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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump and Hegseth Prove They Don't Know What They're Doing

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

After the US attacks in Iran, Americans are getting a first-hand look at who is leading our military forces. Steve Schmidt looks at Pete Hegseth's press conference on Iran and highlights the dangers of Trump's military actions. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

It is Thursday, June 26th.

0:02.0

This is the warning.

0:04.0

This morning there was chaos in the Pentagon as the most unfit leader in the history of the American Armed Forces

0:14.0

took to the podium and declared war on the American media.

0:19.0

He demanded that reporters waived the flag and waiving the flag means

0:24.6

for Pete Hegeseth supporting whatever it is that Donald Trump does. We're urging caution about

0:32.4

putting it, premising entire stories on biased leaks to biased publications trying to make something

0:40.3

look back. How about we take a beat, recognize first the success of our warriors, hold them up,

0:45.8

tell their stories, celebrate that, wave an American flag, be proud of what we accomplished.

0:50.2

And in the meantime, I can assure you the chairman of his staff, the intelligence community,

0:55.0

our staff and others are doing all the assessments necessary to make sure that mission was indeed successful.

1:01.0

Because, let's face it, Pete Hegeseth doesn't stand for the flag.

1:06.0

Pete Hexseth stands for Donald Trump.

1:09.0

Pete Heggseth has a warped and alien sensibility around American

1:14.9

values and our ideas and ideals. That's why it's his signature on the deployment orders for the

1:21.5

7th Marines in Los Angeles. Pete Heggseth is a jingo and he hates half the country, including a great many of the

1:30.8

parents of America's enlisted soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. Pete Hegseth cannot be

1:37.8

trusted. He is followed everywhere around the Pentagon by his wife, who is nicknamed by the brass and by the privates

1:48.3

as Yoko Ono. She installed a makeup room for him. And supposedly she's there to keep him sober,

1:56.2

to keep his zipper whicked, and to make sure that Peteegseth doesn't find his way to the boudoir

2:04.6

of an Admiral's wife while he's away on sea duty. Pete Hegseth is a clown, regarded as such by the

2:13.3

men he leads, reviled across the military because he is an affront to the concepts of honor and

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