Speaker 1: It is April fourteenth, twenty twenty five, and this is
Speaker 1: a momentous day in history. There are few that rival
Speaker 1: it in terms of anniversaries of arrogance, stupidity, and greed
Speaker 1: coming to meet in the icy waters of the North
Speaker 1: Atlantic over which I will be flying later this evening,
Speaker 1: approximate to the time of the sinking of the ship
Speaker 1: that they said God himself could not sink. Of course,
Speaker 1: I am thinking about Titanic, and as Donald Trump puts
Speaker 1: the American Ship of State full steam ahead into the ice,
Speaker 1: it seems we should remember what happened on that icy
Speaker 1: night one hundred and thirteen years ago this evening. There
Speaker 1: is always a high cost for highest levels of study
Speaker 1: mixed with misjudgment, mixed with greed, that are all then
Speaker 1: celebrated as virtues, when in fact they're the recipe for catastrophe.
Speaker 1: This is the warning people all over the world, including
Speaker 1: in the United States, including people I met in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: this weekend. They're all asking the same question, what's happening
Speaker 1: and why is it happening? Well, let me start by
Speaker 1: showing you a landslide an avalanche. When an avalanche starts,
Speaker 1: gravity does most of the work However, it begins, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't take a lot. Once that sheet of ice
Speaker 1: and snow and rocks starts to come down, there's nothing
Speaker 1: to stop it except at the bottom. And what starts
Speaker 1: at the top, like a trickle, can become incredibly destructive.
Speaker 1: So Donald Trump has set things in motion that will
Speaker 1: be incredibly destructive for American power, American prestige, and for
Speaker 1: our allies trust. The United States has broke trust with
Speaker 1: our friends. We have broken trust with our ideals, with
Speaker 1: our ideas, with our values, because for a time now,
Speaker 1: the government of the people, by the people, for the
Speaker 1: people has been hijacked by Donald Trump and his gangsters,
Speaker 1: who serve their self interest, who serve their greed, who
Speaker 1: serve the cause of their own power. But never you, ever,
Speaker 1: they are common, and they are stealing from you. They
Speaker 1: are stealing things from you that are beyond my ability
Speaker 1: to describe with regard to how priceless they are, how ephemeral.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it in the months ahead, but for now,
Speaker 1: let's look at where Donald Trump is. Let's understand and
Speaker 1: the Trump cycle. Because first there is the threat and
Speaker 1: the bluster. There is the corresponding chaos. There is fear,
Speaker 1: there is reaction, and all of Trump's children, all of
Speaker 1: his little girls and all of his little boys, in
Speaker 1: their dressed up costumes and in their suits, go on
Speaker 1: television and look in the camera, and they lie and
Speaker 1: they say that Donald Trump knows what he's doing, he
Speaker 1: has a plan, and he'll never back down.
Speaker 2: I think that what you have assembled in your vision
Speaker 2: is a turning point and an inflection point in American history.
Speaker 2: And so just being a part of that is the
Speaker 2: greatest honor. So thank you for that. And again, just
Speaker 2: the relationships here and their honor and respect we have
Speaker 2: for each other is a reflection of you and your leadership.
Speaker 1: But then the reactions come, reality comes. A Canadian Prime
Speaker 1: minister speaks.
Speaker 3: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to
Speaker 3: build our economy and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is
Speaker 3: ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition
Speaker 3: of like minded countries who share our values.
Speaker 1: And then there is the Trump panic. There is Trump incoherence,
Speaker 1: and all the King's men and all the kings ladies
Speaker 1: couldn't put Humpty Dumpty's tariffs back together again. He has
Speaker 1: fallen from the wall and cracked open a fool exposed.
Speaker 1: Understanding this tale takes an appreciation of an old Turkish proverb.
Speaker 1: It's about a clown who goes to a castle. Now,
Speaker 1: for the purposes of this story, the clown is Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and he is a clown. He's always been a clown.
Speaker 1: And the American people, with forty nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: of the vote vote of those who chose to vote,
Speaker 1: sent him a clown to a castle. Our White House,
Speaker 1: where above the state fireplace is an inscription a quote
Speaker 1: of John Adams that talks about in prayer that he
Speaker 1: hopes only good and honest men will live there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we know today that someday a woman will live there
Speaker 1: as chief executive. But the key point is the honesty.
Speaker 1: A low and dishonest man lives there a clown, a
Speaker 1: venomous one. And this venomous clown proves the proverb true,
Speaker 1: for it says when a clown goes to a castle,
Speaker 1: he does not become a sultan, but rather the castle
Speaker 1: becomes a circus. And so it has. And now, of course,
Speaker 1: there is the Trump surrender, with the country innex serrobly
Speaker 1: headed to recession, trillions of dollars poorer, the economy destabilized,
Speaker 1: the dollar declining in value, and US treasuries in trouble.
Speaker 1: The cost of borrowing money to sustain America's massive debt
Speaker 1: is going to get a lot more expensive for the
Speaker 1: American people who don't seem to appreciate that giving the
Speaker 1: middle finger to everyone, all at once, everywhere wasn't a
Speaker 1: smart thing to do, because they are our customers, they
Speaker 1: buy our debt. And the person who caused this crisis
Speaker 1: is simultaneously causing five other crises. There is the constitutional crisis,
Speaker 1: where people are being disappeared off of the streets, where
Speaker 1: Trump officials think they have the authority to defy federal
Speaker 1: court orders, where there are encroachments and infringements by the
Speaker 1: government on ideas and thinking, and in fact, the Trump
Speaker 1: regime was forced to retract their focus on stopping at
Speaker 1: the border poisonous ideas. I wonder if Donald and his
Speaker 1: fascist White House thanks that my understanding that they are
Speaker 1: fascists is a poisonous idea. I wonder if they could,
Speaker 1: if they would like to keep me out of the country.
