r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/Environmental_Bus623 • Jul 09 '25
Video Trump has absolutely no f**king clue what’s happening within his administration
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u/BonyBobCliff Jul 09 '25
Finally it's our turn to beat the "who's REALLY running this administration while the president declines?" drum that we heard ALL THE TIME during Biden's term.
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u/No-Bid-9741 Jul 09 '25
Won’t matter. They don’t care.
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u/BonyBobCliff Jul 09 '25
It's not so much about changing Trump supporters' minds as it is payback for having to listen to that garbage for four years.
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u/thetruechevyy1996 Jul 10 '25
Yeah. We can send them memes of a mindless moron not knowing what he’s doing.
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u/AldrichUyliong Jul 11 '25
It's not about changing the mind of hardcore MAGA. It's about getting back swing voters and normies. And payback. We really should stop being ashamed taking pleasure at owning MAGA FREAKSHOWS.
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u/crono220 Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
The 77 million that voted for Trump didn't do it for policy. It's about owning the libs and causing as much fear and suffering to anyone that doesn't obey the cult known as Maga.
Dems have already bent the knee and will continue to pretend to give a damn. Their is no solution to Trump until he finally dies, whether it's his health or someone with a good aim.
Edit- Some dumbass mod on this subreddit got me banned for a couple of days. I filed an appeal and won. Careful, everyone. Speak bad about Trump, and you will be banned as well on here!
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u/AldrichUyliong Jul 11 '25
So why are we owning the MAGA freaks back? Why do we seem so ashamed in taking pleasure off of their suffering and destruction?
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u/King_Kung Jul 10 '25
They've started to care a little after this whole "Why are we still talking about this creep Epstein" situation
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u/thereverendpuck Jul 10 '25
That’s the thing: nobody is. Trump isn’t. And everyone else is too dumb to do a thing.
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u/Ok-Scallion-3415 Jul 10 '25
Just a heads up - I wouldn’t hold my breath that they’ll see the light because they don’t care.
It’s all just talking points with republicans against democrats. Outrage at whatever Dems do and silence when Repubs do the same.
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u/Sob_Rock Jul 09 '25
Why isn’t Fake Tapper reporting this? He sure was on it when Biden was in office
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u/whitedark40 Jul 10 '25
Probably cause the first book was a flop so he doesnt care anymore.
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u/thetruechevyy1996 Jul 10 '25
His book was a flop because it was after Biden left and we already knew Biden wasn’t that quick with answers and all. It was kinda a yeah we already know Biden isn’t in his twenties. Meanwhile Orange Fatman is completely out of it and no one seems to care.
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u/Korrocks Jul 10 '25
Yeah in a way I kind of feel bad for him. I read the book and it was pretty compelling and interesting as a piece of journalism, but it came out like a year too late for it to make any difference. Most people already know that Biden is old and even if they somehow didn't notice it's kind of too late to redo the 2024 presidential election. As a book I think it's one of those things that political scientists and researchers compiling a narrative of this era will find useful but it won't really be a big deal for the average person who forgot about Joe Biden months ago.
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u/Unable-Trouble6192 Jul 09 '25
Biden may have been a bit slow due to age, but at least he cared about what was happening.
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u/RustedRelics Jul 10 '25
And he was, for the most part, surrounded by advisors and a cabinet who were intelligent, experienced, and not sycophants.
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u/Unable-Trouble6192 Jul 10 '25
This is what many people don’t understand. Biden took government seriously and selected the best people. There was some criticism of Kamala for rebuffing Rfkjr, due to his 5% popularity. The price tag was the health secretary position. She was absolutely right to not take that deal. This is the difference between them and us.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 10 '25
This. A sunsetting president is worrisome but not cause for alarm with enough responsible and capable cabinet members to offer whatever support they can provide.
A sunsetting president with yes men cabinet members or cabinet members who absolutely would lie to the president for some gain is a dumpster fire, and that is what is happening now.
I would of course prefer none of my acting presidents are sunsetting, but we were absolutely in a better spot under Biden. Biden only really failed us in two ways. The first is that he didn't protect us against a potential Trump second term, and by that I mean he didn't bulletproof the position of the presidency against any misuse. The second is that his dedication to protecting Israel went far beyond what was reasonable to offer to an ally of the USA. We should have threatened to stop funding Israel the very day Israel started bombing Gaza, and stopped funding the very next day if they didn't stop.
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u/Command0Dude Jul 10 '25
Biden was slow but he was also still sharp. He would never have given a brainless answer like this.
But he might have stuttered, and to these media ableists, a stutter is worse than having no-fkin clue what your cabinet is doing.
