WEBVTT - Donald Trump on the Decline

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<v Speaker 1>Eighty two days until the American people decide who sits

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<v Speaker 1>behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office as the

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<v Speaker 1>commander in chief of the most potent military in the

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<v Speaker 1>history of the world. This is the warning. At this hour,

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<v Speaker 1>Ukrainian forces continue to advance into Kirsk in Russia. At

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<v Speaker 1>this hour, carrier battle groups continue to move towards the

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<v Speaker 1>Middle East, awaiting an Iranian attack on Israel. Domestically, in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead. If

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<v Speaker 1>the election were tomorrow, she would win. Donald Trump is decomposing,

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<v Speaker 1>He is spiraling, and today he will talk about the

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<v Speaker 1>economy in North Carolina. But if his interview with Elon

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<v Speaker 1>Musk is a preview, there won't be much economic news.

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<v Speaker 1>What there will be is insanity, delusion, lying, nonsense, and

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<v Speaker 1>all sorts of attacks, some based in reality, some not

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<v Speaker 1>based in reality. Donald Trump has reached an inflection point.

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<v Speaker 1>The madness is too obvious to ignore. The slurring that

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<v Speaker 1>the campaign tells us we did not hear is certainly there.

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<v Speaker 1>What's going on with the seventy eight year old Trump Mentally,

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<v Speaker 1>he seems to be cracking up. It's as if something

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<v Speaker 1>has broken inside of him. Again, the same part that

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<v Speaker 1>broke after he was defeated in November of twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>by President Biden. President Biden is not in this campaign anymore,

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<v Speaker 1>but Donald Trump can't stop talking about him. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get Joe Biden out of the White House. Joe is bad.

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<v Speaker 1>Joe couldn't hear, He couldn't he could do anything. Joe

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<v Speaker 1>Biden was exposed during the debate. Are you a communist? Joe?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Are we dealing with Biden? Biden? Probably

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<v Speaker 1>should get out? What do you like better? Does it

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<v Speaker 1>matter anymore? But what do you like better? Crooked Joe

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<v Speaker 1>or sleepy Joe. He doesn't seem to understand that the

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<v Speaker 1>woman who is on the ballot is Kamala Harris, and

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that everything he

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<v Speaker 1>once said about President Biden seems to just be bouncing

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<v Speaker 1>right off of her. The good news for Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is is that there's eighty days of beclowning left to

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<v Speaker 1>go before his life sentence takes effect. Trump's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to prison, but he's going to imprison his mar Lago members.

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<v Speaker 1>He's going to imprison them on the patio as he

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<v Speaker 1>works the tables, President Norma Desmond, interminal decline for twenty years.

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<v Speaker 1>When he's one hundred and five and six, Trump will

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<v Speaker 1>be sitting there at mar Lago working the tables, and it

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<v Speaker 1>will be the final few members. There will be no

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<v Speaker 1>Presidential library. This man will fail in disgrace. And the

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<v Speaker 1>best part about what's coming next for Trump is this.

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<v Speaker 1>All of these people who sold out everything, whose cynicism

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<v Speaker 1>is beyond description, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, all of them,

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<v Speaker 1>all of the people that made Trump possible, will pretend

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<v Speaker 1>he never existed. They have no idea who he was,

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<v Speaker 1>that the ten years never happened. And the American people

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<v Speaker 1>will let them do it, because the American people hate

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<v Speaker 1>looking backwards. Our capacity as a people for amnesia is

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely without challenge anywhere in the world. The Trump era

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<v Speaker 1>will be forgotten, will fade away, will be a footnote,

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<v Speaker 1>an era of madness, and it won't be repeated. P. T.

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<v Speaker 1>Barnum became president at the dawn of the age, when

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<v Speaker 1>all human beings found their instantaneous connection. This communication revolution

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<v Speaker 1>remains in its infancy, and when we look back on it,

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<v Speaker 1>or generations from now look back on it, they'll understand

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<v Speaker 1>that in the infancy of this technology, bizarre things happened.

