Ex-Bush aide tears into entire 'sickening' Trump admin

Steve Schmidt, a former Republican strategist who once worked for President George W. Bush, posted on his Monday Substack that President Donald Trump’s entire administration is “barbaric.”

“Things are rotten in America,” Schmidt said. “The president is rotten, and so is his villainous Cabinet.” He cited as one example the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended the “Shield of the Americas” summit with Enrique Tarrio, a “Proud Boy terrorist” who was convicted of conspiracy for Trump’s attempted coup after the 2020 presidential election.

“It is a sickening picture — an MRI — that exposes the rot of Rubio’s character,” Schmidt argued. “The scripture-quoting hypocrite is directly, personally and morally responsible for the destruction of American aid programs that will cause the deaths of 14 million human beings by 2030 before the bell tolls at the end of these rotten years.”

Elaborating on the “barbaric” administration, Schmidt wrote of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that he is “one of the greatest degenerates ever associated with the American Armed Forces, a moral disgrace who was condemned by his own mother over his broken character.” He called out Vice President JD Vance for comparing Trump to Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler in 2016, then abandoning his principles to work for him. He denounced Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a staunch Trump supporter, for bragging about being the “architect” of Trump’s Iran war.

Finally, Schmidt criticized Trump himself for his alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl through his friendship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “

“A woman told FBI investigators that Epstein had trafficked her to Donald Trump,” Schmidt wrote. “The rot is otherworldly.”

Earlier in March, Schmidt blasted Trump’s Iran war for being reckless, claiming that the administration’s zeal to wage war was not matched by any commensurate level of preparation.

“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 argued. “This is escalating.”

In February, Schmidt urged ordinary Americans to not put their faith in billionaires to save them from Trump.

“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 argued. “They are satisfied to live on their knees, but we are not.”

Earlier that same month, Schmidt placed the blame for Trump’s misconduct at the feet of a Supreme Court, which he argued under Chief Justice John Roberts had enabled him.

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

He continued, “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.”