{"id":1246,"date":"2026-06-08T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:10:56","slug":"steve-schmidt-warns-man-with-the-nuclear-codes-is-psychologically-incontinent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Steve Schmidt warns man with the nuclear codes is &#8216;psychologically incontinent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Longtime political strategist Steve Schmidt scorched President Donald Trump over his explosive \u201cMeet the Press\u201d interview, warning that \u201cderanged\u201d Trump is a \u201cdegenerate\u201d who is \u201cin a state of decomposition and collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1244\">Johnson defends Trump\u2019s rigged elections claim \u2014 says it\u2019s \u2018impossible to prove\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, the co-founder of The Lincoln Project and a veteran Republican campaign operative who became a Democrat in 2020, pounded the president Monday during his podcast, \u201cThe Warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described Trump\u2019s behavior during that NBC interview as \u201cevidence of the sickness that descended over our land in these awful MAGA years.\u201d He called it \u201cnot just important, but essential,\u201d that America\u2019s citizens see Trump\u2019s performance, \u201cand comprehend that the commander in chief, who holds in his hands the launch codes to thousands of nuclear weapons, is emotionally, psychologically, incontinent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a \u201cbully and an old man decomposing who can barely stand up under the weight of his own power at the end of it,\u201d Schmidt said. The president appeared to be struggling to stand and walk away after he abruptly canceled the remainder of his interview with NBC moderator Kristen Welker.<\/p>\n<p>He is, Schmidt charged, a man who \u201clives in a gilded cocoon of fantasy and delusion, where no one ever tells him no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1242\">Lindsey Graham\u2019s Iran obsession could finally come back to haunt him<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt said Trump\u2019s interview \u201cshould frighten,\u201d and \u201cscare the s\u2014\u2014 out of you,\u201d and warned that he is obviously \u201cunwell,\u201d and a \u201csick, paranoid person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called Trump\u2019s attacks on the credibility of America\u2019s elections, \u201cthe greatest lie ever told in the history of the United States, over 250 years.\u201d And he declared that \u201cour elections are clean, and fair, and legitimate, and had been the envy of the world until Donald Trump came along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Donald Trump has proposed is that he will rule despite our approval, no matter what,\u201d observed Schmidt. \u201cAnd if ever there\u2019s an election where the other side gets more votes than his side, it\u2019s crooked. It\u2019s stolen. And under this great and titanic lie, Donald Trump has injected a cancer into the American Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warning that under Trump, times will get tougher, Schmidt said, \u201cBecause of that simple fact, this evil man that sits in the Oval Office is losing his popularity while maintaining his power. And thus, until that moment comes, when he no longer holds it, we, every one of us, eight billion people on Earth, will be in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1240\">Trump attack on First Amendment receives major \u2018benchslap\u2019 from judge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime political strategist Steve Schmidt scorched President Donald Trump over his explosive \u201cMeet the Press\u201d interview, warning that \u201cderanged\u201d Trump is a \u201cdegenerate\u201d who is \u201cin a state of decomposition and collapse.\u201dSchmidt, the co-founder of The Lincoln Project and a veteran Republican campaig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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