The economic collapse that is dragging Trump
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show
-- Donald Trump highlights November job gains while burying October losses as unemployment rises to its highest level in more than four years
-- Donald Trump prepares to remove FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino after their leadership failures create political embarrassment
-- Donald Trump mocks filmmaker Rob Reiner after his violent death by blaming criticism of Trump rather than behaving like a president
-- Donald Trump defends his remarks about Rob Reiner, shifts blame for mass violence, and contradicts himself on policy
-- Republican officials publicly rebuke Donald Trump for mocking Rob Reiner, signaling a weakening hold over his own party
-- Donald Trump faces demands to disclose medical and financial records after suing the Pulitzer Prize Board and triggering legal discovery
-- Trump advisers reveal basic economic ignorance as Kevin Hassett struggles to explain why 25 percent GDP growth is impossible
-- Dr. Mike dismantles Daniel Amen's brain scan claims by explaining why SPECT imaging cannot diagnose cognition or justify supplement sales
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, Trump sues the BBC for $10 billion over an edited January 6 speech, Erika Kirk meets with Candace Owens amid conspiracy claims, and much more...
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(09:24) FBI leadership shakeup
(19:03) Trump mocks Rob Reiner
(26:51) Trump defends Reiner remarks
(34:27) Republicans rebuke Trump
(39:53) Trump records disclosure pressure
(46:23) Advisers expose economic ignorance
(53:23) Dr. Mike debunks brain scans
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump hits a new low today, turning a brutal double homicide into a truth social |
| 0:05.6 | punchline, mocking a dead critic and blaming Trump derangement syndrome for a man and his wife |
| 0:13.0 | being murdered. And for the first time in a long time, Republicans are not looking away. |
| 0:17.6 | They're going after him. And we will explore whether this points to some kind of change. |
| 0:21.4 | Trump then doubles down from the Oval Office and says the victim Rob Reiner was deranged, refuses |
| 0:27.7 | accountability and is maybe his most disgusting moment ever. And that really says a lot. |
| 0:32.6 | We are going to do a deep dive into the jobs situation, jobs numbers that look okay at a glance, but fall apart |
| 0:40.1 | when you read past the first headline, rising unemployment, delayed data. |
| 0:44.4 | It is the same old trick and it is starting to fail. |
| 0:47.9 | Plus Donald Trump may be forced to hand over his medical records after suing the Pulitzer |
| 0:52.0 | board. |
| 0:53.0 | There is a looming FBI shakeup as Cash Patel and |
| 0:56.4 | Dan by Bonjino may be fired and a viral moment where Dr. Mike dismantles pseudoscience right |
| 1:04.4 | to the purveyors face. It is chaotic. It is ugly. And we are going to look at what governing |
| 1:10.4 | looks like when incompetence and narcissism collide. |
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| 1:38.5 | about that very soon. Well, I have to hand it to him. |
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