The David Pakman Show - The most embarrassing episode in American history?

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump prematurely celebrates a finalized peace agreement with Iran even though the official signing is still several days away -- Vice President JD Vance walks back the administration's declaration of total victory by publicly noting that implementation will take time -- A controversial UFC event is hosted on the White House lawn to celebrate Donald Trump's 80th birthday -- Donald Trump falls completely asleep ringside during a UFC match at his own birthday celebration and requires a physical awakening -- The broadcast of the White House UFC event features ads promoting a private cryptocurrency platform linked directly to the Trump family -- Donald Trump attends his UFC birthday party while his unverified deal to end the war looks like a complete capitulation to the Iranian regime -- Immigration authorities arrest a law-abiding Venezuelan asylum seeker during a honeymoon trip to a Trump-owned golf resort -- Footage exposes political influencer Riley Gaines receiving explicit verbal instructions on what talking points to feed her audience -- On the Bonus Show: Gas prices will take a while to fall, Trump scolded Charlie Kirk over Epstein before his death, Britain to ban children under 16 from social media, and much more... 💳 PDS Debt: Get your free assessment & find the best option for you at https://pdsdebt.com/pakman 😺 Smalls cat food: Use code PAKMAN for 60% off & free shipping at https://smalls.com 🥄 Magic Spoon: Use code PAKMAN for $5 off at https://magicspoon.com/pakman 🩳 SHEATH Underwear: Code PAKMAN for 20% OFF at https://sheathunderwear.com/pakman 🔬 Freedom From Religion Foundation: Text DAVID to 511511 or go to https://ffrf.us/david -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe to our (FREE) Substack newsletter: https://davidpakman.substack.com -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow (00:00) Start (01:27) Trump claims Iran war is over (08:15) JD Vance implies Iran war is not over (19:13) Trump's UFC White House birthday party (26:20) Trump sleeps through UFC fight (33:47) Trump runs scams during UFC event (41:11) Trump partied while US surrendered (48:16) ICE arrests Trump supporter's husband (55:16) Riley Gaines caught taking instructions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We've got to see what happens. Then Trump's White House UFC birthday spectacle turns into a national embarrassment. As a fighter says Michelle Obama is a man and Trump falls asleep during the fight only to be slapped away by Dana White, even people beating the crap out of each other wasn't enough to keep Trump awake. Imagine if that happened to Biden and then stunning conflict of interest as Trump's crypto venture is promoted during coverage of the UFC fight. It turns out the fighters will get a bonus in Trump's crypto coin. It's disgusting. It's insane. It may be the most embarrassing moment for the United States in a very long time. And that's not even all of it.

A woman who loves Trump has her husband. Not has. The husband of a woman who loves Trump is arrested by ICE. And she says, I still love Trump. All of that and more today. Well, the war is finally over, right? Or is it? As we entered week 16 of Donald Trump's three to four week war, we were told we've finally gotten a deal. We will analyze what is in that, but sort of funny and pathetic. Before announcing the deal, a furious Donald Trump on his 80th birthday goes on truth social and

flips out because they're yucking his yum. Trump posting, quote, this morning's attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a peace deal with Iran. Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless. Nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process. We are very close to a deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon and all sides should stand down. There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but

there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah against Israel. This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful piece. Let's not blow it. Hours later, just before the dilapidated and humiliating UFC fight on the White House lawn was scheduled to start, Donald Trump goes back on truth social. Hold on to do. I have it here. Where's my true? Exactly. Trump goes on troth and starts trothing like a maniac and announces with great fanfare and marginally

acceptable syntax, grammar and spelling. Quote, the deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all. I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening 888 call now to talk. The toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz. And simultaneously herewith authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval Blockade. Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow.

Ladies and gentlemen, the war is over. And then Trump continuing, this great deal will bring peace and security to the whole region. Many presidents have tried to make peace with Iran and all have failed before me. The leaders of the region have for the first time found a president who can help them achieve real peace with the opening of the straight upon the signing of the deal on Friday. Uh oh. For purposes of mine removal, oil will flow on both. ends again for the region and the world. So the deal is done except it isn't. No other president

has been able to achieve this except Obama did and Trump canceled it. And Trump says we have a done deal except the signing hasn't quite happened yet. So that is not a done deal. That is an anticipated deal. It is the 40th anticipated deal of this 16 week war, which was only supposed to last three weeks. It's sort of like infrastructure week before actually doing any infrastructure or we have a health care plan ready to be signed into law two weeks from now. And that was July of 2020. You do the math. So Trump loves treating the announcement as the accomplishment. Trump loves.

It's sort of like when Trump signs an executive order, he considers that he's done something. But the executive order is just a memo. It's like, hey, I would like for someone to do this thing. And what exactly did Iran agree to? What exactly has the United States agreed to? What happens if either side violates the agreement? Well, those questions are secondary to nothing has actually been signed. What mechanisms for verification that the deal is being adhered to exist?

