The David Pakman Show
The David Pakman Show is one of the most-watched independent progressive programs in the country. Hosted by David Pakman, the show offers a fresh perspective on the stories shaping our world through thoughtful commentary and compelling interviews with our nation’s leaders. With new episodes dropping every weekday, David delivers sharp, insightful, and fact-based analysis on politics, current events, and social issues. Whether you're looking for deep dives into major political events, in-depth conversations with experts and newsmakers, or sharp-witted breakdowns of the latest headlines, The David Pakman Show has you covered
5/9/25: Trade deal collapses, MAGA triggered by new Pope
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump is forced to admit the blockbuster UK trade deal is nothing of the sort, and confusedly calls the toy company Mattel "a country"
-- A Scottish reporter calls out Donald Trump in the Oval Office for obviously exaggerating the importance of this supposed UK trade deal
-- MAGA is melting down over the supposed "woke Marxist Pope," Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost
-- Donald Trump's own staff is starting to...
5/8/25: Major inflation warning as Trump praises Houthis
-- On the Show:
-- Merici Vinton, former US digital service and DOGE staffer, joins David to discuss working at DOGE, the absolute an total fiasco that it was under Elon Musk, and much more...
-- Fed chairman Jerome Powell issues a major warning about forthcoming inflation as a result of the Trump tariffs
-- Donald Trump pre-fires his Surgeon General nominee Janette Nesheiwat, replacing her before she even starts her job with a conspiracy theorist named Casey Means
-- Republican...
5/7/25: Canadian PM confronts Trump, Dems need a wakeup call
-- On the Show:
-- Tim Myers, running for Congress to represent California's 41st district, join David to discuss the campaign
-- Democrats desperately need a wake-up call if they want to win again
-- Attorney General Pam Bondi's pathetic attempt to suck up to Donald Trump
-- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with President Donald Trump in a meeting so absurd, Trump's brain rebooted
-- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney explains what he was thinking...
5/6/25: China isn’t calling Trump, but the FCC wants to cancel CBS
-- On the Show:
-- China is ignoring Donald Trump on making a tariff deal, and we analyze the underlying economic asymmetry causing this
-- Former Vice President Mike Pence comes out forcefully against Donald Trump's tariffs in the continued separation between Pence and Trump
-- FCC Commissioner Brandon Carr says that suspending CBS's broadcast license for what Trump believes is bias would be an appropriate punishment in a chilling red alert moment
-- A confused Donald Trump glitches badly when...
5/5/25: Trump “doesn’t know” about defending Constitution, Tesla sales collapse
-- On the Show:
-- Tesla sales have completely collapsed in Sweden as Elon Musk continues to hurt his own businesses
-- Donald Trump said he "doesn't know" whether he has to uphold the Constitution during an interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker
-- Kristen Welker's interview with Donald Trump devolves into incoherence and dishonesty
-- Attorney John Keker accuses Trump of an impeachable offense
-- Concerns about Donald Trump's decline, whether it's clinically significant or otherwise...
5/2/25: They’re telling us recessions are good now
-- On the Show:
-- A desperate Donald Trump proposes more crimes
-- Trump tool Peter Navarro now tries to convince Americans that a shrinking economy is actually a good thing
-- An agitated Fox News host Bill Hemmer is forced to admit that Trump's economy is shrinking, will Maria Bartiromo announces the GDP contraction like she's at a funeral
-- Dave Portnoy, a support of Donald Trump's, turns on Trump when Trump tries to blame the shrinking GDP on Biden<...
5/1/25: Trump will blame recession on Biden, Fox hosts forced to admit fiasco
-- On the Show:
-- Chris Cillizza, political commentator on Substack and YouTube, formerly of CNN, joins David to discuss his transition to independent media, Trump's polling and second term outlook, and much more
-- Donald Trump publicly abandons any responsibility for economic policy and blames Joe Biden for the Q1 2025 GDP contraction
-- Donald Trump admits that, if the US formally enters a recession after the second quarter of 2025, he will blame former President Joe Biden
-- During a cabinet...
4/30/25: GDP down 1st time in 3 years, Trump crashes at rally
-- On the Show:
-- Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) joins David to discuss her recent controversies with Donald Trump, including the Oval Office "hiding behind a binder' photo, appearing with Donald Trump in Michigan, and more
-- GDP declined in the first quarter of 2025 for the first time in three years as the impact of Donald Trump's economic instability had immediate consequences
-- Trump voters react and comment on Trump's first 100 days of his second presidential term
-- Donald Trump's interview...