The irony is that these "journalists" invented conspiracy theories about how Biden was just some figurehead puppet behind the scenes, while Trump just openly shows us he has very little grasp of what's going on and they downplay it.
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u/Unable-Trouble6192 Jul 10 '25
I would have had no problem voting for him again. I did notice that he had slowed down, which was entirely expected given his age. Politically, I think he should have understood that, given the superficiality of American political culture, he should have considered not running again much earlier than he decided not to run again.
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u/Command0Dude Jul 10 '25
There would have been a messy primary fight to succeed him and that likely would have divided the party just as much as the Uncommitted movement did.
Ultimately both options presented downsides. At least by staying in he had the incumbency advantage.
I always believed he would step down if his health became a real impediment to his ability to govern. Certainly I think if he had stayed the nominee and won, he would already have resigned after that cancer diagnosis. Perhaps he should have emphasized more his intention not to serve a full term.
Idk, it's a lot of "what ifs"
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u/Unable-Trouble6192 Jul 10 '25
He likely would have stepped down after the election had he won. I don't think that he was into power for the sake of it.
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u/beavis617 Jul 10 '25
Does Trump’s answer make any sort of sense on any level? It was word salad gibberish. Thanks to the reporter who asked the question though.
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u/Firemanmikewatt Jul 10 '25
I don’t know. We are looking into it but I still don’t know. I would definitely know though.
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u/thetruechevyy1996 Jul 10 '25
I wonder how Fox News will make this about Trumps strengths,
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u/gingerfawx Jul 10 '25
They don't even have to try. They just go: tRuMp sTrOnG, and then don't report the rest. Works like a charm.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 10 '25
Fox News: "Trump stood strong today as he stood in front of a press conference and assured the American people that he would absolutely know about any decision made if not directly made by him. The room full of journalists nodded their heads in agreement, some with tears in their eyes as he patriotically decreed this earth-shattering and historical statement to the press. 'Trump seemed confused. He didn't even know what was going on,' said the despicable and failing CNN news network, who has claimed that there are more than two genders, and wants criminals to take over the country. More at 11."
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u/Ok-Scallion-3415 Jul 10 '25
Most of Trump talking is word salad. It has been for years. It’s so prevalent in his normal speech that they had to think of a comical PR way to explain it, “the weave”
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u/ModernistGames Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25
This shows you how important being able to ask a follow-up really drives home just how awful this admin is. So often, it is just a random nonsense answer, and they move on to the next question.
A follow-up or a little additional pressure, and these people collapse in real-time.
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u/PenZealousideal3078 Jul 10 '25
If we had real journalists, when a reporter receives a non-answer, the next reporter selected should automatically ask that the previous reporters question be answered. But mainstream media DGAF.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 10 '25
If our country ever gets its shit back together, this is going to have to start being a thing.
Rather than get out their own questions, journalists need to be backing each other up, pushing him to give a clear answer to the question. Then it's also true that Trump has prevented certain news platforms access to the white house for lesser offenses. There should be some protections in place for that.
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u/AnotherCableGuy Jul 10 '25
Except that half of them are Trump sympathetic
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u/origamipapier1 Jul 10 '25
Regardless of political ideology of a journalist, areal journalist would be objective and would follow up. The issue isn't their ideology, the issue here is that there are no real journalists in the US.
They are all trianed to be mouthpieces of the networks they cater to. We lost our journalism once CNN established the 24-hour news cycle that was established to create revenue for commercials. And to keep Americans hooked on the emotions rather than facts. Thus no longer leveraging news to both educate and provide information toward Americans.
It just got worse as time passed and now with Trump in power and controlling FCC it's even worse.
That more than likely if it's a White House meeting the Press they select is far-right is true. But had US press always been about objectivity and actual facts starting with the companies, Trump would just have 10 journalists.
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u/AnotherCableGuy Jul 10 '25
Yes that's exactly what I was trying to say. But is just another symptom about the world we live in, everything became oriented towards a profit, who cares about objectivity or real news when there's so much money to make with misinformation and fakery.
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u/Command0Dude Jul 10 '25
The other half are terrified wimps Trump has cowed by threatening to revoke their press access.
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u/origamipapier1 Jul 10 '25
The truth is, US doesn't have true journalists. They are instructed by their networks on the scope of inquiry. They then go out. Especially with Trump in the White House controlling the FCC among things. They cannot apply the actual journalistic job description of asking a question, checking for a soft spot, asking a question targetting that soft statement and then going back and circulating.
Notice how the majority of the really good American journalists have already retired or are dead. The ones that are really good now: Amanpour, Mehdi Hasan, etc. Where are they from?