We don't know. Donald Trump desperate on his birthday, on the day of this. rained out mosquito-ridden UFC fight, desperate to announce a deal that we can't even really evaluate yet. Now, as expected, stocks are reacting exactly as Trump wanted as I am recording this. The Dow is up nearly 600 points. The NASDAG is up over 600 points, which on a percentage basis is even more. Everything is soaring today thanks to Donald Trump's announcement.

Now, I do think, and we're going to dig into this more, it's very important to remember that Donald Trump spent years attacking Barack Obama's Iran deal. One of the central arguments was Obama gave away leverage too early in the process. Trump is now publicly celebrating before anything is signed. This gives Iran leverage. Iran now knows Trump has already announced the deal. The deal is already priced into the stock market. deal is going to increasingly be priced into oil prices, which I guess let's just look at oil

prices live, are down another 4% as of right now, thanks to this announcement. So Iran now has the leverage of knowing Trump may need to accept terms that are not that great for the United States because he has already gotten all of the mileage out of the announcement. And if this falls through, all of these economic phenomena are going to be. to reverse. There is a very long history of politicians declaring victory too early. And the danger is that you create this celebratory narrative before we even have any of the facts. Trump has sort of invented Schrodinger's peace deal. It's simultaneously complete and historic and finalized and not signed and still subject to negotiation and a few days away. All of that stuff is happening at the

same time. History judges the actual outcome, not the announcement. And one of the greatest bits of evidence that deep down, slightly more serious people know that there's a long way to go here is that even vice president J.D. Vance said it's going to take a little bit of time. Let's take a look at that. J.D. Vance coming in to pee on the parade by saying, well, not So not so fast Donald Trump. Is Trump going to have to crush J.D. Vance for this? J.D. Vance is essentially coming in to clean up Donald Trump's mess. As we spoke about just moments ago, Donald Trump announced that the three-week war is finally ending after 16 weeks. Now, of course, the deal won't be signed until Friday, at which point we will be almost 17 weeks into this war. And will

it really be signed? Well, we don't know. So in comes J.D. Vance and calls into Fox News yesterday, as Donald Trump is getting ready for his birthday celebration, UFC fight, and says, well, hold on a second. I don't think this is exactly everybody's singing kumbaya. We're going to need to wait a little bit to learn the ways of peace. But this is a major step. So understand the contrast here already between Donald Trump saying, it's over. We got everything.

And J.D. Vance going, well, I don't know. You're exactly right. I mean, after the Israelis struck Beirut, we were very worried. We saw a lot of evidence that the Iranians were going to launch a large number of missiles at the Israelis. With our communication with them over the course of getting to this signed peace deal, they assured us that they were not going to respond to the Israelis, and they were going to sign this agreement and get to peace. Now, of course, you always have to verify these things, Trey, and we know that there are a lot of people in the Middle East who do,

who do not want to make this deal happen. There's, of course, the Hezboa terrorist organization, some elements of that organization. This is a lot of caveats. Are still threatening the Israelis. You have a number of different pieces that are moving. And as you know, Trey, sometimes these ceasefires take a little bit of time to take root. People are very good over there at fighting each other. They haven't quite learned how to make peace.

But I think under the president's leadership, we've turned over a new leaf. We're going to keep on working at it. I'm not going to say that everybody's going to sing kumbaya tomorrow. It's going to take a little bit of time to learn the ways of peace. But I do think we took a major, major step tonight. Yeah. We've taken a step. However, it's not done.

We need to be skeptical. We need to be cautious. Nobody's going to be singing kumbaya. People are really good at fighting over there. Let's see how it all shakes out. If the deal's complete, why are we still talking about how long it's going to take to get peace? Well, that doesn't really sound like a completed deal. And notice how sort of quietly J.D. Vance lowers expectations right after Trump raises them and goes,

this thing is over. It's cleanup duty. Trump announces victory and J.D. Vance comes in and goes, there's some uncertainty here. There's implementation risk. Major step is very different than problem solved. And so we've moved on in a matter of minutes from it's done and it's over to we are starting a complex and unpredictable process. It's expectations management. We know what it is, but we're sick of it because we're in week 16 of Donald Trump's three-week war. Back to JD Vance who says, this is the immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran

will never have a nuclear weapon if they deliver on their promise. Uh-oh. So we don't really know yet, do we? Well, first of all, I do think it's a big moment for the United States of America, thanks, of course, to the president's leadership and the hard work of the entire team. Three things that I think are important for the American people just to appreciate about what this deal does for all of us as Americans. Number one, this is the immediate opening of the Straits of Hormuz and, of course, the lifting of the naval blockade that we've had on Iran along with it. The number two thing that it means is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon and not just persisting. pursue a nuclear weapon for procure or try to buy a nuclear weapon as well.

