2/19/25: Trump running out of energy as Bernie goes nuclear on oligarchs
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. What a sad state of affairs we find the federal government in. |
| 0:12.0 | Led by the man who once bragged about having the best words and unmatched stamina and the power to just keep going on only four hours of sleep. |
| 0:22.8 | But the guy looks like he is running on fumes. |
| 0:26.3 | And I mean that physically and I mean that politically and I mean that cognitively. |
| 0:31.9 | This past week, we witnessed what might include the worst days and the worst week of Trump's presidency's. |
| 0:42.6 | It was a week of diplomatic betrayals, incoherent interviews, outrageous policy decisions, |
| 0:50.3 | and the level of confusion and disorientation that is impossible to ignore. |
| 0:57.7 | And I want to break it down. |
| 0:59.1 | First and foremost, we are now regularly betraying our allies, thanks to the mango menace, |
| 1:05.8 | embracing dictators. |
| 1:07.4 | We saw this meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. |
| 1:10.6 | The American delegation practically |
| 1:12.8 | rolled out the red carpet for Russian officials signaling loud and clear that the United |
| 1:19.6 | States is cozying up to Vladimir Putin rather than supporting our longstanding allies |
| 1:25.1 | in Europe and in Ukraine. Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, not even involved in these discussions. |
| 1:31.8 | The idea being it will be Russia, the aggressor, and Saudi Arabia, the biased interlocutor, |
| 1:39.2 | who will decide what is to be the fate of Ukraine. |
| 1:42.7 | And if you're wondering whether Donald Trump has learned anything from the entire, he trusts |
| 1:47.8 | Putin more than the American intelligence agencies fiasco. |
| 1:52.0 | The answer is no. |
| 1:53.5 | Trump has learned nothing from that. |
| 1:55.3 | And of course, we could tell from him nominating Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence, someone who should |
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