11/3/25: Zohran Mamdani on the show as Trump starving 42 million, Obama drops hammer
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David Pakman
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Zohran Mamdani, Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City, joins us to discuss his free bus plan, how to make New York more affordable, how he would resist Trump as mayor, and much more...
-- Trump refuses to distribute six billion dollars in emergency SNAP funds, causing 42 million Americans, including 16 million children, 8 million seniors, and 4 million people with disabilities, to lose food assistance
-- Trump attends a lavish billionaire party while Americans lose food stamps, healthcare coverage, and experience ongoing economic hardship
-- JD Vance faces political challenges in 2028 as reports emerge that his Hindu Indian wife Usha Vance may be a liability among MAGA voters and he encourages her to convert to Christianity
-- Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits on CNN that sectors of the US economy are in recession, contradicting Trump's claims that the economy is thriving
-- Trump struggles during a 60 Minutes interview, shows confusion about foreign policy, pardons, and US economic issues, exposing gaps in knowledge and comprehension
-- CBS edits Trump's 60 Minutes interview, removing parts of his answers on Ukraine and the 2020 election, highlighting the irony of Trump benefiting from the same editing he criticizes
-- Barack Obama criticizes MAGA voters and Trump in Newark, NJ, highlighting scapegoating of minorities and the absurdity of Trump's claims about energy costs and crime
-- Karoline Leavitt makes public statements exaggerating Trump's accomplishments and spreading false claims about trade, tariffs, and healthcare reform
-- On the Bonus Show: Kash Patel alleges a Michigan Halloween terror plot, Trump's nuclear weapons testing plan won't include explosions, businesses feel the crunch of penny productions ending, and much more...
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(12:02) JD Vance's political challenge
(20:00) Treasury admits recession
(25:41) Trump struggles on 60 Minutes
(34:56) CBS edits Trump interview
(42:01) Zohran Mamdani interview
(54:47) Obama criticizes MAGA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has cut food assistance for 42 million Americans. |
| 0:05.0 | A federal judge says it's illegal and the payments must go out. |
| 0:09.9 | But does the White House even care? |
| 0:12.0 | Barack Obama's out there hammering MAGA. |
| 0:15.6 | And Donald Trump is melting down about it. |
| 0:17.9 | And I will be joined today by New York City mayoral candidate Zoran |
| 0:22.4 | Mamdani. |
| 0:23.7 | We will also check out 60 minutes doing with a new Trump interview exactly what Trump |
| 0:30.3 | sued them for doing with a Kamala Harris interview and is J.D. Vance's Hindu Indian wife becoming a liability for him with the |
| 0:41.1 | turning point MAGA crowd. I think the answer is clearly yes. We are also doing something |
| 0:46.3 | this month we've never done before because there are people hungry right now for every new |
| 0:52.0 | website and new substack paid subscription this month, we are donating the entire |
| 0:58.6 | first payment to feeding America. |
| 1:00.8 | 98% of donations to them go right into feeding people. |
| 1:06.3 | Every dollar funds 10 meals. |
| 1:08.4 | So one monthly membership funds, 60 meals, a yearly membership funds, hundreds. |
| 1:14.9 | That's for every new membership at join packman.com or on the substack. |
| 1:20.5 | Trump has six billion dollars he could use to feed families. |
| 1:25.6 | He's choosing not to. |
| 1:26.7 | So we're going to try to help. |
| 1:28.5 | Let's get into today's show. |
| 1:29.7 | 42 million Americans woke up on November 1st with food assistance gone. |
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