Donald Trump

Alternet -   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.