12/12/25: Crowds vanishing and prices rising as Trump has terrible week

The David Pakman Show

David Pakman

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show

-- Donald Trump delivers a low-energy rally in a small Pennsylvania casino ballroom as the crowd sits unresponsive

-- Polling shows nearly half of Americans struggling to afford groceries and a majority blaming Donald Trump for worsening prices tied to his tariffs and pro-billionaire policies

-- American farmers openly blame Donald Trump for economic harm caused by his trade policies and warn that bailouts will arrive too late to save farms in foreclosure

-- News hosts laugh at Donald Trump for giving himself an "A+++++" on the economy as data shows rising prices and voters overwhelmingly say conditions are getting worse

-- Donald Trump's rushed ICE expansion fills the agency with recruits who fail literacy tests, background checks, and fitness standards

-- Glenn Beck debuts an AI George Washington that sounds exactly like Glenn Beck and raises questions about his judgment

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: Right-wing media influencers turn on each other over conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death, accusations of being gay, and much more...

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(00:00) Start

(02:00) Low-energy Trump casino rally

(08:24) Voters blame Trump for prices
(19:09) Farmers hit by Trump trade
(26:13) Trump mocked on economy grade
(32:25) ICE expansion fails standards
(39:43) Glenn Beck AI Washington
(45:58) Friday Feedback segment

Transcript

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0:00.0	The return of the MAGA rally did not exactly go well. The point earlier this week was for Trump
0:06.6	to go to Pennsylvania and sort of do a reset on people's worries about affordability. It crashed
0:13.0	and burned like one of Trump's casino businesses, very little energy, no sign that the old
0:19.9	magic is still there. And even Fox News wouldn't show
0:23.3	the wide shot to really show how bad the entire thing was. But the crowd problem is not the only
0:28.4	one that this administration is facing. New polling shows nearly half of Americans are struggling
0:33.1	to afford food and blaming Trump for that. They're not blaming Biden.
0:38.2	They're not blaming Congress.
0:40.1	They're blaming Donald Trump.
0:42.9	And this is a major political problem.
0:45.4	The revolt doesn't stop there because farmers, one of the most loyal Republican constituencies,
0:50.8	are now on camera saying Trump has wrecked our entire industry. They say the bailout is merely
0:56.6	a band-aid, that it is too little too late. There are farms already in foreclosure, and they are done
1:02.1	pretending everything is fine. We will then look at the moment that every network broke into
1:07.0	laughter over, which was when Trump said the economy is an A plus plus plus plus plus plus
1:12.9	plus.
1:13.9	Even Fox News hosts couldn't keep a straight face.
1:17.0	And we will talk about the crisis inside of ice reportedly recruits to ice who can barely
1:24.6	read or write.
1:26.1	And one guy who weighs nearly 500 pounds and was declared unfit by
1:31.5	doctors to do anything and ICE is looking at maybe hiring the guy.
1:36.9	Finally, Glenn Beck resurfaces with his cursed AI George Washington.
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