Donald Trump Wants to Sell US Citizenship

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Amidst the controversy of his "Trump Gaza" post, Donald Trump introduced the idea of a "Gold Card" to sell US citizenship to wealthy people across the globe. Steve Schmidt looks at the latest executive order and explains why all Trump cares about is money. 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.
0:02.7	It may not seem like it right now as America is flooded with story after story of action
0:09.8	after action by Donald Trump, asserting powers that he does not hold, making decisions
0:17.6	that are completely insane.
0:20.3	Everything that is happening in this moment right now is theater.
0:25.6	It is menace theater.
0:27.6	It is theater of the absurd.
0:30.3	It is a performance theater.
0:33.1	It is theater.
0:35.0	The greatest reality show that has ever been. Maybe the reason that Donald Trump
0:40.9	so disdains President Zelensky is that President Zelensky was a television star, a comedian.
0:49.0	He made people laugh. Maybe Donald Trump is threatened by real artistry. Maybe Donald Trump, as a television reality star,
0:59.2	wants to recast the whole world in his image. After all, he has strong opinions on art. Being
1:06.8	President of the United States isn't enough for Donald Trump. He wants to be chairman of the
1:12.3	board of the Kennedy Center as well. But his ambitions at this moment in time seem fairly
1:19.9	unrestrained. But before we talk about them, before we talk specifically about the threats,
1:27.2	about how to focus what to pay attention to.
1:31.6	Is it to the craziest thing that Donald Trump does in the day?
1:36.0	Or should it be to the most sinister thing that he does in the day?
1:41.2	If we can't see the sinister thing through the fog and the smoke and all the
1:47.6	pyrotechnics, then we will be in deeper and deeper trouble day by day. In other words, what matters?
1:57.2	What is it that is happening in this moment that is a prelude to the next moment?
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