That's built into this agreement. And then the third thing is, and this only happens to be clear, if Iran delivers on their promise. And so there's an approach here where we verify and where there are real benefits so long as Iran meets there into the obligation. But if the Iranians comply with his deal, it is going to fundamentally transform the Middle East for the next 50. Listen to the number of ifs there.

Iran delivers on their promise, if they stick to what's being proposed. Wait, wow. So there is a lot of hypothetical here. This is still a contingent outcome. It's not even if we had signed the deal, JD is setting expectations of Iran may not really comply. So this is conditionally conditional. It's admitting that it all depends on future compliance if and when it's signed at the end of the week depending on who actually goes and takes place. Now, what enforcement mechanisms are there?

It's great to hope for a future outcome, but what are the mechanisms here? This sounds a lot more like a work in progress when you hear from JD Vance. And finally, the vice president asked, what about people who are worried about what this has done to gas prices as this continues? But what is your message to the American people when their primary concern is that price at the pump? Well, I guess my primary message to the American people is, thank you, because of your patience. I think that we've solved the problem that has plagued this country again for well before I was even born, which is a terrorist supporting Iran that was pursuing a nuclear weapon. We are now at a place here where we can stay with confidence, they're not going to get a nuclear

weapon. And again, if they comply with the broader elements to deal, this entire region, I mean, think about this. For 40 years, if you've heard about the middle of the middle of the police as an American, you've heard about war, you've heard about terrorism, you've heard about the- All right. So the message is patience. It's a very interesting message because patience implies you know people are feeling economic pain.

Thank you for your patience is what airlines say when they know that everybody's pissed off because their flight is delayed, not when everything is going swimmingly. You don't say thank you for your patience when things are working perfectly. That's there's been a disruption. Thank you for your patience. There's been a delay. There's been an inconvenience. There's been a problem. Thank you for your patience. And so if gas prices were about to collapse, he would be able to say these prices are going to come down so quickly the way Trump has been saying. If this relief was imminently approaching, he would be able to say the relief is imminent. But instead, it's thank you for your page patience. We've got a few more days until we figure out who's going to the

signing that we believe is going to take place at which point we would be. We'll have to evaluate whether Iran complies. But Trump goes, it's over. Give me my UFC fight. Give me my birthday party. Give me my 500 point Dow Jones Industrial average pop in the stock market. And then in comes JD, who he's incredibly inarticulate and totally lacks gravitas and charisma.

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And it was led by the egomaniacal desires of Donald Trump. Now, I have some good news for those of us who didn't really want this thing to go well because it's so embarrassing. And the first thing, and I love it, is that the weather was a disaster. It was mosquitoes, clouds of mosquitoes and torrential downpours, which delayed Donald Trump's fight, which in a way led to the final fight happening really late, at which point Trump fell asleep. So it all came together in delightfully humiliating fashion.

Here is a report about the rain delay. By the way, this is the White House. The background of this video is the White House. What an embarrassment. What a debate. Obviously, the weather, a major focus over the past 24 hours. I was just down at the command center and was able to speak with Kevin Mahoney from DTN Weather Services, a private weather company commissioned by the UFC.

They're working closely with the Presidential Weather Office and the National Weather Service tracking a cell of thunderstorms over West Virginia that is set to move into the Metro D.C. area between now and 9 p.m. Now it is not rain that they are concerned with. that is high winds and lightning. And I am told that if that happens, a shelter in place will be initiated. And shelter in place on Trump's birthday. Oh, you love to see it.

Steve Trench, who is the VP of Global VP of Event Security, told me that each department has a designated location. Those from the South Lawn will come here to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It is also the home of the fighter's locker rooms. It's where I'm standing right now. I'm also told that that shelter in place will be lifted within 30 minutes of the last lightning strike within a six mile radius. Anyway, so this is what it's, it's really funny to hear them reporting about weather when for

so long they have wanted to defund weather agencies. By the way, they were mad at the National Weather Service for the forecast. It's sort of like yell. It's the physical embodiment of old man yells at cloud. I'm angry that I am being told the weather forecast. So after that delightful humiliation, the whole fight goes down. Trump falls asleep. We'll get to that.

After the whole thing, they go to Dana White, the president of UFC, who has the, I don't even think I would call it audacity. He seems to have a total lack of awareness and wherewithal and goes, hopefully this was a unifying event for America. What? And they tune into the next one because international fight week's going to be fun too. So yeah, hopefully we we created some unity in the country and in the world and and brought in some new fans.

You know, oh, this folks, they're they're seeing this and just laughing hysterically at us around the world. Forget. Let's just go backwards a little bit. What on earth is unifying about taxpayer money going to an event on the event on the the White House lawn to line the pockets of Dana White, Donald Trump's friend in another cronyistic fiasco. While people are struggling to pay for gas, pay for groceries, pay for health care,

wages are down, inflation is up. What is unifying about seeing the federal government get involved in this? That's bad enough. But then you know what's really not unifying? One of the fighters during the fight while being interviewed by Joe Rogan, saying Michelle Obama is a man, which is another one of these. They have these conspiracy theories they love. And one of the ones that the real magaponscum love is that Michelle Obama is secretly male.

