6/26/25: Trump’s meltdowns get worse as new left movement rises
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Rutger Bregman, historian and bestselling author, joins David to discuss his new book "Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference"
-- A new generation of left-wing leaders like Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie is challenging the Democratic establishment with a grassroots movement that seeks to rebuild the party from the ground up
-- Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove was exposed for illegally ordering DOJ lawyers to defy court rulings, raising alarms about the dismantling of the rule of law
-- Trump stumbled through bizarre, confused NATO remarks—blasting Spain and fumbling questions—while visibly disoriented and mocked by reporters
-- Trump spent the night in an unhinged meltdown on Truth Social, ranting about conspiracies, enemies, and imaginary Pentagon briefings in a terrifying spiral of instability
-- Senator Ted Cruz and Fox News absurdly rebranded Trump’s chaotic rants as “extraordinary leadership,” showcasing the authoritarian gaslighting now common in MAGA circles
-- Trump exploded on a CNN reporter at a press conference, lashing out uncontrollably and attacking the media while dodging questions about intelligence reports
-- Pete Hegseth demanded pro-Trump propaganda from the press, dismissing tough questions and declaring Trump’s military mission the greatest in history with cult-like fervor
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump's "big beautiful bill" in trouble, Republicans want Trump to revoke Mamdani's citizenship, White House gets creepy about Trump getting called "daddy" at NATO, and much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm back from Washington, D.C. |
| 0:11.0 | Almost didn't make it back. |
| 0:13.0 | You know, five minutes of thunderstorms near DCA set off an unlikely but disastrous series of creeping delays. |
| 0:23.6 | And it was a close one. |
| 0:25.6 | It was a close one. |
| 0:26.6 | But I did fortunately make it back for the show. |
| 0:30.6 | I've been asking myself and I want to ask you and bring you into this conversation. Are we witnessing right now the rise of a new political order on the American left wing? |
| 0:43.9 | Is this happening? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm going to give you the bullet points. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm going to give you my analysis. |
| 0:47.3 | And then I want to hear from you. |
| 0:49.0 | We saw in New York City, Zohran Mamdani, an open democratic socialist, refuses corporate money, defeat in the |
| 1:00.6 | Democratic primary elements of the democratic machine that include, of course, former governor |
| 1:08.0 | Andrew Cuomo. |
| 1:09.4 | It was a pretty convincing defeat. |
| 1:12.1 | And this is arguably the same movement that gave us Congresswoman Alexandria, Casio-Cortez, |
| 1:18.0 | who similarly won a stunning, upset Democratic primary in her district at the very start of |
| 1:24.0 | her involvement in American politics. |
| 1:26.1 | This is the same movement to a degree that backed Bernie Sanders for president multiple times |
| 1:32.2 | when the Democratic establishment attempted to shut him down. |
| 1:36.5 | And this is a movement that is now loudly saying, as I hear it, we do not trust the old Democratic |
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