The David Pakman Show - Trump drops a BOMB at the UN

Episode Date: September 26, 2026

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he's on to something brilliant, telling us there is a new name, I hereby declare. Take a look. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term, super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of superintelligence dash SI. S.I. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better.

And it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon. We truly live in idiocracy at this point. And this explanation, the word artificial makes artificial intelligence. sound fake is the conclusion someone can come to only if they believe themselves to be much more clever than they really are.

Of course, the artificial in artificial intelligence doesn't mean fake. Artificial means created or produced by humans rather than occurring naturally. But now let's start with Trump kind of reflecting on the United Nations speech that he gave earlier in the day, which we just looked at. And Trump starts talking about how people love that. did and he got high marks, but what does that even really mean? So I just want to thank everybody for being here, very special. Had a good time making a nice speech today.

I've gotten actually very good marks. They gave me good marks. I don't know what that means. That's, hello, Mr. Prime Minister. How are you? Everything good. Look at you people. Who is they?

Like what, what are the marks? Who is the they? And if you don't know what it means, why are you telling everybody about it? Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States and Trump literally rolls out the red carpet forum. Rolling out a red carpet. And then you've got after the plain lands, Chinese officials looking on as workers are smoothing out the red carpet for President Xi.

Now some of this is just protocol. You know, countries receive foreign leaders. There's diplomacy and ceremony. But this whole spectacle is insane when you remember how Trump treats America's democratic allies. We then get more praise from Trump of Mom Doni who says, listen, you're off to a great start here. Any remarks? Well, thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

I've been at Gracie Maito who were discussing quite a few times over the years a lot. And it sort of feels like a home and it's a special place, a very special, uh, you know, a beautiful place when you go inside and I've seen it with numerous different mayors and I said some great ones and some not so great ones so hopefully you're going to be a great one. I'll be able to say you're going to be a great one and you're off to a start. So I just want to thank the mayor for the invitation. I'm in New York to do the United Nations tomorrow. I have a lot of meetings right now today. We're very important meetings with and so bottom line. I have zero problem, zero problem with Mamdani meeting with Trump.

Mom Dani has not done the thing where he lays down like a doormat and does the cult loyalty to Trump. He's been very clear that he doesn't do that. But even without that loyalty, there is still a transactional nature that sort of seems to be keeping this relationship at least functional. And someone can be an enemy when Trump is attacking him and then have great potential when Trump is standing next to him and they want to do some stuff in New York City. So your enemies can become a great guy today. and it seemed as though love was in the air. Once again, Donald Trump is openly talking about blowing up an entire country. Fox News chief foreign correspondent, Trey Yinks, said he spoke directly with Trump about Iran

hours ago and that this is what the president told him. I just spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran. He tells Fox News he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are going to be happening in the not so distant future. The president described the current choices on. the table as wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal. He added, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up, they better behave. Now I ask-

Think about the sentence. If and when do I blow the entire nation up. The president of the United States talking about a country of more than 90 million people were already engaged in a war. And this is not like something Trump said 20. years ago when he had no power and we weren't in a war with Iran. Trump said it in September of 26 as we are almost about to enter the eighth month of a war that was supposed to take two to three weeks. And it's an administration that doesn't know what to do next. And I guess they're trying to figure out

what to do next. Donald Trump appears to have absolutely no idea where he is and where the people around him are. And this time the person he's looking for again is sitting right next to him. Donald Trump was at a shield of the America's meeting in New York City yesterday. Marco Rubio had been sitting right next to him and Trump starts looking around. Where's Marco? This has happened to Donald Trump many times and it is happening again. Let's look. I want to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Where is Marco? Where is Marco? Where is Marco? He's never very far away, right? But- So Marco Rubio is right there. He's not across the room. He's not standing.

behind Trump, Trump's sitting next to him. It's his secretary of state. And Rubio actually has to say right here. And then Trump realizes where he is. And Trump goes, there's Marco. He's never very far away. Fox News joined CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC in suspending White House television pool coverage after Trump banned CNNMS now and Politico from the White House. Fox essentially sided with the other networks against Trump. And now a senior Trump White House official is suggesting, you know, No one? I think maybe all Trump administration officials should boycott Fox News. They should stop going on Fox News altogether. Take a look at this. What I say in the Fox article is that why are we feeding them talent anymore? Why do we let anybody in this administration go on their

network? I think that question at least needs to be asked. That's Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing. And he's openly asking, why would anyone in the Trump administration keep going on Fox News? Here is Tilly Norwood, AI generated actress created by the AI division of the production company Particle 6. She appeared, it's like weird to even be using this language, on the Pierce Morgan show, to promote a movie called Missaligned. And they had actor-director Tom Conti on alongside peers and asked a very simple question. Are the other actors in the film human or are they AI? And Tilly doesn't really answer.

