6/12/25: Tanks rolling in streets as triggered Karoline Leavitt scolds reporter
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
— Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) joins David to discuss Trump’s authoritarian power grabs, Senate resistance, and what happens next
— Trump’s anti-war image goes up in flames as he floats war with Iran after sabotaging the working nuclear deal and now pretends there’s no other option
— Millions expected to protest across 1,500 cities on Trump’s birthday in the largest mobilization since his return to power, as tanks roll through D.C. and he threatens peaceful demonstrators
— Trump stages a Soviet-style military parade on his birthday with tanks, 7,000 troops, and 50 helicopters while most Republicans quietly skip the event
— Gavin Newsom demolishes Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders with facts after she claims Trump values “order”—even though Arkansas has double California’s homicide rate
— Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt calls a question about protesters “stupid,” makes up stats about violence, and pretends Biden’s autopen is a criminal offense
— Trump suffers an unhinged Truth Social meltdown, claiming L.A. would be a “crime scene” without his troops and bragging about an economic bill that actually explodes the deficit
— Trump gets brutally booed at the Kennedy Center, cluelessly fumbles a Les Misérables reference, and insists Fox News is wrong about nationwide protests—even though it’s Fox’s own data
— YouTube caves to Trump and quietly changes moderation rules to allow more hate, lies, and violent content as long as it's “political,” squeezing out independent media like this one
-- On the Bonus Show: MAGA boycotts Walmart over “No Kings” ad, David Hogg quits the DNC amid backlash, and Rand Paul whines about losing respect for Trump after being uninvited to a picnic, much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:07.0 | News from the war front concerns over a possible new war with Iran to be launched by Donald Trump are growing. |
| 0:18.0 | After we learned that diplomats and government employees being removed from a number |
| 0:25.2 | of countries, Donald Trump asked about it and his response does not exactly inspire peaceful |
| 0:33.3 | confidence. You know, remember, Donald Trump, we were told, was the real anti-war guy. Tulsi |
| 0:41.0 | Gabbard was supposedly the real anti-war Democrat back in whatever year she ran. Trump is the real |
| 0:47.8 | anti-war candidate. But we knew that this was typical right-wing populist rhetoric dressed up as an actual concern for peace |
| 0:57.8 | when there is really no concern for peace. |
| 1:00.1 | And we often hear about forever wars. |
| 1:03.5 | Tulsi would talk about them. |
| 1:05.1 | Trump would end the forever wars and bragged about bringing troops home. |
| 1:10.3 | And he'd be the guy that won't drag |
| 1:12.9 | the United States into any bloody conflicts. Well, now he's setting the stage for a war with Iran. |
| 1:19.1 | Reuters is now reporting that Donald Trump is, quote, less confident that any nuclear deal |
| 1:26.8 | with Iran is possible. |
| 1:29.1 | This is the same Trump who of course tore up the existing Iran deal, which was working |
| 1:35.5 | during his first term on the promise that that was a bad deal from Barack Obama and that |
| 1:41.5 | he would get a better deal. |
| 1:43.7 | The better deal never happened. |
| 1:45.5 | And now Donald Trump is floating the idea that there may be no choice but very ugly stuff. |
| 1:52.1 | Here's Trump last night at the Kennedy Center where he was brutally booed. |
| 1:55.5 | We'll get to that later. |
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