1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,760 Speaker 1: This is the warning. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: It may not seem like it right now, as America 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: is flooded with story after story of action after action 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 2: by Donald Trump asserting powers that he does not hold, 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 2: making decisions that are completely insane. Everything that is happening 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: in this moment right now is theater. It is menace theater. 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 2: It is theater of the absurd. It is a performance theater. 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: It is theater the greatest reality show that has ever been. 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: Maybe the reason that Donald Trump so distains President Zolensky 10 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 2: is that President Zolenski was a television star, a comedian. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: He made people laugh. 12 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: Maybe Donald Trump is threatened by real artistry. Maybe Donald Trump, 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: as a television reality star, wants to recall he asked 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 2: the whole world in his image. After all, he has 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 2: strong opinions on art. Being President of the United States 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: isn't enough for Donald Trump. He wants to be chairman 17 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: of the board of the Kennedy Center as well. But 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 2: his ambitions at this moment in time seem fairly unrestrained. 19 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 2: But before we talk about them, before we talk specifically 20 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: about the threats, about how to focus what to pay 21 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: attention to? Is it to the craziest thing that Donald 22 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: Trump does in the day, or should it be to 23 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 2: the most sinister thing that he does in the day. 24 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: If we can't see the sinister thing through the fog 25 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: and the smoke and all the pyrotechnics, then we will 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: be in deeper and deeper trouble day by day. In 27 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: other words, what matters? What is it that is happening 28 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: in this moment that is a prelude to the next moment? 29 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: What truly matters now? 30 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 2: Last night, the President of the United States of America 31 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: released on his truth social account this deranged video Tunals 32 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 2: coming to set your freight, bringing the life home to see. 33 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: No more tunnels, no more fear. Trump gozas. Finally here 34 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: Trump goes a Shining Rights Golden Future brand new Lights done. 35 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: Trump Gozze number one. Trump goes a Shining Right the 36 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: Golden Future brand new Light. There's the deals done. Trump 37 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: goes a number one. 38 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: The first thing apparently Trump is moving to the Middle East, 39 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 2: and he's getting divorced from Milania, and he's going to 40 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: have a fourth marriage, a same sex marriage with Bibnett 41 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: and Yahoo. Here they are together, two bears on the beach, 42 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: two men in love, Christian and jew together on the 43 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 2: sands of the greatest resort in all the history of 44 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: the world, basking together sipping coladas under the golden Trump statue. 45 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: How high should it be? Should it be a thousand 46 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: meters high? Perhaps ten thousand? It must be seen from space. 47 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: I know that we all know that. But though the 48 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: Golden Trump, no doubt will be able to be seen 49 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: from space and Trump Gaza, what about the Palestinians, Because 50 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: it doesn't seem as if there's any left. And I 51 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: just wonder, through the insanity, might Donald Trump be suggesting 52 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: something else. There is nothing in his video that anybody 53 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 2: in America should be frightened about, except that it reveals, 54 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: through the act of its distribution, that Donald Trump is 55 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: as aduled as I have always said he was over 56 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: these last long ten years. But what really mattered, what 57 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: was really offensive, most grotesque, was this disgrace in the 58 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: Oval Office where Donald Trump commoditized American citizenship. 59 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: We're going to be selling a gold card. 60 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,559 Speaker 1: You have a green card. This is a gold card. 61 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: We're going to be putting a price on that card 62 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 3: of about five million dollars, and that's going to give 63 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: you Green card privileges. Plus it's going to be a 64 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 3: route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into 65 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: our country by buying this card. They'll be wealthy, and 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 3: they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of 67 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 3: money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a 68 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 3: lot of people. We think it's going to be extremely 69 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 3: successful and never been done before or anything like this. 70 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 3: But it's something that we're going to be putting out 71 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 3: over the next would you say, two weeks out, do 72 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: you want to see a couple of words. 73 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: About let's understand something, something that is carved on the 74 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 2: granite of the Statue of Liberty. Send me you're tired, 75 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: you're poor, your wretched refuse yearning to be free. What 76 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 2: Donald Trump does not understand is that American citizenship has 77 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 2: never been for sale. It's not something to be purchased. 78 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 2: It is an expression of belief. It is a faith 79 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: in freedom around the most transcendent idea in human history, 80 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 2: which is that all of us are created equal and 81 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 2: endowed by a creator to whom we can call whatever 82 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: name we please, with inalienable rights that include life, liberty, 83 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 2: and the pursuit of happiness. The American people have been 84 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 2: governed together in a system where we are sovereign. The 85 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: American people have faith in the Constitution that is. 86 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 1: The law of our land. 87 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 2: It establishes government that is of the people, by the people, 88 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 2: for the people. It establishes a common purpose of law, 89 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 2: a system of checks and balances, all of it aimed 90 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 2: at creating liberty. When an immigrant comes to America, it 91 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 2: becomes a naturalized citizen. In the instant that they swear 92 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: allegiance to the Constitution, they are as fully a citizen 93 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 2: as a direct descendant of George Washington or a passenger 94 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: on the Mayflower. 95 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: And in that instant when they. 96 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 2: Subscribe to the Constitution of the United States through an oath, 97 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: the nation is transformed, one individual. 98 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,239 Speaker 1: At a time. 99 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 2: Another tile is placed on the great American Mosaic, made 100 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: up of all of the peoples of the world, from 101 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 2: everywhere in the world, where every common language is spoken 102 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: every day, bound together by belief and freedom, and all 103 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 2: over the world there are cemeteries filled with young dead 104 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: Americans who gave their lives not for deals, but for liberty. 105 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's attempt to sell American citizenship to rich Russians 106 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 2: like he sold steaks and degrees to the most stupid 107 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: amongst us is as offensive a thing as he has 108 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 2: ever done. It is as wrong and malicious as his 109 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: desecration of Arlington National Cemetery. 110 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: It is as wrong as him looking at. 111 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 2: The graves of America's war dead and calling them suckers 112 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: and users. It is an offense to sacrifice and the 113 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: dignity of the deaths of the patriots who gave what 114 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion so 115 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 2: that we and our children could live in freedom. Now 116 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: Donald Trump wants to give it away to his good 117 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: friends Yuri and who knows who else five million a pop. 118 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: One of the cheapest moments that there has ever been 119 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 2: in the Oval Office is this moment Russian oligarch the 120 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: eligible forty gold carment. 121 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 122 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 3: Possibly, Hey, I know some Russian oligarch sent a very 123 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 3: nice people. 124 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: Is possible? 125 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 2: A low moment from a low man who finds the 126 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 2: lowest point in the valley and then digs deeper. Every day, 127 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three 128 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five days a year, forty nine point 129 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: nine percent of US elected America's biggest scumbag to America's 130 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: highest office. In doing so, we have approved for all 131 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 2: time the wisdom of the Turkish proverb. When a clown 132 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: goes to a castle, he does not become a king. Rather, 133 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 2: the castle becomes a circus. And so we see what 134 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: used to be called the loneliest office in the world 135 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: reduced to becoming a prop for a cheap salesman, with 136 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: even cheaper hustlers standing behind him. Do not be afraid 137 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: of this, my friends. Push back against it, resist it, 138 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: defy it. It's what an American would do. This is 139 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 2: the warning. 140 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. 141 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 2: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 142 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 2: Subscribe on our sub stack, on our. 143 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.