 1: what they voted for, what they chose. The second that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump takes that oath of office, he may deploy
Speaker 1: the US military domestically, He may turn the military loose
Speaker 1: to deport eighteen million people. Who knows some things are
Speaker 1: easy to sit in the process to know about. Now,
Speaker 1: there are other things that most Americans just don't know
Speaker 1: a lot about because most Americans are not economists. And
Speaker 1: it's very easy in a globalized economy where everything is connected,
Speaker 1: to lie to somebody and tell them that there's a
Speaker 1: better deal to be had if you can sprinkle some
Speaker 1: things called tariffs over the cake that's called the economy,
Speaker 1: which makes some things more expensive than others for the
Speaker 1: purposes of helping sell things to people that are made
Speaker 1: in your country as opposed to somebody else's. Now this
Speaker 1: makes sense, right. Donald Trump announced yesterday that to help America,
Speaker 1: which is a country and Americans, which are the three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million of us who live in the country,
Speaker 1: that he's going to take a stand and do something
Speaker 1: to punish other countries to help Americans following me so far,
Speaker 1: The action that he's going to take is to impose
Speaker 1: something called a tariff on every product that comes into
Speaker 1: the United States. And what he said is he's going
Speaker 1: to put a tariff on everything that comes from Mexico,
Speaker 1: everything that comes from China, and everything that comes into
Speaker 1: the United States from Canada. Let me show you a
Speaker 1: picture of a house. Now, pull the house apart down
Speaker 1: to its most minute elements. The wood comes from where
Speaker 1: bean by bean, the nails, the plastic, the dishwasher. Let's
Speaker 1: say that the dishwasher is made in China and it
Speaker 1: costs one thousand dollars at Best Buy. Under Trump's plan,
Speaker 1: it now costs one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: This is what inflation is when something that costs ten
Speaker 1: dollars today costs twelve dollars next week, while your paycheck
Speaker 1: stays at eleven dollars. If Trump does what Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has promised to do, the inflation of the Biden era
Speaker 1: will be like sticking your ankle into the ocean as
Speaker 1: opposed to jumping off the boat into the ocean in
Speaker 1: the middle of it. Americans are great at a lot
Speaker 1: of things. The thing that we are all time world
Speaker 1: champions at is consumption. So if you consume a lot
Speaker 1: of cheap plastic shit from China, everything in your life
Speaker 1: is about to be much more expensive. If you work
Speaker 1: in the American economy building something for someone, making something
Speaker 1: for someone, rafting something for someone, doing something for someone.
Speaker 1: Like let's say you're young Marthus Stewart fifty years old,
Speaker 1: You're about to step forward into your catering business. Everything
Speaker 1: that you do just got more expense. And who do
Speaker 1: you pass that cost on to the person paying? Who's
Speaker 1: that is that? Trump? Is that Eric Trump? Let's listen
Speaker 1: to the great economist who say, Trump talk about the tariffs.
Speaker 2: You want to allow drugs to come through our southern border,
Speaker 2: We're going to tariff you. You want to allow them to
Speaker 2: come through Canada. We're gonna te afew China. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna allow this stuff to get sold in our country,
Speaker 2: largely produced in China, We're gonna add another ten percent
Speaker 2: to your chair. We are gonna cost your countries, your economies.
Speaker 2: We're gonna cost your businesses billions, hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: If you think you're gonna pay you know, Tara, You're
Speaker 2: gonna poison Americans. It's not gonna happen. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: destroy your youth. You're not gonna destroy our society. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna destroy our families. You're not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: It's going to cost you. I'm gonna put an end
Speaker 2: to it, Laura. When my father sent that twenty minutes ago,
Speaker 2: I literally cheered out loud.
Speaker 1: About forty years ago, the American people were sold a
Speaker 1: great lie. They were sold a live by the bankers
Speaker 1: and by Wall Street, by politicians, and it created a
Speaker 1: new age. The dignity of the American people, who made things,
Speaker 1: who built things. The industrial heartland of the country was
Speaker 1: stripped away, sold off, exported to China, to Mexico. And
Speaker 1: this phenomenon does not just apply to the United States.
Speaker 1: The search for cheaper labor is eternal. As the Chinese
Speaker 1: economy has grown and developed a middle class, costs have
Speaker 1: risen because pay has risen, and so where does the
Speaker 1: Chinese job go. It goes to Vietnam, and from Vietnam
Speaker 1: it will go to me and Mare someday or somewhere else.