And I don't know if it's like, well, she was born a man or they never explained it. Anyway, Michelle Obama is a man. Here is Josh Hokit on the White House lawn telling Joe Rogan, Michelle Obama is a man. And lastly. Moshel Obama is a man. Am I right? Ladies and Joe. Moshel Obama is a man.

Am I right America? Obama. Obama. Um, this is the guy that vomited on himself, by the way, the day before the fight, because he showed up wasted out of his mind. Uh, is there any good news here? news here. I guess that this guy is going to be paid in the currency of Trump's shit coin. Is that the only saving grace here? This is disgraceful on America's 250th birthday. And by the way, I guess Rogan finds it all kind of funny. Mischel Obama is a man, not the peak, not the

peak of liberal democracy in the United States. States. If you're looking for any other good news out of this thing, I guess maybe it's that maga clown Michael Chandler, a UFC fighter who loves Trump, got the crap kicked out of him. Like, I find this entire thing deplorable, but is there a silver lining there to some degree? I don't really know. But, you know, we talk about the high moments for the United States of America. when our institutions find or develop cures for serious disease or under Kennedy when we went to the moon, which the Magus think was fake and staged. These people are just, they're the worst of the worst of the worst.

We think about the New Deal era after finally, we were on the right side of a war in World War II and then FDR and the New Deal and we create social security and we've got to, an employment boom and the country comes together, these great moments. And then we have on the 80th birthday of the most corrupt president in history, in the middle of a war, in the middle of a health cover up in the middle of all of it, a UFC fight on the White House lawn during which one of the fighters says that the former first lady is actually a man and Joe Rogan laughs. What a sad state of affairs. What a sad state of affairs. And you know what? Trump couldn't even be bothered to stay awake for it. Donald Trump on his 80th birthday was so asleep that he slept through a brutal

beatdown happening right in front of him and had to be slapped awake by UFC president Dana White. I wish I were kidding. Donald Trump turned 80 years old. yesterday. He held a UFC event on White House grounds, a multi-million dollar handout to UFC president Dana White. He stayed up into the early morning hours because the entire fiasco was delayed by rain and storms. And then he fell asleep during a fight. And as a beatdown is happening in front of him, he has to be slapped awake by Dana White. Take a look at this. Trump is completely asleep as this beat down is happening. And then he slept there.

It goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that was great, Dana. That was great. We have another video of Trump completely and totally passed out during this thing. Folks, he's asleep. He's out. He's just sleeping. Donald Trump spent years convincing tens of millions of people that age,

stamina, and alertness are the most important qualifications for being president of the United States. He mocked President Biden as sleepy, tired, old, low energy, incapable of handling the demands of the presidency. Trump created that standard. He said, Biden can only do 10 to 4. That's not enough for president. If Joe Biden were shown sitting ringside at any sporting event, with his eyes closed, head down unresponsive until someone next to him hits him to wake him up. Fox News would be running that clip every hour for a week. They didn't even cover this. They have not covered the fact that Trump was passed out as a beatdown was happening

in front of him at his birthday party. We all know how right wing media would react. There would be no nuance. There would be no, well, Trump's 80. He just negotiated a peace deal. It was 1 a.m. There would be no discussions about context. It would be this guy must be removed right now if it were Joe Biden or anybody else.

Trump is now 80. His gait doesn't make sense. He swings his right leg and drags it. There are questions about stamina. He's reportedly structuring his day for for serious work from 12 to 5. This was a nighttime fight. Trump can't do it anymore. It's too late for him.

He does most events sitting now, not standing. These are the physical realities of being the oldest president ever in American history. And what is especially awkward is that this happened during an event that was essentially designed around Donald Trump's interest. That wasn't a policy briefing or supposedly this is entertaining for Trump. I get it. It's another cabinet meeting. He falls asleep.

He's bored. It's another briefing. He falls asleep. He's board. It's a business round table with 20 people taking turn speaking. It's boring. It's a NATO summit. It's a seven hour congressional hearing.

This was what Trump wanted. It was a UFC fight at the White House for Trump's birthday. If there were ever a setting where you would expect Trump's energy to be there and for him to be engaged, it would be this. And they have spent years. saying when Biden occasionally looks tired or disengaged, it's evidence of a much larger problem. If that is the standard for Biden, why isn't it a fair standard for Donald Trump? And if that standard was unfair for Biden, then maybe the right wingers owe a few people apologies for the

years of the exaggerated coverage because they spent much of 2024 leading up to the election, arguing that it shouldn't be a choice for Americans between two elderly declining candidates. Age matters and Trump isn't an elderly declining candidate. Only Biden is. And now they're defending an 80-year-old president who is asleep at his own birthday party. Grandpa fell asleep before they brought out the cake for him to blow out the candles. Are the people who spent a decade obsessing over every blink, stumble, pause and closed eye movement from Joe Biden ready to apply the same standard to Donald Trump?

