Former Republican aide tears into Trump's corruption

President Donald Trump is running an administration of “all madness,” claims a former adviser to a different Republican president — and it can all be traced back to his corruption.

“My friends, it is all madness,” former White House aide Steve Schmidt argued in a Thursday Substack post. “The White House is an asylum. The president is deranged. He is a predator and criminal, and he is immoral, abusive and dishonest. He is a liar and charter member of the Epstein class.”

Earlier in the same editorial, Schmidt described America under Trump as a “cross between Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and Disney’s Magic Kingdom, with the main difference being venomous lies have replaced giant turkey legs as the meal of the hour.” He also deplored the blatant profiteering off the White House.

“Why is Melania Trump selling a $600 “Freedom” necklace out of the White House?” Schmidt asked. “Why is Kai Trump selling an apparel line? Why is every Trump selling something?” He also asked why former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski are still together despite Noem being fired in part because of her alleged affair with Lewandowski.

“It is most astounding — even by MAGA standards — that a shutdown of the federal government over a masked ICE Gestapo running wild and abusing, assaulting, shooting and murdering US citizens, while building a vast network of giant prisons out of industrial warehouses has resulted in Trump sending unmasked agents to airports to prove the point that they shouldn’t wear masks,” Schmidt added. “What other country can match our idiocracy?”

This is not the first time Schmidt has taken aim at the Trump White House. Earlier this week he predicted that the administration is headed toward historic losses in the upcoming midterm elections.

“Prices are rising, airports have gone off the rails, gas is sky high, and America is losing a war to Iran because it was planned by fools,” Schmidt wrote. “Everywhere there is disaster, and it has not gone unnoticed by the American people.”

Pointing out that Democrats have swept all of the contested special elections since the 2024 presidential contest, Schmidt concluded that “the walls are closing in, and yes, there will be elections. A few months back I predicted that Donald would be hovering around 30% approval by the end of March. This is where the deranged 79-year-old is headed.” Explaining that Trump is unpopular with everyone in America except “the MAGA nihilists,” he predicted that “all across the country the American people are going to act against MAGA with ruthless glee. Trump is going to be rebuked at the polls like no president has been in the modern era. It will be a crushing blow, a historic landslide, a knockout.”