Steve Schmidt Buries Trump’s CPAC Speech in Tweetstorm: ‘Utterly Racist and Profoundly Un-American’
GOP strategist and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt was horrified by President Donald Trump‘s speech at CPAC Friday afternoon, unleashing a tweet storm denouncing the address as “demagogic,” “vicious,” and “profoundly un-American.”
This speech at CPAC is demagogic, vapid, intellectually dishonest and just plain old fashioned idiotic. If someone delivered this speech from the end of a bar most people would think that person was an imbecile.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) February 23, 2018
Trumps leaving TPP was the greatest geopolitical gift given to the Chinese in 1000 years. It signals American retreat and decline in the Pacific. The Chinese have announced 1 trillion in infrastructure investments along the old Silk Road. What is this CPAC crowd cheering for.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) February 23, 2018
Trumps snake story is vicious, disgraceful, utterly racist and profoundly Un-American. That this is how an American President speaks of immigration is a tragedy. This crowd of cheering extremists are the heirs of the Know-Nothing’s and nativists that have always plagued us .
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) February 23, 2018
Here is a Nazi propaganda poster from 1928. The words are Marxism and capitalism. Serpent iconography was used to depict Jews and foreigners as threats and infiltrators. Enemies of the people and State. Shame on Trump. pic.twitter.com/YWnXEYJLE1
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) February 23, 2018
“If someone delivered this speech from the end of a bar most people would think that person was an imbecile,” Schmidt wrote.
He touched specifically on Trump’s analogy comparing illegal immigration to a parable about a snake biting a woman who saved it.
“That’s what we’re doing with our country, folks. We’re letting people in,” Trump said. “And it is going to be a lot of trouble. It is only getting worse.”
The former presidential campaign manager for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 noted that the same imagery was used in Nazi propaganda to refer to Jews.
“Shame on Trump,” he wrote.
[image via screengrab]
