Steve Schmidt’s Response To Trump’s CPAC Speech Is Perfect

The conservative strategist blasts Trump for “racist” and “un-American” speech.

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt blasted President Trump for making what he called a “profoundly un-American” speech at CPAC Friday.

In a series of blistering tweets, Schmidt said Trump’s speech was “demagogic, vapid, intellectually dishonest and just plain old fashioned idiotic.”

Here is Steve Schmidt’s full Twitter thread:

“This speech at CPAC is demagogic, vapid, intellectually dishonest and just plain old fashioned idiotic. If someone delivered this speech from the end of a bar most people would think that person was an imbecile.”

“Trumps leaving TPP was the greatest geopolitical gift given to the Chinese in 1000 years. It signals American retreat and decline in the Pacific. The Chinese have announced 1 trillion in infrastructure investments along the old Silk Road. What is this CPAC crowd cheering for.”

“Trumps snake story is vicious, disgraceful, utterly racist and profoundly Un-American. That this is how an American President speaks of immigration is a tragedy. This crowd of cheering extremists are the heirs of the Know-Nothing’s and nativists that have always plagued us.”

Schmidt then shared a Nazi Germany-era piece of propaganda that used many of the same tropes that Trump included in his speech.

“Here is a Nazi propaganda poster from 1928. The words are Marxism and capitalism. Serpent iconography was used to depict Jews and foreigners as threats and infiltrators. Enemies of the people and State. Shame on Trump.”

[image via MSNBC screenshot]