Speaker 1: First week of the Trump presidency is spiraling to its end.
Speaker 1: This is the warning Donald Trump is holding court in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office. War is still raging in Ukraine. Trump
Speaker 1: said he would have it ended in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Looks like a swing in a miss. Is the president
Speaker 1: on your back carrying doubles? Next year?
Speaker 2: Will there be then a peace agreement with the Ukraine
Speaker 2: and Russia by then.
Speaker 3: Well you're going to have to ask Russia. Ukraine is
Speaker 3: ready to make a deal. Just so you understand, this
Speaker 3: is a war that should have never started. If I
Speaker 3: were president, it would never have started.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has started his deportations and already an American citizen,
Speaker 1: a military veteran, has been arrested because he wasn't carrying
Speaker 1: his papers on him, and so off he went out
Speaker 1: of the country. Donald Trump is revealing himself. He told
Speaker 1: the American people that he cared about them, he cared
Speaker 1: about the economy. The truth is, Donald Trump is what
Speaker 1: he's always been at del mcgogue and a con man,
Speaker 1: somebody who stiffed the little guy at every opportunity he
Speaker 1: ever had and every business he ever owned, with every
Speaker 1: contractor he ever dealt with. Trump loves the respectability because
Speaker 1: just a few short years ago, there was no serious
Speaker 1: banker in New York who would do business with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: He was a joke at JP Morgan. And now all
Speaker 1: of the most powerful people in the world are capitulant,
Speaker 1: and Trump is their king, and he'll deliver for his
Speaker 1: billionaires when he speaks. It's their agenda.
Speaker 3: They took court cases with Apple and they supposedly won
Speaker 3: a case that most people didn't think was much of
Speaker 3: a case. They won fifteen or sixteen billion from Apple.
Speaker 3: They won billions from Google. I think they're after face
Speaker 3: Book for billions and billions. These are American companies, whether
Speaker 3: you like them or not. They're American companies and they
Speaker 3: shouldn't be doing that. And that's as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: It's a form of taxation. So we have some very
Speaker 3: big complaints with the EU.
Speaker 1: He wants the EU to know that their government regulations, well,
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't like them. He doesn't think France or Italy
Speaker 1: or England or Germany or Denmark, or any country or
Speaker 1: collection of countries in any form. If a CEO of
Speaker 1: a company in America, no matter what they're doing, is
Speaker 1: nice to him, well, the law shouldn't apply there, and
Speaker 1: I suspect those European countries are going to say no thanks.
Speaker 1: The presidency is not a Turkish bizarre, but Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is treating it like one. He gives things away, he
Speaker 1: punishes his enemies, he benefits his friends. It's like an
Speaker 1: eight year old children's birthday, except Trump is the toxic
Speaker 1: clown who feels scalded if a bishop talks to him
Speaker 1: about mercy. Now, Donald Trump promised to fix the economy,
Speaker 1: but Donald Trump was lying. Donald Trump has created government
Speaker 1: of the billionaire, by the billionaire, for the billionaire in
Speaker 1: five days time, where the richest and most powerful people
Speaker 1: in world history can articulate their grievances and secret revenge.
Speaker 1: He said. America is now in the business of expanding
Speaker 1: our territory.
Speaker 2: He did, you know a lot of great things, like
Speaker 2: building the Panama Canal. The most expensive thing, relatively, the
Speaker 2: most expensive thing we've ever built is the Panama Canal.
Speaker 3: And you're serious.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately Jimmy Carter gave it away for one dollar.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we're gonna have to take it back. China's
Speaker 2: running the Panama Canal right now, that wasn't the deal.
Speaker 1: Who wants to pay for that. By the way, anybody
Speaker 1: ready to lay a kid into a box with a
Speaker 1: flag over it so that we get the Panama Canal
Speaker 1: that we already have control over functionally no threat to
Speaker 1: American shipping. Donald Trump doesn't have to threaten to make
Speaker 1: wa to reduce fees in the canal if that's what
Speaker 1: his priority is for America's shipping interests. All of it,
Speaker 1: by the way, is borne by the consumer. Explained to me,
Speaker 1: the difference between a high shipping fee being passed on
Speaker 1: to the American consumer, maybe unfairly, and Donald Trump's arbitrary tariff,
Speaker 1: which will be passed on to the American consumer every
Speaker 1: day at five o'clock, Franklin Roosevelt, without fail, in the
Speaker 1: White House, we mix cocktails and it took on the
Speaker 1: next level of excitement. When Winston Churchill was in residence.
