8/21/25: Texas does it, Trump cracks, disaster economic headlines
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- California Governor Gavin Newsom joins David to discuss his redistricting strategy aimed at countering Republican gerrymandering in Texas
-- Texas Republicans pass a Trump-backed gerrymander while Gavin Newsom launches a direct counterstrike with California redistricting
-- Donald Trump faces backlash as tariffs drive up costs with rising prices hitting John Deere PepsiCo Sony and electricity bills
-- Trump demands rate cuts that would inflate the value of over one hundred million dollars in bonds he recently purchased
-- Kellyanne Conway lashes out as Gavin Newsom trolls Trump online and undermines her defense of Trump’s approach to history and media
-- Right-wingers from Sean Hannity to Ted Cruz spiral over Gavin Newsom’s trolling
-- Trump explodes on Truth Social with a late-night rant praising Texas gerrymanders, attacking Gavin Newsom, and threatening Colorado
-- JD Vance embarrasses himself by claiming homeless people make Union Station dangerous while protesters boo him, Stephen Miller, and Pete Hegseth
-- On the Bonus Show: Republican congressman says dead people told him they voted fraudulently, Trump says U.S. won't approve new solar and wind projects, African Union wants a map that better represents Africa's size, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, my friends. |
| 0:08.7 | It is time to make Texas regret what they just did in service of Donald Trump. |
| 0:15.8 | They did it. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to be speaking to California governor Gavin Newsom in a little bit about what California |
| 0:21.6 | is up to. |
| 0:22.6 | But we now have to contend with the fact that Texas has done it. |
| 0:27.6 | If you have been wondering whether Republicans in Texas could push gerrymandering any further, |
| 0:33.6 | the answer is yes, they can. |
| 0:36.6 | The Texas House has rammed through this aggressively partisan redistricting map. |
| 0:42.1 | We call it gerrymandering. |
| 0:43.8 | This is exactly what Donald Trump requested that they do. |
| 0:47.6 | And the whole point of it is without changing anything about the makeup of the state, by |
| 0:52.5 | redrawing the congressional maps. |
| 0:55.4 | They can give five more Republican seats in the house or they can get five more seats in |
| 1:01.5 | the house for the Republican Party. |
| 1:04.0 | And this is before a single ballot has even been cast for 2026. |
| 1:09.4 | The vote in Texas purely a party line vote in the Texas House. Democrats |
| 1:15.9 | did everything they could to block it with a walkout, which we talked about. Republicans retaliated |
| 1:21.3 | by assigning state police chaperones to fellow Democratic lawmakers so that they couldn't leave |
| 1:27.4 | again. And this is very |
| 1:29.3 | abnormal. This is extraordinarily undemocratic. I would vote today to ban all partisan redistricting |
| 1:37.7 | and all of it. But we don't have that opportunity right now. This is sort of hardball power politics. |
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