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**The David Pakman Show**

The David Pakman Show is one of the most-watched independent progressive programs in the country. Hosted by David Pakman, the show offers a fresh perspective on the stories shaping our world through thoughtful commentary and compelling interviews with our nation’s leaders.

With new episodes dropping every weekday, David delivers sharp, insightful, and fact-based analysis on politics, current events, and social issues. Whether you’re looking for deep dives into major political events, in-depth conversations with experts and newsmakers, or sharp-witted breakdowns of the latest headlines, The David Pakman Show has you covered

Latest Episodes:

5/2/25: They're telling us recessions are good now May 02, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- A desperate Donald Trump proposes more crimes

-- Trump tool Peter Navarro now tries to convince Americans that a shrinking economy is actually a good thing

-- An agitated Fox News host Bill Hemmer is forced to admit that Trump's economy is shrinking, will Maria Bartiromo announces the GDP contraction like she's at a funeral

-- Dave Portnoy, a support of Donald Trump's, turns on Trump when Trump tries to blame the shrinking GDP on Biden

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, says that Trump should be trusted almost as if he's a deity

-- Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt gushes over Donald Trump, talking about how gifted and good at everything he is

-- State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce pathetically sucks up to Trump on live TV

-- Charlie Kirk makes maybe his worst argument ever when it comes to affirmative action and DEI

-- A disoriented Donald Trump misfires when asked simple questions

-- Fox News melts down over the latest polling disaster for Donald Trump

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Fox News hosts admit they don't care about facts, Newsmax still pushing Trump third term, Alex Jones worried about Constitution under Trump, and much more...

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5/1/25: Trump will blame recession on Biden, Fox hosts forced to admit fiasco May 01, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Chris Cillizza, political commentator on Substack and YouTube, formerly of CNN, joins David to discuss his transition to independent media, Trump's polling and second term outlook, and much more

-- Donald Trump publicly abandons any responsibility for economic policy and blames Joe Biden for the Q1 2025 GDP contraction

-- Donald Trump admits that, if the US formally enters a recession after the second quarter of 2025, he will blame former President Joe Biden

-- During a cabinet meeting, Trump officials compete to suck up to Trump in a disgusting display of pathetic loyalty

-- The Fox News vs Trump civil war continues to grow as Trump adviser Stephen Miller tells Fox News that they need to fire their pollster

-- A disoriented Donald Trump can't understand what he's asked during a NewsNation town hall, and RFK Jr tells more medical lies

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, holds another pathetic "new media" briefing with a panel of sycophants

-- On the Bonus Show: Senate rejects bipartisan measure to undo Trump's tariffs, US and Ukraine sign critical minerals deal, young men are already souring on Trump, much more...

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4/30/25: GDP down 1st time in 3 years, Trump crashes at rally Apr 30, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) joins David to discuss her recent controversies with Donald Trump, including the Oval Office "hiding behind a binder' photo, appearing with Donald Trump in Michigan, and more

-- GDP declined in the first quarter of 2025 for the first time in three years as the impact of Donald Trump's economic instability had immediate consequences

-- Trump voters react and comment on Trump's first 100 days of his second presidential term

-- Donald Trump's interview with ABC's Terry Moran goes completely off the rails in every way imaginable

-- During a half-empty rally, Donald Trump crashes out, increasingly frustrated and unhinged

-- The White House's latest "new media" press briefing is indistinguishable from a Saturday Night Live skit

-- Donald Trump brags about bullying Jeff Bezos into having Amazon remove price advisories about the impact of tariffs on Amazon products

-- On the Bonus Show: Consumer confidence sinks to lowest level in 5 years, SCOTUS weighs in on law enforcement being accountable when they raid the wrong house, Congress passes bill to fight deepfake nudes, much more...

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4/29/25: Trump official can't deny empty shelves as Canada goes liberal Apr 29, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Isaiah Martin, 26-year-old Democratic candidate for House District 18 in Texas, which has a special election this November, joins David to discuss his campaign, the district, and the wave of upstart young Democrats running for office

-- Thanks to Donald Trump, Canadians have elected Liberal Mark Carney as their new Prime Minister, while right wing candidate Pierre Poilievre lost his seat altogether

-- Donald Trump's unhinged new written interview with Time Magazine is absolutely absurd and completely terrifying

-- Donald Trump is hemorrhaging independent voters, and we dive into the why

-- Scott Bessent, Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, can't deny that empty shelves may well be coming to the United States

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, holds her most unhinged press briefing yet

-- Donald Trump claims to have made 200 trade deals, but there aren't even 200 countries with which to make trade deals

-- Lawyers for Mike Lindell, CEO and founder of MyPillow, get caught using ChatGPT to generate court filings with references to court cases that don't exist

-- On the Bonus Show: Massive power outage in Spain and Portugal, suspect in Kristi Noem purse snatching tells authorities he didn't recognize her, Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts demands for ethics probe, much more...

