The David Pakman Show - Trump reignites drama with Canada, makes Dolly Parton's death about him

Episode Date: August 29, 2026

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slash h-I-SA to learn more. Scotia Bank. You're richer than you think. Hey everybody. Welcome to the weekly roundup. Maybe you missed a few episodes or you want to relive the week's best highlights. We've got it all lined up right here. If you want to support independent media, keep the show viewer funded, join us at join packman.com. The president of the United States apparently unable to complete a basic English sentence, unless it's Natalie Harp typing out these posts, which sometimes it is, and in which case she can't complete a basic English sentence, making an announcement that he may rename an international body of water to punish a Canadian province that is not just saying, do whatever you want to assert. Starting with quote, the United States

is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald Trump posted this video to his TikTok, insisting look at this map. We might rename name Lake Ontario to Lake America. Take a look at this. So this is Lake Ontario in Canada and in the United States. But we're going to make a little change. We're going to call it something different than Lake Ontario. We're going to call it Lake America. And all it takes is a good pen and some intelligence. So Lake Ontario, that's gone. Lake America.

So now we have a lake and now we have a Gulf because we have the Gulf of America and now we have Lake America without the of. Thank you very much, everybody. Enjoy Lake America. We have progressed from barely coherent social media posts to Trump sitting with a map and a Sharpie and explaining lakes to us. Trump has spent a year floating Canada should be. become the 51st state. And he goes, we don't need anything from Canada. We don't need their lumber

or their energy or their cars. All stuff, which is factually insane. American farmers get 80% of potash fertilizer from Canada. Northern states run on Canadian hydropower. Midwest refineries are built on Canadian crude. And part of why gas isn't more expensive right now, actually, is thanks to Canada. And Trump goes in there negotiating like they need us and we don't. don't need them, but we very much need them. Now, you could go, well, they'll also get screwed. Right. But who do you really get that much pleasure out of someone else getting screwed? If you're also getting screwed by your own president? It's like, I'm fine with our president screwing Canadians. Yeah, but are you fine with our president screwing you? Glenn Beck asked Donald Trump about the

death of someone who is quite frankly, one of the most beloved entertainers in American history, everybody liked Dolly. And Trump's response is, you know, the most important thing is she really liked me. And by the way, that doesn't seem to be true. We all knew her so well. I knew a little bit. She wasn't a very political person. She really liked me. I will tell you.

But she also wanted to stay very, you know. She was up in the opinion, you know, the 50 percent. Who needs to lose? I don't think it's 50. I think it's probably 20 percent of the fans, okay, not 50. But she was a great person and she was just a nice person. You know, I like her a lot. And I thought it was a natural thing to lower the flags.

And she liked me most importantly. Well, everything that I have ever seen Dolly Parton say about social issues, cultural issues, political issues, education issues seems to run completely counter, just completely counter to everything that Donald Trump believes and stands for. Donald Trump has a problem that no amount of truth social posting is going to be able to fix, which is that a bunch of the people who voted for him over and over and over. over again are sick of them. I'm going to play for you videos, not of Democrats, not of never Trump Republicans, not of socialists or communists or whatever. These are Trump voters. And there is

a three-time Trump voter that summed up the entire problem, basically in four words, stop the bullshit. I guess that's kind of three-word. President Trump promised to bring down prices. You voted for him three times. Are you disappointed? Very disappointed, very disappointing. Why? Because the prices haven't gone down. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm over it, I think, over the Trump thing. The Trump wagon, we don't call it. You could talk directly to the president about the war, about the prices, about the economy. What would you tell them? Stop the bullshit. Make America great, like you said. That's what I'd say. A Fox News interview with Democratic Senate

candidate Abdul El-Sayed went completely off the rails when Jesse Waters started talking about children's twig and berries. He calls it a dinghling, his terminology, not mine, and got a really pretty personal answer, which had to do with circumcision. So, Abdul, you're a doctor, right? You're a doctor, right? I am. So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kids?

So just go out of Columbia University. You think that's okay? I mean, do you... So, do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah, yeah. But I mean, that's a personal question, Doctor.

So you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. And circumcision's different than castration. I think it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient. And I'm just saying that, yes,

circumcision is surgery. on a kid's dingling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. Now, I'll be honest with you. I don't think that gender affirming surgery and circumcision are really analogous in the way that El-Sayed is suggesting. But it is a phenomenal way to turn it around on Jesse Waters. I mean, just absolutely hilarious.

Trump says he believes his new vaccine recommendations will prevent autism. Take a listen to what he had to say. milk and school, and we introduced the real food pyramid and reform the vaccine recommendations to protect America's youth. We're making America healthy again. We're strongly requesting, even telling people when you get your shots for your young child, and this has to do, we think, with preventing autism, that you go to the doctor for five small shots instead of one big, massive shot.

You do it in five different shots. Five different shots, small little shots where those beautiful little bodies can handle it. And I think you're going to see a very big difference in the rate of autism, which is like an epidemic what's happened with autism. Understand what Trump is saying. He's saying, I believe that if you split up vaccines for kids, you will see a notable decline in the rate of autism. That is an insane thing absent any research supporting that idea for a president to say.

Melania Trump got up and walked away from her own husband on camera. Now, here's what we believe is going on. Melania Trump doesn't like Natalie Hart. And the body language at this Grand Prix race that took place in Washington, D.C., basically says everything. And as the cameras roll, Melania is right next to Trump. And Natalie Harp, Trump's 35-year-old executive assistant, is just a few feet behind them. You can see her in the black dress in this image over Melania's left shoulder. We start with video of Donald Trump.

By the way, really, have you ever seen anyone wave a flag like this? Here is Trump waving a green flag. We have green. We are racing in the freedom to. Dear God. Very, very strange stuff. But what we see here is Natalie Harp sort of approach Trump and very quickly Melania Trump gets up and walks away.

There goes Melania. In comes Natalie Harp. Seems to have a phone in her hand or something like that. It has not been independently confirmed that Melania got up specifically because she can't stand Natalie Harp and doesn't want to be around her. And that's why she hasn't said a word to Natalie Harp. That's what the videos appear to show. Let's start with the tough guy.

routine that he's doing here. No fraud is too small. If you are defrauding the American tax paper payer, we're going to do everything that we can to put you in prison and send a message to the other frauders that gig us up, commit fraud against America and go to jail. I agree. I think that's great. But say it again, JD. Say it really slowly and think hard about which administration you're currently number two of because this isn't like, oh, I have to manufacture a gotcha. He handed it to us. If commit fraud go to jail is their standard, there is a long line of people who should be very nervous.

And Donald Trump is the one who should be at the top of that list given the various frauds. He is accused of having participated in including crypto frauds and NFTs, one world financials. It's too long a list for me to even remember. Thanks for spending part of the weekend catching up on the week's best highlights. If you like having this independent. news in your feed. Take a moment. Join the member community at join packman.com.