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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Donald Trump Needs To Remember Our History

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

As Trump met with his fully-assembled cabinet (and Elon) yesterday, we got to see exactly who will be leading this country for the next 4 years. Steve Schmidt looks back in time to help explain how learning from our past can shape our future. 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.

0:02.0

There is something important to understand.

0:05.0

Donald Trump wants you to be afraid.

0:08.0

He wants you to have anxiety.

0:11.0

It is all part of his political strategy.

0:14.0

To provoke rage and then more rage.

0:17.0

He wants people to be angry because anger, in his estimation, is a preface to surrender,

0:24.5

to hopelessness, to capitulation. There is something true about Donald Trump. Every time in his

0:31.3

life that he has pushed forward, it has worked for him. He has never been held to account. He declared bankruptcy and got richer.

0:40.3

He defiled the Constitution and was elected president.

0:43.8

And now Donald Trump enraged, angry, filled with retribution against the American people, against

0:52.7

his opponents, has decided that he will smash it all,

0:57.5

burn what has been built over 250 years to the ground, and say when he is done, that he has made

1:05.6

America great again. Over and over and over again, Donald Trump lies. The lies are coming faster,

1:15.8

and they're getting bigger, and they're becoming more aggressive, more authoritarian in nature,

1:22.4

because they demand that you submit reason to his command.

1:28.3

They demand that you have amnesia about what you just saw under his command.

1:37.3

And they demand that you accept as explanation for whatever happens in the world, what Donald Trump tells you it is, no matter

1:48.7

how stupid, how venal, or how false. His ideology is malicious, his methods are sinister, and the damage

1:58.8

is just beginning. This must be opposed. Do not be afraid. Now each day,

2:07.2

there is a reason to panic. But instead of panicking, let me suggest that you breathe. Because breathing

2:14.2

will help you be still and gird yourself for the things that must be done

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