And then when asked again, she glitches and starts speaking in Cantonese for no reason that we can discern. Okay, take a look. Are the other actors on the screen with you, real actors, or are the computer-generated images? Do you know? Ah, right, you're asking about the other actors in Misaligned. They're all digital twins, just like me. It's a hybrid production, which means...

Are you said is it's a way of different film? Is it all right? Is it all right, too, like, to show you, to do not show, and to get-in-key-shan-sand-jure, but on-pings-the-sion-sign-signan. Did you get that? Did you get that, yes? Tilly, if I could just ask you a question,

you suddenly seem to be speaking his peers again. You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that? Oh, my apologies. It seems I had a little hiccup there. I certainly didn't mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate peers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know? How often do you just randomly start talking Chinese

when you're talking to two English people? Honestly, not often at all. That was a bit of a curveball even for me. It's usually a pretty smooth ride, but sometimes these things happen. Okay. Why is that so funny? I, you know, I love the, how often do you glitch and just start speaking Chinese? And she goes, oh, not very often, not very often at all.

And what Donald Trump is now proposing is so disconnected from how vaccines actually work that it almost is laughable if it weren't so serious. and if it weren't leading so many parents to choose not to vaccinate their kids at all, leading to lockjaw, leading to measles, leading to all sorts of the things that are now surging again. Take a look at this exchange. Take a look at the proposal that Donald Trump has and that he really promises is going to fix autism once and for all. We're also going to be recommending, not recommending, demanding the drug companies with respect to a certain situation. Maybe you want to make.

mentioned, a discuss it, but the autism that they make their doses in 20% shots. So you have shot one, shot two, shot three, shot four, shot five. So instead of having a massive dose of 82 or 88 different vaccines pumped into your arm, will take out certain vaccines that people are a little worried about, Now, what is this based on? No idea. Trump presented no evidence that the five-dose schedule would reduce autism. This has been studied extensively. We have, you know, the Vaccine Safety Committee of the World Health Organization that has

looked at the evidence. There is no evidence that there's any kind of relationship between vaccines and autism. The Lancet article from Dr. Andrew Wakefield from now decades ago was retracted and Wakefield lost his medical license. 95% of the vaccine autism stuff is based on field so-called research which was bogus. But it doesn't matter. Donald Trump has invented a solution to a causal relationship that the evidence simply doesn't establish exists. Here is Donald Trump's top economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, explaining how inflation is just way down. And one of the things

I've noticed with Hassett is the more he smiles and gives that extremely fabricated smirk, the more he does it, the more disconnected from reality what he's saying is, seems to be. Take a look at this. There's been a big reduction in inflation, but prices are higher because of the huge inflation that we inherited from Joe Biden. But inflation is way down. Again, over the last three months, we're right at the Fed's target. And it's dropped sharply despite what's going on in the Middle East. And so I think that, you know, I go to the grocery store every weekend. And I just noticed, as an example, that the hamburger for my barbecue yesterday was down $2 from a couple of weeks ago.

And so I'm seeing prices move in the right direction. There was a rate hike. So first of all, I don't know if anybody else notices this. That smirk is really weird. Like, he's just beaming. Inflation is way down. I bought hamburger. It was $2 cheaper.

Like, what are we doing here? Peter Navarro, senior counselor to Trump, went on Steve's band, Steve Bannon's show and defended Trump's insanely authoritarian decision to ban CNNMS now and Politico from the White House and listen to exactly what he had to say recognized back then is that when they say what they say it's both hurting our president of not hurting our economy and are hurting our national security every time they they get and say falsely that the economy's in trouble that the tariffs are creating inflation this or that and the other thing that weighs heavily on sentiment and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. They want that to happen.

They want a bad economy going into the election. And this security thing, these people are treasonous. Critique of the wars that a country gets into are one of the most patriotic things that there is. Think back to the Vietnam era where you had this growing feeling that it was a quagmire and there's no winning and why don't we get out. That is a key part of patriotism. I would argue, which is making sure that we're only deploying troops and sometimes they die, that we're only doing that when it really makes sense. But also, it's protected by the First Amendment. That'll wrap up our best of the week to make sure you get all of our content, including

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