Steve Schmidt: Trump and Hegseth's Utter Embarrassment
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Trump spent the week fighting the Pope. Steve Schmidt breaks down their fight, RFK Jr.'s delusions, and Pete Hegseth's Pulp Fiction Prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | It is Friday. |
| 0:05.6 | April the 17th. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:08.2 | The 16th week of 2026 has come to its end. |
| 0:13.4 | And it was a week of madness. |
| 0:17.5 | A week of insanity. |
| 0:19.5 | A week of mayhem a week of mayhem. |
| 0:21.6 | This is the warning. |
| 0:23.6 | It started with Donald Trump picking a fight with the vicar of Christ. |
| 0:29.6 | Donald doesn't like the Pope. |
| 0:31.6 | Let's review Sunday, Monday. |
| 0:35.6 | I don't think he's doing a very good job. |
| 0:37.6 | He likes crime, I guess. |
| 0:39.7 | He hit us, think of it. |
| 0:42.8 | He's worried about fear. |
| 0:44.3 | What about the fear when the ministers and the priests and all of those great people |
| 0:51.7 | that were arrested during COVID? |
| 0:54.6 | And in many cases, they're outside 10 feet apart and they were arrested. |
| 0:59.0 | So we don't like it. |
| 1:00.5 | We don't like a Pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon. |
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