10/2/25: Governor urges Trump's removal as shutdown drama escalates
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump with Russ Vought cancels billions in climate and transit funding only for blue states, punishing voters who backed Kamala Harris
-- Trump embraces the government shutdown because it delays the Epstein files, with Speaker Mike Johnson blocking Adelita Grijalva from being sworn in
-- Congresswoman Madeleine Dean tells Mike Johnson that Trump is unhinged and unwell while Republicans pretend not to notice
-- The ADP report shows Trump's economy loses 32,000 private payroll jobs in September with declines in hospitality, construction, and small business
-- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joins Gavin Newsom in declaring Trump has dementia and calls for his removal under the 25th Amendment
-- Google search disables AI overviews for Trump dementia queries while providing them for Joe Biden, raising censorship concerns
-- Karoline Leavitt lashes out at reporters asking about Jared Kushner's foreign funding, Trump's AI deepfake, and looming layoffs during the shutdown
-- JD Vance defends Trump posting a sombrero meme of Hakeem Jeffries, dismisses racism concerns, and jokes while pushing the shutdown
-- On the Bonus Show: Big Pharma benefits from Trump's drug pricing plan, Pope Leo denounces support for the death penalty as incompatible with being pro-life, John Fetterman polls higher with Republicans than Democrats, and much more...
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(18:00) Congresswoman says Trump is unwell, GOP stays silent
(22:56) Trump economy loses 32k private jobs
(30:44) Pritzker, Newsom call for 25th Amendment
(36:54) Google limits Trump dementia searches
(43:19) Leavitt dodges Kushner funding, AI deepfake
(57:43) Vance defends racist Trump meme, backs shutdown
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome, everybody. You all know I'm not big on constantly fear mongering about civil wars. |
| 0:13.0 | There are some content creators whose bread and butter has been predicting civil war for |
| 0:20.0 | five, six, seven, eight, ten years. |
| 0:22.8 | However, I do want to raise the question of whether it is a colloquial civil war for the |
| 0:28.9 | president to say, we're going to start cutting from blue states. |
| 0:33.3 | We're going to start hurting the states whose politics at the top level are not aligned with my own. |
| 0:41.3 | Now, before I even tell you what's going on, I know that some of you, because you're so smart and you're so intuitive and you're so astute, most of you anyway, not the ones I hear from in my email daily, but I know that |
| 0:55.0 | that you're all out there and make up the vast majority of my audience. |
| 0:58.7 | You would all say, wait a second, when you hurt a quote, blue state because you're a Republican, |
| 1:07.0 | in most blue states, didn't 35, 40, 45, even 48% of the population still vote for the |
| 1:14.3 | Republican? |
| 1:15.3 | Aren't you hurting your own voters? |
| 1:17.1 | And the answer is, of course you are. |
| 1:18.5 | But Donald Trump doesn't care about that. |
| 1:20.1 | Here's what's going on. |
| 1:21.6 | Trump is cutting off federal money, not across the board, not fairly, but to states that voted against him in the presidential |
| 1:30.5 | election. It is not about saving money. It is not about fiscal conservatism. Anytime a MAGA |
| 1:38.0 | Republican talks about fiscal conservatism, as if they care about that, I can't help but laugh. |
| 1:43.0 | This is just about authoritarian punishment. |
| 1:47.8 | Donald Trump's budget director, Russ vote, bragged that nearly $8 billion in green energy projects |
| 1:55.0 | are gone. Every state that voted for Kamala Harris has been hit. |
| 2:01.6 | And at the same time, Donald Trump has frozen $18 billion in funding for New York subway |
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