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It was a handout to his friend Dana White. No, no, no, no, no. Trump had other scams running during the UFC fight to make more money. And they involve crypto. Let me explain. Donald Trump hosted what was presented as a historic event. UFC fight on White House grounds. Incredible partnership between government and brutal beatdown league.

I don't know why we needed that partnership, but I guess we did. President of the United States, White House, Dana White, UFC fighting the symbolism of the presidency and the symbolism of the White House. And it turned into a crypto promotion, not after the event, not, you know, on some unrelated website that was streaming the thing during the actual broadcast. Now, I'll remind you that USD1 is a US dollar pegged stable coin launched by World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial is the digital asset platform linked to the Trump family from which Trump and his kids have made ungodly amounts of money.

And during the broadcast, lo and behold, there's an advertisement for Trump's crypto coin. Listen to this. Close captioning for tonight's broadcast is brought to you by Trumpcoins.com, the official UFC Freedom 250 special edition medallions graded by NGC limited quantities available now at Trump coins. Sorry, this is actually, now I messed up. There were multiple scams during this thing. So this is Trump coins.

There's a limited number and blah, blah, blah. Okay. So this is scam number one. Now, and then there's scam number two. Now, as I get into scam number two, which is the USD1, remember that for years we were told Hunter Biden making paintings and selling them to people who might pay more because he's Hunter Biden is the biggest corrupt crime in presidential history. They told us that.

Okay. Every business connection involving a politician, especially if their name is Biden, is a scandal. We have a sitting president who is now selling commemorative coins and FTs all during a White that he set up with his friend Dana White. They're not even making an attempt to hide the conflict of interest. And you know what? Why would they? Because the MAGA people don't give a damn.

The conflict of interest is the product. It's that Trump is involved. And then it gets worse. They move on to saying fighters will be paid bonuses through the Trump family's crypto company. Listen to this. Also tonight's $250,000 performance bonus in USD one is presented by World Liberty Financial. USD one is a digital dollar. Send money faster and cheaper available on leading exchanges.

There you go. The $250,000 performance bonus to the fighters is paid in US. D1, a cryptocurrency that is part of the world liberty financial, which is Donald Trump's family's crypto platform. Imagine this under any other president. This is overtly the most corrupt event ever to physically happen at the White House and ever to be sanctioned by a president of the United States. Imagine for a moment, you know where I'm going.

Obama. If Barack Obama hosted a sporting event on White House property for a league owned by his friend, and then during the event, ran promos and had product placement for his own family's financial venture. Imagine if Malia Obama had a crypto coin. And during the sporting event run by Obama's friend, they advertise Malia's crypto coin. And they don't care because it's Trump. If this were Obama, forget about 24 hour coverage for six straight months on Fox News.

It would be congressional hearings and it would be special investigations and it would be emergency press conferences and wall to wall outrage. And the reason this matters is not whether crypto is good or bad. I own some crypto. I've told everybody for now a decade, I've kept two and a half percent of my net worth in Bitcoin. And as it goes up, I sell down. And when it goes down, I back, I've just rinse repeat. I determine that's my risk tolerance.

It's not about whether crypto is good or bad. Maybe crypto succeeds. Maybe it fails. Maybe the coin goes up. Maybe the coin crashes. The point is that the president of the United States appears to be using his public office to drive attention and business to a private financial enterprise connected to his family, which is partially responsible for his net worth going up more than $2 billion

since he was sworn in in January of 25. The White House is supposed to belong to the public. It is not supposed to function as a marketing venue or to generate leads for Trump's businesses or to be an infomercial. And that is what they turned this into with, I mean, look, with the Washington monument in the background of this watch party, they aren't concerned about how it looks because they have determined they don't even need to pretend that there's separation between the government and Trump's personal financial interests. The branding and the financial connections, it's all

out in the open. It feels like a presidential event. And notice how it fits the pattern that there is a blurring of public office and private business. Even when Trump is clearly functioning as president at the White House, there's this like, well, hold on a second. The people visiting him are staying in his hotel and he's got merchandise. He's handing out to people at the White House and he's got a media venture and a crypto project. And that line is essentially non-existent. When does the question become, how do we stop this blurring between Trump as president and

Trump as businessman? And the answer is, they did away with that question when before Trump was even sworn in the first time, he brought out that stack of papers, which might not even have had anything on it. And when I'm separating from my businesses, what, how? You still know you own them. You know you own these hotels. What are you talking about? The White House holding the most corrupt event in American history.

