B (10:49)

And worse, this is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our Capitol back. We're taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule act, you know what that is, and placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people. But they're tough and they know what's happening.

A (11:27)

There is no more dry run. It is happening right now. And I know that no matter what what I cover. Some people write in and they say, david, you're downplaying the threat. And others write in and say, david, you're hyperbolically overplaying the threat. This is an authoritarian nightmare and you only need to listen to Trump, go straight to the source. I always say caps critically analyze primary sources. Go and listen to the full press conference. And you will see that there is no context that could make this ok other than Trump saying before all of it, the next 45 minutes, I'm just going to be saying things I don't really mean. That's the only context that could mitigate this. Here is Trump saying, we are going to use the language of violence, which is the language they understand, until you.

B (12:24)

Knock the hell out of them, because it's the only language they understand. But they fought back against law enforcement last night, and they're not going to be fighting back long because I've instructed them and told them whatever happens, you know, they love to spit in the face of the police. As the police are standing up there in uniform. They're standing and they're screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face. And I said, you tell them you spit. And we hit. And they can hit real hard. It's a disgusting thing. I've watched that for years. For three, four years, I've watched them. The police are standing and they're told, don't do anything under any search. So this. And you can see they want to get at it. And they're standing there and people are spitting in their face and they're not allowed to do anything. But now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want. This dire public safety crime.

A (13:28)

So then Trump stops his rant and goes back to his script. There's no commentary needed to dress this up. He told us during the campaign he is going to be an authoritarian madman, and he is now acting as an authoritarian madman. Trump says, what about other cities? We are going to go further. We're starting with D.C. but we're going further.

B (13:59)

We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that anymore. They're so. They're so far gone. We're not going to let it happen. We're not going to lose our city over this. And this will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C. and we're going to clean it up real quick, very quickly, as they say it is.

A (14:25)

You know, you know, there are, there are people who are still sort of in the Trump being Trump era. Oh, it's Trump being Trump. He's deploying troops. He's federalizing the police. He's. He's doing these things. He's doing it right now. And the risk is that if we continue to look away or say it's just Trump being Trump, he's going to steamroll with this stuff. Now, there are some people who wrote in and said, david, this is obviously Trump distracting from the Epstein files. Put that out of your mind. Maybe it is a distraction or maybe it isn't, but this is the sort of stuff Trump, Trump promised during his campaign. So whether it de facto distracts from Epstein or it's calculated right now to distract from Epstein, it doesn't matter that only minimizes the seriousness of it. Now an interesting side by side, when Trump was talking about all the crime, MSNBC actually had stats up on the screen of all the areas in which crime is down. D.C. homicide down 12%. D.C. robbery down 28%. D.C. d.C. Overall crime down 26%. I'm not going to play for you, but there's this very funny visual thing that was going on. And then finally Trump announcing, we are getting rid of the slums. Understand what this means. We've seen other places try it. It's criminalizing homelessness.

B (15:50)

And we get rid of the slums too. We have slums here. We get rid of them. I know it's not politically correct. You'll say, oh so terrible. No, we're getting rid of the slums where they live.

A (16:01)