Speaker 1: The Churchill hated his cocktails so much he would dump
Speaker 1: them in the White House toilet, and he had his
Speaker 1: booze stashed in a corner somewhere else. But the reporters,
Speaker 1: they came in for a drink made by the isn't
Speaker 1: it and they had an off the record conversation. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is doing a version of this. What you're seeing
Speaker 1: is coal being tossed into a furnace, social media furnace.
Speaker 3: Nothing can destroy cold, not the weather, not a bomb, nothing.
Speaker 3: It might make it a little smaller, might make it
Speaker 3: a little different shape.
Speaker 1: Everything you're seeing Donald Trump say in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: is cut up, clipped a thousand different ways, put out
Speaker 1: there on social media. It's a game, it's a reality
Speaker 1: show creating content. There's no response to it. There's nothing
Speaker 1: that lampoons it, not with any weight. There's no match
Speaker 1: for it. And so Donald Trump rolls along for now,
Speaker 1: but there are early signs. A federal judge called his
Speaker 1: repeal of birthright citizenship completely unconstitutional. It's not going to stand.
Speaker 1: It's empty. He was rebuked by a bishop, not with
Speaker 1: her words, but by his reaction. It was like a
Speaker 1: keen from the omen. There are two Republican senators who
Speaker 1: have said no on the question of the most unfit
Speaker 1: man in American history ever nominated to a life and
Speaker 1: death position, any person ever thought to be put in
Speaker 1: charge of the armed forces, who is more unqualified than
Speaker 1: Pete Hexas. They said no. Are there two more? Is
Speaker 1: eighty five year old Mitch McConnell or whatever he is.
Speaker 1: Is he really gonna vote for Pete Hexas and nobody else?
Speaker 1: Every one of these people are so scared shitless of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Did they would vote for this clown? And
Speaker 1: here's the truth about Pete Heexas. There are a great
Speaker 1: many rumors swirling around Washington about the omissions he made
Speaker 1: in his FBI report, And there are serious allegations of
Speaker 1: domestic violence, and there is real fear on the part
Speaker 1: of at least one expouse for her children. And the
Speaker 1: media is figuring out in Washington what they're going to
Speaker 1: tell you about it, because they are afraid of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and they're afraid of being sued for telling the truth
Speaker 1: about what was sent to the committee and what was
Speaker 1: not found by the FBI reports. And I'll just leave
Speaker 1: it at there. Donald Trump, we have them for four years.
Speaker 1: He's not the son God. And the stick's gonna get old.
Speaker 1: Oh and one last thing, Donald, the rating sucked. No
Speaker 1: one's watching now in this we share a problem. I
Speaker 1: want people to watch because the best thing for you
Speaker 1: is a disengaged voter. You want people to watch because
Speaker 1: you want to be loved and you never will be,
Speaker 1: not by a majority of Americans. You're at forty seven percent,
Speaker 1: and by this time next week it'll be in the
Speaker 1: rearview mirror behind you. You'll never see the number again.
Speaker 1: Lower and lower and lower you go. You're to be
Speaker 1: a failed president. That much is clear. Chaotic, shambolic, messy
Speaker 1: first week filled with Nazi salutes. Everything that everyone said
Speaker 1: about how bad this would be was correct, And I'll
Speaker 1: just leave you heading into the weekend, a slow motion
Speaker 1: reprize of Elon Musk doing what The New York Times
Speaker 1: said wasn't a Nazi salute, but instead the instigation of
Speaker 1: a vigorous debate about a hand gesture at a rally.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. Don't let yourself be bullshit. You're
Speaker 1: better and smarter than that. Have a good weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you
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