I have a message for the King. I'm involved in a group called the Save America movement.

The King should not come to America in 2026.

And should he step foot on American soil in service of MAGA,

then the Crown will be attacked with an advertising campaign that would not be permitted in England.

And whether it's his desires to have once been a tampon or whether it is in relationship with his brother,

it will be no holds board.

I'm Joanna Coles. This is The Daily Beast podcast. And today we've got a really provocative conversation with Steve Schmidt, who's a sort of scold profit.

A former Republican, he worked for George W. Bush in the White House. He was, of course, on the campaign trail very prominently with John McCain.

He talks about how Trump has just pulled the party into the gutter, along with people around him.

And he talks about the journey the Republican Party took from the days when John McCain was its candidate

to the days when Donald Trump

falls asleep in cabinet meetings. I certainly didn't expect Steve Schmidt to be behind a group

that wants to prevent King Charles from coming here to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America

in April, as is planned. And he's about to unleash an advertising campaign

against all sorts of figures in the US. You do not want to miss this conversation.

Steve Schmidt, doom profit of our political situation. It's excellent to have you with us this morning. Every day we

wake up to Donald Trump wanting to name something else after him. The most recent, I think,

is Dulles Airport and now Penn Station. What does this say to you about the president?

I'm not a psychiatrist, and I don't know where the line is between malignant narcissism,

which is easy to diagnose and malignant megalomania.

But he is somewhere in that space, and he cares a lot about this, he won't be around I suspect given his ill health and

dementia to appreciate that there will not be anything named for Donald Trump in the

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