8/19/25: Zelenskyy-Trump meeting chaos as veggie prices surge 40 percent
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump reverses his ceasefire stance after meeting Vladimir Putin and pressures Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept land concessions without a ceasefire
-- Trump fails to see Finnish President Alexander Stubb sitting directly in front of him and asks where he is during a public event
-- Trump blames Barack Obama for losing Crimea and defends Vladimir Putin while dismissing Ukraine’s NATO aspirations
-- Trump praises Vladimir Putin during a red carpet meeting and blames Ukraine for getting invaded while downplaying Russia’s aggression
-- Wholesale vegetable prices surge nearly 40 percent in July raising fears of sharp increases in grocery costs for consumers
-- Washington DC restaurant reservations plunge more than 25 percent after Donald Trump federalizes the police and militarizes the city
-- Gavin Newsom rises in Democratic primary polls for 2028 after his redistricting efforts
-- Fox News personalities criticize Gavin Newsom for mocking Trump online exposing hypocrisy about Trump’s own years of ridicule
-- On the Bonus Show: Texas Democrats monitored by law enforcement after returning to state, Trump vows to end mail-in voting, Ohio's Sherrod Brown launches bid for US Senate, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | The president of the United States is now running away from ceasefire as the goal in Russia, |
| 0:13.3 | Ukraine, the United States suffering yet another humiliation as Donald Trump welcomed |
| 0:19.6 | the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky to the |
| 0:22.2 | White House yesterday. |
| 0:23.7 | The idea was that this would be a sort of counterpart meeting after Fridays with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:30.8 | As we saw Friday, Donald Trump literally rolling out a red carpet for Putin, a red carpet |
| 0:37.4 | that he had American soldiers |
| 0:39.4 | on their hands and knees flattening out for Putin, taking Putin's word on everything and saying |
| 0:45.9 | great progress was made even though not a single concession that was agreed upon, nor even |
| 0:51.2 | even a single concession that was asked of Vladimir Putin has yet been communicated. |
| 0:56.2 | That was Friday. |
| 0:57.7 | Cut to yesterday. |
| 0:58.7 | Zelensky comes to the White House and it is a pathetic humiliation, starting with Donald |
| 1:05.7 | Trump in this moment, walking back even the need for a ceasefire, saying, look, all of these other deals I made, |
| 1:15.0 | wars I ended that Trump claims, which by the way, it's not the case, Trump says you didn't |
| 1:20.1 | really need a ceasefire there, except the problem is every single one of those was called |
| 1:25.9 | a ceasefire by Donald Trump. |
| 1:28.2 | Let me play the clip. |
| 1:29.3 | It'll make more sense than we'll talk about it. |
| 1:31.7 | Last week, you warned of what you called severe consequences. |
| 1:36.0 | If a 30-day ceasefire or any type of ceasefire were not agreed to by Russia, will there |
| 1:41.0 | be severe consequences? |
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