5/20/25: Trump tax plan exposed as he claims "Stage 9" Biden cancer

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- JL Collins, author of major personal finance books including The Simple Path to Wealth, joins David to discuss the instability of the Trump economy and how the average person should navigate it financially — Far-right Trump-style candidate George Simion loses Romanian presidential race in a runoff after confirmed Russian interference in the first round, while global MAGA-style leaders in Canada and Australia also voted out as populist playbook runs out of steam — Trump's new tax plan keeps his 2017 cuts alive, adds MAGA-branded savings accounts, and includes massive giveaways to the rich — Trump claims Biden has "stage 9" cancer, a thing that doesn't exist, while bragging about acing his own cognitive test — Trump stuns audience with delusions about sending water to California and inventing the Patriots, then rants about drug prices and tariffs — Trump rambles about deepfakes, amendments, Putin, and imaginary $5 trillion payments during a chaotic public appearance — Karoline Leavitt defends Trump's gift jet, floats bizarre theories about tariffs, and dodges questions about the deficit and Taylor Swift — JD Vance uses Biden's cancer diagnosis to cast doubt on his fitness and blames Putin's continued war on confusion -- On the Bonus Show: Patel & Bongino face MAGA wrath by dismissing Epstein conspiracies, NJ Rep charged with assaulting ICE agents, Trump admin to pay $5 million to family of Jan 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt, much more... 💊 Chapter: Get Medicare help for free at https://ashkchapter.org/pakman 🔊 Babbel language learning: Get up to 60% OFF at https://babbel.com/pakman 💪 AG1 is offering you a FREE $76 GIFT when you sign up at https://drinkag1.com/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	We start today with what we are calling the Maga kiss of death.
0:12.0	Romanian Trump has gotten absolutely crushed.
0:16.3	Let me explain what's going on.
0:19.4	It just keeps happening.
0:20.5	It's another one of these far right Trump-style. Let me explain what's going on. It just keeps happening. It just keeps happening.
0:21.4	It's another one of these far right Trump style candidates who is biting the dust.
0:28.0	And this time it's in Romania.
0:29.8	We saw it in Canada.
0:31.7	We saw it in Australia.
0:33.7	And this time what we have is that George Simeon, Romania's sort of answer to Trump with the same nationalism and the same conspiracies, the same make insert country great again, nonsense.
0:48.5	He just got wrecked in the presidential election.
0:51.3	Now, interestingly, Simeon actually won the first round, but when it came time for the real
0:56.6	thing, voters picked the centrist, Nicosaur Dan instead.
1:03.0	And the sound you hear is a sound of relief, a sigh of relief coming from the European Union
1:10.3	because Simeon ran on this anti-immigrant
1:13.0	anti-vaccine anti-European union rhetoric.
1:18.9	And increasingly to fewer and fewer people's surprise, he spent months whining about voter
1:26.1	fraud and alleged Russian interference, but here's
1:29.7	the twist.
1:30.7	It was real.
1:31.5	It's the story is it's almost beyond parody.
1:36.1	The first round of Romania's election was thrown out over legitimate evidence of Russian meddling.
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