This is not the time to look away. I've been doing this a long time, 70, 80 years now. Feels like it feels, feels like it's been 70 years of this administration. I've been doing this a long time and I don't remember. I mean, listen, January 6th, right? I don't think I remember. Dystopian, authoritarian, dictatorial times of the this Type with the 1January 6, 2021 example. Other than that, in all the time I've been doing this. So listen, we're going to keep doing this as long as they will allow me. It's clear that they're going to be targeting independent progressive media as part of this. They've started to to some degree make sure you're following on YouTube, make sure you're subscribed to my substack. We're not going to go quietly, that's clear. Having the right estate planning done, a will, maybe a trust is super important. I recently took care of it myself. It's not the most fun thing to do, but it is very important. And our sponsor, trust and will makes it really easy. And you can get 10% off at trust and will.com/pacman. It's a straightforward process. They walk you through it. All of the documents are state specific. They are legally validated. They are customized to your needs, your care, wishes or nomination, guardians, final arrangements, power of attorney. You're just making sure your family and loved ones avoid a lengthy and expensive proceeding or that the state ends up deciding what happens to your assets. Trust in Will's simple step by step processes guide you from start to finish. One question at a time. Save your loved ones time and stress by having your documents in one place with bank level encryption, with live customer support available through phone, chat and email. Trust and Will is trusted by hundreds of thousands of families and counting. Protect what matters most in just minutes at trust and will.com/pacman and get 10% off the link is in the description and our sponsor Magic Spoon has been with us a long time. They do the high protein zero sugar cereals and treats nostalgically reinventing some of my favorite childhood snacks. Many of you know for me cereal was not breakfast, it was a snack. And that is still the case. And what Magic Spoon has done is taken your favorite sugary cereals from when you were a kid and turn them into something you can feel good about. Magic Spoon is also launching a brand new high protein granola true to the Magic Spoon promise, packed with protein, crunchy, 13 grams of protein, zero added sugars and in delicious flavors like dark chocolate, almond, honey almond and peanut butter. They've got their high protein treats as well. Crispy, crunchy, airy with 12 grams of protein protein in many flavors. And of course if you don't love Magic Spoon as much as I do, and our team does, Magic Spoon will refund all of your money, no questions asked. Get $5 off your next order at magic spoon.com/pacman or look for Magic Spoon on Amazon or in your nearest grocery store. The link is in the description the David Pakman show continues to be an audience supported program. I would be humbled to have your support and the best way to do that is to sign up at join pacman.com, sign up as a paid Substack subscriber at substack.david pakman.com or even consider doing both. We do extra content for our website members. We do extra content and Q&As for our substack members. Different things on different platforms. Pick what works for you. But I am so appreciative of everybody who has been supporting the show. J.D. vance desperately attempted to defend Donald Trump with regard to the Jeffrey Epstein accusations and he failed very, very, very hard. It was like Olympic level mental gymnastics on this. And one of the funniest things is that J.D. vance attempted to link Jeffrey Epstein's criminal legacy to Democrats. One of the really funny things is that Trump was a Democrat at the time that these things are alleged to have happened. It's lost on J.D. take a look at this clip from an interview on Fox News and there's a lot to talk about here.

C (20:42)

Full transparency. But I have to say, Maria, I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein Files for four years. Joe Biden, the Democrats did absolutely not nothing about this story. We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left wing politicians and left wing billionaires. And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this and yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years.

A (21:10)

Was it the right move for Comer.

C (21:12)

To send subpoenas to the Clintons? It absolutely was. And it drives home how while the Democrats have tried to make this Epstein thing about anything but the fact that Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time, who knows what they did? But it's totally reasonable to ask these questions. What you saw in the House's subpoena is they are trying to investigate all of the things related to this particular case. I know a lot of Americans want answers. I certainly want answers. And I think James Comer and the team in the House, they're doing the right thing. And of course, course we know that Clinton, or allegedly he went to the island 26 times, 28 times. Totally appropriate for Comer to be asking what was going on at that island.

A (21:53)

