It is maybe eighth, twenty twenty five. This is the warning. Eighty years ago. Today, there was jubilation in every corner of the United States, from every small town square to New York City, from Piccadilly in London and Paris, wherever people had endured through the night. They danced into the night for freedom, liberty that had been won at great cost.
This day marks, within still the span of a single human lifetime, the end of history's greatest cataclysm, the Second World War that Winston Churchill described in his memoirs as an unnecessary war. It was a war that began by appeasing madness, over and over and over again until it was too late. Adolf Hitler had a mountain, and at the top there was a teahouse, a gift from the Nazi Party. The road to the top cost many lives in its engineering and manufacture. There was a hole, a
boring drilled into the mountain. You can walk into it to this day, to the Golden Elevator. The s s men, the Adolf Hitler legion would have lined the rock inside, holding torches. All of it. A theater meant to intimidate anybody walking into that mountain into the Furer's layer, and up the golden elevator they went, and Adolf Hitler at the top shook down, intimidated, sought to rule the world.
What he did to the Austrian Prime Minister is precisely what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office to President Zelenski. The Oval Office is where Winston Churchill would sit by the side of the deaths, next to Franklin Roosevelt, and in the evening they would drink cocktails and talk about the world. FDR is the most important visionary of the twentieth century, the man who envisions what would come after catastrophe, and it began with his fundamental belief in the value
and dignity of human liberty and human rights. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is an American author document. It was put forward ultimately by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the death of the President. It is amongst his greatest legacies. The entire architecture of an interconnected world where the value of human dignity has been asserted, is rooted
in the Titanic vision of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt had a dream that the world that would emerge from the night, from the darkness, from the slavery that would be better, would endure for as long as everybody on the day this war was won, was still alive. He shared that one evening at the White House with the Canadian Prime Minister. Today, the Canadian Prime Minister is the leader of the free
people of North America. When we look at who is the person who embodies the spirit of John Kennedy, of Franklin Roosevelt, of Ronald Reagan, of people who believe deeply in the Constitution, it's Mark Carne who embodies not an American fidelity to an American document, but to the principles that informed that document. Brands principles important and noble ideas
about human dignity and human liberty. Now, in this moment, some said, well, the issue is the economy, and they're right, because it is the oligarch that is a fundamental threat to liberty. It is the oligarch that is a fundamental threat to capitalism. It is the oligarchic that is a fundamental threat to opportunity, to upper mobility, to the pursuit of happiness so that they may have more and more and more and more so that their rapaciousness may be stated.
With more power, with more money, with more access, everybody else will be reduced to surfdom. It's an unacceptable proposition and one the American people cannot tolerate. So, yes, there is an economic crisis, but that economic crisis is steeped in fundamental questions of right and wrong at the court. This crisis that Donald Trump has sent into the homes of every American family that will get much worse, is a moral crisis. There is a security crisis in the world.
The flames of war are growing, and this is directly related to the weakness of Donald Trump, to his shallowness, to his imbecilities, to his idiocy. Now, Jesse Waters and Stephen Miller, they may see a strategic genius, a grand chess master, but what the rest of the world sees is a clown who is easily manipulated. What Jizinpang takes away from the encounter between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is that all you need to do to win a negotiation with Donald Trump is perhaps offer him
an extra slice of chocolate cake after dinner. Donald Trump is the living proof of the wisdom of the old Turkish proverb. If a clown goes to the palace, he does not become a sultan. Palace becomes a circus. And look at this place. What would you call this? From a decorative style of the corps latter day pemp It is appalling, tacking just the creative of a sacred American space.
Donald Trump has turned it into Nero's layer. And while America's economy is burning, global security is burning, a moral disaster is unfolding that is fundamental to who we are
as a people. And the feckless Democratic Party does not seem to appreciate, outside of a small minority of its elected members, that some fights are imposed not on your timeline, but your opponents, or in this case, the fascists, the domestic enemies who wish to end the bedrock principles of American society, all of which are invested in the idea that liberty and rights are bestowed by a higher power
than the government of men. We believe that all men are created equal and doubt by a creator, with inalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And this requires us as Americans to hold ourselves to a higher standard, into a higher faith and to say, though that there is evil in the world, and even if that evil is directed out Americans, that we will treat the most evil human being with a fundamental level of dignity, even if they do not reciprocate it, because in the end,
Americanism is superior to the evil. We are better than that, We are more moral than that. John McCain understood this. It was, in the essence fundamentally an aspect of what you can look back on as a public ministry around torture and the degradation of human beings rights of which he was a foremost champion of human freedom for prisoners
of war, prisoners of conscience, prisoners everywhere. And what John McCain understood was that the American people have a right to know what is being done in their name, because we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and so we must face together an urgent reality. And that urgent reality is that the Homeland Security Department, which has always carried a sinister name, has
turned senister. There is an American gestapo on the loose, and they are being used and abused and directed to abused by immoral men and women like Tom Hoeman and Christino, guided by Corey Lewandowski and by Stephen Miller. And what these people are is littlekmans. And do not mistake what it is that you are seeing. The man who interrogated Aikman understood when he was asked twenty years after Aikman
swung from the road what the core lesson was. He said, it gave him his faith in democracy, because in democracies, little Aikmans are harmless, and they are everywhere, he said. It is in a dictatorship of the left or right that they turned deadly in an instant. It is unacceptable for federal law enforcement to be used as a weapon to instill fear in ordinary Americans and innocent people who travel to this country for whatever reason, who do not
deserve the inhumanity directed at them. And even if it is the case that it is decided lawfully that somebody is to be deported, their deportation should be carried out with a dignity deserving of every human life. America is better than the lowest amongst us. And that is a fundamental proposition, because it is anchored in our faith, the quarterstones of our society, that the human being and their rights come from God, not from man. And if they are protected for the worst of the worst, they are
protected for everybody. And that is what keeps us safe in a democracy. And so when Donald Trump sends jack booted thugs into a Washington restaurant owned by the husband of the CBS evening news anchor, two days after a sixty minutes investigation, I have doubts. And I have doubts because of the record that's clearly at hand, a record of lying and dishonesty and abuses of power that is growing every day. And every day Donald issues decrees, and
he's decrees our lawless. They have no force of law, no power. They are testaments to his psychiatric condition, not his authority. We do not have kings. And the feeble and feckless American media that compares Donald Trump's first one hundred days to FDRs is complicit in the gaslighting and abuse of the American people because in FDR's first one hundred days he passed and signed into law seventy six pieces of legislation. He did not issue seventy six decrees.
And those decrees are arrows dipped in a poison of malice. On this the eightieth anniversary of America's defeat of Nazi Germany as an American general led the European war effort as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force made up of the United Nations countries that stood together in the moment of supreme testing. Eighty years we must consider what we have become, which is very different from what we
have been and what we must be. And so it is a time for standing up again because what's happening all about and all around us is deeply wrong. This is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack. Thank you.