3/28/25: Trump's cabinet down big, how empires fail

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- The wheels are not-so-slowly coming off of Donald Trump's clown car cabinet -- Alina Habba, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, now US Attorney in New Jersey, claims that the entire Signal fiasco is a "hoax" -- A look at how empires fail and how the US could enter a death spiral -- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr starts pushing a debunked cell phone health conspiracy theory -- Social Security is starting to break, including long lines, delayed new benefit approvals, and more, all by design -- The Wall Street Journal appears to slowly be turning on Donald Trump -- This week's Friday Feedback -- On the Bonus Show: The Friday Bonus Show with Producer Pat 🥐 Wildgrain: Use code DAVID for $30 off & free baked goods at https://wildgrain.com/david ☕ Beam's Dream hot cocoa: Use code PAKMAN for 40% OFF at https://shopbeam.com/pakman 🩳 SHEATH Underwear: Code PAKMAN for 20% OFF at https://sheathunderwear.com/pakman ⚠️ Ground News: Get 40% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:08.0	You know, if you were wondering what a second Trump administration might look like, who'd
0:12.0	be in charge, what kind of decisions they would make.
0:15.5	We now have a pretty clear picture.
0:19.4	And it looks sort of like a group project gone very, very wrong. Remember
0:23.7	in school when you'd be assigned, maybe, maybe this is just my experience. Remember in school
0:29.0	when you'd be assigned to a group project? And there was like one person in the group who didn't
0:34.5	carry their weight. And it was either allow everybody to fail or just kind of
0:39.8	like do their work for them.
0:41.4	Well, what happens when every person in the group is the drag down that can't do anything
0:48.5	right?
0:49.4	Well, that's what we are seeing with Donald Trump's cabinet.
0:52.1	I'm going to kind of give you a little bit of an overview of the cabinet fiascos of this week alone. And what we were quickly thinking as we put
1:02.0	this clip together was there's not a single adult voice in the room, even like the national
1:08.2	security advisor Mike Waltz, okay, not someone we agree with
1:11.5	politically, but maybe somewhat more competent.
1:13.4	And then we've now got the signal chat fiasco.
1:16.3	So it's bad all the way down.
1:18.8	Let's start with Donald Trump introducing his secretary of health and human services, Robert
1:25.1	F. Kennedy, Jr. as the guy who is going to be in charge of health
1:30.7	aspects of the educational process.
1:33.9	Now, if you're saying, David, what does that mean?
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