1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: This is the warning sixty years ago. Today, in a 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: very different speech on a colder day, standing outside, the 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: forty three year old President of the United States, John 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: Kennedy said this, so, my fellow Americans, ask not what 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: your country can do for you, ask what you can 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: do for your country. There are millions of Americans who 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: are stunned right now. They are terrified, are broken, angry, saddened. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: And today the forty seventh President of the United States 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: uttered the most chilling words that have ever been spoken 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: by an American leader. I was saved by God to 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: make America great. It is delusional, it is messianic. These 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: are the words of a Jim Jones wanna be not 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: an American president. This speech was a threat to the 14 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: American way of life, dressed up as a commitment to 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: law and order. Donald Trump has promised to use a 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: law written in seventeen ninety eight to deploy the American 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: military into America's cities to wage war. He talked about 18 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: peace in his speech, but it was a worst speech, 19 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: make no doubt about that. Donald Trump talked about manifest 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: destiny deliberately. He talked about an expansionist America. What country 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: is it? Donald, that you propose to invade beyond Panama, 22 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: And that was the point of the speech. In the end, 23 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: there were words, of course, and there were promises and commitments, 24 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: none of which will come true. What will be remembered 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: from this speech are the faces of the people smiling 26 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: in celebration. The owner of the Washington Post next to 27 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: the Princess Sanchez, Elon Musk, the CEO of Google and 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, the titans of America's technological power, the leaders 29 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: of the most powerful companies in the history of the world, 30 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: all gathered together not to celebrate democracy, not because they 31 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: share a commitment to justice or to the American people, 32 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: but out of fear and entitlement and opportunity, because they 33 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: realize what is gathered in that room are their fellow takers. 34 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: It is the greatest gathering of takers the American people 35 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: have ever seen, and a season is upon us unlike 36 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: any that has ever been before in the United States. 37 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: The delusional Trump says he comes to office facing challenges 38 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: that are greater than what Lincoln faced, or Washington, or 39 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 1: John Adams or Franklin Roosevelt. It is absurd. Who will 40 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: be the first American to die to be buried under 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: an American flag for Trump's invasion Panama or per usual? 42 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: Is it just bluster or bullshit? It might be a 43 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: good time to reread the book The Guns of August, 44 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: because history teaches us that there is an awful momentum 45 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: to the type of words that Donald Trump spoke today. 46 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: He talked about William McKinley. William McKinley was prodded by 47 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: unethical journalists into waging war in Cuba, manufactured by William 48 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: Randolph Hurst. Back in the day, fake news was called 49 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: yellow journalism. It's alive and well today. It will be 50 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: hard to know what is true and know what is not, 51 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: but that has always been the case. You must use 52 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: your judgment, your eyes, and your ears to appreciate the 53 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: profound disconnect between a man that claims God's grace yet 54 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: who desecrates his faith. What the American people saw today 55 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: was a disaster at the very first instance of its unfolding. 56 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump is promising, it's not democracy, it's feudalism. 57 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: He is king surrounded by his lords, and all the 58 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: rest of us are to be their serfs. And then 59 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: they will tell us that each of us is a hero. 60 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: In the service of a great cause to a great 61 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: nation that benefits just a few. It's cynical, it won't work, 62 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: it's obvious, and it will fall apart. But it cannot 63 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: fall apart until and unless there is an opposition with 64 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: a conviction and an instinct to celebrate this country and 65 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: argue for better by reaching for our values and communicating 66 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: there's a better way, it will become obvious that this 67 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: is not a golden age descending upon us, but a 68 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: season of unrequited corruption, time of chast mayhem, vanity, and venality. 69 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: Nobody with any common sense will think after hearing this 70 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: anything other than my God, what have we done? But 71 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: we have done it. Trump's mandate is thin. He won 72 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: election with forty nine point nine percent of the vote, 73 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: and even in an inaugural address, his ego is so brittle, 74 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: so thin, he can't stop talking about it, can't stop 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: grasping for himself. And so Donald Trump is late a 76 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: trapped in this inaugural speech. The American people don't want 77 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: the interest group politics, and they don't want to live 78 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: in the wuktopia. They have rejected it, and Donald Trump 79 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: has chummed the waters. He has done what he has 80 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: needed to do to make sure that the most extreme 81 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: element of the Democratic Party is the first to the 82 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: line in opposition, h that they are opposing the most 83 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,559 Speaker 1: popular parts of his agenda, while he gets a free 84 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: hand to carry out the most unpopular ones. The game 85 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: never gets old, at least for Trump, who constantly wins 86 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: at this. You can't fix stupid, as they say, and 87 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: I worry about that. This is a moment that will 88 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: require a fierceness in the opposition, requires political leaders in 89 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: this country to go out and to say to the 90 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: Canadian people, to the Danish people, to the Panamanian people, 91 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: to our allies all over the world, we will not 92 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: let American power be turned against you in the name 93 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's sick and twisted vision about our expansion. 94 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: The United States of America is not Putin's Russia. We 95 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: will not see conquest. The American people will not tolerate it. 96 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: And that so many stood and cheered under the Capitol 97 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: rotunda that was invaded and desecrated by the mob Trump 98 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: sent there just four short years ago is a sign 99 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: of the national sickness that Trump's inaugural address perfectly represented. 100 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: And yet there is a cure it is the idea 101 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: that we are better than this. We are Soon Donald 102 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: Trump will set about doing the things that he has 103 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: said he will do. He makes it all seem easy 104 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: with his breezy confidences and his assertions, but all of 105 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: them are based on a delusion that when something is dropped, 106 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: it rises as opposed to falling. And what Donald Trump 107 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: is dropping are our values, our history, our legacy. He 108 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: told a story about America today that was mythological. It's 109 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: nice to hear myth sometimes it can even be inspiring. 110 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: But through the myth, it's important to hear the threat, 111 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: and that threat was loud and clear today. Millions of 112 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: Americans won't be cheering for this for very long. Mark 113 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: my words on that. The future, we don't know what 114 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: it will bring, but I'm gonna make a prediction. Four 115 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: years from today, should this speech be played back, people 116 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: will either laugh out loud or cry out loud, and 117 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: that will all depend on how deep the pit is 118 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: that we find ourselves in after the tragedy that's coming 119 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: fully arrives. Let's not forget the lesson. It has been 120 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: a most painful one. On a sad day. This is 121 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: the warning I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and 122 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: I invite you to join. 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