Steve Schmidt: Why MAGA Lost Its Mind
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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At the Grammys, Bad Bunny spoke out against ICE and MAGA short-circuited. Steve Schmidt exposes the Trump regime’s fear of art and why that fear is growing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | The Super Bowl is five days away, which raises a great question for scores of tens of millions of Americans. |
| 0:11.2 | Are you going to stay with the program and watch the halftime show with Bad Bunny? |
| 0:16.5 | Or are you going to turn it off for the Turning Point USA alternative? |
| 0:21.6 | Now personally, I'd rather climb up to the top of the Empire State Building and take a swan dive. |
| 0:27.6 | But to each his own, it is a free country, at least for a little while longer, if Turning Point USA doesn't get its way. |
| 0:35.6 | It's Tuesday, February 3rd, and I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:39.3 | This is the warning. |
| 0:41.3 | Here was the grieving widow 11 days after Charlie Kirk's murder. |
| 0:46.3 | We had over 275,000 people that attended and a stadium overflow, Westgate, insane, you guys. And then you have, |
| 1:03.1 | is it a hundred million? |
| 1:04.2 | You guys that heard the gospel and all about Charlie and all about everything that you guys do and the hard work of Turning Point USA is insane. |
| 1:17.8 | We had thousands that were registered to vote. |
| 1:20.8 | I think we're at like over 200,000 for merch sales. |
| 1:26.1 | Don't quote me on that because I think it just keeps like |
| 1:27.9 | bumping up like crazy. She was thrilled with the merchandise sales. Who knows how much the |
| 1:33.2 | hole might be on Sunday. But first, let's focus in on the MAGA moron of the day. On the edge of |
| 1:40.0 | the Trump regime destroying the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts. And I don't mean |
| 1:45.2 | just closing it. I mean bulldozing it. Jesse Waters had this to say about art. |
| 1:51.4 | The people say, oh, you got to respect their opinion. Now, I do respect their opinion, but I don't |
| 1:57.0 | value their opinion because their opinion is not informed. |
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