Speaker 1: But instead I will go to France, And in France,
Speaker 1: I will go to the grave of Lafayette and to
Speaker 1: the beaches in Normandy, and I will remember, and I
Speaker 1: will write, and I will think, and I will take
Speaker 1: you on the tour with me to do my best
Speaker 1: to recall some of the things that were our shared
Speaker 1: faith ideas about freedom, freedom of conscience and imagination, the
Speaker 1: liberty to do with our lives as we please in
Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness, with regard to raising our families,
Speaker 1: with regard to living our lives without the office, vicious
Speaker 1: and high handed trumpet in hand in our face, the
Speaker 1: finger of one of his spokespersons, constantly jabbing forward into
Speaker 1: the air at us through our screens, with their intemperate
Speaker 1: tones and their aggressive postures. What are we to do? First,
Speaker 1: all of this two years from now will be repudiated
Speaker 1: in a way that Donald Trump and his hijackers cannot imagine. Secondarily,
Speaker 1: the costs for the business leaders of the most powerful
Speaker 1: American corporations who have made their deal with the devil.
Speaker 1: The righteous might of the American people will defenestrate and
Speaker 1: defang their empires with anti trust actions in the years ahead.
Speaker 1: They have gotten too big, too powerful, and too arrogant.
Speaker 1: But arrogance finds its way always to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the sea, and so be again for Maga and all
Speaker 1: of the men who think they should be kings, and
Speaker 1: we their serfs, who have made their move upon the
Speaker 1: greatest ideas ever set down on paper by the mind
Speaker 1: of man, the notion that we are all created equal.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump has proposed is a reordering of the world.
Speaker 1: All we have to do is submit to the king,
Speaker 1: and with his pleasure, all the riches of the world
Speaker 1: may be ours if we get in line, if we
Speaker 1: bend the knee, if we lick the boot. But the
Speaker 1: American creed suggests the answer to this proposition must endure
Speaker 1: forever and be frozen in amber with just one word never.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a national disgrace. He is in ensurper
Speaker 1: of what Washington built and imagined into being with an
Speaker 1: act of a stuf humility, what Abraham Lincoln preserved with
Speaker 1: an iron strength tempered by compassion and empathy and a
Speaker 1: deep hunger for reconciliation. America is a project of faith
Speaker 1: and the work of the faithful. It is the place
Speaker 1: redeemed by Martin Luther King and by the civil rights movement.
Speaker 1: By John Lewis and the men and women on a
Speaker 1: bridge in Selma Alabama in April of nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: And so as we begin another week of chaos in America,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has demonstrated he's not strong, He's weak. He
Speaker 1: is ubiquitous. But ubiquity is not strength. It is simply
Speaker 1: the power over corporate media to maintain presence at all times.
Speaker 1: But that presence can be turned off. It's a mirage.
Speaker 1: It is a mirage as sure as is the Wizard
Speaker 1: of Ozz. It is a cloak meant to make a
Speaker 1: small man big. And trust me, Donald Trump is the
Speaker 1: smallest of men. And I know that because sometime this weekend,
Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt huddled with Donald Trump and they worked on
Speaker 1: a most ludicrous of statements, which I will read for
Speaker 1: you now in conclusion as the warning, because any president,
Speaker 1: any man with power, who is so brittle, thin skinned,
Speaker 1: abjectly unable to connect with another human being, but at
Speaker 1: seventy eight, so delusional as to think that this statement
Speaker 1: won't be laughed at by the overwhelming majority of us.
Speaker 1: And we're not laughing with any of you people in
Speaker 1: the White House. We laugh at you because each of
Speaker 1: you is resplendently and competent, weird, arrogant, and entitled Steven Miller.
Speaker 1: He's a freak show. And for all of you who
Speaker 1: do terrible things, there will be accountability. There always is.
Speaker 1: Tonight is a great anniversary to contemplate that on this
Speaker 1: the anniversary of the sinking of the ship that God
Speaker 1: himself could not sink. I read from the Trump medical report.
Speaker 1: In conclusion, President Trump remains in excellent health, exhibiting robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological,
Speaker 1: and general physical function. His active lifestyle continues to contribute
Speaker 1: significantly to his well being. President Trump's days include participation
Speaker 1: in multiple meetings, public appearances, press availability, and frequent victories
Speaker 1: in golf events. President Trump exhibits excellent cognit and physical
Speaker 1: health and is fully fit to execute the duties of
Speaker 1: the commander in chief and head of state, which, of
Speaker 1: course you know, because we see it every day, is untrue.
Speaker 1: What we see is a weak man, an incoherent man,
Speaker 1: an illogical man, a man who has no impulse control,
Speaker 1: a man who lacks restraint, a man surrounded by weakness
Speaker 1: and sickophants, a man surrounded by people who have joined
Speaker 1: a cult of personality and have pissed all over their
Speaker 1: obligations to the country and called it patriotism with golden
Speaker 1: Trump pens upon their lapels. This is the morning and
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you
Speaker 1: to join this community, where I promise to be honest,
Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.
Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and somebscribe to this channel
Speaker 1: and on substack. Thank you,