Notice how he has no mention of the fact that the Attorney General already told Trump, sir, you're in the files. Now. If Trump really wants full transparency, if he's going to be the transparent magnate that JD Van says that he is, then tell Pam Bondi, release everything now. Trump has the keys and now they're hiding behind. Well, he's directed Bondi and Bondi is equivocating. Just put it out. If he's really transparent, what is the holdup here? Now I do think that this thing about Democrats, Democrat billionaires, Trump was a Democrat billionaire when these things were allegedly going on. The big parties with the celebrities, the donations to the Democrats, buddy, buddy with the Clintons. So JD's whole framing here that this is just a left wing problem. Trump's a noble truth teller helping to expose it. The most basic fact check collapses every single one of those claims. And J.D. vance, his job here really isn't to make sense like if and Maria Bartiromo job doesn't seem to be to actually get any sense out of him. What, what Maria is doing is allowing JD Vance to give explanations that don't make any sense. Trump is the guy who's transparent here. All these Democrats seem to have been associated with Epstein. Well, Trump was a Democrat at the time. Trump was told by the Attorney general he's in the files and Trump, if he really wanted this stuff released, they want to Pretend like Trump can't simply override whatever safety mechanisms and review protocols and redactions and all this different stuff. If Trump wanted it done, he goes to Bondi and he goes, listen, Pam, release everything now. Release it all. I want it released by midnight. And if Trump said do it, it would be done. That's not what they're doing. Trump's not being transparent. And weeks ago, Trump threw out this little bit of pablum to the masses. I've directed Pam Bondi to release pertinent grand jury testimony, limiting the scope to grand jury testimony and using the subjective term pertinent. Who decides what's pertinent? So JD Is working really hard here, really hard to try to take the attention off of Trump as potential coconspirator or perpetrator, which, by the way, we don't even know that that's the case. I know every time I say this, people get upset. They go, david, you know about Trump. Until we have the files that say Trump was a client engaged in criminal activities, I am not in a position to say that now. People will write to me about a lawsuit that was, that was recanted. We, we do have to adhere to some, what the facts are as we know them. It's conceivable that Trump is in the files as an associate of Epstein and that that's bad enough and that he was buddy, buddy with Epstein and others who were committing crimes long after he knew what was going on. That, that it could be that if we have evidence of more than. Of course, I will tell you, but it doesn't have to go to the worst case scenario to realize this guy's not being transparent. And J.D. vance is trying to distract from all of it. On the one hand, Trump is now lashing out with the D.C. police federalization and the stuff we talked about earlier. On the other hand, there's another reason that a lot of interference is being run right now and a lot of distraction is being sought, which is what is starting to happen with the economy. And I really want everybody to understand that. Let's talk about it. Donald Trump's 2024 campaign was built on a very familiar set of generic economic promises. We're going to protect American workers, which in some way was like, we're going to stop brown people from taking your jobs, which is of course, not a factual way to kind of present it. We're going to bring down prices. We're going to defend Social Security and Medicare, and America will be put first in every economic decision rather than last. The way Sleepy Joe does. So we are now about seven months into Donald Trump's second term. And the promises that Trump made are sort of colliding with the reality that none of it is looking good, especially for the people who believed Donald Trump start with tariffs. Trump campaigned on the idea that we're going to put in place tariffs. Tariffs will punish other countries like China. American manufacturing will be revived, and it's going to be so good. Now we are starting to see the way it actually happened. Trump's import taxes, which is what tariffs are, have triggered retaliatory tariffs abroad. They've raised costs for American businesses, and they are having a number of deleterious impacts on not only the job market, but also on exports, which we will get to. And it's all going very poorly. Farmers who voted for Trump are losing foreign markets. Manufacturers that depended on imported parts are cutting jobs because the parts cost more and they're losing contracts. You look at prices on everyday goods, inflation is still positive. Trump ran on bringing prices down. To bring prices down, you need deflation. That means when an inflation report comes out, there's a minus sign in front of it. If inflation is 2 or 3%, which, by the way, is fine, that's a, that's a perfectly reasonable inflation rate. Obviously, it's being appended to periods of rising prices. But when, when we hear inflation's 2.8%, that means prices went up 2.8%. Wages are not going up that fast, so prices have not come down. That was Donald Trump's promise. And all of this stuff is, is hitting working class households, farmers, manufacturing and factory workers. These are the people Trump claimed he was going to champion. So that's tariffs. We then have the tax plan. Trump vowed that his tax cut would pay for itself. It's going to generate so much growth, it'll pay for itself. The middle class is going to really benefit. Now, the reality is, you look at how much do you save or lose on taxes based on your income In Trump's tax plan, it's really good for the very rich. It's good for the sort of rich. It's pretty good for the kind of rich. It's not good for lower middle and working class families. That's just what it is. And if we had looked back at Trump's 2017 tax cuts and Jobs act, we would have seen that that's the way it always sort of works out. We then get to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. These are programs. Trump said, I'm going to protect these 100% protection, but it's not happening. We saw that the tax bill is going to lead to potentially 12 million people. 