9/18/25: MAGA cancel culture explodes, Trump fails in the UK
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Jon Favreau, Pod Save America co-host and former Obama speechwriter, joins David for a Substack Live
-- Donald Trump celebrates Jimmy Kimmel’s show being taken off the air and cheers ABC for cancelling him after months of threats
-- The Federal Reserve lowers the federal funds rate by 0.25% and warns that job gains have slowed and downside risks to employment have risen
-- Barack Obama publicly rebukes Trump and contrasts him with past Republican leaders to argue he departs from American values
-- Trump delivers a rambling speech in the United Kingdom and struggles to read prepared remarks
-- Trump's bruised and discolored hands and raise concerns about his health
-- Trump speaks incoherently during his UK trip and makes exaggerated claims about the economy and tariffs
-- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posts a tweet framing an earthquake as a divine sign
-- Kash Patel faces intense questioning in a hearing as members press him on numbers and evasive answers related to Trump and the Epstein files
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump says he's going to classify Antifa as a terrorist organization, Luigi Mangione's state terrorism charges dismissed, House Democrats weigh whether to support legislation honoring Charlie Kirk, and much more...
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(00:00) Donald Trump cheers Kimmel cancellation
(09:24) Fed cuts rates, warns on jobs
(13:12) Obama rebukes Trump publicly
(20:37) Trump rambles in UK speech
(26:46) Concerns over Trump’s hands
(30:33) Trump exaggerates economy, tariffs
(38:12) Jon Favreau joins us on Substack Live
(1:05:24) Leavitt calls earthquake divine sign
(1:10:12) Kash Patel grilled on Epstein files
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It truly pains me to start today with a story that really points to |
| 0:13.0 | such a dark time in the United States of America. |
| 0:18.0 | Jimmy Kimmel's program on ABC has been indefinitely suspended and it's been indefinitely |
| 0:24.2 | suspended because of the following 60 seconds related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:33.1 | This is why the channel has taken this measure. |
| 0:38.5 | And there is so much wrong with this. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm not even a fan of Jimmy Kimmel's. |
| 0:43.7 | I never watch this show or shows like it. |
| 0:46.9 | It's not about specifically Jimmy Kimmel or his jokes. |
| 0:51.6 | This is about a chilling, dystopian crackdown on speech that is now leading not just to censorship |
| 0:57.5 | but to self-censorship, a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. |
| 1:02.1 | Here is what Jimmy Kimmel said that has gotten him canceled. |
| 1:06.6 | We get some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. |
| 1:19.6 | In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. |
| 1:22.3 | On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism. |
| 1:26.5 | But on a human level, you can see how hard |
| 1:29.6 | the president is taking this. I condolences on the loss of your friend, Charlie Kirk. May I ask, sir, |
| 1:34.5 | personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir? I think very good. And by the way, |
| 1:39.7 | right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, |
| 1:45.6 | which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a |
| 1:50.9 | beauty. Yes. He's at the fourth stage of grief. Construction. Demolition. Construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody called a friend. |
| 2:05.5 | This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish. |
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