Donald Trump Needs To Remember Our History

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 250 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 scene 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, sycophants 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 like you to listen to three things First we going to hear from the 35th President of the United States John Kennedy speaking in January of 1961 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 1946. And then we'll hear from Radislav Sikorsky

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 of 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 own associates, the courage to resist

public pressure as well as private greed? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment

with perceptive judgment of the future as well as of 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, will 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 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

it's hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead

It is a miracle of sorts. Never before the 20th 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 U.S

naval vessel is named, a man whose bust has sat in the American Oval Office where he sat with a

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 U.S. 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 is 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 achievement

In these states, control is enforced upon the common people by various kinds of all-embracing police governments to a degree which is overwhelming and contrary to every principle of democracy

The power of the state is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police

It is not our duty at this time, when difficulties 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 Polish foreign

minister Radislav Sikorsky There is no country that 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 250th 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, Macron, to repeat the steps of the Marquis de Lafayette

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 Foreign Minister Sikorsky delivered

These days of crisis pit two opposing forces against one another. One is freedom and a belief in humanity, and the other is a belief in power and a fusion 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 manifestation in politics and 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 sub stack, on our YouTube channel

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