12/3/25: GOP failure in TN as Trump sleeps through the whole thing
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David Pakman
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump and MAGA suffer a massive warning sign after a Tennessee special election shows a stunning collapse in Republican support
-- Doctors openly question the White House explanation for Donald Trump's unexpected MRI and spark new health concerns
-- Donald Trump embarrasses himself at a cabinet meeting by dozing off and unleashing a string of false and incoherent claims
-- Trump's cabinet members compete to praise him on camera in a spectacle that feels more like a loyalty contest than governing
-- Donald Trump appears with fresh bandages as new questions erupt about unexplained bruising and medical secrecy
-- Donald Trump struggles to speak clearly as public confusion grows over his ability to finish basic thoughts
-- Fox News hosts and guests meltdown on air as they rush to defend Donald Trump from growing health scrutiny
-- David explains what really happened behind the scenes when CNN invited him on
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(17:51) Trump dozes off at meeting
(30:41) Cabinet loyalty contest on display
(41:24) New questions over Trump bruising
(46:23) Trump struggles to speak clearly
(55:54) Fox News panics over Trump
(1:02:15) Behind the scenes on CNN
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Republicans are in some serious trouble, and I believe that they know it. |
| 0:04.9 | We had this election in deep red Tennessee, and it is sending shockwaves through the Republican |
| 0:10.5 | party because this is a district that Donald Trump won by 22 points just 13 months ago, |
| 0:17.1 | and now the Republican has won by single digits. |
| 0:20.2 | So that is potentially suggesting a 2026 collapse. Now, meanwhile, Republicans are trying to explain it away. And Donald Trump fell asleep three or even four times in the middle of his own cabinet meeting. Eyes closed, head falling, sort of jerking awake like he's on a long flight |
| 0:40.4 | and shouldn't have taken the Ambien or something like that. And that's not even the weirdest part of |
| 0:45.3 | the week so far. We are getting more information than ever about Donald Trump's MRI, but the |
| 0:52.8 | information is only raising more questions as Trump is now |
| 0:57.4 | seen covering the makeup on his hands with bandages. We're going further and further deep |
| 1:05.7 | in terms of layers of covering. And meanwhile, a Fox News doctor is furious that anyone even has the |
| 1:12.4 | audacity to ask about this and saying he's completely and totally fine. Meanwhile, cabinet |
| 1:18.6 | members are lining up to suck up to Donald Trump, even one thanking him for preventing hurricanes |
| 1:25.9 | this hurricane season, and also bragging about taking food |
| 1:30.0 | off of people's tables now because it is also 2025 they let me on CNN to talk about what's going |
| 1:38.0 | on with Trump and I talked about him falling asleep I don't think they like that I'll play the |
| 1:43.0 | clip for you. And meanwhile, |
| 1:45.0 | instead of saying to themselves, hey, maybe we should revisit our policy ideas in order to set |
| 1:50.0 | ourselves up to win in 2026. Republicans are just working on making it harder to vote. That's how |
| 1:56.1 | you know, they know they don't exactly have a winning strategy. It's a mess. It's embarrassing. And we're going to break it all down. |
| 2:07.3 | All right. We've got some election results from last night that should absolutely |
| 2:14.5 | terrify Republicans, but they are already telling us, oh, it's no big deal. |
| 2:19.2 | This doesn't really mean anything. Now, I'm going to tell you in advance that their excuses |
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