The David Pakman Show - Trump sacrifices California to Iran

Episode Date: October 10, 2026

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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. The president of the United States just named two American cities and said, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.

It is a very small price to pay. He's talking about Iran. There are 16 million people living in the LA and San Diego metro areas. And here is Trump going, let them take out those cities. A president of the United States, one of the most disgusting clips I have covered in my entire podcasting and media production career. I want to see a tremendous victory. You want to see a tremendous victory because it very very much.

all the things we did. And again, remember, with the word, just artificial, it's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They could take out a city. Let him take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That's, this is a very small price to pay. And it's going to be open person. It's essentially listen to the cheering. Let them take out Los Angeles and let them take out San Luis and let him take out San Diego, American cities. Trump goes to another rally. This one's in San Antonio, Texas. He's had two days to see the backlash to the San Diego, LA comment. He's had two days to hear his White House explaining. There's no context there. Here's what he really meant. And the same thing comes

up again. And now it definitely seems like it's what Trump meant. Take a look. But you want to see trauma? You want to see problems? And I said it the other day, let them hit a missile into San Diego. Los Angeles on the way. Let them hit. You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. And you want to see some bad things happen. You want to see a country that would be in free fall. We're not going to let that happen. We protect our cities. We protect our country. We're not. So what do I think Trump is doing here? I think Trump is trying to rewrite the line from Monday. But he's struggling to do it in a way that feels authentic or genuine. Complete and total chaos at a Trump rally in San Antonio,

seven or eight interruptions from protests and hecklers, Trump soaking wet and swollen, claiming that his own wife, Melania calls him, sir. And this is not the first time that he has claimed this. Here is Trump saying, my wife said to me, sir, do me a favor. Does Trump really make Melania call him, sir? Because this is like the third or fourth time he's, He said this is how she refers to him. And his mom voted for Trump. So this terrible fake, and he is a fake, he said all of a sudden, he's a vegan. You know, my wife told me, sir.

My wife told me, sir. What are you talking about, dude? Vegan. You know, my wife told me, sir, do me favor. You have to do me just a little bit of a favor. It's not vegan, it's vegan. I don't know about that stuff. I'm not into it.

And he said, it's vegan. Please pronounce that word properly. I called it vegan, vegan. I thought it's- So Melania reportedly calls Trump, sir. Weird if true. Donald Trump just did something very dangerous. He singled out CNN's Caitlin Collins in front of a massive, rabid, bloodthirsty crowd of his supporters

at one of these various rallies that he is doing. I think this is actually extraordinarily dangerous and I will explain why in a moment. The fake news like CNN sitting. right there. The fake news doesn't want to run. And listen to those bloodthirsty screams. She's such an unhappy person. She's a young, nice person, but she never, never smiles. She's a very unhappy person. But the fake news media, they refuse to talk about our record setting numbers. Now Trump knows that doing this kind of thing can lead to death threats. He knows that he's the president of the United States. His followers are bloodthirsty. And he does it anyway. So a reporter says to Trump,

what's the most important issue for Americans right now? Trump goes, I don't know. Just he has no idea. Well, I don't know exactly. When you look at American voters, we're doing better. We're taking in trillions of dollars of investment. We have more jobs. You know, more people are working in America today than at any time in history. The poverty rate is the best it's ever been in terms of individual. That includes African American, Asian American, Hispanic American poverty rate. African American is the single best poverty rate, meaning lowest. All right.

So he has no answer. Not only does he have no answer. It panicked him so much to be asked that question that he immediately went into we're taking in money and doing all this different stuff. You're the president of the United States spending your time campaigning across the country. And you've been telling us these are the most important elections in American history. And you don't know what the number one issue is. So let's start with Trump's comments about his political opponents.

If he wanted to, he could have done nasty, terrible things to Obama and others. Take a listen. As far as he got, with that being said, I could have done very bad things to Hillary clip. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. I thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect.

Then I found out that they impeached me twice. And I certainly, even to this moment, I can do whatever I want, if I want, they've done some very bad things. You just mentioned it. It was just mentioned in the form of a question. what they did. Listen to the language. I could have done very bad things to Hillary. I could have done very bad things to Joe Biden and oh boy, what he would have done to Barack Hussein Obama if he wanted. I can do whatever I want if I want. These are extraordinary things for American presidents

to say. So he does this routine where he does his accents. And in this accent, he's describing a phone call he received from Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico and he says that she is beautiful and she has a beautiful voice and she is also elegant. And here is Trump doing his best impression of a Mexican person who learned to speak English as a second language. By ocean and sea, by the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America, not Mexico. That was a little rough time when I did that. I got a call from the president of Mexico.