10. 10 to 12. 13 according to one. Call it 10. What's a couple million people losing Medicaid? Between you and I, it's going to lead to roughly 10 million people ultimately losing Medicaid coverage. So that's an economic broken promise, and it's a health care broken promise. And every single one of these elements is one where there are people that voted for him because of the promise, and now he's doing the opposite. So when you zoom out, you realize that Trump, to a degree, has lost control of this monster. The global oil markets are going to dictate a lot of the way that things go economically. Third, I guess we would call them second and third party tariff and trade deals. What I mean by that is we tariff China, China tariffs us, fine, but there's another layer which is we tariff China. China goes to Malaysia or to Brazil or to whoever, and they cut the US out of markets. We won't import or export stuff. We're going to make deals with Brazil or somebody else. That fails Americans. That undermines the goals that Trump ran on. Now, later on, we're going to get to an incredible thing. Trump hates trade deficits. He wants us to export more than we import to every country. In fact, Trump. It's a crazy calculation, but one of the ways Trump calculated his tariffs was, I guess, by taking the trade deficit and dividing it by some number and, you know, multiplying by the inverse square, who the hell knows? But the point is, Trump hates trade deficits. Exports are collapsing. Other countries are saying, oh, because of the tariffs that American manufacturers are now facing. American manufacturers are raising prices on the stuff they export to us. We're not going to buy it anymore. And so Trump's very policy, which was to a degree catalyzed by his distaste for trade deficits, is causing trade deficits to grow. So there are people out there, and I'm sympathetic to them, people who voted for Trump out of a frustration with a system they believed was rigged against them. Trump used that populist rhetoric in his first campaign, and he used it this time around. I sympathize with that. A lot of people are dealing with a system that's rigged against them. Rigged. Not in a. In a secret way, just openly. You look at the tax code, you look at all these different things. Yeah, it's rigged in the Bernie Sanders debt definition. But now the policies Trump's enacting will make the problem worse. They will deepen inequality. They'll gut middle class security over what little security there was. And if history is any indicator, the blame shifting is going to be absolutely relentless. The consequences for Americans will be very real. And Trump has executed a complete and total bait and switch. He said, I'm going to protect you. I'm going to bring you prosperity. It's going to be great. And we have policies that benefit the wealthy, punish consumers and they are really risking long term economic damage. Now after the break, we're going to dig more deeply into the export thing because it is such a critical part of what's going on. Make sure you get my daily one hour podcast. It's free. It's on Spotify now with video on Spotify as well. It's on Apple podcasts. 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I'm partnering up with Ground News to give you 40% off the same vantage plan that I use, so you'll pay only five bucks a month for all of their premium features. Just go to Ground News, slash Pacman, or use the code Pacman in the app. When you sign up, the link is in the description or scan the QR code. Well, all hell is breaking loose for the economic genius of this administration. Because the thing that Trump has been bragging about since his first campaign, the thing he swore he would fix forever for Americans, America's trade deficit is getting worse. The kicker is that it's happening because of Trump's own policies. Since March, US Exports have not just slowed down, they have plunged. We are talking about billions of dollars in products that American companies used to sell overseas that are sitting unsold. Why? Because the rest of the world is deliberately walking away from the United States. Hedge fund manager Spencer Hakimian summed it up this way. Quote, exports have fallen right off a cliff since March. Countries around the world are responding to the US Trade war by boycotting American goods and services. Another penalty Americans are paying for Trump's tariff crusade. The penalty is not on Trump. Trump's a billionaire. He's fine. The penalty is on you. It's on you in terms of higher prices. It's on you in terms of fewer jobs, and it's on you in terms of a shrinking export market that makes the very trade deficit Trump hates even bigger. Think of that. Trump hates the trade deficit. He says, I want to export more than we import. Why are we importing so much from China? We should export to them. Well, the reason is 50, 60 years of economic policy. That said, we want to import cheap stuff from China. We don't want to pay what it would cost to make all these tchotchkes in the United States. We'll get them from China. And so that's why we import more. And Donald Trump's tariffs are making the trade deficit even worse. You look at Canada. Canada is one of our top export markets. In 2024, Canada bought 28 billion in food products from the United States. Canadian stores are now being pressured. Do not stock, do not sell American food products. 