Speaker 1: This is part of the global economy, but a lowest
Speaker 1: common denominator economy that pushes wages down ever ever, ever
Speaker 1: more makes the American worker a surf and the peer
Speaker 1: of workers who are paid pennies to indulge the consumerism
Speaker 1: of the American What Donald Trump has sold to the
Speaker 1: American people as a vision that they're taking advantage of,
Speaker 1: that they're disrespected, that they're unappreciated. There's truth to all
Speaker 1: of it, particularly when judged against the judgment of America's
Speaker 1: elites or their friends all around the world. Nobody likes
Speaker 1: to be taken advantage of. And the American people just
Speaker 1: elected a guy to smash it. Nothing is going to
Speaker 1: stop the smashing for two years, and politically, an opposition
Speaker 1: has to fight back, which means it's going to need
Speaker 1: to drop back because it's not strong enough to oppose
Speaker 1: every action as a fifty to fifty proposition. This is
Speaker 1: the cost of defeat, and it's terrible. It's terrible. It's
Speaker 1: why in moments I've been so angry because the defeat
Speaker 1: has been so unnecessary but we will pay the price,
Speaker 1: and we will learn the hard way that Winston Churchill
Speaker 1: meant it and was correct when he said, the people
Speaker 1: get the government they deserve. The good news is the
Speaker 1: United States is a project that will endure beyond our lives.
Speaker 1: It's bigger. We fit into it within a moment of it,
Speaker 1: and then we will be gone and the country will endure.
Speaker 1: There have been dark chapters, terrible ones, and they're all
Speaker 1: forgotten now. Your average American could not speak to any
Speaker 1: of them. In this era. All the hyperbole, all of
Speaker 1: the Michigan will fade. After the damage is done, after
Speaker 1: the danger has passed, there will be renewal, and there
Speaker 1: will be better. It's my hope we get to that renewal,
Speaker 1: We get to that hitch where the pendulum swings back
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. And the way we'll get there
Speaker 1: is to let the rope out, because pulling on it
Speaker 1: does nothing except help Donald Trump, who now gets a
Speaker 1: chance to do what he promised to. Donald Trump will
Speaker 1: be president and a wave of shocking executive orders will
Speaker 1: roll out. He will not be an incrementalist, not this time.
Speaker 1: The amount of information that will be released will flood
Speaker 1: the country and it will be across a depth and
Speaker 1: breadth of agencies, departments, subject areas military, civil, concerning immigration,
Speaker 1: concerning the public health, you name it. He's going to
Speaker 1: take executive actions, assert power with absolute immunity for the
Speaker 1: purposes of remaking the country. And in that moment, Trump's
Speaker 1: defeated opposition should take stock and make some commitments that
Speaker 1: it will never be gaslit, diluted and bullshit by leaders
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party ever again. Because on inauguration Day,
Speaker 1: the Democratic leaders who Trump relied on to when are
Speaker 1: unlikely to be thanked. But you should know their names
Speaker 1: and remember them because some of them, like Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: are fools, and those fools control a billion dollars of
Speaker 1: political spending that decides whether Donald Trump gets a check
Speaker 1: on him in two years time. The circumstances are urgent
Speaker 1: and exigent, and the error of indulgence with these people,
Speaker 1: please God, should be over. Yet it is not likely
Speaker 1: to be, because power, as we have learned this year
Speaker 1: in the most tragic of ways, is something that the
Speaker 1: geriatric Democrats will not release their grip on by themselves.
Speaker 1: So if you're a Democratic donor, you're a Democratic activist,
Speaker 1: heading into this holiday season. You should be pissed off
Speaker 1: not celebrating the leadership of the Democratic Party, and unlike some,
Speaker 1: you absolutely should not be claiming that they were faultless.
Speaker 1: They did nothing wrong, and that the reason Trump is
Speaker 1: in the White Houses. The American people are ignorant, stupid, racist,
Speaker 1: and beneath you because if you do what it guarantees
Speaker 1: is president vance in four years. And there's an awful
Speaker 1: lot of us who are sick and tired of paying
Speaker 1: the bill for the arrogancies of a bunch of left
Speaker 1: wing political extremists who YopE the country to some of
Speaker 1: the most stupid positions in American political history, like defund
Speaker 1: the police and demanded that everybody say it. Great job.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to focus on better. And the first
Speaker 1: thing that Democrats should do is start thinking about not
Speaker 1: what to say about the next thing that Donald Trump says,
Speaker 1: but to think bigger, to think about you, to think
Speaker 1: about how to be on your side, how to be
Speaker 1: on your kid's side, and how to talk to you
Speaker 1: about what this country's going to look like twenty five
Speaker 1: years from now. They say the days are long, the
Speaker 1: years are short, because I'm fifty four on figuring out
Speaker 1: what That means twenty years ago America was powerful. Twenty
Speaker 1: four years ago, the turn of the millennium, America is
Speaker 1: the most powerful nation in the history of human civilization,
Speaker 1: with infinite possibilities ahead of it. It was an era
Speaker 1: of peace, unity and prosperity. We have decayed over a
Speaker 1: quarter century and it's gone by quickly. The way out
Speaker 1: of the decay and these failed presidencies of the twenty
Speaker 1: first century, with the exception of Obama's, is to articulate
Speaker 1: better fast because as soon as we start doing that,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will have to start defending what it is
Speaker 1: that he has done and doing. And that is when
Speaker 1: Maggat crumbles, and that'll be a good thing. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and
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