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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Donald Trump Is Turning The Oval Office Into A Circus

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, the dire state of affairs in America has never been more clear. Steve Schmidt reflects on the legacy of VE Day and compares FDR's vision of human dignity and rights to what's happening today in Trump's America. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ 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

It is May the 8th, 2025.

0:04.0

This is the warning.

0:06.0

80 years ago today, there was jubilation in every corner of the United States, from every small town square to New York City, from Piccadilly in London and Paris, wherever people had endured through the night.

0:25.6

They danced into the night for freedom, liberty, that had been won at great cost.

0:33.6

This day marks within still the span of a single human lifetime, the end of history's greatest cataclysm,

0:44.5

the Second World War, that Winston Churchill described in his memoirs as an unnecessary war.

0:53.2

It was a war that began by appeasing madness over and over and over

1:01.5

again until it was too late. Adolf Hitler had a mountain and at the top there was a tea

1:08.8

house, a gift from the Nazi party.

1:11.6

The road to the top cost many lives in its engineering and manufactured.

1:16.6

There was a hole, a boring, drilled into the mountain.

1:21.6

You can walk into it to this day to the golden elevator.

1:25.6

The SS-Men, the Adolf Hitler Legion, would have lined the rock

1:30.5

inside, holding torches. All of it a theater meant to intimidate anybody walking into that

1:37.5

mountain, into the furor's lair. And up the golden elevator they went. And Adolf Hitler at the top shook down, intimidated, sought to rule the world.

1:50.0

What he did to the Austrian Prime Minister is precisely what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office to President Zelensky.

1:58.0

The Oval Office is where Winston Churchill would sit by the side of the desk

2:04.5

next to Franklin Roosevelt, and in the evening they would drink cocktails and talk about the world.

2:11.2

FDR is the most important visionary of the 20th century, the man who envisioned what would come after catastrophe.

2:20.3

And it began with his fundamental belief in the value and dignity of human liberty and human rights.

2:29.3

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is an American author document. It was put forward

2:37.1

ultimately by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the death of the president. It is amongst

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