WEBVTT - Donald Trump Is Out of Excuses | Steve Schmidt 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 Eighty one years ago today, at two forty five in 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.760 the morning from the Pacific island of Kennyan, Theanola Gay 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:13.080 took off, commanded by Paul Tibbitts, who named the aircraft 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.520 after his mother. At eight fifteen am and fifteen seconds 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:24.119 over Tokyo, the Little Boy atomic device was dropped. It 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.960 exploded forty three seconds later. This is an anniversary that 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.040 should be remembered. The next explosion came on August the ninth, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.320 and then on September the second, the peace came in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.440 Tokyo Bay. These events are all connected together, as is 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:50.360 the world, which is collapsing and falling apart. That as 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:55.720 difficult as the peace was and as violent as wars were, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:01.200 there has been no serious contemplation over those one years 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.560 that any nation could survive a nuclear war that was serious. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:12.360 But Donald Trump has seized upon old dogmas and made 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:18.200 them new. This is the warning he blusters and putin 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.440 blusters with a lot of loose talk about the use 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.840 of these weapons in an age where America is fighting 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.120 and losing a war, when Russia is fighting and losing 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.039 a war, and where China is watching both. And we 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:41.000 should appreciate that in the silliness and frivolousness of this era, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.760 and in this moment where we see rot and decay 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.280 all around us, that the issues in the end that 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.720 are discussed under that Capital Dome and in the White 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.840 House are life and death issues, deadly serious issues. And 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.800 we should think very carefully about the corrupt Donald Trump 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.440 and his corrupt relationship with the killer Saudi crown prince 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.680 who dismembered a Washington Post journalist wanting to give the 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:16.079 Saudis a nuclear weapon. It's a very bad idea. Speaking 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.560 of bad ideas here in the United States on this 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.880 eighty first anniversary, it seems there's a member of Congress 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.919 with a nuclear distemper problem. His name is Max Miller 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.840 of Ohio. He is the son in law of the 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.800 Republican senator and allegedly he broke the collar bone of 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:43.560 his two year old through boiling water on the senator's daughter. Now, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.520 the senator has tolerated this, the abuse of his grandchild, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.600 the abuse of his daughter, because it was expedient for Maga. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.080 And in Maga, family comes second to loyalty when it 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.720 comes to Donald Trump, Trump over family, and that's the 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.639 sickness at the heart of MAGA. But anyway, the putrid 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.680 senator who has been silent in his daughter's defense, has 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.200 now spoken out about the sixth son in law, a 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.840 member of Congress fully supported by Trump because of course 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.600 he is as devoted to Trump as is his father 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.360 in law. And so everybody looks away, and it's uncomfortable 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:31.160 to cover the alleged wife beating, baby abusing congressman, certainly 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.559 on the broadcast news and legacy cable stations. 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.200 A lot of bad individuals who are rising up in 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.520 politics right now. It includes Graham Platner. He's got to go. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.080 But the fact that you just sit here and said 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.520 that nobody cares that Max Miller beat his wife alarm 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.400 not here to talk about Maxi Miller, here talking about 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.800 gram talking about Arnold It. If we're not policing this 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.400 conduct from people, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, it's not right. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.000 Nobody has the more top. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:58.000 That's why one would not want to upset Donald Trump 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.600 or the Magabase. But at any rate, the story, the 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.800 stench of it, the amorality of it, keeps coming up 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.840 to the surface and there it sits. And so even 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.520 a figure as a moral immoral soft and weak as 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.800 Mike Johnson, who one day will have to be played 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.960 on screen by an actor whose talents will need to 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:28.080 be unmatched in order to capture the fecklessness of this 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.680 man who believes truly that dinosaurs and people live together. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.279 But he's saying the same things privately to members that 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.359 he is publicly that he denies all this, and he 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.000 thinks it's a hit job on him. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.919 Will you tell him to drop out? No? 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.320 I will tell Max what I tell everyone. These are 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.520 serious allegations. I'm the father of two daughters who work 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.200 on Capitol Hill. I mean the allegations are serious. I 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.880 think Max is taking them seriously. I think our colleagues are. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.680 But again, we have to allow this process to play out. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:55.440 It's just begun. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.400 No no outrage here only for the co I means 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.760 dancing in the fever dreams of this religious zealous imagination. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.760 But at any rate, what's a little wife slapping around? 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.919 Here's Dana White introducing Donald Trump. And by the way, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.920 why doesn't anybody ever talk about this? Since when do 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.000 you get to slap your wife on video and get 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.359 to introduce the president without commentary from anybody? In this 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:31.120 era where outrage over indecency has completely gone away, died 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:36.320 or into a what deep coma long exile? How do 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.799 you think about it? But at any rate, here's Trump. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.000 As the legal aliens go home. The cost of rent, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.800 groceries and other staples is coming down veryfast. Our courts 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.680 of coming way down. You know they talk about affordability. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.200 I took over the country the prices with through the 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.320 roof in my first day the president. What are you 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.040 going to do about affordability? It was a word they 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.640 devised ability that they never used that word before. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:04.560 Here's White. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.320 When I leave someone a tip, I want that money 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:14.520 going to them, not the government. That's exactly what no 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.560 tax on tips is all about. The second initiative is 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:26.880 Trump accounts for the first time, every newborn American child 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.400 will have the opportunity to begin building wealth from day one. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.719 And here's the food being served to the sailors aboard 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:41.480 the USS Abraham Lincoln. All of this can be stopped 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.000 by having a check put upon it by an opposing 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.240 house of government with power to make it stop. And 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.960 that's what these elections coming up are all about. Donald 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:58.960 Trump out on the hustings, unable to keep quiet, unable 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.960 to go into Ho has been convinced by his own 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:07.400 delusions that the more he talks, the better off he'll be, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.680 and thus every member of his political party will be 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.000 so long as the don can be seen, he'll save 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.400 the congress person near you. At least that's what they 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.120 tell each other. But it's not going to work, and 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.040 so what we're witnessing here is a doom loop. The 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:29.640 undoing of MAGA, the defense of the indefensible is nothing new, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.200 but in the case of Max Miller, it's something more 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.600 disgusting than usual. But I fear I digress too much. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.240 The main point is this. The bubble is growing in 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.400 the economy and getting ready to pop. The war in 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.160 Iran is getting ready to escalate. We have lost that war. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.400 We are out of munitions. Donald Trump is out of excuses. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.040 And when you watch this rally, the strategy, well, it 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.880 doesn't seem to be working, given that seven out of 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:04.200 tan Americans are fed up out of patience, because to 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.280 some degree, we are all sailors on the Abraham Lincoln 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.840 being force fed this garbage day after day by guys 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:13.320 like this. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.560 We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela, and we're 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.200 getting along great with them. Billions and billions of barrels 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.880 of oil is coming out of Venezuela. It's one of 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.480 the most fertile places for oil in the world. And 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.480 as you know, it was a forty eight minute war, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.440 lasted forty eight minutes, and we paid for the war 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.720 with what we've taken out many, many, many times. Where 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.760 have you heard that before? You haven't heard that before. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.720 It's the old fashioned way, right, it's the old fashioned 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.160 way to the victor belong to spoils. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.559 And this My thirteen year old son popped into my 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.640 office last night while I was editing these remarks. He 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:53.760 asked about the war. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.680 And the families I met at Dover, and I looked 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.240 at him and I said, they died for you. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:06.360 Son, had enough. 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