4/29/25: Trump official can't deny empty shelves as Canada goes liberal
-- On the Show:
-- Isaiah Martin, 26-year-old Democratic candidate for House District 18 in Texas, which has a special election this November, joins David to discuss his campaign, the district, and the wave of upstart young Democrats running for office
-- Thanks to Donald Trump, Canadians have elected Liberal Mark Carney as their new Prime Minister, while right wing candidate Pierre Poilievre lost his seat altogether
-- Donald Trump's unhinged new written interview with Time Magazine is absolutely absurd and completely terrifying
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4/28/25: Trump deports citizen kids, Gavin Newsom on the show
-- On the Show:
-- Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) joins David to discuss California becoming the world's 4th largest economy, how he is fighting the Trump tariffs, what is going on with his podcast, and more
-- Donald Trump's administration deports a 2-year-old US citizen in the latest global humiliation
-- Donald Trump's administration has now deported multiple US citizen children with cancer
-- A historically unpopular Donald Trump is now dealing with the lowest approval at 100 days into a presidential...
4/25/25: MAGA Governors terrified as Trump approval collapses
-- On the Show:
-- MAGA Governors are increasingly terrified of their own voters, for good reason
-- A confused Donald Trump struggles to use the English language effectively
-- The military may soon be in the position of having to choose which side they are on
-- Republican support for Donald Trump collapses
-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that Donald Trump might give up on his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war
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4/24/25: Fox admits economic disaster as Trump out of energy, out of ideas
-- On the Show:
-- Even Fox News admits Trump's latest polling and economic policy are a pair of disasters going hand in hand
-- A terrified Donald Trump tries to flee his trade war as the potential for "empty shelves" becomes a reality
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, immediately reverses the latest declarations from Donald Trump about tariffs on China
-- Donald Trump visibly struggled to answer basic questions about his own policies and plans
<...4/23/25: Tesla collapsing, Trump terrified of Epstein files
-- On the Show:
-- Ned Lamont, Connecticut Governor, joins David to discuss the disastrous Trump tariffs, the trade war, and what states can do to fight back against the economic policy of the Trump administration
-- Tesla records a 71% decline in net income as Elon Musk's political alliance with Donald Trump is destroying the company
-- New concerns about Pete Hegseth's drinking surface after his recent manic, disheveled appearances
-- Donald Trump does not like being asked about the potential...
4/22/25: Hegseth on his way out, Trump confirms Constitution is toilet paper
-- On the Show:
-- David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, gun safety activist, and co-founder of March for our Lives, joins David to discuss his strategy of pushing out establishment Democrats and much more...
-- Donald Trump confirms that the Constitution is meaningless to him when it's inconvenient, for example in the case of having to provide due process to people under the law
-- Three months under Donald Trump and we review the economic record, which includes a 14% decline in...
4/21/25: Easter meltdowns explode as censorship grows, Signalgate returns
-- On the Show:
-- Allison Riggs, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, joins David to discuss the current attempt to steal her recent election from her and what our viewers can do
-- A total meltdown is taking place at Pete Hegseth's Pentagon with mass quitting and the belief that Hegseth may not last much longer
-- A second Signal chat fiasco, this one involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's wife and other family members receiving sensitive information
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4/18/25: Trump disgusted by prayer as Karoline melts down
-- On the Show:
-- Jessica Tarlov, the lone liberal on Fox News' The Five, silences her right wing co-hosts by simply stating the law about deportations
-- Donald Trump is visibly disgusted with the Christian prayer at an Easter event
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, suffers a total meltdown once again when confronted with the truth
-- A MAGA gas truck protest backfires outside a Tesla showroom
-- Republican donors are revolting...
4/17/25: ICE detains citizens while RFK nutty on autism
-- On the Show:
-- Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA) joins David to discuss the Trump administration's ignoring due process, the collapse of DOGE, and much more
-- ICE starts to detain US citizens for hours when attempting to re-enter the United States
-- ICE agents smash the window of the wrong guy in another gone-wrong fiasco
-- Donald Trump gets a brutal criminal warning from a judge, but will it matter?
-- Fed Chairman Jerome Powell tells...
4/16/25: AOC's crowds and polling explode while Trump adviser is escorted out
-- On the Show:
-- Mark Bankston, attorney at Farrar and Ball best known for his takedown of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, is now representing Mauricio Garcia, a man falsely labeled as a "neo-Nazi mass shooter" by major media outlets, and joins David to discuss the case
-- Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continue to hold massive rallies in red states as discussion of AOC as a possible 2028 presidential candidate grows
-- Dan Caldwell, an advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, is...