And maybe the most amazing part is the top line is now secondary. Like there's a crypto scam. all these things. It's a UFC fight at the White House. That's the big piece of humiliating insanity. And that has become secondary, if not even tertiary. But all of this was happening as Trump was surrendering to Iran. And that's maybe the insane foreign policy situation, which we have to address. Donald Trump partied and slept on camera late into the night last night for his 80th birthday. What was taking place at the same time is that the United States was effectively surrendering to Iran. David, what do you mean? I thought we got a deal. Well, we didn't get a deal yet. Trump did

announce a deal, which has not yet been signed. When will it be signed? Maybe later this week. Who will be at the signing? We don't know. What exactly is going to be in the deal? We don't know. But this was a surrender, a true disaster for a president. It is difficult to think of a more embarrassing series of events and Trump was busy watching UFC until 1 a.m. to care. There's a great article in the Atlantic by Tom Nichols called Trump celebrates while America capitulates. The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory. And it lays out the stakes very well and the sort of contrast of June 14th, 2026. Trump turns 80 and announces the war is over. As we already reviewed and analyzed, It is not exactly over yet.

He then goes to watch this absurd UFC fight on the White House lawn plagued by cronyism and rain and mosquitoes and crypto scams. We still don't know the full details of the Iran agreement because as always, the full text of it, the signing, it's just a few days away. But as Tom Nichols writes, just go back to the originally stated goals of this war. We would get a different regime in place. We are going to do regime change in Iran. the Iranian regime is intact, it is alive and well, and it is negotiating with Donald Trump

with a new leader. So that one failed. The Iranians will still control the Strait of Hormuz in the sense that they can attack it whenever they want and that is not going to be changing. Well, we are going into Iran to get rid of their ballistic missiles capabilities. Iran is keeping its massive armed drone and missile stockpile. Well, Iran, will no longer be able to be a state sponsor of terror. Nothing changes there at all. And you know what? Billions of dollars in sanctions are expected to be lifted and the money will flow back

into Iran. I want you to remember that Trump and his ilk pounded Obama for including a version of that in his Iran nuclear deal. It was hundreds of millions of dollars, which the MAGA people said, Obama's giving Iran money. Now, they're not giving Iran money. They're lifting sanctions on money that is already Iran's. Trump's deal is expected to do the same thing to the tune of billions, not hundreds of millions, but billions of dollars will be released to Iran under Trump. So that is a failure as well. So Iran had their regime survived. They kept their ballistic

capabilities. Unclear on nuclear capabilities. We'll come back to that. And we'll get billions of dollars in sanctions relief and frozen money back. What did the U.S. gain? I don't know that the U.S. gained much at all. Now what Trump and others are going to brag about, this is the nuclear thing, they're going to say, this now will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon if they signed the deal and adhere to it. Well, Iran already had agreed to that as part of the Obama nuclear deal.

And until Trump got out of that deal for no reason, Iran was sticking to it. I know that Benjamin Netanyahu tried to present the case that Iran was not. There was no good evidence presented that until Trump got out of the Iran nuclear deal with the Obama Iran nuclear deal, Iran was not sticking to those requirements. We had the big accomplishment that Trump is now seeking under the Obama Iran nuclear deal. But as Barack Obama made clear during an interview a couple of weeks ago, what Trump really didn't like about that deal was that it had Obama's name on it. We are in this mess to begin with. We are paying what we are paying for gas. We are seeing what we are seeing economically foreign

policy. The reason we're in all of this, the reason we're in week 16 of a three week war is because Obama's name was on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Now, the final element of the deal is what Trump is weirdly calling nuclear dust. It's a weird term. What he means is uranium, uranium that is now believed to be below the rubble of the bombings. Tom Nichols writes, quote, the Iranians, however, are busily planting booby traps around the uranium to ensure it stays where it is. And despite Hegsseth's blustering, America is not going to march into Iran and dig it out without Tehran's consent. If anything, the Iranians now have every incentive to sprint to a bomb and can do so with far less transparency that they had to endure under the JCPOA, meaning the Iran nuclear deal.

This is a humiliating failure. Trump was partying at your expense on the White House lawn while Dana White made millions as this went on. Where are the Republicans in office calling this out? If you're sitting in Florida or even in Florida in Texas, in Arkansas, in Connecticut, wherever you're sitting, if you're saying to yourself, well, I don't like this, but I'm still going to vote to reelect my Republican member of the House or Senate. Remind yourself that your member of the House or Senate has said nothing about this corrupt, cronyistic disaster. at the White House being used with your taxpayer money being used to fund it. So they deserve to be

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We are talking, of course, of Brian Jose Rojas Galofre decided to give his wife what she really wanted for their honeymoon, which was to see Donald Trump in the flesh. She loves Trump. She voted for Trump. They figured out, listen, there's a Republican retreat happening at Donald Trump's Doral Golf Club in Florida. So they were clever. They've been. booked rooms at Trump's club. They take a beautiful road trip from Wisconsin down to Florida. They go to Trump's hotel where ICE detains him and puts him in an ice cage for three months. He was accused of being in a gang. He was threatened with deportation to El Salvador. He lost his job. He lost his work permit. The family has lost their house and car. They spent the 401k money they

had and they are now in debt. It is another example of Trump destroying a family. Sort of an ironic side note. His wife's name is Socorro Saragosa. Socorro means help in Spanish. It's almost like SOS. Her name means help, help, which is very apropos of the situation. Now, let's be very clear. The guy really did everything right. We're going to get to his civil and fractions in a moment, but he came here during the Biden administration and turned himself into border patrol. He didn't try to hide in the country. He requested asylum saying, I am fleeing Venezuela for political reasons.

