Xi Jinping Just Proved Trump Has Lost His Mind

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Trump approved the sale of Nvidia H200 chips to China, strengthening their military while putting American service members at risk. Steve Schmidt analyzes how this decision undermines U.S. security and empowers a hostile superpower.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.5	Mirror, mirror on the wall.
0:06.5	Who's the greatest Trump buffoon of all?
0:10.1	It is Thursday, December the 11th.
0:12.7	I'm Steve Schmidt.
0:14.1	This is the warning.
0:16.8	This is an American aircraft carrier.
0:19.0	It has been the dominant symbol of American naval power since the end of World War II.
0:26.4	But when that war began, it was the battleship that was the monarch of the seas.
0:33.4	Life magazine went out on patrol with the U.S. Navy during war games in 1940.
0:41.3	Look at these pictures.
0:43.3	That's the battleship Arizona.
0:45.3	It's maneuvering against an unnamed enemy in the magazine,
0:50.3	getting ready, pretending to fight a war not yet begun, but everybody knew was coming.
0:58.7	That was inevitable.
1:00.3	Life Magazine shows another picture.
1:03.4	The Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox.
1:06.4	Secretary Knox is addressing the officers in an Admiral in the boardroom of the cruiser,
1:12.4	Indianapolis. What will become of the Indianapolis? That photo shows a present. We know that
1:20.3	it's the Indianapolis that delivers the atomic bomb to Tinian and then is sunk by a Japanese
1:26.7	submarine in the last days of the war and more
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