Steve Schmidt: Trump Cannot Be Saved
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
JD and Usha Vance went on Lara Trump’s show to defend Donald Trump’s criminal behavior as his approval rating collapses. Steve Schmidt breaks down their delusions and promises that the MAGA bubble will pop.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | The United States, without much debate, with no discernible strategy, stands on the edge of war with Iran. |
| 0:12.1 | That war might have serious terror implications in the American homeland. |
| 0:18.1 | You might think the FBI director would be focused on that. But of course, |
| 0:22.7 | the FBI director is Kash Patel, and Kash Patel loves jet setting. So here he is crashing the |
| 0:31.8 | gold medal ceremony in Milan at the Olympics, drunk and unbecoming. The bubble of delusion is very thick. |
| 1:00.0 | Another great display was the interview between Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, and J.D. and Ushah Vance. |
| 1:03.0 | How out of touch is J.D. Vance? |
| 1:06.0 | This is the warning. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, he laid it out truthfully for once. |
| 1:12.1 | The American people are going to get a vote. |
| 1:14.4 | And J.D. Vance is right about something. |
| 1:16.6 | They're going to vote on whether Donald Trump has made their life better or worse. |
| 1:22.3 | Most persuadable voters are voting on, did you guys make my life better? |
| 1:26.7 | And I think we have a very good record to run on that |
| 1:28.7 | account. And we already know the answer. It's worse. It's why Donald Trump's approval levels have |
| 1:34.5 | collapsed. They stand at about 35 percent. And they're headed lower. By the time we get to the end of |
| 1:41.0 | March, Donald Trump will be in George W. Bush and Richard Nixon territory, |
| 1:46.1 | with numbers clocking in at 28 or 29 percent. Let's examine how out of touch J.D. Vance is with |
| 1:55.6 | reality. Let's watch him demand reparations from Somali fraudsters, seemingly unaware that we know that |
| 2:04.3 | Donald Trump has fraud convictions. |
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