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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump's Interview with Hannity Was a Celebration of Idiocy

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity for his first interview after being sworn in and it was as ludicrous as expected. Steve Schmidt breaks down the most absurd moments of Trump's ignorance, idiocy and insults. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe 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

This is the warning.

0:03.0

Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office with Sean Hannity.

0:06.7

He delivered an address of sorts with malice for all and charity for none and deep rage

0:14.1

against anybody who suggests mercy or in Sean Hannity's case when he tried to move it on to the economy.

0:22.9

But no, Trump couldn't do it.

0:25.5

Joe Biden has very bad advisors.

0:28.8

Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him.

0:35.8

They wanted to take care of.

0:37.2

Yeah, but John, they wanted to, I don't

0:39.0

care. They're yelling at me. This is more important because right now the economy is going to do great.

0:43.2

I want to know about the economy. But you have to understand, he had bad advisors on almost everything.

0:50.1

Let's talk about lying for a second. There are lies of convenience that politicians do all of the time.

0:57.2

People like Senator Richard Blumenthal who severely exaggerated his service in the Vietnam War.

1:04.9

Bill Clinton is a famous example of this. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Robert Menendez is an example of a

1:14.9

felonious liar. What do you mean there's gold bars in my suit jacket? Trump's lies are different.

1:21.2

There are lies of authority that have the power to make people and things disappear that you just saw or aren't supposed

1:30.3

to see. Or maybe the better word is you are allowed to say, but dare not comment on.

1:36.3

This is the point of the grave danger posed by the Elon Musk Nazi salute.

1:42.3

What Elon Musk did is grotesque.

1:45.9

How the New York Times and the Washington Post covered it was dangerous.

1:50.3

That's why David Marinus, one of the most important journalists in the country over the last 50 years,

1:56.6

has said the Washington Post lost its soul.

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