Steve Schmidt: The Problem Isn't the Ballroom
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Violence is never the answer but neither are the crocodile tears shed by MAGA republicans after Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner security failure and shooting. Steve Schmidt explains why the whole thing is an obscenity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Didn't you know it? |
| 0:05.3 | My God, if only we had the ballroom, then none of it would have happened. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Monday, April of 27, 2026. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:14.3 | And what a weekend it was in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:18.3 | A weekend of madness, disgrace, and unbelievable corruption. Let's get into |
| 0:26.2 | it. |
| 0:27.2 | This is the warning. |
| 0:29.2 | The White House Correspondence Dinner of this past weekend was always destined to be a catastrophe. |
| 0:36.6 | But boy, oh boy, did it go to the next level. |
| 0:40.3 | First is the incompetence of the United States Secret Service. The President of the United |
| 0:46.3 | States and the senior confirmed cabinet officials of the country were all in attendance. |
| 0:53.3 | And the security was a farce, a complete and total farce, in a country that is divided, |
| 1:03.0 | racked by conspiracies, and on edge. |
| 1:07.0 | The incompetence is the fundamental feature of the Trump administration, whether it's the losing |
| 1:14.0 | war in Iran, whether it's Doge, whether it's the Epstein files, whatever, and wherever you |
| 1:22.2 | look, there is incompetence piled on top of incompetence, on top of incompetence. And every time one of these |
| 1:32.1 | things happened, among the most tawdry features of it is the flowing of the crocodile tears |
| 1:39.8 | and the performative outrage of the MagGA grifter class, like Megan McCain. |
| 1:46.7 | Did you know her father was John McCain? |
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