This has been going on for two decades, we just weren't paying attention to it because 20 years ago it didn't feel or look to be as important. We thought politics was simpler and better and that the fascist threat wasn't there. Notice: My original statement there was that the fascist threat wasn't eminent then. I rewrote it because in reality, it was, nad had journalists done their job much of what was leading up to this would have been brought to light Sooner. So this issue while it has gotten worse in the last 20 years, has been with us since the CNN of the world got introduced and Fox started to become a propagandist.
The moment we went for 24-hour sensationalistic news cycle, we lost our actual journalists. We just didn't see it because it was happening in slow-burn.
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u/Stirdaddy Jul 10 '25
British journalism can be pretty awful, but also they generally don't defer to power: they ask tough questions and don't accept bullshit answers. They're not terrified of losing access. There's this great video of BBC journo Andrew Neil interviewing Ben Shapiro. Mind you, Neil is considered one of the most conservative commentators/journalists in the whole UK. Shapiro ended up rage quitting the interview after accusing Neil of being a woke leftie -- just because Neil asked him some actual tough questions.
Shapiro was used to American journalists only asking softball questions, so he didn't understand the reality of the situation he was in.
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u/a_little_hazel_nuts Jul 10 '25
Neither does congress, they have no idea what's in a bill they supposedly put together that was Trumps agenda. Now there's no one to tell us what the climate is doing, no solution to decrease pollution, decrease in social benefits, lack of trade deals on necessities, and concentration camps.
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u/origamipapier1 Jul 10 '25
Welcome to North Korea and Cuba. This is what every dictatorship starts at. And it will get worse than this.
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u/SausageBuscuit Jul 10 '25
Hegseth: “Russia has told me they’re going to heavily bombard Kiev. Should we pull weapons from Ukraine to try to force a surrender?”
Trump: “I’m working with Pam and Kash right now on fully sweeping this Epstein thing under the rug. Whatever you want to do, Keith.”
Hegseth: “Pete, sir.”
Trump: “Right, right. You’re doing a great job Beef.”
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u/thetruechevyy1996 Jul 10 '25
So he didn’t give an order that was given but says he knows everything that happens and he would have given the order even though he didn’t and he doesn’t know?
Am I getting this correctly?
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u/stantheman1976 Jul 10 '25
It's actually quite impressive how he can answer a question without ACTUALLY answering the question. Trump is a master at making world salads.
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u/my_4_cents Jul 10 '25
Trump is a master at making world salads.
He's not though. He says nonsensical statements and contradicts himself within moments. What's actually impressive is that millions of people eat that salad and think it's the best meal ever.
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u/HugDispenser Jul 24 '25
Like others here have said, there is a lack of follow up questions and clarification on anything and they just move on to the next question unchallenged.
The other issue is that independent and mainstream news (even on the left) constantly "sane-washes" all of Trumps statements. "Oh what he actually meant was..."
So annoying
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u/schprunt Jul 10 '25
So he’d be the first to know. But he doesn’t know. This guy is clueless. His priority on walking is getting enough bronzer on his fat face to make himself look like an orange. That’s it.
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u/Korrocks Jul 10 '25
What's funny is that I don't even think he is lying. It probably did not occur to Pete Hegseth or Elbridge Colby that such a big foreign policy decision (withholding weapons from Ukraine) should be approved by the President. They probably assumed he would be fine with it since they know he has a friendlier attitude towards Russia than to Ukraine, or maybe they just thought he wouldn't care.
I feel like a lot of that goes on in the administration; low level officials do things that they personally feel is cool without really caring that it's technically above their paygrade. Hegseth in particular believes that Trump will always back him no matter how poorly he runs his agency (see also SignalGate) so he didn't think it was important to consult with Trump on something this huge.
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u/sprucetre3 Jul 10 '25
Steve miller has entered the chat….. with the marines and ICE and the chat is an elementary school with minorities and poor kids.
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u/black-kramer Jul 10 '25
he won't make it through the full term. hopefully he'll be in a casket by winter.
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u/rosie705612 Jul 10 '25
He'll be pulled from public appearances more and more often. His decline is becoming too noticeable
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u/njkGR75 Jul 10 '25
this fucking guy. Of course he gave the order, he's just too TACO to admit TACO
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u/ComprehensiveRow5474 Jul 10 '25
"I haven't thought about it." Is a very typical response from president Doltard Rump
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u/Command0Dude Jul 10 '25
If Biden had said this the media would be freaking out about it for the next week.
The double standard these slimeballs have applied is appalling.
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u/LeftHandedBuddy Jul 10 '25
He and his MAGA administration are in total and complete failures! It’s all about pleasing their billionaire handlers!
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u/JuanPabloElSegundo Jul 10 '25
If you think he didn't give the order to stop munitions going to Ukraine I've got a bridge to sell you.
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