12/5/25: Presidency coming apart as economy becomes a nightmare
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Kevin Hassett predicts unrealistic economic growth and praises AI as a workplace coach while Maria Bartiromo tees up claims of booming expansion
-- Layoffs rise to their highest level since 2020 as Trump administration policies collide with AI disruption and tariff-driven cost increases
-- Dan Bongino admits on Fox News that he previously pushed baseless pipe bomb conspiracies while the FBI arrests Brian Cole Jr in the 2021 case
-- Donald Trump appears to fall asleep during official events as questions mount about his physical condition and lack of sleep amid nightly posting frenzies
-- Trump reacts angrily to widespread reporting on his mental lapses and public dozing as he refuses to release full medical records that could settle the issue
-- Trump's demolition of the East Wing stalls after he fires his own architect over a ballooning ballroom plan that leaves the project over budget and directionless
-- Donald Trump fumbles the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony with multiple missteps and visible confusion as staff rush to compensate for his mistakes
-- The Friday Feedback segment
-- On the Bonus Show: The Supreme Court revives Texas's new redistricting map, Kash Patel refused to get off a plane until he got an FBI raid jacket, the US Institute of Peace gets renamed for Trump, and much more...
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(15:39) Bongino admits past conspiracies
(24:36) Trump appears to fall asleep
(30:44) Trump reacts to dozing coverage
(37:29) East Wing demolition stalls
(42:43) Trump fumbles Christmas tree lighting
(50:06) Friday Feedback segment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We've unfortunately gotten pretty used to the new healthcare plan being two weeks away. |
| 0:05.0 | That's been the case since July of 2020. |
| 0:08.0 | We also now are being acclimated to the idea that some kind of golden age of the American |
| 0:14.8 | economy is just one quarter away. |
| 0:18.1 | And we are going to look at new predictions, I guess, from Kevin Hassett of 4% |
| 0:23.2 | growth and AI saving the world and everything being really awesome. But you're just going to have |
| 0:28.9 | to wait a couple more months. Now, in reality layoffs are smashing new records over 1.1 million |
| 0:36.5 | jobs cut this year. |
| 0:37.9 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:39.8 | And then a stunning moment on Fox News where deputy FBI director Dan Bonjino basically admits |
| 0:46.7 | he spent years pushing conspiracy theories that even he didn't believe because it was profitable. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm going to show you the clip. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm going to give you my clip. I'm going to give |
| 0:54.4 | you my approach to this issue, which you probably won't be shocked to hear is a little different |
| 1:00.1 | than Dan Bongino's. And also, Trump can't stay awake. He fell asleep again, not only during a |
| 1:07.4 | cabinet meeting, but during the signing of a peace agreement, and it is raising |
| 1:10.9 | serious questions about his health questions that, by the way, he is furious about. |
| 1:16.9 | Plus, a bunch of the White House has been demolished for this huge vanity ballroom. |
| 1:23.3 | And the project now has no architect. |
| 1:25.7 | Trump is looking for an architect because the one who was going to do it quit because the idea |
| 1:30.9 | didn't make any sense. |
| 1:32.8 | All of that and much more on today's program. Okay, remember that phrase. |
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