71% of Canadians plan to buy fewer American food products. This year, Trump added a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, which started Aug. 1. When you tax their goods, they don't thank you. They respond in kind. They tax your goods or they stop buying them. This is called a trade war. That's how it works. Europe's going the same way. Europe's Central bank survey found 44% of Europeans are avoiding American products. Tesla sales in Europe are down almost 28%. Now, there is a political cost to buying American, and it goes beyond goods. Tourism is down. The World Travel and Tourism Council says that canceled international trips are going to cost the United States over $12 billion. So that means hotels lose money, restaurants, airlines, small businesses. On the bonus show today, producer Pat is going to talk about the Vegas ghost town situation that's going on and the irony, and it's a sick irony, because people are getting hurt. But the irony is that Donald Trump obsesses over trade deficits like they're a scoreboard. But by blowing up our export market, he guarantees we are going to maintain trade deficits. Now, I am not arguing trade deficits are objectively good and bad. The US Tends to run trade deficits because of how we've organized our economy. We tend to buy a lot of cheaper goods and have moved in the direction of being a service economy. And those are political decisions which you can agree with or disagree with, but that's the way our economy is organized. But Trump treats the trade deficit like a scoreboard. And if foreigners stop buying our stuff, the deficits are going to get bigger, and Trump is making the problem worse. Now, I want to deal with the tariff part a little bit, and hopefully this is useful to people. If it's not, just be like, david, don't talk about this stuff anymore. Even if all the tariffs disappeared tomorrow, we could be talking about permanent or at least semi permanent damage here. Because once consumers switch away from your product for political reasons, they don't just switch back. Habits change, competitors fill the gap. You know, I know so many people, they were genuinely Tesla fanboys. They just loved it. And then all of a sudden, with the political Elon stuff, they went and they said, I'm going to try a Rivian. I'm going to try the Ioniq Hyundai Ioniq, I'm going to check out the Kia EV9 or the BMW I X, or maybe I'll go to a hybrid. And even if Elon were to go, I take back the white nationalist salute and I take back all of it. Even if he did that, a lot of those people are happy with their choices. They're not going to go, oh, I really. I got to go back to Tesla, because Elon changed his mind. And that applies to a lot of different products. So we are going to be seeing what may not be a temporary diplomatic. This may be the new normal. This is a structural decline, not a cyclical decline. We're losing billions in exports, billions in tourism, and what leverage do we have in trade? 90 deals in 90 days became 3 frameworks in 115 days or something like that. This is Trump doing it to the country. We have to hold him politically responsible. That's the question. Will voters do it? Donald Trump has a new target this week. It is one of his oldest enemies, Nancy Pelosi on Truth Social. Donald Trump erupted into one of his trademark rants accusing Pelosi and her husband of beating every hedge fund in 2024. He says they beat all the Wall street geniuses on insider information. And without missing a beat, Trump hall calls her a disgusting degenerate. Take a look at this quote. Crooked Nancy Pelosi and her very interesting husband beat every hedge fund in 2024. In other words, these two very average minds beat all of the super geniuses on Wall street, thousands of them. It's all inside information. Is anybody looking into this? She is a disgusting degenerate who impeached me twice on no grounds and lost. How are you feeling now, Nancy? So let's take this in two parts. I would be fine with a rule banning all members of Congress and their spouses from trading individual stocks. I've said it before. Apply it to everybody. I am fine with that. The public has a right to be skeptical when lawmakers have access to nonpublic information and they make money in the market. I know you could say, well, it's illegal. There's the Stock act plus insider trading laws. And yeah, I get it that it's on paper illegal. If we've learned anything recently, it's that something being illegal on paper doesn't actually stop people unless there's an enforcement mechanism or they believe that they're going to be caught or they get in trouble for it. This is arguably a bipartisan thing. If you are writing laws that affect industry, you shouldn't profit from those laws. The idea that Pelosi is the corrupt, disgusting degenerate and Trump is not, that is like pot calling the kettle black. Trump is not an ethics reformer who wants to clean up Congress. Trump's the guy who spent his presidency using the office of the Presidency as a personal ATM. 1.6 billion he made during his first term. Foreign governments booking rooms at his hotel while seeking policy favor. Son in law walking away with a $2 billion deal with the Saudis and Trump's charity shut down for self dealing as a slush fund. Trump's business convicted on tax fraud, all of it. If Trump really believed that profiting from public office was wrong, he could have started by holding himself accountable. He could have started by holding his family to the same standard he is demanding from Nancy Pelosi. But that's not the point of Trump's rant. The point is revenge. Nancy Pelosi was involved in Trump getting impeached twice. She humiliated him. He has never gotten over it. She stood behind him at the State of the Union and ripped up his speech and the entire thing. She marshaled the votes to impeach him for trying to pressure Ukraine into helping his campaign and for inciting an insurrection on January 6th. In Trump's mind, she can never be forgiven. So years later, she is living rent free in Trump's head. He sees an opportunity to accuse her of corruption and he takes it. And he knows his base is going to eat it up and they're not going to question Trump's actions along these exact same lines. It is the same sort of fake populism that Trump's been selling for years. He goes, oh, the super geniuses on Wall street were defeated. And he pretends to speak for the little guy and he says Pelosi is doing the wrong thing. But look at his policy. He pushes tax cuts for corporations. He makes life harder for working Americans. So I am fine with banning members of Congress from trading stock. I think doing it is actually harder than it sounds. But it can be done, and it should be done. But if Trump wants to have that conversation, he's got to explain why the rules he wants for Pelosi shouldn't apply to him and everybody in his inner circle. Until then, this is nothing more than hypocrisy. And that's why his rants are sounding a little less like strength and a lot more like desperation. You can actually see Maria Bartiromo face fall apart in real time. As Vice President J.D. vance tries to explain Donald Trump's tariff plan, she realizes mid sentence, see the look on her face here? She realizes, dear God, this doesn't make any sense. Listen to what Vance said.

