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Former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt and podcaster Jim Acosta are no fans of President Donald Trump\u2014but rarely are they surprised. <\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, both expressed astonishment at the MAGA cult\u2019s ability to delude itself and drag members of the Republican Party along with it on Schimdt\u2019s \u201cthe Warning\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean one of the incredible aspects of all this isn’t so much that Donald Trump is Jesus and he has people on his knees speaking in tongues at him as God. It’s that to some degree an even larger cohort believes he is a symbol of virility of fitness of strength \u2014 It is extraordinary for this broken-down old man, whose ankle girth is the size of most people’s waists, falling asleep in meetings,\u201d Schmidt told Acosta.<\/p>\n

Schmidt and Acosta referenced multiple signs of health deterioration, from permanently bruised extremities, to morbid obesity to signs of slurred speech and near narcolepsy during public meetings.<\/p>\n

Schmidt added: \u201cYou had people all over Substack writing that he was dead this week from all of it. It’s all madness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was gone,\u201d affirmed Acosta. \u201cHe was off the radar for five or six days after his \u2018excellent\u2019 health report at Walter Reed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two then tore into Trump\u2019s press conference where he spent time comparing his newly re-sealed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (which cost taxpayers $13 million) to the Empire State Building and other buildings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis guy should have been disqualified for consideration from any position of responsibility and shunned from decent society when he popped up on television after 9-11 bragging about now that the World Trade Center was gone he had the tallest building in Manhattan, which he did,\u201d said Schmidt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not this is not an AI generated image from the Oval Office,\u201d said Schmidt, speaking of Trump\u2019s posterboard pool comparison. \u201cThat’s our untreated psychiatric patient president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his obvious ailments, both agreed the Republican Party was willingly going down with their ailing captain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are going down with the ship. \u2026 That\u2019s those guys, and they’re going to drown in the Trump filth and they deserve it,\u201d spat Schmidt. \u201cIf I knew that I was going to do this for my career, have been running presidential campaigns, I would not have gotten a political science degree. I would have gotten a degree in psychiatry and tried to go to med school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever they are, with Trump’s 30 percent approval level, they’re going down,\u201d Schmidt added. \u201cExcept for the races where the incompetency of the Democratic Party is so great that you’ll have some survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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