Steve Schmidt: Trump Has Already Lost
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has doubled down on his fight with Pope Leo. Steve Schmidt breaks down why Trump and his regime keep digging the hole deeper.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Nobody would accuse Donald Trump of being a particularly bright man or a good man. |
| 0:10.4 | He doesn't seem to have a lot of common sense because some of the best advice ever offered |
| 0:16.0 | in the history of humanity seems not to have reached him. |
| 0:19.8 | Or maybe it is that he doesn't understand the concept. |
| 0:24.1 | The advice is simple and it's great and it's this. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging, |
| 0:32.5 | but not our Donald, the world's greatest and most famous untreated psychiatric patient. He's incapable of putting |
| 0:40.4 | down the shovel. Instead, he keeps digging. And the great thing about MAGA is, when he's in that |
| 0:47.4 | hole digging it deeper, his lemmings will jump into it with him, not because they want to be in a hole, but just because they want to be with Donald. |
| 0:59.0 | It's Thursday, April the 16th, 2026. I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the warning. |
| 1:06.0 | They say that the House of Representatives is the People's House. |
| 1:10.0 | And if you think about it in those terms, some of the people in this country, well, they're rotten, |
| 1:16.6 | they're nuts, they're venal, and they're offensive. |
| 1:20.3 | And they're perfectly represented by this clown. |
| 1:24.0 | It seems the anti-Catholic Maga Party doesn't appreciate what or who the Pope is. |
| 1:32.7 | The Pope is the vicar of Christ. |
| 1:35.4 | The Pope is the leader of the world's Catholics, and the Pope's business is a moral business. |
| 1:42.9 | And so it was inevitable that the American Pope and the American |
| 1:47.5 | fascist would come into conflict in an era where vice and virtue are at war. Donald Trump is an |
| 1:57.3 | evil man. Too many Americans are uncomfortable about the concept, good and evil. It's too |
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