4/15/25: Deporting citizens goes mainstream as dictatorship in focus
-- On the Show:
-- Jonathan Allen, senior political reporter for NBC News and co-author alongside Amie Parnes of the new book "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," joins David to discuss the book, Biden's failed re-election campaign, the election of Donald Trump, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Y2mwMF
-- Donald Trump's America is becoming a dictatorship, and we deep dive into why that term is not hyperbole
-- Presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele of El...
4/14/25: Bernie & AOC bring the house down while Trump starts crony carveouts
-- On the Show:
-- An arsonist attempts to burn down Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro's house just after Passover
-- Donald Trump caves again, carving out some tech billionaires from his tariffs
-- Senator Bernie Sanders brings the house down during an impromptu speech a Coachella
-- Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have more record crowds with fired up audiences
-- Donald Trump's bizarre annual physical triggers major health concerns
-- Karoline...
4/11/25: Experts worry Trump is insane, Fox realizes tariffs hurt people
-- On the Show:
-- Economic experts worry that Donald Trump has gone "insane" in the wake of the tariff stock market fiasco
-- Donald Trump seems confused between "political asylum" and "insane asylums"
-- Tulsi Gabbard claimed to live in Texas, but voted in Hawaii, raising major red flags
-- Donald Trump's Truth Social rant leaves his own allies speechless
-- Fox News admits that Trump's tariffs directly hurt businesses
-- A...
4/10/25: Trump randomly pauses tariffs, insider trading fiasco explodes
-- On the Show:
-- Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joins David to discuss possible insider trading allegations surrounding the Trump tariff fiasco, the latest with the Ukraine-Russia war, and much more
-- An internal email suggests that a Trump-run government agency is specifically targeting David's book for removal from Amazon
-- Donald Trump randomly pauses all tariffs, seemingly having no idea what is going on
-- Donald Trump appears confused when asked why he paused all of the tariffs
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4/9/25: MAGA struggles to defend tariffs as Trump increasingly desperate
-- 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
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4/8/25: More MAGA figures turn on Trump, Karoline Leavitt does it again
-- On the Show:
-- Katherine Stewart, author of the book Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, joins David to discuss the movement and what's taking place in America today. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3XSWiw2
-- Larry Kudlow explains to Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that trade deficits aren't necessarily a bad thing
-- Fox news host Maria Bartiromo admits that a Trump-induced recession is now likely
-- Pro-Trump CNBC host Joe Kernen is...
4/7/25: Protests fill streets, Trump even angering elites
-- 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
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4/4/25: Trump kicks out Elon, influencers turn on MAGA
-- On the Show:
-- In the midst of absolute economic chaos, Donald Trump's approval rating hits yet another new low
-- Within hours of a brutal loss in Wisconsin in which $25 million of Elon Musk's money failed to bring a win, Donald Trump starts telling his staff that Elon Musk will soon be leaving
-- Vice President JD Vance admits that prices will go up before they have a possibility of going down, but argues this is a good thing
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4/3/25: Trump tariffs explode, Republicans panic, markets crash
-- On the Show:
-- Congressman Greg Casar (D-TX) joins David to discuss the future of the progressive movement, the disastrous Trump tariffs, the 2026 and 2028 elections, and much more
-- Donald Trump announces blanket global tariffs in a disoriented and confused outdoor White House event
-- Markets collapse as a result of Donald Trump's outrageous new tariff scheme
-- Some Senate Republicans turn on Trump, blocking his Canadian tariffs, as dissent grows
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's...
4/2/25: It's LIBERATION DAY as Tesla collapses, Booker speaks 25 hours
-- On the Show:
-- Brad Schimel, the Trump and Musk-endorsed candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has lost in a major setback for the MAGA agenda
-- Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) sets a new record with a Senate speech lasting more than 25 hours
-- GDP collapse is expected for Q1 2025 with a consensus estimate of just 0.3% growth and an Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate of -3.7%
-- Tesla sales collapse, down 13% year-over-year for Q1 2025, their worst quarter in three years
<...4/1/25: Huge protests build as Elon quits, Trump flips, Karoline lies
-- On the Show:
-- Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY) joins David to discuss the administration's disregard for the Constitution, the failures of DOGE, the Signal fiasco, and much more
-- The Hands Off protests this Saturday, April 5, seems like they will be absolutely massive, potentially the kind of activism that is currently needed
-- Republican Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) admits during a Fox News appearance that Donald Trump's tariffs will hurt the economy and the average American
-- Donald Trump flies...
