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3/28/25: Trump's cabinet down big, how empires fail

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David Pakman

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4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- The wheels are not-so-slowly coming off of Donald Trump's clown car cabinet

-- Alina Habba, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, now US Attorney in New Jersey, claims that the entire Signal fiasco is a "hoax"

-- A look at how empires fail and how the US could enter a death spiral

-- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr starts pushing a debunked cell phone health conspiracy theory

-- Social Security is starting to break, including long lines, delayed new benefit approvals, and more, all by design

-- The Wall Street Journal appears to slowly be turning on Donald Trump

-- This week's Friday Feedback

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody.

0:08.0

You know, if you were wondering what a second Trump administration might look like, who'd

0:12.0

be in charge, what kind of decisions they would make.

0:15.5

We now have a pretty clear picture.

0:19.4

And it looks sort of like a group project gone very, very wrong. Remember

0:23.7

in school when you'd be assigned, maybe, maybe this is just my experience. Remember in school

0:29.0

when you'd be assigned to a group project? And there was like one person in the group who didn't

0:34.5

carry their weight. And it was either allow everybody to fail or just kind of

0:39.8

like do their work for them.

0:41.4

Well, what happens when every person in the group is the drag down that can't do anything

0:48.5

right?

0:49.4

Well, that's what we are seeing with Donald Trump's cabinet.

0:52.1

I'm going to kind of give you a little bit of an overview of the cabinet fiascos of this week alone. And what we were quickly thinking as we put

1:02.0

this clip together was there's not a single adult voice in the room, even like the national

1:08.2

security advisor Mike Waltz, okay, not someone we agree with

1:11.5

politically, but maybe somewhat more competent.

1:13.4

And then we've now got the signal chat fiasco.

1:16.3

So it's bad all the way down.

1:18.8

Let's start with Donald Trump introducing his secretary of health and human services, Robert

1:25.1

F. Kennedy, Jr. as the guy who is going to be in charge of health

1:30.7

aspects of the educational process.

1:33.9

Now, if you're saying, David, what does that mean?

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