Steve Schmidt: Trump Will Have No Legacy
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Donald Trump promised his ballroom wouldn't cost the American people any money, but of course, he lied. Steve Schmidt breaks down the new $1 billion budget, Trump's gilded delusions, and promises that all the narcissistic monuments will be torn down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Donald Trump would make Marie Antoinette blush. |
| 0:08.3 | He is our American Caligula. |
| 0:11.9 | Nero, look at what he's done to the Oval Office, outside on the portico, connecting the residents to the West Wing. |
| 0:20.5 | All of this, obviously, will need to be torn down. |
| 0:24.5 | It's awful. Here is what he did to the Rose Garden. This is a bit of a tour by Jonathan Carl of ABC News. |
| 0:34.1 | The changes here in the Rose Garden are rather striking. Obviously the paving of the lawn here happened a while ago. |
| 0:43.3 | But we also have these statues. |
| 0:47.3 | It does not look like the Rose Garden that I was used to see in for many years, |
| 0:53.3 | although we still do have the roses, of course. |
| 0:57.4 | Of course, this will need to be dug up, but nothing compares to this. |
| 1:03.3 | Trump knocked down the east wing of the White House to build this monstrosity. |
| 1:10.2 | And now there's a proposal by sycophant in his |
| 1:15.6 | Politburo that used to be a Congress suggesting the American taxpayer pay $1 billion for Trump's |
| 1:25.5 | gilded parties. Are you kidding? At the beginning, it was simply a |
| 1:31.0 | straight up shadowy corruption deal. The world's richest companies were going to make tribute. |
| 1:37.1 | Trump was going to pocket some of it and build the ballroom. Explicitly, the taxpayer wasn't |
| 1:43.5 | supposed to be on the hook, but now they are. |
| 1:47.0 | It is Wednesday, May the 6th, 2026. I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 1:53.0 | This is the warning. |
| 1:56.0 | Here is Carolyn Levin explaining why the ballroom all of a sudden is going to cost you a billion dollars. |
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