10/16/25: Protests incoming, MAGA terrified, Bernie and AOC tell it like it is
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat from Arizona's 7th congressional district, joins us to discuss the delay in her swearing-in and how it connects to the Republican effort to block the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files
-- Donald Trump panics as the upcoming No Kings protests grow into potentially the largest demonstrations since his return to office, with Fox News hosts warning people to stay away
-- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rants that peaceful No Kings protests threaten paychecks, exposing the administration’s paranoia and detachment from reality
-- Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warn that Trump’s one-year ACA subsidy plan is a political trap designed to spike premiums right after the midterms
-- Trump rambles incoherently about Chuck Schumer, Venezuela, and nuclear wars, revealing confusion and delusion during a bizarre press event
-- Trump slurs through donor remarks while bragging about multimillion-dollar checks and obsessing over White House décor
-- Nancy Pelosi shuts down a right-wing reporter pushing a false January 6th conspiracy, calling out MAGA lies and refusing to play along with bad-faith attacks
-- JD Vance defends GOP officials caught in a pro-Hitler group chat and falsely blames leftists for political violence
-- On the Bonus Show: A judge halts Trump's shutdown layoffs, Capitol Police investigate a swastika found in a representative's office, the US revokes the visas of six foreigners over Charlie Kirk comments, and much more...
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(06:21) Treasury official fears protests
(11:19) Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez on healthcare trap
(20:16) Trump rambling at press event
(29:37) Trump slurs donor remarks
(35:28) Adelita Grijalva interview
(49:52) Pelosi shuts down reporter
(54:42) JD Vance defends young Republicans
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The second no Kings protests are Saturday and the Trump administration is pretending not to care, |
| 0:06.8 | but they're clearly panicking because these could be the biggest since Donald Trump came back |
| 0:11.6 | to office. |
| 0:12.6 | Now Fox News is already warning viewers to stay away. |
| 0:15.8 | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had a meltdown about it. |
| 0:19.1 | And meanwhile, Bernie Sanders and AOC did a town hall where they are |
| 0:22.5 | tearing into the health care scam on CNN. We're going to break down all of it, including the |
| 0:30.0 | delusion spreading through Trump's cabinet. And we will start with the desperate attempt to downplay |
| 0:36.3 | what is coming this weekend. We're also going to speak |
| 0:38.7 | to Adelita Grahalva, who won her election, but Maga Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in. I will |
| 0:46.2 | ask her, does she ultimately plan to vote to release the Epstein files once she is sworn in? |
| 0:52.9 | And lastly, J.D. Vance is covering for the I Love Hitler leak saying these are just kids |
| 0:59.1 | at the end of the day. |
| 1:01.0 | All of that and more today. All right. The No King's protests are back this weekend, and the Trump administration is both trying |
| 1:17.5 | to project strength, but they are really terrified that these are going to be huge. |
| 1:23.7 | Authoritarians don't like public displays of displeasure with what they are doing. |
| 1:29.0 | And they will go to the ends of the earth to try to either prevent those protests from |
| 1:34.4 | being public or from happening altogether if they can. |
| 1:38.9 | Donald Trump is panicking about it. |
| 1:40.9 | He said yesterday in the Oval Office with a very confused looking cash Patel standing over his right shoulder. |
| 1:47.8 | They have their day coming up, but nobody is really going to be there. |
| 1:52.2 | Nobody is really going to be there. |
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