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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt: Trump's Presidency Will End as a Total Sham

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump decided he didn't need NATO's help in Iran, but only after they refused to give it to him. Steve Schmidt warns that Trump's erratic, inconsistent behavior is the most dangerous force in the world today.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.2

Donald Trump is the worst commander in chief in American history.

0:08.8

He's the most chaotic.

0:10.8

He's utterly erratic.

0:12.4

From day to day, from hour to hour, from moment to moment, he changes direction.

0:18.8

Up is down.

0:20.4

Down is up. Nothing is ever consistent. For Donald Trump,

0:25.7

it's all an improvisation. It's all schick. It's an act. It's why he can say this about why we're at war

0:33.5

with Iran in one moment. The situation was very quickly approaching.

0:44.2

The point of no return in the United States found it intolerable, in my opinion, based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco, so involved, that I thought

0:51.3

that they were going to attack us.

0:52.7

I thought they would, if we didn't do this, at the time we did it, I think they were going to attack us. I thought they would, if we didn't do this,

0:55.2

at the time we did it, I think they had in mind to attack us. And this and the next.

1:00.6

I just do want to say that the war is proceeding very, very strongly. We're doing very, very well.

1:07.1

Iran, knocking the hell out of them, and you have to do that. We can't let them have a nuclear weapon.

1:12.3

They were two weeks away, in my opinion, two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

1:17.0

If those beautiful, magnificent machines, those B-2 bombers, if they didn't do their job seven or eight months ago,

1:24.4

they would have had a nuclear weapon, and there would have been no talking to

1:29.3

them, no talking at all. They would have used it very gladly, very happily. And you sort of see that

1:34.0

by the fact that they were sending missiles, ballistic missiles, powerful missiles, to all of their

1:40.6

neighbors. And for the most part, they were supposed to be somewhat friendly with their neighbors.

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