The Keith Edwards Show - Tim Walz Compares Trump to 1930s Germany… Trump Loses it

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Keith Edwards discusses Governor Tim Walz’s recent commencement speech, where Walz warned law graduates about threats to democracy, labeling President Trump a "tyrant" and criticizing immigration policies that bypass due process . He also reflects on Reshma Saujani’s insights, founder of Girls Who Code, who emphasized that societal divisions are often exploited to distract from deeper class struggles, advocating for unity and emotional literacy to bridge divides

him alive from whatever corner of the world they stick you in. And then you have a vice president. When not getting chastised by various popes, he's offering up horrific arguments. Horrific arguments. It is his view that due process is optional. I don't know what the hell they teach at Yale, but the constitution is pretty clear. It doesn't say only if it's convenient. It's crystal clear. Here's the thing. Due process isn't just lawyer speak. It's a right that stretches back centuries.

It was rested away from kings that heroes fought and died for. And we're just going to surrender it. Surrender it to Donald Trump, a guy whose only knowledge of the law is by being a criminal defendant himself. That was Governor Tim Wallace, former vice presidential candidate with Kamala Harris, really laying into the facts of what is happening in this country at a commencement address for U of M. law school grads. And I have to say that if you are saying something and then Ted Cruz says very dangerous rhetoric, very weird man, I think you're on to something. I think you're on to something. That was just the beginning. I have a couple more clips from the speech and folks are really pissed off about one thing he said comparing what Trump's doing to the Nazis. I'll let you think,

I'll let you make the decision whether or not that was the right thing to do. But this is commencement Address Season. But this is commencement address season. And Reshma Sejani, who started Girls Who Code, had an incredible commencement speech that I think everyone needs to see is going viral right now on Instagram.

But she really lays down what Trump and this administration are trying to do by dividing us. Here it is. So I got to be honest. I had a different speech plan for you today. A speech about embracing failure, the power of innovation, a little riff on building a better future, FAYI. But as this day got closer and the world became a whole lot darker,

I couldn't picture it. How could I stand here in front of this class and give you that speech? I decided that you deserved a braver speech. So here it goes. The most important issue facing you isn't just climate or healthcare or AI ethics, it's disconnection. Disconnection across gender, class, race, and even reality itself. And it's this disconnection that is going to prevent you from solving every single problem you came to Harvey Mudd to fix. Let me explain.

I started Girls Who Code with the goal of closing the gender gap in tech. And for a while, we were really doing it. We taught over 700,000 women and non-binary students to code. The needle was moving. The world was opening up. And now it's starting to close again. Across the nation, DE and I is being dismantled. The word diversity is being erased.

from research proposals. NASA, our most iconic institution, removed women scientists from public-facing projects and content. Those weren't oversights. They weren't mistakes. They were erasures. And this isn't just a STEM issue.

Gender relations in our nation are at an all-time low. And the reason is, is because we've been sold as con, that progress. is a zero-sum game. That if women rise, men have to fall. That if people of color get a shot, white people lose theirs.

That if someone new enters the room, there's no spot left for you. And we're so distracted, so intentionally divided, that we can't see that we're all losing in this game. Class of 2025, the story that you've been told that powers the pie and you got to fight for your slice, that's a lie. They got you so busy fighting a gender war to keep you from fighting a class war. Wow. I mean, she hit the nail on the head.

I love that. I've always thought that here's something I believe, and sorry, this is so not what I typically talk about here, but the universe is. is endlessly abundant. The universe is ever expanding. And so I believe if the universe is ever expanding, that means there's always going to be enough for all of us. And even in this world, the only reason why we have scarcity

is because we create it. We create it. And so I love what she said here about how we don't have to make power and money and success something that we take out from. It could be something that is given out. and there's more than enough to get to get by, but it is true that the people who have created the scarcity want us to all be in a scarcity mindset, and it's a scarcity mindset that makes it so that we are divided and think about the things that make us different than the things that make us similar.

So I love that. I hope more people see it, to be honest. And Tim Walls also, as I said, gave a bit of that speech in the beginning, and he did not stop there. He also, also said this about Donald Trump's use of ice. Donald Trump's modern-day discopo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared. To be clear, there's no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not,

because they refused to give them a trial. supposed to just take their word for it. I've got some reactions from MAGA about Tim Walls comparing Trump's ICE agents to the Nazi police. I think it's a sound comparison. I think we have to make this a comparison. There's actually nothing else we can compare it to. These are the only things that are comparable is what Trump is doing with ICE and what the Nazis did with the Gestapo, which literally meant they disappeared people.

They'd take people from homes, and they would never be seen again. sounds very similar to what ICE is doing, isn't it? And I just got to say, too, because I get this in my comments a lot from right-leaning folks who say, well, they're criminals, and criminals shouldn't be in this country. And I have to just push back on that. How are you going to determine their criminals? How are you going to prove their criminals if you don't have due process? That's the reason why a couple of people got locked up in El Salvador who did not need to be there

because there was absolutely zero due process. Do you want to live in a country where due process doesn't exist where I can say you're a criminal and perhaps people believe me over you and then you get locked up with no trial? Of course not. So we really do have to have these sorts of systems in place. even if it does protect the most vile among us because it's also going to protect the most innocent and that is a worthy trade.

That is a worthy trade. Here is what Tom Homan said about Tim Walls calling ICE the Gestapo. It's disgusting. Every man and woman in ice straps the gun to the hip every day and wear a cavalier or best, the rest of the worst of the worst. Does this man know how to enunciate?

The worst of the worst. He sounds like a cartoon character. It's disgusting. Every man and woman, ice straps the gun to the hip every day and wear a kevlar vessel, arrest the worst of the worst. Look at the numbers. I don't think anyone who speaks English as a second language would understand what he's saying. That is a crazy inflection. The gun to the hip every day and wear a kevular vessel, arrest the worst of the worst. Look at the numbers. ICE is almost arrested about 82,000 people in the United States, taking them out of the streets, including his state. We've taken very dangerous people off the streets of his state. We've taken very dangerous people off the streets of his

made his state safer. While he's sleeping at 3 o'clock this morning, there's ICE agents out there arresting public. Safety of threats and national security threats in his state. You ought to be thanking ICE and not vilifying them. Okay. How are you proving that they're criminals, Tom Homan? I think that's really the point here.

Also, please learn how to enunciate. It's just going to help everyone. It's going to help everyone. So, yeah, I love that Tim Walls is back. I'm glad that he's pissed. And I just think this is like this is the correct comparison, is that what Donald Trump is doing is only comparable to what the Nazis did with the Gestapo. And if it makes Ted Cruz and Tom homing upset, then actually I feel like he's on to something.