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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

"Awful, Cheap and Tawdry": Steve Schmidt reacts to Trump's Address to Congress

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night and showed just how divided our country currently is. Steve Schmidt breaks down the lengthy address and shows which moments should concern us the most. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

This is the warning.

0:02.8

Last night, Donald Trump made an address to a joint session of Congress,

0:07.4

and the Republican MAGA cult members went crazy.

0:12.3

Look at Lauren Bobert, girlfriend of Kid Rock, doing the reverse Beetlejuice here.

0:18.3

She is excited, cannot contain herself. It is as if she is at a children's play.

0:27.2

Last night was the longest, most boring presidential speech ever delivered, at least since they

0:34.8

could be recorded and we could hear the voice on radio, on television.

0:40.4

This was an autocratic speech in the sense that the autocrat held his people hostage and made them

0:48.7

clap. You can watch the migration of J.D. Vance's facial expressions. The guy is out of shape.

0:56.7

Now, when he was skiing, he made a couple of turns, fell down, got up, out of breath.

1:03.8

Same thing in back of Trump last night. He sneers for a while, his lips are pursed, he maniacly grinned, up and down, up and down, up and down,

1:17.0

same with Mike Johnson, whose head is nodding, he's in the rhythm, but by the end, they're tired,

1:25.3

they're worn down. Only the MAGA House members have the true love of MAGA

1:32.3

to keep the enthusiasm going, full pitch all the way through. Now, John Kennedy, he talked about

1:40.9

paying any price and bearing any burden. Citizenship in the United States is an

1:50.0

ephemeral idea. In this country, if after a long process you choose to swear an oath of allegiance

1:58.7

to the Constitution, you become in an instant as equal in your

2:04.8

citizenship, as any person, even a direct descendant of the Mayflower. But now Trump,

2:11.8

well, let's watch. With that goal in mind, we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card,

2:19.5

which goes on sale very, very soon.

2:22.6

For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world

2:29.2

to buy a path to U.S. citizenship.

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