Ex-Republican strategist puts blame for 'the world on fire' squarely in the hands of GOP

President Donald Trump has set “the world on fire,” according to a former Republican strategist who worked for President George W. Bush — and it’s entirely because of Trump voters.

In a Wednesday Substack essay titled “Why the world is on fire,” political consultant Steve Schmidt argued that America is sending the planet toward World War III but is not “branding” it or using a “marketing campaign.”

“There has been no debate, no plan, and no thought given by Donald, his stooges and politicized generals about the second-and third-order effects of their decisions,” Schmidt said. “This is escalating.”

With 15 nations involved in combat, and Russia still at war with Ukraine, Schmidt concluded that we now “have war, chaos, economic crisis, corruption and insanity served up non-stop, extolling the wrong against the right, while abusing American citizens with violence, including murder.”

As he summed it up earlier in the editorial, “We had peace, and we chose Trump.”

Last month, Schmidt and former CNN anchor Jim Acosta blasted the Supreme Court for even allowing Trump to run for president and gain as much power as he has upon taking office.

“Seems to me a part of this is … that the Supreme Court, under John Roberts, released this Frankenstein, and now they don’t know how to rein him in. They’ve tried to cut him off at the pass [on some things] but John Roberts is responsible for this mess,” Acosta said.

“The Roberts court has destabilized our American society through partisan rulings,” Schmidt replied. “We have a corrupt Supreme Court with [Judge Samuel] Alito’s misconduct, Clarence Thomas’s misconduct, flying around with all these billionaire extremist doners from here to there and everywhere.”

He added, “The court has lost its reputation for a reason, and now we have Trump’s visage looming down at the American people from the Department of Justice, which is a corrupt institution that can’t be trusted, filled with corrupt prosecutor who abuse their oath, abuse the Constitution, and abuse the American people in the name of power.”

Also last month, Schmidt pointed out in a Substack post that the world’s billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have decided to bend the figurative knee to Trump, but that doesn’t mean the rest of humanity must join them.

“We recognize that the world's richest people of the most powerful corporations, the big media companies, the big tech companies, the big banks have made a decision for the privilege of resting their head on a Mar-a-Lago pillow,” Schmidt said in his Substack post. “They are satisfied to live on their knees, but we are not.”

In September, Schmidt’s disgust with Trump made headlines when he threatened to rent a billboard attacking Disney CEO Bob Iger for capitulating to Trump’s demand that talk show host Jimmy Kimmel be suspended for criticizing the Trump movement.

"We will put billboards up in L.A. with Bob Iger's picture, a yellow stripe under it and the word 'COWARD,'" Schmidt said. "It's a billboard town and everyone can reflect on it as they drive by ... the cowardice is appalling."