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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump Trying To Take Over American Cities By Force

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

As Trump imposes a curfew in Washington D.C., his abuse of our military is is likely to extend to other American cities. Steve Schmidt reacts to the new rules in D.C. and explains why it's all a threat to our constitutional rights. 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 Monday the 25th of August and the curfew in Washington, D.C., the capital of the home of the free and the land of the brave, is 11 p.m.

0:10.8

This is the warning.

0:13.5

It does reason to ask what happens if you want to be out after 11 p.m.

0:18.7

Like if you wanted to walk your dog or even God forbid get a slice of pizza or even a beer.

0:26.6

No, Donald Trump and Pete Hagseth and Christy Noem and cash Patel don't approve.

0:34.1

And so they have decreed that no American shall go outside after 11 p.m.

0:42.5

So that we can be great again and Washington can be crime free, which again, I bring it back.

0:50.3

But what if you want a slice of pizza?

0:52.9

I'm very concerned about that. And not only that, I'm concerned about the way he is rolling that out in Washington DC, which is essentially calling, essentially going after young black and brown youth in Washington, D.C., imposing a curfew saying that if they violate the curfew, the parents could be charged $500, saying that the kids could be

1:12.9

detained and arrested. We've tried those policies before. They do not work. And it's my understanding

1:18.4

that crime was going down in Washington, D.C. So what is the purpose of this? Here's the deal. What

1:24.7

Donald Trump is offering, like all Trump deals, is premised on a titanic

1:30.3

lie that was understood as such all the way back at the beginning when Benjamin Franklin

1:37.0

warned that any people who would give up a little bit of liberty for some security, deserve neither. And so, this is what the

1:48.0

blanket of federal security looks like. Tanks at the train station, checkpoints on the main

1:55.7

drags. The soldiers are armed against the people who they come from.

2:02.2

They are carrying weapons of war in America's cities.

2:06.9

And Donald, his sycophants, his corrupt minions, having seen the success, are preparing to do it in Chicago and in Baltimore.

2:18.3

Except this time, he won't be operating in a federal district

2:23.5

without a governor, without United States senators.

2:27.5

He'll be doing it within America's states.

2:31.3

And remember, it is the states who created the union. Now, each state, under the

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