4/7/25: Protests fill streets, Trump even angering elites
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk explode nationally as the streets fill
-- A sweaty and panicked Trump has no idea what's happening to the economy as he takes questions on Air Force One
-- Donald Trump admits he likes the idea of imprisoning American citizens in El Salvador, which would be unconstitutional and against the law
-- Elon Musk splits with Trump, saying he wants free trade, not tariffs
-- A growing number of right wing figures are turning on Donald Trump's tariffs, including Fox Host Maria Bartiromo, Elon Musk, Jonah Goldberg, Rand Paul and others
-- A delusional Trump supporter explains tariffs as she understands them, which happens to be absolute nonsense, as the latest reminder of a major problem in American politics
-- Barack Obama exposes the right-wing media on how they covered his administration versus Trump's
-- Right-wing Trump supporter Ben Shapiro pounds Trump over the blanket tariffs he has put in place
-- A new report find that left wing YouTube grew significantly faster than right wing YouTube in the first quarter of 2025
-- On the Bonus Show: 2 states considering eliminating income tax, National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman, RFK Jr visits epicenter of Texas measles outbreak, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:08.0 | Hope you had a great weekend. |
| 0:10.0 | What a weekend it was. |
| 0:12.0 | This weekend the country saw it might be the largest one day protest of Trump's presidency |
| 0:19.0 | dating all the way back to the first little period of the first term, |
| 0:25.3 | possibly millions of people across 50 states and even internationally. |
| 0:31.5 | And the message was quite simple at most of the protests, some of them kind of being hijacked, but the protest message overall |
| 0:40.2 | was hands off, hands off our rights, hands off our institutions, hands off of our democracy, |
| 0:48.3 | and hands off as in get Elon Musk's hands off of the government. |
| 0:53.6 | And this was not only about Trump and Elon Musk's hands off of the government. |
| 0:54.3 | And this was not only about Trump and Elon Musk, who by the way now leads this Orwellian |
| 1:01.5 | doge, which in practice is going to be winding down, I guess, but at least Elon Musk is leaving, |
| 1:09.2 | but we don't really know. |
| 1:10.5 | But they've been slashing federal agencies, gutting public services and of course, concentrating |
| 1:16.2 | even more power in the hands of billionaires and even an unelected billionaire. |
| 1:21.9 | We've seen the deep agency cuts and we've seen the chaotic immigration raids also a target of these protests. |
| 1:29.5 | And we've seen attempts to roll back LGBTQ plus rights with a lot of focus on that T, trans |
| 1:37.2 | rights, harmful changes to social security, to Medicare, obvious attempts to gut Medicaid. |
| 1:46.0 | And then of course in the midst of all of this, the new global tariffs causing this |
| 1:50.2 | economic upheaval Thursday and Friday, two of the biggest consecutive stock market |
| 1:57.1 | decline days as I am taping today. |
| 2:00.8 | We have a Dow Jones industrial average that is down. |
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