Ukraine Russia talks go wrong as Trump decline unavoidable
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show
-- Dr. John Gartner, former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and founder of Duty to Warn, joins us to discuss signs of cognitive decline in Donald Trump's second term
-- Donald Trump repeatedly praises Vladimir Putin, lashes out at reporters, and makes incoherent remarks during a public meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
-- Donald Trump delivers confused and rambling answers after meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, minimizes American deaths in Ukraine, and repeatedly contradicts himself
-- Donald Trump abandons his anti-war image by authorizing major military strikes in Venezuela, Nigeria, Yemen, and Iran while bypassing public debate and congressional oversight
-- Visible bruising and a possible IV mark on Donald Trump's hand raise concerns as he refuses to provide clear medical explanations
-- Joe Rogan falsely claims measles was harmless and universal in his childhood while ignoring vaccine history and basic public health data
-- Trump administration allies promote 50-year mortgages that lower monthly payments while massively increasing lifetime costs, trapping buyers in long-term debt
-- The MAGA movement exploits Charlie Kirk's assassination for fundraising and branding while abandoning his legacy and losing his former audience to more extreme figures
-- On the Bonus Show: Half of Project 2025 has been implemented already, scrutiny increases over betting market apps, the search for the missing Malaysian flight from 2014 restarts, and much more...
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(19:53) Trump abandons anti war stance
(27:11) Trump hand bruising questions
(33:42) John Gartner interview
(52:47) Rogan spreads measles misinformation
(58:41) MAGA pushes 50 year mortgages
(1:04:02) MAGA exploits Charlie Kirk death
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of the final shows of 2025, Donald Trump spent the day meeting with the Ukrainian president. |
| 0:06.0 | It went about as badly as you would expect. |
| 0:08.0 | Trump praised Putin while Putin was actively bombing Ukraine and kind of shrugged when asked about deadlines, snapped at reporters, rambled while confusing basic facts. |
| 0:19.0 | And then we're going to talk about something maybe even bigger |
| 0:21.5 | Which is that Donald Trump has spent years branding himself the anti-war president and I believe that that brand is dead |
| 0:28.7 | I'm gonna give you examples and of of all of the strikes that he has launched in this second term |
| 0:35.1 | We're also going to deal with the Trump health panic that has gone |
| 0:39.0 | mainstream because of Trump's left hand rather than right hand appearing bruised and with |
| 0:45.3 | some kind of hole in it. It's bizarre, but I will show it to you. And we will also talk about |
| 0:51.6 | Joe Rogan again spreading factually incorrect nonsense about measles. |
| 0:57.4 | And it's actually a prototypical example of some of the reverse logic that we see applied |
| 1:02.9 | to vaccines by a lot of these folks. |
| 1:05.5 | And finally, the latest solution that Republicans are floating for housing affordability, the 50 year |
| 1:12.3 | mortgage is not going to help anybody. |
| 1:15.2 | It is a trap and I will break it down for you. |
| 1:18.8 | Glad you were here in almost 2026. President Donald Trump met yesterday at Mara Lago with the president of Ukraine, Vladimir |
| 1:35.0 | Zelensky. |
| 1:36.0 | Remember that Donald Trump promised that within 24 hours of becoming president-elect last year, |
| 1:41.0 | the Ukraine-Russia war would end. |
| 1:43.4 | Then he said, well, it'll be within 24 hours of being |
| 1:46.0 | sworn in. Then it was within a month. Then 90 days. Then it was, well, we might end up having |
| 1:52.5 | to walk away with this thing. And it is particularly unlikely to be resolved as Donald Trump |
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