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Cancel financing agreement. 256 gigs $830 eligible Ford in a new line, $100 plus a month plan with auto pay 15 minutes or less for live visit t mobile.com Donald Trump hits a new low today, turning a brutal double homicide into a truth social punchline mocking a dead critic and blaming Trump derangement syndrome for a man and his wife being murdered. And for the first time in a long time, Republicans are not looking away. They're going after him. And we will explore whether this points to some kind of change. Trump then doubles down from the Oval Office and says the victim, Rob Reiner was deranged, refuses accountability and is maybe his most disgusting moment ever. And that really says a lot. We are going to do a deep dive into the jobs situation. Jobs numbers that look OK at a glance but fall apart when you read past the first headline, rising unemployment delayed data. It is the same old trick and it is starting to fail. Plus, Donald Trump may be forced to hand over his medical records after suing the Pulitzer board. There is a looming FBI shakeup as Cash Patel and Dan Bongino may be fired. And a viral moment where Dr. Mike dismantles pseudoscience right to the purveyor's face. It is chaotic, it is ugly and we are going to look at what governing looks like when incompetence and narcissism collide. Also, David Pakman show gear is available again for now, you've got to find it on our merch shelf on YouTube. You just go to any of our YouTube videos. You should see some of the items that are available on. We will have a dedicated page. A lot of this stuff still can be delivered before Christmas, if you can believe it, and certainly before New Year's. Gear is back by popular demand. I'll have more information about that very soon. Well, I have to hand it to him. He almost got away with it. Donald Trump in the administration. If you only looked at the headlines this morning about jobs, might have actually gotten away with it. You might have looked and said, oh, good, you look at November, the American economy created jobs, everything's fine. Great, 64,000 new jobs in November. We are going in the right direction. And just like that, Trump and his White House cronies would have snowed you. They would have gotten away with tricking you and you would be none the wiser. But some of you might have thought to yourselves, hold on a second. November jobs numbers. Did we ever get the October jobs numbers? No, we didn't, because the Trump administration canceled it. But now, as a little bullet point, along with the November numbers, we did finally get the October numbers. And in October, the American economy lost, wait for it, 105,000 jobs. So to put it a different way, in October, we were minus 105. In November, we were plus 64. So over the last two months, we are minus 41,000 jobs. That's the reality of October and November in the jobs market in the American economy. But by delaying the October jobs numbers and now releasing them as a little aside, just a little footnote to the November numbers, the goal, what this administration wants, what Donald Trump wants, is for you not to know that October was disastrous and in fact so disastrous that we barely got back in November. Half the jobs we lost in October minus 105. October plus 64. November, we are minus 41,000 jobs. That's the reality over the last two months. We've also lost jobs in three of the last six months. That's the truth. Trump wants November plus 64,000 and that's it. And go back to whatever it else else it was that you were doing. Also notable from the new jobs report, Trump and his friends talking only about we got 64,000 jobs in November, ignoring the October numbers. But the unemployment rate also went up to 4.6%. Now, 4.6% is not a disaster. 4.6% isn't a terrible number. But the important thing is that the trend line for Unemployment is up, up, up, inching closer and closer to 5%, which would start to look not quite so good. But 4.6% unemployment, which is where the American economy landed in November, gets us to the highest level of unemployment in the United States since September of 2021. We have more unemployment today in the United States of America than we have in more than four years. So this is about the economy, it's about working people, and it's also about propaganda and how the government communicates with us. Trump and his administration want you to believe that, that the country's economy is better than ever, except if we take emotion out of it and we look at the data. Over the last four months, the economy has shed 41,000 jobs. We've had job losses in three of the last six months. The unemployment rate is the highest it has been in more than four years. And right now, 40% of Americans would have to borrow or put it on a credit card if they were hit with an unexpected $400 expense. And that is a real problem for the argument that this is the best economy ever. Trademark. This is the pattern. Every time with this administration, they pick one number that sounds good, they bury the rest or forget that they've hidden it from you. They delay the release of numbers that would be inconvenient, they reframe the story, and they hope that nobody notices and you move on to men and women's sports or some other culture war distraction. If you're only paying attention 50%, it works. And most people I sympathize with them are busy working, raising kids, trying to pay their bills, and they're not paying attention 100%. And this is how you end up forgetting about the unemployment rate, forgetting about losing 105,000 jobs in October and going, oh, we got 64,000 jobs in November. Everything's fine, even though the trend says otherwise. Now, let's dig into the 64,000 a little bit. Gaining 64,000 jobs sounds fine in isolation. Even if you were to forget for a moment that we lost 105,000 jobs in October. But economies, they don't really move in isolation. What I mean by that is they move over time. And the picture over time here is one of deterioration and not strength, minus 105 in October