10/1/25: Military skeptical of Trump as speech goes haywire, government shuts down
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump openly admits that presidents are responsible for shutdowns while bragging about using this one to make irreversible cuts
-- Trump slurs his speech, appears disoriented, and shows symptoms raising concerns of a possible stroke or other serious condition
-- Trump delivers a bizarre speech to generals about gold paper, civil disturbances, and fake news while wasting taxpayer money
-- Top military leaders criticize Trump and Pete Hegseth’s chaotic meeting as a clown show and openly mock their weakness
-- Gavin Newsom taunts Trump over his weight and hypocrisy, sparking debate about Trump’s insecurities and false claims about himself
-- Organizers plan over 2,100 “No Kings” demonstrations across all 50 states as protests test whether mass resistance can disrupt Trump’s rule
-- Trump shocks with threats to cut health care during the shutdown while rambling incoherently alongside Robert F Kennedy Jr and Mehmet Oz
-- Multiple new polls show Trump deeply unpopular, collapsing on the economy and immigration, and increasingly propped up by a radical minority
-- Trump’s administration subsidizes coal in 2025 despite its economic collapse and health costs, clinging to nostalgia instead of reality
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump shares a deepfake of Jeffries and Schumer, Republicans block an elected Democrat from taking office ahead of the shutdown, OpenAI prepares to launch an AI video app, and more…
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(00:00) Trump admits shutdown blame, vows cuts
(06:51) Trump slurs speech, health concerns raised
(13:15) Bizarre Trump address to generals
(23:30) Generals mock Trump and Hegseth’s chaos
(30:00) Newsom taunts Trump over weight, hypocrisy
(35:10) Nationwide “No Kings” protests planned
(40:47) Trump threatens health care cuts with RFK Jr, Oz
(48:28) New polls show Trump collapsing in support
(56:29) Coal subsidies return despite collapse
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:09.0 | The government is shut down. |
| 0:10.9 | You all know that I find this to be just this endless loop of attention seeking behaviors |
| 0:18.0 | and hurting Americans for no real reason for a mechanism that's optional. |
| 0:23.5 | There's no rule that says the government has to shut down. |
| 0:26.9 | There's no rule that says this is how governments must be funded and if a budget is not |
| 0:32.4 | agreed to, the government shuts down. |
| 0:35.0 | This is something that is done by political choice. It started with |
| 0:38.4 | Reagan during the 80s. I explained a little bit about it yesterday. And so where I kind of find myself |
| 0:43.7 | is number one, obviously is a political show. If the government is shut down, I have to address |
| 0:51.0 | it. On the other hand, as I said yesterday, I hate participating in this political game that is only |
| 0:59.8 | bad for people. |
| 1:01.2 | It's never good for anyone out there in the world when the government shuts down. |
| 1:05.6 | And it's also not good for anyone out there in the world when media coverage becomes about |
| 1:10.2 | the who met with whom and |
| 1:11.6 | did they cancel the meeting or did they do it and why won't they say a vote for a clean resolution. |
| 1:16.7 | I think the only people that win are the opportunist elected officials. |
| 1:21.4 | This includes Democrats and Republicans, although for different reasons and different circumstances |
| 1:25.8 | depending on who's in power. But at the same time, I do have to address it. |
| 1:29.3 | And so what I'm going to try to do is really focus in on the political consequences, but I want |
| 1:33.5 | to restate, not that people who listen to the show wouldn't know by now. |
| 1:37.1 | I want to restate that this is a completely optional thing. |
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