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4/28/25: Trump deports citizen kids, Gavin Newsom on the show Apr 28, 2025

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-- Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) joins David to discuss California becoming the world's 4th largest economy, how he is fighting the Trump tariffs, what is going on with his podcast, and more

-- Donald Trump's administration deports a 2-year-old US citizen in the latest global humiliation

-- Donald Trump's administration has now deported multiple US citizen children with cancer

-- A historically unpopular Donald Trump is now dealing with the lowest approval at 100 days into a presidential term in more than 80 years

-- A reporter confronts Donald Trump about his "two weeks" protests

-- Democratic Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker calls for mass protests nationally

-- Donald Trump suffers a terrifying meltdown on Truth Social as his economic policy continues to fail

-- A criminally ignorant Trump supporter is unable to make any sense of basic questions from Dean Withers

-- On the Bonus Show: George Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison, Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty, only half of Republicans believe Trump focused on correct policies, much more...

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4/25/25: MAGA Governors terrified as Trump approval collapses Apr 25, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- MAGA Governors are increasingly terrified of their own voters, for good reason

-- A confused Donald Trump struggles to use the English language effectively

-- The military may soon be in the position of having to choose which side they are on

-- Republican support for Donald Trump collapses

-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that Donald Trump might give up on his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war

-- Elon Musk's Tesla is accused of speeding up odometers to push vehicles out of their manufacturers warranty

-- The Trump stock market is headed for its worst April performance since the Great Depression

-- This week's Friday Feedback

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump's tariffs will cause corporate price gouging, Joe Rogan starting to question Trump

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4/24/25: Fox admits economic disaster as Trump out of energy, out of ideas Apr 24, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Even Fox News admits Trump's latest polling and economic policy are a pair of disasters going hand in hand

-- A terrified Donald Trump tries to flee his trade war as the potential for "empty shelves" becomes a reality

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, immediately reverses the latest declarations from Donald Trump about tariffs on China

-- Donald Trump visibly struggled to answer basic questions about his own policies and plans

-- A deflated and desperate Donald Trump, out of ideas, rambles incoherently during an interview with Glenn Beck

-- Donald Trump abandons democracy in an unhinged Truth Social post

-- Stephen Miller, adviser to Donald Trump, suffers a total meltdown on live TV

-- Approval for Donald Trump plummets with every single demographic group

-- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says he will end the promotion of "fat people" to leadership roles

-- On the Bonus Show: Sarah Sanders begs Trump to reconsider relief fund rejection, Trump expected to sign order pushing training for skilled trades, Education Department will resume collecting student loan debt, much more...

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4/23/25: Tesla collapsing, Trump terrified of Epstein files Apr 23, 2025

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-- On the Show:

-- Ned Lamont, Connecticut Governor, joins David to discuss the disastrous Trump tariffs, the trade war, and what states can do to fight back against the economic policy of the Trump administration

-- Tesla records a 71% decline in net income as Elon Musk's political alliance with Donald Trump is destroying the company

-- New concerns about Pete Hegseth's drinking surface after his recent manic, disheveled appearances

-- Donald Trump does not like being asked about the potential release of the Jeffrey Epstein files

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, hilariously says that Trump supporter Tim Pool is "unbiased"

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, tells numerous obvious lies once again on live television

-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is planning a registry of autistic people

-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services, says he has never seen an adult with "full blown autism" in a bizarre public event

-- On the Bonus Show: 60 Minutes Executive Producer resigns over loss of independence, jury finds New York Times did not libel former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Supreme Court seems likely to allow religious families to opt out of LGBT storybooks, much more...

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4/22/25: Hegseth on his way out, Trump confirms Constitution is toilet paper Apr 22, 2025

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-- David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, gun safety activist, and co-founder of March for our Lives, joins David to discuss his strategy of pushing out establishment Democrats and much more...

-- Donald Trump confirms that the Constitution is meaningless to him when it's inconvenient, for example in the case of having to provide due process to people under the law

-- Three months under Donald Trump and we review the economic record, which includes a 14% decline in the stock market

-- News leaks that the Trump White House is looking for a replacement for failing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

-- Donald Trump is not happy when asked whether he has lost confidence in his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth despite reports that he is already looking for a replacement

-- Fox news goes full conspiracy on the Pete Hegseth scandal, claiming it is the "deep state" at work

-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, suggests an absurd new conspiracy theory about Pete Hegseth's growing problems

-- Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost dominates Fox News host Will Cain

-- Donald Trump "powerfully" honors Jesus at a surreal Easter scene

-- On the Bonus Show: House Dems land in El Salvador, CDC injury prevention team is gutted, Kristi Noem's bag with $3000 in cash stolen from DC restaurant, much more...

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4/21/25: Easter meltdowns explode as censorship grows, Signalgate returns Apr 21, 2025

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-- Allison Riggs, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, joins David to discuss the current attempt to steal her recent election from her and what our viewers can do

-- A total meltdown is taking place at Pete Hegseth's Pentagon with mass quitting and the belief that Hegseth may not last much longer

-- A second Signal chat fiasco, this one involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's wife and other family members receiving sensitive information

-- Donald Trump's bizarre Easter message stuns and confuses, as usual

-- An allegedly pro-Trump MAGA lunatic commits a mass shooting at Florida State University

-- A desperate Donald Trump unleashes a series of outrageous Truth Social posts confirming that he knows his tariff policies are failing

-- The Navy censors author Ryan Holiday for planning to discuss books banned by the Naval Academy

-- David has been warned, as a naturalized US citizen, not to leave the country at this time

-- On the Bonus Show: Thousands join anti-Trump protests across the country, White House solicits corporate sponsors for Easter Egg Roll, White House changes COVID.gov webpage to one supporting the lab leak theory, much more...

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