3/31/25: Third term insanity spreads, Elon is stepping down
-- On the Show:
-- David lays out his political views in response to audience questions as a sort of anti-authoritarian progressive manifesto
-- NBC News' Kristin Welker reports that Donald Trump told her he's exploring the idea of a third term, despite legally being unable to serve again
-- A deep dive into the ways Donald Trump could try to argue for a third term, and their legal shortcomings
-- Donald Trump admits he has "no idea" what Signal is...
3/28/25: Trump's cabinet down big, how empires fail
-- 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
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3/27/25: We have no idea who is running the White House
-- On the Show:
-- A disoriented Donald Trump has no idea what's happening, raising new questions about who is truly in charge as Trump golfs and hangs out at Mar-a-Lago in the midst of the Signal texting scandal
-- A disgusting Donald Trump once again waxes poetic about "fertilization"
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, lets the pressure get to her as she flips out and denies CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins a followup question about the Signal scandal
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3/26/25: Total collapse over texting scandal, heads should roll
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump completely fails to explain the texting scandal during what was meant to be a softball interview with Newsmax, caught very obviously lying
-- A panicked Donald Trump attempts to defend the disastrous national security breach involving The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg
-- Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, suggests a journalist hacked his way into the Signal group in question
-- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely destroyed during hearings about the...
3/25/25: Free speech under massive attack, Tesla enters collapse spiral
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump's national security team accidentally texts war plans to The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in the biggest national security breach in a very long time
-- Donald Trump admits he has no idea what is going on in his administration
-- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth starts the coverup over the national security disaster that results in The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg receiving administration war plans via text message
-- Donald Trump melts down in a failed...
3/24/25: Dems filling rallies as Trump melts down over Elon
-- On the Show:
-- Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as other Democrats, are filling venues that Trump never filled with raucous and inspiring rallies
-- A review of economic performance after two months of Donald Trump's second term
-- Donald Trump suffers a full frontal crash in which he goes full authoritarian, a truly horrifying display
-- Donald Trump is melting down over the level of power that Elon Musk currently holds
-- A...
3/21/25: Tesla facing disaster as GOP town halls torched
-- On the Show:
-- David explores the difference between symbolic and operational politics and the inherent hypocrisies we all live with
-- Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks because they are falling apart in the latest blow to Elon Musk
-- Mark Levin makes it clear during a Fox News interview that Trump supporters simply do not care about law and order
-- How to build real, robust opposition to the Trump administration
-- Republican voters absolutely crush Republican...
3/20/25: Karoline Leavitt in shambles as legal losses mount
-- On the Show:
-- New York Governor Kathy Hochul joins David to discuss how she will resist the directives of the Trump administration, including on mass deportations and and ICE roundups
-- Senator Bernie Sanders drops the hammer on the failures of Trumpism, explaining that the modern Republican Party has nothing to offer the average American
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's Press Secretary, gets brutally fact-checked once again during a press briefing
-- Donald Trump suffers multiple legal blows within 24...
3/19/25: Putin embarrasses Trump, Elon's nutty interview
-- On the Show:
-- Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins David to discuss the growing constitutional crisis created by the Trump administration, and much more
-- Russian President Vladimir Putin humiliates Donald Trump, keeping him waiting an hour for a phone call while Putin laughs on stage
-- A deep dive into what it would take to really get Americans protesting in their streets against their government
-- Donald Trump cracks, demanding the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him<...
3/18/25: Global war explodes, constitutional crisis is here
-- On the Show:
-- Despite claiming to be the antiwar president, Donald Trump is presiding over a new escalation in Gaza, has launched attacks in Yemen, and still hasn't solved the Russia-Ukraine war
-- A true constitutional crisis is here as Donald Trump's White House blatantly ignores a specific court order with regard to deportations
-- Donald Trump announces he will be releasing JFK files, in addition to a number of other disoriented comments
-- Donald Trump speaks from a...
3/17/25: Tesla collapsing, Trump declares Biden pardons void
-- On the Show:
-- 94% of Germans say they would not buy a Tesla as Elon Musk's company is in serious trouble globally
-- Tesla has reportedly stopped Cybertruck deliveries because the vehicles are falling apart as they drive around
-- Donald Trump unleashes authoritarian insanity during a speech at the Department of Justice
-- Donald Trump declares media outlets adversarial to him "illegal"
-- A new report finds that the right wing is dominating the left...