Border patrol processed him and released him into the United States while working on the asylum application. He got a job working at a break disc factory. He was paying taxes. He was earning 29 bucks an hour. He was promoted to supervisor for his good work. He was a productive member of society doing things correctly. He marries an American woman.

He then says, hey, now I can adjust my immigration status because I married a citizen. He did it all right. They get to Trump's golf club under a car seat. There's an air pistol. This is, it's known as an airsoft gun. These fire plastic pellets and they're used for recreational purposes. And his wife said she carries it for personal safety when she drives alone. It looks like a real firearm.

It's not. It does fire these pellets. Okay. Authorities also found a metal marijuana grinder in the passenger side glove compartment. And so the couple was arrested by local PD charged with account of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use. They pleaded not guilty. That case remains open as a right now.

But this combined with seeing the guy's tattoos, the situation escalates, allegations of gang membership, all of this stuff. Now, their lawyer has said, we are really talking about civil infractions here. This is not an appropriate immigration outcome as a result. And what's important to remember is that Donald Trump loves to talk about and said during his campaign, we are going to go after burdens on American society. We need to do something about the people that are holding back and dragging down society. This guy did everything right. He was working.

He was paying taxes. And after all of this, you would think, well, I'm sure now his wife no longer loves Trump, right? She no longer supports Trump. Wrong. She says, after all of this, her feelings towards Trump haven't changed. She still loves Trump. She's happy to have voted for Trump. quote, I don't think anything bad about the president.

It wasn't his fault. It was our fault. Oh, boy. And listen, it certainly is their fault that they chose to go to Trump's golf club in the circumstances they found themselves in. That you could say is their fault. That was their call. But this is another example of Trump destroying families with policies that are not

making us any safer. We are no safer because this guy was arrested and thrown into an ice cage for three months. We're just not any safer. There's no evidence or factual basis you can point to you to say the country was made safer by detaining and arresting this guy and ultimately charging him. Just not the case. Now, you might think all the way back to when Donald Trump was asked about, well, how, who are you going to target? And Trump goes, you know, we're going to target criminals, nasty people. Now, it'll probably happen that like a mom or a kid is somehow swept up in this and then people are going to be all upset and, you know, I'll get criticized. But no, no, no, we're going to really target the burdens, the criminals, et cetera.

Well, we know that that's not happening. And we know it's not happening because of story after story like this and the reality that there simply aren't enough of these so-called criminal illegals in the country to make the quota that the Trump administration wants to make with regard to detaining, imprisoning, and deporting undocumented criminal aliens, as they like to call them. The numbers simply don't work. We knew that all along, and we predicted, a lot of people predicted, that they were going to just start wrapping people up wholesale, whoever they could find. On a personal level, the kind of cognitive dissonance here where they blame the man, they blamed

themselves only and she still loves Trump is a reminder of the whole I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't even lose support. I support Trump. Oh, yeah? What if he arrests or maybe even deport's your partner? Well, that would be our fault. I would still then support Donald Trump. Now, there's another layer to this, which is I wish support didn't depend.

You know, sometimes we talk about these Republicans who are like anti-gay their whole career and then all of a sudden they have a gay niece or a gay nephew. or kid or something like that and they go, well, this really made me see the light. At least in those cases, they are revising their views. That's actually better. The people who are in that situation and go, I'm not even going to reconsider my perspective based on learning more about how this actually works. I think that they are actually even worse.

A sad, tragic story, again, of a family ruined by Donald Trump. The policy never made sense. But Trump did promise at least some elements of this and people fall for it thinking it's not going to affect me. MAGA influencer Riley Gaines was caught on camera taking direction as to what to say to her dumb, gullible fans. Take a listen to this. Here she is getting her talking points.

What issues do I feel really strongly about? And then they tell her. It is all enact, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this. Wait, tell me the pillars again. So it's pro-life. First Amendment, Second Amendment, Sanctuary of Life and Veteran and First and First and Second. Yep, yep, yep, yeah, yeah, cool. Tell me the things I feel really strongly about again.

The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Sanctity of Life are veterans. The Aminna. I feel very passionately about. Do you guys, if you're going to talk about. I mean, you hate to even call them political issues, but do you specifically say, like, the left or the right? Or is that something you try to kind of refrain from? Like, if I were to say something to the effect of, like, the left is still doubling down. Yeah.

Yeah, you can say it. Am I allowed to say this? From the beginning. Okay. First, that's what I needed to figure out really quick, is when I first, I mean, definitely over a year, though. I would say, can I just say that like around two years ago? Hmm. Wait, tell me the pillars again, so it's pro-life.

