Trump's 'economic arson' has 'awakened a sleeping giant': ex-GOP strategist

Founder of “The Warning,” Steve Schmidt, claims, “Trump has awakened a sleeping giant,” and the political climate in the United States is going to rise, in his latest Substack post.

“The next 15 days will see a ludicrous exploitation of the US military for Trump’s birthday parade, an un-American spectacle of depravity, which will desecrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army,” Schmidt said, adding, “The world will witness a day of shame, and fully understand that America has grown hollow, weak, and corrupt.”

“Trump has declared himself king and ‘on a mission from God,’” Schmidt said. “He has repudiated the cause of the American Revolution and the obligations of his constitutional oath.”

“The Warning” Founder believes, “The American economy has been wrecked in ways that will become undeniable over the next 100 days. The first flames from Trump’s economic arson will begin to singe American families this summer.”

Schmidt’s predicts the summer will become “more dangerous by the day” because “The world [will see] the sinister state of the MAGA police state conjured into being by the sinister thugs who surround Trump like Stephen Miller, Corey Lewandowski, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem, and all the other Little Eichmanns.”

He also railed against Trump’s behavior, saying it will grow, “more erratic as the laughter at his weakness and incompetence rises to full pitch.”

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Schmidt added that Trump is not a dealmaker. Instead, the U.S. president is “America’s great blinker, our greatest caver. He has combined the qualities of petulance, pettiness, stupidity, and waffling into a philosophy of appeasement that has finally defined the practical meaning of America First."

“Apparently, Surrender First was the key omission,” Schmidt quipped, “which has become perfectly clear after 130 days of American bluster, humiliation, and kowtowing to every nation in the world. Trump has repeatedly threatened and then backed down.”

“Donald Trump is weak, but his opposition in America has long been weaker.” However, Schmidt believes this is about to change. “I think Donald Trump has awakened a sleeping giant.”

He added, “I don’t believe that the American people will tolerate the shock waves heading their way because a belligerent and arrogant man leading an arrogant movement told them to submit to his will on the back of a mountain of lies.”

Later, Schmidt said, “I don’t believe that the United States will collapse into a Trump family concession.”