No, no president. No, no, president. A nice woman, beautiful woman, beautiful voice. And she said, no, no, president, very elegant. Please, please, tell me it's not so. It's so, I'm sorry. Please, tell me it is not so. We changed the name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

It is so. I'm sorry. And no, no, but it's just one of those things. I always felt it. Yeah, he felt it really, really strongly. Trump refers to Natalie after signing this thing. He refers to Natalie as a perfect person. And then as she walks away, Donald Trump can't help himself.

He has to sort of look her over, checking out what appears to be her legs. God, this is so weird. This guy is so creepy. Look at this. Hands her the document, pats her. And as she leaves, he looks back and he goes, hmm, hmm. You remind you like the price is right. Thank you, Natalie. Come on. This perfect person comes up, hands it, walks up. We should go on television with this show, right? You know, just watch.

There you go. Now, ordinarily, you know, boss introduces employee, boss looks at employee's direction, whatever, but we have all the backstory. You know, Natalie Harp is not a random White House staffer. She is Trump's executive assistant. She is the human printer. because she follows Trump around with a portable printer, supplying him with hard copies of articles and social media posts that make him look good and types up his truth social messages. We are talking about plague. We are indeed. And Donald Trump has now been asked about it.

And somehow, I have to say, Trump's answer is simultaneously reassuring, but also completely bizarre. But rest assured, Trump is looking into plague very strong. Oh, boy. What is the U.S. going to do about the risk of pneumonic plague coming from Russia? Well, we're looking at it very strongly. We just heard about it. And they call it pneumonia. And pneumonia, you know, years ago you could treat pneumonia easier.

The microbes and the germs have gotten stronger disproportionately. But we'll help them. Trump, of course, totally miss out. He's already misunderstanding what we're talking about. He goes, you know, it's pneumonia. Well, it's pneumonic. plague. It's plague in the lungs. And the microbes getting stronger is not exactly the issue. We're talking about plague. Now, if Trump had knowledge that this was some kind of souped up

for lack of a better term, plague that Russia was researching as a bio weapon, that would really be something. We don't have evidence of that at this point in time. Fox News interviewed a guy named Gabe Puro, who says that he personally went to heaven and met Jesus. And he reports to Kaylee McAnneeny on her show. Some really specific information. Jesus is about 5-11, very masculine and has testosterone just completely off the chart. So listen to this and then I want to talk about it. 18 days you were in that coma.

you had this experience, you came face to face with your Savior, and then you woke up. How has your life been different since that experience? Yeah. Now with every single person I meet, I tell them of the love of Christ, and that he did it all for them. And he died and rose again. And also, I love how, you know, all these other testimonies, they didn't meet a female Jesus. They didn't meet a soft or a passive Jesus. Jesus is a man. And especially in America, he's been misrepresented. And especially even, you know, there's so many cultural things that present him as if he's some just tolerated. guy. It's not the Jesus I met. He's a lion. But he's not a lion angry against me. He's a lion angry

for me. He's a Mustang on my behalf. He did it all for me. And what did he look like when you saw him? Pure fire. He was 5-11 like six. Massive hands and a huge feet yet as tall as eternity. Hit like an ocean of love yet his eyes were burning white and red at the same time. And I mean, talk about testosterone like Mustang, I'm telling you. He's the lion of Judah. And there's a roar. His testosterone was 1600. When Tucker decides to explain to the British cabinet minister, Russia's economy is much bigger than Britain. So why would they attack? And the British cabinet minister goes, that's not true. Take a look at this and watch what happens when Tucker isn't the most knowledgeable person in the the room, which, by the way, is often.

So does it explain why Russia would want to pick a fight with Britain? It's got a much larger economy than Britain's by, I think, basic measure. No, no, no, it hasn't got a larger economy than Britain. It's got smaller economy than Britain's got a larger military. There's much larger economy. It has much more wealth and resources. It's a much larger... Wrong.

Manufacturing sector. Its GDP is smaller than the UK's. Yeah, but GDP is not. I mean, the only measure of an economy. It's a pretty important measure of an economy. It's one measure we can be with. Russia is, Russia is an economic failure. It is not just GDP, but it is GDP per capita.