Okay. First second. Yep, yep, yep. Hello, my name is Riley Gaines and I'm a very, very proud Patriot mobile user, and I have been for about two years now. Oh my God. Wait, tell me the- Hey, David, what do you feel really strongly about? Well, let me check my notes.

my notes. This is not a story about memorizing talking points. Okay. If you come to me and you go, David, what do you care about? I would go, listen, I care about having an economy where people can afford a decent life with a decent job, ending the scourge of potentially going bankrupt over medical expenses. We got to get everybody health care. Let's bring the country into the 21st century. We need to do infrastructure in a serious way. We need roads. bridges, airports, train and electric vehicle infrastructure. That's just what I believe, quite simply. I don't need to be told that I care about this stuff. Riley Gaines has made a living touring the country with this anti-trans thing that she's been doing. And this is how you might be saying,

who the hell is this woman? She was made famous because back in 2022, in the NCAA women's swimming championships, the 200-yard freestyle, she tied for fifth place with Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas is a trans woman. Neither of them won the event. Neither came in second, neither came in third. Okay. They tied for fifth place. And she and she was championed by Donald Trump became this poster child for this is how men and

women's sports are ruining everything. She didn't finish second to Leah Thomas. She didn't lose a championship because of Leah Thomas. She tied for fifth place. Her, I think Riley Gaines highest individual finish ever was fifth place. And that is how she came to prominence with this anti-trans stuff that was based on, wow, she must have been really robbed or something. No, no, she tied for fifth place. Okay. So she becomes prominent because Donald Trump champions her brings her up at rallies, all this stuff. And then they develop kind of. of a personality around her. And she gets paid deals and all this different stuff. And then they go, here's the things you have to say really matter to you. The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, pro-life and whatever, whatever the other one was. I can't remember what she supposedly cares about. This quite literally couldn't happen to, I'll speak for myself. It couldn't happen to me because I have an actual internal monologue about what matters and what I care about. And I can

articulate that. Oh, I'm supposed to pretend to be a libertarian now. Got it. Give me the talking points for that. No. And the reason that this clip is so damaging isn't because people prepare. Everybody prepares. Come on. The issue is the brand that they are selling is authenticity. Riley Gaines got screwed by men and women's sports and she's out there advocating for these values that she personally cares about. Speaks common sense. Just tells it like it is. And then we've got a video of her being fed what to say quite literally. She isn't primarily being presented as a policy expert. She's being presented as a grassroots truth teller.

If the whole thing was like, hey, my issue is here's how we tax the rich. It makes sense that you would kind of go over, okay, here's how we do it. The rich don't earn wages. So we got to go after capital gains. But then oftentimes they don't sell their stuff. And then there's no taxable events. So what about a wealth tax? It's a conversation.

And I'm getting so agitated by this that I do. just hit my microphone and I apologize to the headphone wearers for that. This is all manufactured. It's not let's think through deeply the best way to make a policy effective. And the incredible thing is they love to say that left-wing activists are manufactured. And then a clip comes out where it is abundantly clear that her whole political persona is being manufactured by someone off camera who's giving her the lines. So this is this is a serious issue. Now, I interviewed Ashley St. Clair, one of Elon Musk's baby mamas and former anti-trans MAGA activist a couple weeks ago.

And she told us how it all works. And most of you wanted to hear from her. Some of you said, you know, why the Maya Culp a now. She's doing this because the bottom dropped out. She needs money, whatever. Listen, she gave us some insight into how it works. And she said a lot of these influencers are not actually advocating. for the things they care about or they might not even care about stuff.

They're just being fed a persona. And now we've got the proof of it here with Riley Gaines that Ashley St. Clair was being honest about how this all works. So this is pathetically disgusting stuff. She got caught. I think this is probably the end of her career, although who knows, stranger things have happened. And it is a reminder that a lot of your favorite influencers don't even care about what they

claim to care about. I'm talking about people like Riley Gaines. Um, how deep is this going to go? Because the next step, obviously, is a candidate that doesn't even actually care about what they claim to care about. And on some level, I think this already exists. I think there are elected officials who play up how much they personally care about certain things because it's useful for fundraising or for getting media attention. But you could, you could see a completely, uh, contrived candidate from the ground up. And the concern is people find

for Riley Gaines, they'll probably fall for the candidate as well. In a way, Trump is that candidate because he claimed to care about the average person when he really doesn't. I'm thinking more issues-based, but the concept of Trump as the champion of the everyday-day person is a completely fabricated thing that was sold to tens of millions of Americans who fell for it. We will talk on the bonus show today about an incident where Trump reportedly was angry with the late Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk kept talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Very interesting. We will also talk about Britain banning under 16s from social media apps, including TikTok and YouTube. And Donald Trump says oil prices are going to drop like a rock.

Evidence points in a slightly different direction. All of those stories and more on the bonus show. Get access to the bonus show. Sign up at join packman.com.