This is the warning. There is something important to understand. Donald Trump wants you to be afraid. He wants you to have anxiety. It is all part of his political strategy to provoke rage and then more rage. He wants people to be angry because anger, in his estimation, is a preface to surrender, to hopelessness, to capitulation. There is something true about Donald Trump. Every time in his life that he has pushed forward, it has worked for him.
He has never been held to account. He declared bankruptcy and got richer. He defiled the constitution and was elected president. And now Donald Trump, enraged, angry, filled with retribution against the American people, against his opponents, has decided that he will smash it all, burn what has been built over two hundred fifty years to the ground, and say when he is done that he has made America great again.
Over and over and over again. Donald Trump lies. The lies are coming faster, and they're getting bigger, and they're becoming more aggressive, more authoritarian in nature, because they demand that you submit reason to his command. They demand that you have amnesia about what you just saw under his command, and they demand that you accept as explanation for whatever happens in the world. What Donald Trump tells you it is no matter how stupid, how venal, or how false.
His ideology is malicious, his methods are sinister, and the damage is just beginning. This must be opposed. Do not be afraid. Now. Each day there is a reason to panic. But instead of panicking, let me suggest that you breathe, because breathing will help you be still and gird yourself for the things that must be done in the weeks, in the months, and the years ahead. I'll tell you right now how this ends. We win, but it won't be easy getting there. Yesterday we saw the fullness of
Donald Trump's star wars bar seen cabinet fully assembled. It is a frightening sight. There has never ever in the history of the United States ever been an assemblage of such unqualified, incompetent, disordered people, sickophants, all none of whom have any business serving in positions of public responsibility and trust. But because as Winston Churchill observed, Trump won, we get the government we deserve. Now, what I want to talk about is a return to first principles. That is what
we must talk about today. First principles. And so i'd like you to listen to three things. First, we're going to hear from the thirty fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, speaking in January of nineteen sixty one to the Massachusetts Legislature on the eve of his heading to Washington. He will talk about character, integrity, and judgment. We'll listen and we'll look at the faces of the Trump cabinet. Next, we'll hear from Sir Winston Churchill speaking in Missouri in
nineteen forty six. And then we'll hear from Radislaw Sikorski, Polish foreign Minister, about the crisis at hand and the biggest lie that you are being sold in this moment, President Kennedy over to you.
For those to whom much is given, much is required. And when, at some future date, the High Court of History sits in judgment on each one of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state. Our success or failure in whatever office we may hold will be measured by the answers to four questions. First, were we truly men of courage, with the courage to stand up to one's enemies and the courage to stand up when necessary to one's owns associates,
the courage to resist public pressure as well as private breed. Secondly, were we truly men of judgment, with perceptive judgment of the future as well as the past, of our own mistakes as well as the mistakes of others, with enough wisdom to know what we did not know, and enough
candor to admit it. Third, were we truly men of integrity, Men who never ran out on either the principles in which they believed or the people who believed in them, Man whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust. Finally, were we truly men of dedication, with an or honor, mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the
public good and the national interest. Courage, judgment, integrity, dedication. These are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and of the Bay State, the qualities which this state have consistently sent to this chamber here in Beacon Hill in Boston and a Capitol Hill back in Washington. And these are the qualities which, with God's help this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.
It is a miracle of sorts. Never before the twentieth century could anyone have ever hoped to have heard the voice of the dead. But because of video and audio recordings, Winston Churchill is with us, and boy do we need him. We must heed his words because they are enduring. The man who stood alone telling the world that the danger was gathering, that the war was coming, was not just right about the Second World War, but was right about
what followed it, the Cold War. Let us listen to a great friend of America, a man for whom a US naval vessel is named, A man whose bust has sat in the American Oval Office, where he sat with the man the world's leaders called the Apostle of Peace,
Franklin Roosevelt, the architect of the world order. In its darkest days, at five o'clock every day, where Donald Trump now desecrates the resolute desk, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sat and mixed cocktails and dreamed about a world at peace, free, with liberty and justice for all. Winston Churchill was an honorary American, first man ever to be made an honorary US citizen, and he loved this country. Let's listen to him talk to us about our responsibilities.
The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle.
Of world power.
It is a solemn moment for the American democracy, for with primacy in power, it also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. If as you look around you, if you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done, but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of a treatment.
In these states, control is enforced open the common people by various kinds of all embracing police governments, to a degree which is overwhelmed and contrary to every principle of democracy. The power of the state is exercise without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchists operating through a privileged party and a political police. It is not our duty at this time, when difficult it are so numerous, to interfere forcibly in the internal affairs of countries which we
have not conquered in war. But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man, which are the joint inheritance of the English speaking world, and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the habeas corpus, trial by jury, the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
And now let us come forward into the future. Let us listen to the words of the Paul Pish Foreign Minister Radislaw Sikorski. There is no country it was more brutalized by aggression, Nazi aggression, Russian aggression and Western indifference than Poland. Poland is on the edge of the frontier. It has absorbed millions of Ukrainian refugees. The Poles fought back,
and the Poles will always fight back. Yet should it become necessary that they must fight, it will be on the back of a tragedy that is unspeakable, for it will have been as unnecessary as the other European wars
that brought civilization to the edge of collapse. And that a generation of statesmen and women had the wisdom to save the world so that it could be redeemed from the ashes of the miseries of the war that almost destroyed everything, and enslaved the peoples of the world, the Polish Foreign Minister.
In times like these, when the world seems out of joint, when the old seems to be dying but the new cannot yet be born, what we need is a return to basics. Two questions about what's right and what's wrong, what's true and what's false, what's actually happened and what's just a figment of propaganda.
My friends, we are connected by history and a mutuality of ideals and ideas and values. America's greatest export has been freedom, the concepts of liberty, the dignity of the human being, and they are all under threat. There is great indifference by the American people to the fate of Europe, and there has been great ingratitude towards the American people from the leaders of Europe who have not traveled into the middle of the United States to say hello to
the American people in a very long time. That should be fixed immediately. The Democratic governors should invite, on this edge of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, the Chancellor of Germany to the country, to the crossroads of the American Revolution in New Jersey, the President of France, Macrone to repeat the steps of the Marquis de la Fayette.
Gavin Newsom should invite the leaders of America's greatest allies to come speak to the California Legislature and let them deliver the type of speech that fore administer so Courski delivered. These days of crisis pit two opposing forces against one another. One is freedom, the belief in humanity, and the other is a belief in power, a diffusion of it with technology and greed, the philosophy of the locust, the doctrine
of the taker. It is immoral, it is repellent, and it must be resisted by a faith in humanity that finds its mana denifestation in politics, in the practice of democracy. Today, I've tried to give you a bit of a history lesson have faith and do not be afraid. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.