C (45:10)

Do it. The second thing the tariffs are doing is it's bringing in a lot of additional revenue, which. Which, of course, we're using to give tax relief to the American people and make it easier for average Americans to get by.

A (45:22)

So that is a lie. It's a lie. The additional revenue, JD Says, is just a tax increase on you or on me. On every American, the tariffs are taxes on the stuff we import, we pay them. There is no magical tax relief coming out of this. The money is coming out of my pocket. Oh, but David, you don't manufacture stuff, right? But when I go, when I buy, what do I have here? When I, when I buy, you know, a lens like this lens. This is a beautiful. Look at this lens, by the way. It's a beautiful Lumix lens. When I buy this lens, actually, where is this made? This is not a good example. It doesn't say, let me put it down. When I buy something whose component parts have been tariffed, I pay more because the manufacturer has paid more. Now, Trump may still not understand that, But I think J.D. vance does understand it. J.D. is not stupid and that makes this a lie and that makes him really dangerous. To follow the logic here, you have to believe three things at once. Number one, that tariffs don't cost American companies or consumers anything because the foreign companies are eating the tariffs. That's not true. It's not happening. Number two, you have to believe that those same tariffs are helping US Companies even though foreign companies aren't raising prices. And then number three, while helping US Companies, the tariffs will also bring in revenue that is coming from foreign countries rather than the American people. None of those things is true. It's sort of like saying I'm going to get rich by taxing unicorns. And you go, well, there's a couple of layers to that. Who pays the tax? And are unicorns even real? Or maybe it's like you have two buckets and you say you're going to get rich by taking water from one bucket and putting it in another bucket. I don't know if my analogies are good here. JD is smart enough to know that this isn't true. And Maria Bartiromo face says it all. She knows this nonsense isn't true either. 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So at a certain point I figured silence must be the solution until I discovered this. Brain FM is personalized depending on your brain type. So if you want to improve your focus or relax, give Brain FM a try for 30 days totally free. Go to Brain FM. Pacman the link is in the Description Donald Trump has a real problem with women who don't bow down to him. We already reviewed earlier in the show Donald Trump calling Nancy Pelosi a disgusting degenerate and attempting to hold her to a standard he doesn't even hold himself to. Why? She had the audacity, the ovarian fortitude to impeach Trump twice and it's an unforgivable sin. But there is another woman who doesn't bow down to Trump and Trump's not happy. That woman is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. And Trump woke up this morning and decided I think I'm going to go on a full blown unhinged rant against the sitting member of Congress. Most people hadn't I hadn't even had my cappuccino yet and he was already ranting in classic Trump fashion. There's no substantive policy critique. It's not a debate about legislation. It is just schoolyard level insults. Take a look at this quote and he calls her quote Congresswoman. He puts congresswoman in scare quotes. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is a low very IQ individual. Now I've got to tell you, Trump overwhelmingly says that women and non white people and if it's a non white woman, even better are the low IQ people OK, Jasmine Crockett is a low very IQ individual much in the mold of the AOC plus 3 gang of country destroying morons, only slightly dumber. Each of these political hacks should be forced to take a cognitive exam, much like the one I recently took while getting my physical at our great Washington D.C. military hospital, Walter Reed. As the doctors said, President Trump based it something that is rarely seen. These radical left lunatics would all fail this test in a spectacular show of stupidity and incompetence. Take the test. It would not be a true Trump rant without the inevitable detour into self congratulation. Trump again bragged that he recently took a test during his physical at the Great D.C. military Hospital saying he aced it. Doctors were shocked. They've never seen anything like it. Now, of course, Trump's referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. It's sort of a brain injury screening test. It includes identifying a picture of a lion and drawing hands on a clock. And of course, remembering five words I can't forget. Remember when Donald Trump told us about the test?

