11/26/25: Leaked call exposes Trump as approval craters, Republicans raise alarm
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- A leaked call shows Steve Witkoff coaching Russian officials on flattering Donald Trump to extract concessions for Vladimir Putin
-- Donald Trump publicly misreads manipulation by Russia, mishandles policy questions, and doubles down on weak answers about trade, healthcare, and prosecutions
-- FBI Director Kash Patel faces removal after reports of misuse of government resources, internal backlash, and plans to replace him with Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey
-- New polling shows Donald Trump underwater in states he carried in 2024 with sharp drops among independents despite strong Republican base support
-- Turning Point USA signals early support for JD Vance in 2028 as allies argue the movement needs a post-Trump successor
-- Donald Trump keeps a reduced schedule, starts late, hides medical details, and shows visible fatigue
-- Donald Trump delivers false claims, verbal stumbles, and erratic remarks in public appearances during a Thanksgiving event
-- Kevin Hassett defends cheaper Thanksgiving pricing even though food prices are higher and Walmart replaced items in its meal with fewer, generic products
-- Fox News reframes missed Trump's $2 gas promises as subjective while prices hover above three dollars
-- Fox News host Laura Ingraham warns of looming midterm losses as historical data ties low presidential approval to major seat losses
-- On the Bonus Show: A congressional race in Tennessee is neck-and-neck, national parks will raise fees for international tourists, a Campbell Soup executive called its products food for "poor people," and much more...
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(09:19) Trump misreads Russia
(17:20) FBI leadership shakeup
(24:46) Trump underwater in polls
(31:56) TPUSA backs Vance
(39:04) Trump reduced schedule
(45:33) Trump Thanksgiving missteps
(50:35) Hassett defends prices
(55:58) Fox reframes gas promises
(1:01:20) Ingraham warns midterms
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We have a bombshell leaked call that exposes Trump as maybe the easiest mark on the world stage |
| 0:07.2 | because his own envoy has been caught telling Russia how to flatter Trump so that Putin gets what |
| 0:15.6 | he wants. |
| 0:17.0 | Trump fell for it and then actually bragged about it. |
| 0:20.8 | We're also going to look at areas where this administration is losing. |
| 0:25.6 | Those are tariffs, jobs, foreign policy. |
| 0:29.7 | And Trump's answers on these issues are so disconnected from reality that you do have to wonder |
| 0:34.5 | whether he knows what's happening anymore. |
| 0:37.0 | And meanwhile, new reporting |
| 0:38.7 | finds that the White House is protecting Trump curtailing his schedule in exactly the way that |
| 0:45.6 | we were told was a problem when it was Joe Biden as president of the United States. Meanwhile, |
| 0:51.6 | chaos at the FBI as rumors swirl that Cash Patel is going to be dismissed, although |
| 0:57.1 | Donald Trump denies it. |
| 0:59.1 | And then we will look at 20 red states. |
| 1:01.5 | These are 20 states that Trump won, where his approval is now underwater. |
| 1:07.6 | Republicans are privately panicking. |
| 1:09.5 | Laura Ingram is publicly panicking about what this might suggest about the 2026 midterms. |
| 1:16.3 | And meanwhile, is the price of gas a fact or an opinion? |
| 1:22.1 | I know most of you know the answer, but it seems that there are some people who do not. |
| 1:26.7 | We are in the last 24 hours of our |
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