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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump's Mar-a-Lago Press Conference Was TERRIFYING

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Donald Trump held his first media press conference yesterday since winning the election at Mar-a-Lago and spoke on everything from vaccines to the drones over NJ. Steve Schmidt breaks down the most concerning moments from Trump's presser and explains why the tone is being set for Trump's 2nd term. 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

34 days from today, at the noon hour, Donald Trump will raise his right hand and swear the 35-word

0:07.6

presidential oath, the only one that is written into the U.S. Constitution.

0:12.9

This is the warning.

0:15.5

And so it was that 35 days from that moment, the president-elect faced the press.

0:22.4

We need a great media, we need a fair media.

0:25.9

We need, it's very important, and we need borders, we need walls, but we need borders,

0:31.5

and we need fair elections.

0:33.3

What is it that you see?

0:35.6

What I see is the ringmaster and a circus. I see something deeply

0:40.6

performative, not even superficially inquisitive. Let's watch this question.

0:47.1

Thanks, President Trump. What about the polio vaccine?

0:50.2

Well, I'm a big believer in it. And I think everything should be looked at, but I'm a big believer in the polio vaccine, the SOC vaccine.

0:58.5

Do you think schools should mandate vaccines? Do you think schools should mandate vaccines?

1:03.6

I don't like mandates. I'm not a big mandate person.

1:06.9

The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump has no idea what she's asking him. None.

1:14.0

It might as well be a question about the traffic on a corner in Belarus.

1:19.2

It is incomprehensible to him because he is a billionaire who sent his children to private school,

1:25.0

and he's the president-elect of the United States, not the local

1:29.6

school board where these decisions are made. At any level, that's not where Donald Trump,

1:35.2

of course, is coming from. He's asked a question about vaccines, and the truth is he's indifferent.

1:41.6

And his indifference is shown by the fact that the man he nominated to run

1:47.0

the country's public health agencies is a conspiracy theorist who is as unfit as the people he

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