is not a rounding error or a fluke. That is a serious loss of real jobs. And when November only claws back part of it, the the trend line is for losses and not growth. Rising unemployment kind of works the same way. 4.6 in and of itself isn't a problem. Unemployment rises by creeping. First, employers slow hiring, which we've seen. Then they cut hours, they forgo raises. Then there's a hiring freeze. Then come the layoffs. And by the time that unemployment starts to really get higher, the damage has been building for many months, if not longer. And that's why these early increases matter. Another downtick in jobs, another uptick in unemployment, even when Republicans are just sort of waving the entire thing away. And so this is why 4.6% unemployment matters. It's not because 4.6 today is a crisis. It's because it tells you things are heading in the wrong direction. And the policy prescription from the administration is not going to fix it. In fact, the tariff policy specifically, as well as allowing health insurance premiums to skyrocket, all are going to have a negative job on a negative effect on small business, on people's individual jobs. And so when the direction is wrong, the trend is harder to spin. The way you try to spin it is by canceling the October numbers, focusing on the November ones, and then acknowledging as an asterisk at the bottom of the page that we did lose 105,000 jobs in October. So I want you to be more informed than that and not fall for those headlines. Always read beyond the headlines. And by the way, remember, caps critically analyzed primary sources. Listening to Caroline Levitt editorialize the jobs report. No, now this, by the way, this is a difference between them and us even just listening to me editorialize the jobs report. Fact check it. I don't care if it's Caroline Levitt or me. Go to the source data, which, by the way, I'm transparent. We put a bunch of that reporting up on the screen straight from, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Go and find the data yourself. Now, you could take issue and say, are we even getting real data from this administration? That's a different question. I can't fix that. I can't editorialize my way out of that. But fact check everything that I am saying. They tell you they are the ultimate source of truth. I tell you, I'm doing my best to synthesize the information we're getting. Double check it. Fact check me. I welcome that. That's a very big difference from some of these purveyors on the right. Okay. We now have multiple FBI sources that Trump is about to start firing people. Cash Patel, FBI Director and Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director. There is a major shakeup reportedly coming and this tells us something bigger about how Donald Trump governs. And it really draws a Very interesting distinction between the first term of Trump and who and how he hired then and the second term of Trump. And I'm going to get to that in a moment. The reporting is FBI Director Cash Patel reportedly on his way out. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino already on his way out. The reason is not ideology or internal resistance. It is incompetence that has now become politically inconvenient for Trump. Trump is willing to tolerate gobs, just massive dumps of incompetence as long as it doesn't start affecting the perception of Trump. And once that starts to happen, the heads typically start to roll. The trigger was reportedly what's putting this over the edge, so to speak, is reportedly the botched FBI response to the Brown University shooting. You may remember that. Again, FBI Director Cash Patel rushed onto social media to brag, oh, we've already got a person of interest. Within hours, Rhode Island's Attorney General said, yeah, we released that person because there was no legal basis to hold them. They didn't have anything to do with the shooting. It was not an isolated incident. He has jumped the gun many times. He makes these dramatic public claims. They end up walking them back and it just makes them look really bad. And inside the FBI, morale is reportedly at an all time low because of the incompetence of leadership. And there are serious, if, if nothing else, there are really serious people who work for the FBI and they are saying the agency is in shambles under the leadership of these people. And it is because of Patel and Bongino. Bongino situation is reportedly even more revealing. Staff say his office has been empty for weeks. Internally, he is seen by the FBI brass as unserious, unqualified, and more interested in maintaining his media brand than running the agency. One source reportedly referring to Bongino as a clown. This is not Democrats, you know, this is not Bernie or aoc. This is Trump's own people and the staff inside of the FBI. What I believe makes this moment important and different is how it differs from Donald Trump's first term. During Trump's first presidency, Trump would often hire people who were at least marginally competent by traditional standards. So I'll give you an example. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. I don't want an oil man as my Secretary of State, but at least in by the traditional sense of understanding how you relate to people, understanding diplomacy, understanding the responsibilities of a position. Rex Tillerson checked that box. And it could apply also in Trump's first term to some of the generals, some of the prosecutors, some of the, you know, establishment people, career professionals who were put in positions of power. And during the first term, the reason it backfired wasn't because they were incompetent. It was because they weren't. And slowly but surely, as Trump realized, they seemed to be prioritizing something other than loyalty to me, Trump started pushing them out. They weren't necessarily bad at their jobs. They pushed policies I didn't agree with, but the winning president gets to do that. They left or they were pushed out because they weren't loyal enough. And that started to become a conflict with