B (51:58)

You'll go person, woman, man, camera, camera, tv. So they say, could you repeat that? So I said, yeah. So it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. Okay, that's very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.

A (52:21)

In order, you get extra points. So the irony is the Mental Fitness Card was Trump's favorite attack against Joe Biden. He would deploy that against Biden during the campaign. As there are more and more public moments in which Donald Trump's own coherence is a question mark. To put it lightly, Trump's recycling the same bit as he devolves more and more, he points fingers more and more. And I can tell you, you can dislike Jasmine Crockett's politics, but she seems to have no cognitive issue whatsoever. She is fast, she is sharp, her memory seems completely and totally fine. But Trump believes that pointing fingers is going to distract from what he's up to. So for Trump's die hard followers, it's another truth social victory lap. It's more red meat. They love it. Yeah, Jasmine Crockett's got a low iq. For people who are able to see this for what it is, it's a reminder that the guy holding the nuclear codes is starting his morning with unfiltered personal attacks on elected officials. He seems to believe it's normal, and tragically, a lot of his followers do as well. Yesterday it was the, quote, disgusting degenerate Nancy Pelosi. Today it's Jasmine Crockett, whose IQ is not just low, it's very low, very low. Disgusting stuff, but we've come to expect it. I don't know if you have been sitting around saying, you know who should really start a podcast? The wife of Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's adviser. I haven't been sitting around saying we need a podcast from her, but we are getting a podcast from her anyway. The wife of Stephen Miller, the architect of family separations, Katie Miller, has decided the world needs the Katie Miller podcast. She tweeted about this. Today I'm launching the Katie Miller Podcast. As a mom of three young kids who eats healthy, goes to the gym, works full time. I know there isn't a podcast for women like myself. Hope you'll join me. I did a quick search. There's apparently tons of mommy podcasts of women who have young kids, eat healthy, go to the gym, and work. There's dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of those podcasts. But she needed one. She needed to make a podcast. And my takeaway is microphones are too cheap. Everybody can now afford microphones, and that's a real problem. So here she is, telling us about her podcast.

D (55:09)

Hi, I'm Katie Miller. Welcome to my podcast. And welcome to my living room. You may be wondering what I'm doing here hosting a podcast. It seems these days, just about everyone has a podcast. For years, I've watched from the sidelines as people I know, people I respect, have hosted TV shows, radio shows, podcasts. You.

A (55:28)

She's right. Everybody's hosting a damn podcast.

D (55:31)

And I thought, hey, I could do that, too. And why? Because for years, I've seen that there isn't a place for conservative women to gather online. There isn't a place for a mom.

A (55:41)

What?

D (55:41)

I'm like me, mom of three young kids, four, three and almost two, and a wife, and trying to do a career, eat healthy, work out. There isn't a place for a mom like me. And so I wanted to create that space where we.

A (55:57)

Is it possible that she just doesn't have anything interesting to say? And that's why there's not a place for people like her. What?

D (56:04)

Have real, honest conversations with people across the political spectrum and across the world to get lifestyle information, news, laugh with our friends, gossip about what's going on in the world from our perspective, from that of a moment with three kids who's trying to make every day be the best he can, from bedtime to bath time to breakfast in the morning to getting out the door for work and everything in between. A little bit about me. I've been a communications director to senators, to a vice president.

A (56:36)

You know, maybe what she means by there's no podcast for women like me is we need a podcast for women who think Trump is doing a great job and whose husbands are in charge of locking kids up. I guess. I guess there isn't a podcast like that.

D (56:54)

I worked in high levels of the US government, and most recently, I'm concluding my time working full time for Elon Musk. And so please join me for my podcast. We're going to do this once a week on Mondays to talk about lifestyle, what's going on, real, honest conversations. None of the bullshit with people from across the spectrum, whether that be Politicians, business leaders, celebrities, musicians, artists, scientists, you name it, we're going to have it. Because this is life, about women for women, with men too. Talking about what matters to women. And that isn't just what everyone considers a women's issue. Because what's a woman's issue? I have yet to find out. So join me every Monday.

