'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

Donald Trump’s "presidency is already in a state of collapse," according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.

Political strategist Steve Schmidt on Saturday skewered Trump for his recent actions, starting with his actions surrounding Democrat Chuck Schumer. Schmidt said Trump "petted and scratched Chuck Schumer’s head and extended his small Trump paw for licking."

Then, Schmidt turned to Trump's recent Justice Department speech.

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"Next, he went to the Justice Department, and pissed all over the rule of law with fevered declarations about revenge, conspiracies, locking up his opponents, and the illegal media that are a threat to America because they don’t worship the king," according to the strategist. "What is the sin of America’s broken media? What is the failure?"

Schmidt also blasts those he sees as enabling Trump, such as Marco Rubio and the Democratic lawmakers who confirmed him.

"How many Democratic votes did he get for confirmation? The correct answer was all 47 Democratic votes. This moment demands coherence and guts. It demands integrity and fierceness," he wrote. "Something terrible is happening in America, and there are too many anesthesiologists working in media and politics."

He added, "Shhhhh!!!! Don’t worry! Have you heard that before?"

Schmidt then touched on how he believes Trump's presidency to be already crumbling.

"Donald Trump’s presidency is already in a state of collapse and crisis," Schmidt wrote. "His incoherence, lack of discipline, focus, basic competence and connection to the grassroots can be excused by his winged monkeys like Laura Ingraham on Fox News."

He noted that Ingraham, "said this week that Donald Trump is 'good for business,' and to 'ignore' the market uncertainty."

"But everyone will experience what is coming, and already is," he added. "Real damage will find its way to everyone in America. When the scar is left everyone will have a specific place to look and remember what MAGA did to them and our country. There will be no hiding the mark or the cost."

In his conclusion, Schmidt said, "Each day, madness swirls from dawn to dusk as Donald Trump produces his masterpiece."

"He sits in the center ring with a whip in his hand behind the most powerful desk in the world, but somehow, for so many fools whose job it is to see him, he remains a mystery," he said.

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