1/17/25: American oligarchy takes hold, final show before Trump's return
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump's second administration is going to be filled with billionaires, showing how American oligarchy has arrived
-- Bernie Sanders pressures EPA administrator nominee Lee Zeldin on whether he believes climate change is a hoax
-- Sam Harris describes his falling out with Elon Musk
-- Donald Trump is sitting on a disturbing mountain of cash from corporations and wealthy donors
-- JD Vance appears on Fox News Sunday and proves he doesn't understand economic policy
-- A Fox News graphic mistakenly calls Melania Trump the "Second Lady"
-- The Friday Feedback segment
-- On the Bonus Show: Mortgage rates not coming down, Americans don't think Trump will lower prices, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:08.4 | This is the last show before Donald Trump will once again be president of the United States. |
| 0:14.9 | And I think it is the perfect day to talk about oligarchy and kleptocracy and cacistocracy, terms we've used before, |
| 0:26.8 | but have never really been more relevant than they are today. |
| 0:31.0 | If you thought that Donald Trump's first term was a sort of swampy cesspool of corruption and self-enrichment. |
| 0:40.3 | You've got to brace yourself. |
| 0:41.5 | There's really no, it's coming. |
| 0:43.4 | It's happening. |
| 0:44.4 | The second Trump term is looking like it will be a full-on public coronation of America's billionaires and multi-multy millionaires. And it's not only an oligarchy, |
| 0:57.3 | although it is. It is also a kleptocracy and a cacistocracy rolled into one. It's government |
| 1:05.6 | by the wealthy for the wealthy, led by the worst among us, by the most corrupt, by the most brazenly |
| 1:14.4 | self-serving. |
| 1:16.2 | Remember when Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp? |
| 1:19.5 | If it feels like it was a decade ago, it's because it was. |
| 1:22.8 | And in a way, Trump sort of did drain the swamp. |
| 1:26.0 | He drained it and turned it into a country club where the super rich have sort of did drain the swamp. He drained it and turned it into a country club where |
| 1:30.1 | the super rich have sort of become their own lobbyists based on how much money they're willing |
| 1:36.0 | to commit either to super PAC supporting Trump or his inaugural fund or whatever other legal |
| 1:42.5 | means there is to funnel money to the orange guy. Why hire |
| 1:46.9 | middlemen when you can just appoint the billionaires directly if you were Donald Trump? And so we see |
| 1:54.0 | this flow both ways. The money's coming in from the billionaires who are hanging out at Mar-a-Lago |
| 1:59.7 | and, you know, the tech billionaire |
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