A (57:40)

Yeah, she's a big supporter of the self described fertilization President Donald Trump. So who does she bring on for her first serious interview? And I'm honestly asking the question here, who the hell would watch this? Like, who would even remotely find this entertaining or interesting? She brings on Vice President J.D. vance for her first serious interview. And if you expect it to be an insightful and thought provoking conversation, I don't usually think of J.D. vance in those terms. But take a listen to this hard hitting journalism. Oh my God.

D (58:23)

Some Marco questions. What's the most surprising thing you've learned about Marco?

C (58:28)

He also has a sweet tooth, which, you know, he's in great shape. He works out, but really he can, I mean, house ice cream to the point where half the time that I see Marco in the hallway, it's because he's just been down to the Navy mess in the White House and he's gotten a bunch of ice cream.

D (58:44)

Marco Rubio is known as a funny.

A (58:46)

Jokester, by the way. I've had lunch in the Navy mess. It is very cool.

D (58:50)

What's the funniest joke he's told you?

A (58:52)

But the idea that Marco Rubio is down there getting ice cream all the time sounds a little weird.

D (58:57)

Or the funniest moment you've had with him.

C (58:59)

Okay, so you guys will have to determine whether we can actually put this in the final.

A (59:08)

So this is.

C (59:09)

We were talking about something very serious related to the Middle east. And he starts this joke totally deadpan. He's like, you know, I learned something interesting about the Middle east because I had a constituent call a few years years ago when I was in the Senate and a woman was visiting Israel and her husband died while they were in Israel. And I was like, oh man, that's terrible. And she was trying to get help from us for how to get the body back to the United States. And she said to me, you know, man, I don't know, maybe I don't want him back. The last time somebody was, was. Sorry, the last time somebody died over.

A (59:45)

Isn't this so funny, guys?

C (59:47)

Here they rose from the dead three days later.

A (59:52)

And I didn't know until, oh yeah.

C (59:55)

I got AR that it was a Totally joke. I was like on the edge of my seat, like, what happened with this poor woman? Her husband, he's got jokes. He's got a lot of Florida man jokes.

A (60:06)

Yeah, he does.

C (60:06)

Because, you know, you'll take some crazy story from the Jacksonville Times and then it ends, ends up, you think it's a joke, but it's actually something that.

A (60:17)

Actually happened in the Florida pan anyway. So I. I've been able to recover from how funny that was to be able to kind of discuss this in a more serious way, I think. What. So obviously this isn't journalism. This is a friendly talking. Friendly platform rather to sell talking points. There's not really any cultural commentary. It's kind of political marketing. And they're trying to dress it up as mom content. That that's what this is really about. But there's a bigger story here, and I got to hand it to him. And this is. There's an important takeaway. The right does know how to build influence. Now I see this show and I go, oh, my goodness, I'm despondent after 15 seconds. I would be looking for an ice pick to gouge my ears out after a few seconds. But to the extent that they build this ecosystem and they've got the mom fluencers and the lifestyle podcast and the gym bros and all that, and they funnel audiences into a political worldview, this is more overtly political, but there's a lot of them that they're less overtly political, but they're still sort of like red coded, we might say. They are effectively doing this. So, yes, the microphones are too cheap. And when you combine cheap microphones with Stephen Miller's politics, you really get something that is part of. Part of the machine that the right has built and they crush the left with it. They just do. Okay. So I want to apologize for my mullet type thing that I've had today. It's been so great being back and having you and Dan Ko was awesome last week. Producer Pat has some great stories picked out for the bonus show, including. Including what is happening in Vegas. There is a real problem in Vegas with tourism. We've got a US Reward for the arrest of Nicolas Maduro. What is. What exactly is Trump thinking with this great bonus show? Sign up@join pacman.com I would love it if you also got on my free newsletter@substack.david pakman.com where soon I will be having a live conversation with Robert Reich. It's going to be phenomenal. Phenomenal. We'll see you on the bonus show and back here tomorrow. Marketing is hard, but I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be. Let me point something out. You're listening to a podcast right now, and it's great. You love the host. You seek it out and download it. You listen to it while driving, working out, cooking, even going to the bathroom. Podcasts are a pretty close companion. And this is a podcast ad. Did I get your attention? You can reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from Libsyn Ads. Choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements, or run a pre produced ad like this one across thousands of shows. To reach your target audience in their favorite podcasts with Libsyn Ads, go to libsynads. Com. That's L, I B S Y N Ads. Com. Today.