4/9/25: MAGA struggles to defend tariffs as Trump increasingly desperate
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump orders a massive military parade to take place on his birthday at huge taxpayer expense, reminiscent of 20th century authoritarians
-- A slurring and disheveled Donald Trump speaks nonsense to the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner
-- Attorney General Pam Bondi tells endless lies about deportations taking place in the United States under Donald Trump
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, melts down over simple questions
-- Fox News completely ignores the stock market collapse for days
-- The MAGA civil war builds with Elon Musk referring to Peter Navarro as "Peter Retarrdo"
-- Republican Senator Rand Paul eviscerates Donald Trump's tariff scheme
-- A point-by-point breakdown of Charlie Kirk's claims about tariffs quickly falls apart upon a cursory examination
-- On the Bonus Show: Judge says White House can't ban Associated Press, more Americans say Trump favoring Russia too much, Trump tariffs trigger "alarming" bond market fire sale, much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:08.7 | In a growing number of ways, we are stuck in a loop that increasingly resembles 20th century |
| 0:16.8 | authoritarian. |
| 0:17.8 | You know, Ruth Ben Guiat has written about this extensively. We recently interviewed |
| 0:22.3 | her. There are policy ways in which the current Trump administration mirrors 20th century |
| 0:29.5 | authoritarians. And there are also optics ways in which we see that. And here we go again. Donald |
| 0:36.9 | Trump has ordered a four mile long military parade. |
| 0:41.4 | And I wish I were joking on his 79th birthday. This is not Independence Day. It's not Veterans Day. It's |
| 0:50.5 | certainly not, you know, a wartime victory celebration. |
| 0:55.6 | It's Trump's birthday. |
| 1:03.9 | And on that day, not necessarily four, but on that day, he wants tanks and fighter jets and soldiers marching past in what sounds like something out of North Korea or a bad |
| 1:10.5 | 20th century flashback to authoritarian's |
| 1:14.1 | around the world. |
| 1:15.5 | The date he picked June 14th happens to also be the 250th anniversary of the US Army. |
| 1:24.4 | Convenient excuse, right? |
| 1:26.0 | But make no mistake because everything for Trump is about Donald |
| 1:31.0 | Trump. Let's talk money. Remember when Donald Trump promised to balance the budget during his first |
| 1:38.9 | term. Not only did that not happen, but now he is back demanding taxpayer money for what is essentially |
| 1:45.5 | a vanity project of no real substance. |
| 1:49.1 | Military parades are very expensive. |
| 1:50.6 | The last time he tried this, the price tag was estimated at $92 million before it was scrapped. |
| 1:58.9 | You might wonder how is it so expensive? |
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