8/18/25: Putin crushed Trump, and it devastated Karoline Leavitt

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- Vladimir Putin exploits the Alaska summit to humiliate Donald Trump and walk away with legitimacy while Trump gets nothing -- Donald Trump runs to Sean Hannity to repeat Vladimir Putin's flattery and election lies after being embarrassed at the summit -- Marco Rubio struggles on live television to name any concessions won from Vladimir Putin after Donald Trump's failed summit -- Donald Trump rants on Truth Social with an authoritarian plan to seize control of elections and eliminate mail in voting -- Nationwide protests erupt against Donald Trump's authoritarian power grabs and grow larger despite his crackdowns -- Gavin Newsom releases a sharp ad against Trump that frames the fight over redistricting as a national battle for democracy -- Karoline Leavitt fails to hide Trump's obvious physical decline and cognitive struggles as evidence mounts in public view -- Karoline Leavitt looks shaken and ashen after Trump's disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin that produced no concessions -- A reporter confronts Marco Rubio with his own past warnings about Vladimir Putin to expose hypocrisy in defending Trump -- On the Bonus Show: Trump to meet with Zelensky today, "non-routine" white-collar workers getting replaced by AI, Republican governors send National Guard troops to DC, and much more... 🍽️ CookUnity: Get Free Premium Meals for Life at https://cookunity.com/pakmanfree 💻 Get Private Internet Access for 83% OFF + 4 months free at https://www.piavpn.com/David 🤖 Sponsored by Venice: Use code PAKMAN for 20% off a Pro Account at https://venice.ai/pakman 🔊 Babbel language learning: Get up to 60% OFF at https://babbel.com/pakman ⚠️ Ground News: Get 40% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe to our (FREE) Substack newsletter: https://davidpakman.substack.com/ -- 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	Friday was one of the most embarrassing days for the United States in a very long time.
0:13.6	And it happened because after Donald Trump had American soldiers literally crawling around
0:19.3	on their hands and knees laying out a red carpet for
0:22.6	Vladimir Putin, the brutal dictator Putin showed up, conceded nothing, and made Trump
0:30.8	look even dumber than when Kim Jong-un tricked him with his fake concessions.
0:37.1	Putin didn't even give him any concessions and
0:40.3	truly the biggest foreign policy humiliation of Donald Trump's political career.
0:46.0	And that really says a lot.
0:48.6	So let's zoom out.
0:50.2	The context here.
0:51.6	Trump's going to Alaska where Putin will meet him. They're going to have a tough
0:56.3	conversation where Trump might even get Putin to end the Ukraine war. None of that happened. And in fact,
1:03.4	the very, the very nature of the meeting taking place already framed Putin as the dominant one, as the strong one.
1:16.0	And with the entire world watching, who came out stronger?
1:21.5	It is abundantly clear that it was not Donald Trump and not the United States.
1:26.4	Now, let's get back to the optics for a moment.
1:29.0	As I mentioned, American soldiers rolling out a red carpet for Vladimir Putin, where we
1:36.7	have a brutal dictator who disappears dissidents, who has seen adversarial journalists accidentally fall out of a hospital window
1:51.8	or stab themselves in the back.
1:54.8	You know, you hear these crazy things which are meant to be unbelievable.
1:58.1	That's part of the game.
1:59.0	Of course, that didn't happen.
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