According to the World Bank, Britain's economy is about $4 trillion. Russia's is about 2.6th. Britain's economy is more than 50% bigger. And when Tucker gets mugged by Reese Mogged, Tucker doesn't like it. And this is a problem that Tucker runs into. to when he interviews somebody who doesn't just nod with everything he says. Tucker's whole shtick is he's the guy who knows everything and he asks the forbidden questions. Nobody is brave enough to ask. But sometimes they're not forbidden questions. He's just wrong. Here is, I guess,

a new reporter for right side broadcasting network, this wacky right wing network that travels around with Trump and broadcasts his propaganda rallies. They are saying, you know, if you're wondering, where are the doge checks when they talked about those, like, last year, they were coming at the end of the term. This is the way they are trying to disabuse people of the notion that Trump constantly promises money that people never get. Take a listen. And for everybody who is wondering where their checks are from Doge, I believe that when

those checks were discussed, they said that those were going to come at the end of Trump's term. That is what I recall. You can see if that's true or not, but that's what I remember. It is not true. And in fact, Twitter community noted this. as false. The proposal said that when Doge terminates in July of 2026, people will get their five grand. And James Fishback even said in February of 25 that if Congress passed legislation

sooner, Americans might even get checks earlier. None of that happened. Now they're saying, no, no, no, all along the Doge money was reelect Trump in 24, wait four years. And by the end, maybe January 15th of 2029, if Donald Trump is still alive, you will get your doge check. A Republican voter called into C-SPAN and he unloaded on his own party. And I want you to hear this because the question was not a particularly provocative question. C-SPAN's Washington Journal was doing what they do. They were taking phone calls ahead of these midterm elections to sort of see what is on the minds of people. And the question was really simple. Do you think your party will win the midterms? A Republican from

West Virginia calls in and listen to what he said. The midterms from West Virginia, Ronald will tell us on our Republican line. Ronald, what do you think? Well, as a Republican, I can say one thing. I think about 85 to 95% of the Republican Party has lost their mind. All right, it's just so clear. that my party's been taken over by a bunch of loud mouths who are uneducated and unable to process any information beyond what they see on social media. I think most of them don't even understand what AI is or how it works. I think the Republicans deserve to lose every single election. I think P. Hegsef needs to go to jail, and it's obvious Trump needs to go to jail as well. Wow. Now, if that were a democratic strategist or a liberal or someone on MS now or something like that,

all right. Well, anti-Republican people don't like Republicans. Fine. But this is a Republican voter from West Virginia. There are certain people who should probably just stay away from grocery stores if there's a camera there. And I think Dr. Oz is one of those people. Four years, it's been Since his infamous crudite fiasco, he decided to again use groceries as props on Fox News. And it went so terribly that even Trump-friendly right-wing host Laura Ingram had to fact-check him about the price of butter. Dr. Oz, for reasons unbeknownst to us, even though it has nothing to do with his job, I guess if you consider his job just like sucking up to Trump and making Trump happy, then I guess it makes sense. But if you consider his job as Medicare and Medicaid administrator, it doesn't really make any sense. He says, we went shopping.

Butter costs a dollar. And Laura Ingram's like, what on earth are you talking about, dude? So you have no idea what things are going to cost. I brought you something as an example. We went grocery shopping. Stick a butter bag of peanuts. Butter in America, it's about a buck for a stick like this. If I charge you $10.

Or are you shopping? It's not a buck. It's four. I just bought this. It was close to that. Okay. Maybe it's going bad. Okay, it's the Mondani story.

Okay, so Laura Ingram immediately goes, butter for a dollar. What are you talking about? Laura Ingram is apparently not so disconnected from what things cost that she goes, I don't understand where you could have possibly gotten that. You want to know what makes you sound not super relatable referring to gas stations as gas stores. And that is what Rick Jackson, Republican candidate in Georgia, call the gas station. This is the kind of policy that we cannot have in running Georgia, not having people feeling

safe to go to work or go to the gas store. I was able to go to the gas store today and obtain refined petroleum as working class people do when they commute to robotically out of touch. I will have one marijuana, please. See how in touch I am with the average person? disastrous night for Republicans. That'll wrap up our best of the week to make sure you get all of our content, including the bonus show and the commercial free episodes.

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