6/18/25: US enters war with Iran, MAGA civil war bursts
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, also the Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor, joins David to discuss New Jersey's shift to the right in the 2024 election, her candidacy, housing and healthcare affordability, and more
— Trump confirms the U.S. is at war with Iran, bragging that “we now control the skies”—after blowing up the nuclear deal and dragging America into a conflict he once claimed to oppose
— In a series of deranged Truth Social rants, Trump calls for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” threatens to assassinate its Supreme Leader, and posts like a kid playing Call of Duty
— Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson explode on air over the Iran war, revealing the MAGA movement’s total collapse into infighting, bad-faith branding, and empty slogans
— Trump’s State Department spokesperson praises him like a god-king while refusing to answer basic questions about the war—echoing authoritarian regimes, not democracies
— NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is arrested by Trump’s ICE for standing in a hallway at an immigration court—marking a terrifying new escalation of political repression
— Kristi Noem is hospitalized after visiting a shutdown biohazard lab with RFK Jr., and the official explanation is so vague it’s fueling serious questions about what actually happened
-- On the Bonus Show: Social media overtakes TV as America’s main news source, Trump extends TikTok’s sale deadline again, Texas quietly kills its state-funded border wall project, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, the anti-war president taking the United States to war. |
| 0:13.0 | That's where we start today. |
| 0:14.0 | Remember that Donald Trump promised to be the anti-war president. |
| 0:19.0 | He said the Iraq war was a disaster, even though that was only performative |
| 0:23.5 | because he had earlier said on the Howard Stern Show, he would have gone into Iraq too. But still, |
| 0:29.6 | he said it was a disaster when he became a political candidate. He mocked forever wars. He claimed |
| 0:35.3 | that Barack Obama would bomb Iran just to win re-election. And he warned |
| 0:39.8 | voters, don't fall for it. This is what Obama's doing. And now in his second term, Donald Trump |
| 0:47.0 | confirmed it. The United States is involved in war with Iran. Donald Trump posting to his very low energy social media platform |
| 0:57.7 | truth social. Truth central. Quote, we now have, we now have complete and total control of the |
| 1:06.2 | skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it, but it |
| 1:13.1 | doesn't compare to American made conceived and manufactured stuff. Nobody does it better than the good |
| 1:21.6 | old USA. The most important, we're going to talk about a lot of aspects of this, but the most important |
| 1:29.3 | fact here is that this is not an unexpected crisis that rose out of nowhere, not due to Trump's |
| 1:39.7 | own actions. |
| 1:41.4 | Trump created this to a great degree. But let me get back to that in a moment. Important |
| 1:46.6 | historical context. We looked at these 30 seconds yesterday. Nice little montage from Patriot |
| 1:52.1 | takes on Twitter, Trump promising time and time and time again, he will be the one who keeps |
| 1:58.4 | us out of wars. Speaking of World War III, I'll keep you out of World War III. |
| 2:03.4 | What would happen if we had a war? |
| 2:05.5 | We won't with me, but you will have World War III. |
| 2:09.5 | I believe without me. |
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