9/26/25: Trump Oval Office disaster, more escalator drama
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump praises Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a tough leader and jokes about rigged elections while staff look on in disbelief
-- Trump dodges questions about Vladimir Putin and Denmark drones while giving mixed signals on NATO and Russian aircraft
-- Maria Bartiromo and Greg Steube describe Donald Trump’s escalator incident as sabotage while the UN explains it was accidental
-- Trump posts rants attacking Democrats, Kamala Harris, and the United Nations while claiming sabotage
-- The killing of Charlie Kirk sparks a wider discussion of political violence in America and lessons from peace efforts abroad
-- Trump should be impeachment (again) over censorship, lawsuits, media crackdowns, and suppression of free speech
-- Trump’s tariffs, Fed attacks, and loyalty-based policies create an instability environment for businesses
-- Trump’s approval rating drops to historic lows as independents abandon him and even Republicans voice dissatisfaction
-- The Friday Feedback segment
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(11:19) Escalator incident and UN explanation
(16:46) Trump rants vs Democrats and UN
(25:53) Charlie Kirk killing and political violence
(33:29) Impeachment discussion
(40:53) Tariffs, Fed attacks, and business instability
(46:33) Trump approval rating drops
(52:41) Friday Feedback
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump had a meeting in the Oval Office with the Turkish President Erdogan |
| 0:12.0 | that was so sycophantic, so enamored with dictatorial brutality that even Trump's own staff was sort of like, this might be a little bit too much. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's discuss. |
| 0:25.0 | And the theme that we've been seeing in Donald Trump's administrations is, of course, that |
| 0:29.6 | he's increasingly skeptical of our Democratic Western allies, the UK, France, Germany, |
| 0:35.9 | Canada. |
| 0:36.5 | I don't know about them, has been Trump's prevailing position. |
| 0:40.9 | But when it comes to the dictators and the authoritarian's Kim Jong-un, Putin, Erdogan and others, |
| 0:46.6 | Trump's just fascinated by these guys, truly fascinated. |
| 0:50.2 | And here is Donald Trump talking about how tough Erdogan is. |
| 0:56.0 | You're a big, tough boy. Erdogan is so tough. |
| 0:58.0 | He's opinionated. |
| 1:00.0 | He does an amazing job with his country. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:05.0 | Advocates of democracy and civil rights cringe. |
| 1:09.0 | So this is a tough man. |
| 1:11.6 | This is a guy who's highly opinionated. |
| 1:16.6 | Usually I don't like opinionated people, but I always like this one. |
| 1:20.6 | But he's a tough one. |
| 1:22.6 | And he does an amazing job in his country. |
| 1:26.6 | You know, if you measure Erdogan's job performance by the number of jailed journalists |
| 1:34.6 | per capita, he's off the charts amazing. |
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