Donald Trump. James Mattis is another example. John Kelly, to a degree, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, they were not progressive heroes. They were not on the left. I didn't agree with them on policy. But at key moments, they might refuse to lie for Trump, for example, or refuse to break the law for Donald Trump, or refuse to put Trump above an institution and its checks and balances. And. And for Trump, that was unforgivable. So that was the first term Trump learned from that. And then the wrong lesson. I should. I should be clear. Trump learned if the people are competent and not loyal, it's a problem for me. And so this time around, exactly as we were all predicting, loyalty was the primary prism through which Trump made hiring decisions. Trump put ultra loyalists in the administration, media personalities, ideologues, people who have spent years attacking the very institutions they are suddenly in charge of. And now we see the results. This time, loyalty is not the problem. The problem is the dysfunction and the incompetence. And you get leaders who don't know the difference between performative bravado and actually doing their jobs. And again, Trump doesn't care about the incompetence if. Until it becomes an embarrassment for him. And that's where we are right now. And that is why Donald Trump is starting to turn on his own. Different scenario than in term one, for different reasons. Trump is having to start to push people out. But just as disturbing, the part that should really worry people is that whenever Trump fires people, he usually puts in replacements that are more dangerous, sometimes by virtue of being a little bit less cartoonish. I'll explain, because we've seen this pattern. Think back to Donald Trump's initial second term nominee for Attorney general, former Congressman Matt Gaetz. A walking scandal, cartoonishly extreme, deeply unserious. And that nomination failed because it was clear they weren't going to have Republican support. So Trump pivoted to Pam Bondi. Bondi is not less ideological than Matt Gates. Bondi is not less loyal than Matt Gaetz. She is more polished, though she's more experienced, she has slightly fewer scandals in her backstory and therefore she's in the more dangerous position of being able to get things done. In other words, Gates was worse in an obvious headline grabbing way, but because of that he probably would have been less effective because incompetence can act as a sort of break that's like, not like a brake. I'm talking about like a brake pedal. And professionalism removes the brake pedal and people with equally bad ideas can get more of it done. We're probably going to see the same dynamic play out here. If Patel and Bongino are pushed out, Trump is likely to replace them with people who are just as loyal but probably more functional in some way. Less cartoonish, fewer unforced errors, better at quietly bending institutions to Trump's will. So while the immediate story looks like chaos and collapse and all of it, the longer term risk is consolidation. And in Trump's first term people were fired for not being loyal enough. In the second, they're being fired for being so damn loyal but so incompetent that they become a humiliation to Donald Trump. The outcome is a system where loyalty to Trump matters most. What they're able to get done depends on exactly who he's replacing them with. So the report Patel and Bongino out. My expectation is that whoever replaces them, if the reports are true, are going to be more effective at doing Trump's dirty deeds. Let me know what you think. Leave a comment make sure you are subscribed to the YouTube channel as we approach 3.5 million subscribers. Who could have imagined a decade ago when we were just getting started on YouTube, that we would be talking about 3.55 million subscribers? Certainly not me, that I can tell you. I love it when a box of bottles of wine from Naked Wines shows up at my house. We unpack it. I'm partial to the white wine. My girlfriend is more partial to the red wine. 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Making fun of John McCain for getting captured during the Vietnam War and then getting a doctor's note that says your heels hurt your bones, you have bone spurs in your ankles or heels and you can't get drafted, right? It's tough to compare those things because they are very different. But from the standpoint of showing how as an individual person, Trump is morally depraved and totally vacant and vapid, this might be it. Donald Trump posted the Truth Social after the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, who were murdered brutally now, it appears, by their own son, Nick Reiner. Donald Trump posted the following to Truth Social Quote A very sad this. This is disgusting to even read. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as tds. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle rest in peace. That's really from the President of the United States. Just as an exercise in contrasts, remember when Charlie Kirk was killed, some people said, you know, Kirk believed horrible things, but he didn't deserve to be killed. And the MAGA people went absolutely crazy. There is a basic moral rule that most people share. When someone dies, especially violently, you either shut your mouth or you show a little bit of respect and compassion. And we expect this even from people that we dislike. We expect it even in war. We expect it on social media where standards are already in the toilet. And Trump didn't do it. He didn't stay silent. He didn't offer condolences. He didn't even only insult Rob Reiner. He took a brutal death and turned it into a punchline and a branding opportunity. Now, note that Rob Reiner's reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder was very different, even though Rob Reiner disagreed with Kirk politically. Here is Rob Reiner weighing in on that. On a prior episode of the Piers Morgan program, you first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk. What was your immediate gut reaction to it?