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<v Speaker 1>It used to be if there was a stark, raving,

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<v Speaker 1>mad political lunatic spouting Linden Laruche theories, for example, in

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<v Speaker 1>a supermarket parking lot, we didn't take that person seriously

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<v Speaker 1>as a community, as a state, as a county, as

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<v Speaker 1>a country, however you wanted to look at it. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a disqualification. If you couldn't tell the truth, it

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<v Speaker 1>was a disqualification. If you had no character, it was

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<v Speaker 1>a disqualification. If during a global pandemic you told people

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<v Speaker 1>to inject bleach because you're an imbecile, it was a disqualification.

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<v Speaker 1>But all of that in a moment was upended when

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<v Speaker 1>we could all communicate instantly and be validated simultaneously. People

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<v Speaker 1>became disconnected, they became isolated, and they became lonely. Their

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<v Speaker 1>phones became their lifelines. And the reality is the person

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<v Speaker 1>who exploited that cultural weakness more than any other person

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<v Speaker 1>to great effect was a demagogue out of Queens, New York,

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<v Speaker 1>Donald John Trump, who was there all along. What this

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<v Speaker 1>era did was turn all of the media into the

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<v Speaker 1>New York City tabloids, and he was a maestro. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's all coming to an end because people get it.

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<v Speaker 1>They look at this and they see a circle going

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<v Speaker 1>round and round and round and down and down and

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<v Speaker 1>down into the drain. The United States is about to

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<v Speaker 1>be two hundred and fifty years old to monumental achievement.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine the astonishment of the founding fathers to

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<v Speaker 1>see a black woman as President of the United States

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<v Speaker 1>and to learn that there's an American flag on the moon.

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<v Speaker 1>The country has gone through many trials and tribulations, much

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<v Speaker 1>worse than Donald Trump. The country has faced down hate,

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<v Speaker 1>terrible racism, slavery. It has face down brutal ignorance. It

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<v Speaker 1>has faced down all these things because the United States

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<v Speaker 1>is a government of the people, by the people, for

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<v Speaker 1>the people. And some of the people are terrible. Some

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<v Speaker 1>of the terrible people, because terrible people get represented in

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<v Speaker 1>a democracy, also wind up in Congress, like Lauren Bobert,

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<v Speaker 1>like Marjorie Taylor Greed, A bunch of loons and conspiracy

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<v Speaker 1>theorists have latched on to politics. These unfit people are

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<v Speaker 1>coming to the end of their rope. The pendulum is

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<v Speaker 1>swinging back towards normalcy after a decade of chaos. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing. It's a healthy thing. America is living

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<v Speaker 1>through a moment of adjustment in an era of profound

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<v Speaker 1>change and transition. The event between Elon Musk and Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is a farce. It's a joke. It's a type

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<v Speaker 1>of absurdist theater. It's not real. And both of these

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<v Speaker 1>narcissists do not care at all about anything aside from

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<v Speaker 1>money and power and attention. What Donald Trump is in

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<v Speaker 1>this moment of transition is a philosopher of sorts. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a philosopher of youwism. We live in a time where

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people, a lot of people at the top,

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<v Speaker 1>deserve an fu. But an fu is an empty calorie.

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't get you ahead. But when you're stagnant, when

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<v Speaker 1>you're treading water, stuck in the muck, feels good to

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<v Speaker 1>say it sometimes. And a lot of people have set

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<v Speaker 1>it by pulling down the Trump lover. But they're still stuck.

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<v Speaker 1>Now they have something better to vote for, Kamala Harris,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's why the race has so completely changed. So

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<v Speaker 1>many people say that this is a surprise, it's not.

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<v Speaker 1>If you know how to read a poll, this is

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<v Speaker 1>exactly what was going to happen as Joe Biden got

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<v Speaker 1>out of the race. Because think of a spring that

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<v Speaker 1>is being compressed or stepped on. When you step off

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<v Speaker 1>of it, up it goes. And when Joe Biden stepped

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<v Speaker 1>off that spring, it launched Kamala Harris. Because people want younger,

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<v Speaker 1>they want smarter, they want better, they want a president

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<v Speaker 1>for the twenty first century to deal with the challenges now.

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<v Speaker 1>And the Trump campaign is spinning, confused, lost, and most

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<v Speaker 1>importantly it's losing. We are on the eve of the

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<v Speaker 1>Democratic National Convention, and the MAGA movement in America is

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<v Speaker 1>dying this August of twenty twenty four. It's a pleasure

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<v Speaker 1>to watch. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This

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