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The David Pakman Show

10/14/25: Embarrassing Middle East trip as MTG does a 180

14 Oct 2025

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0.031 - 21.853 David Pakman

Well, in the midst of the good news about hostages being released in Israel and Gaza, Donald Trump's latest trip abroad went exactly how you would expect a complete and total humiliation. He praised dictators. He sweated and babbled through speeches. He managed to insult entire countries and their leaders.

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21.833 - 41.14 David Pakman

And the America first guy is now spending more time drooling over authoritarian leaders and begging for their approval than actually maintaining relationships with our Democratic allies. So we're going to look at Donald Trump's hot mic disaster with the Indonesian president. We'll look at his praise for Egypt's brutal regime.

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41.621 - 62.992 David Pakman

We're going to look at all of it, including his call for Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned Marco Rubio humiliated himself and Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly making a little bit of sense. We're going to look at that as well. Interestingly, Vivek Ramaswamy is quickly finding out what happens when the far right purity tests are applied to him.

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63.012 - 96.463 David Pakman

And JD Vance was kicked off of a show by George Stephanopoulos after endlessly refusing to answer simple questions. All of that and more. So great to have you here. We start today with not much of a shock. Donald Trump praising yet another dictator. He loves dictators. He's impressed at how dictators just do what they want.

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97.124 - 122.063 David Pakman

And, you know, George W. Bush once said this would be a lot easier if I were a dictator. But even George W. Bush did not attempt to become one and he didn't flatter dictators around the world. Bush was terrible. Don't go in there, David. Are you saying Bush was good? But Bush at least respected some basics about what the United States of America is supposed to be.

122.584 - 137.483 David Pakman

Here is Donald Trump and Sharm El Sheikh Egypt on this completely harebrained, dilapidated and disastrous Middle East tour, saying, look at how great Egypt is doing. They have no crime here.

137.964 - 160.514 Donald Trump (clips)

There's a lot of respect and I think you'll see some tremendous progress both in the Middle This country is doing very well. It has good leadership. It's about leadership. And it's really nice when you say, how is your crime situation? And they're like, don't even know what you're talking about. What do you mean crime? We don't have crime. