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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump's Birthday Celebration is a "Führer Parade"

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

While Trump abuses and weaponizes our armed forces to stop protests, he's also hijacking the 250th anniversary celebration of the US Army and making it about him. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's "Führer parade" and explains how the media is helping to sell his message. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is Thursday, June 12th, 2025.

0:03.0

This is the warning.

0:06.0

The country waits with bated breath for the first furor parade in American history

0:13.0

in celebration not of the U.S. Army's 250th birthday, but of Donald Trump's.

0:20.0

And so the spectacle the American people are about to see is unprecedented and wasteful beyond measure.

0:29.6

The cost is astronomical.

0:31.6

Hundreds of millions of dollars to ship by rail across thousands of miles the mainline battle tank of the

0:40.3

U.S. Army so it can roll down streets in the nation's capital.

0:46.3

Pauling doesn't begin to describe it.

0:50.3

Any time in a democratic society, you see political leaders try to exploit the military for partisan purposes in the way that Donald Trump did at Fort Bragg, and you can see the response.

1:06.9

And for a little news for the fake news back there, the fake news, ladies and gentlemen, look at them, look at them all, what I have to put up with.

1:15.1

Fake news.

1:18.9

What I have to put up with?

1:21.6

But they're all right.

1:22.7

They've been very nice today.

1:23.8

They were impressed with that display, I can tell you that.

1:26.9

I think it took them a little by surprise.

1:29.6

When you see the assertion of power using the military for partisan aims, for political

1:37.4

purposes, and that's exactly what's happening in Los Angeles.

1:42.1

It's a warning.

1:43.8

It's a five alarm fire bell that's sounding. It means

1:47.8

the democracy is in flames. What we're seeing is unhealthy, unprecedented, and a function of

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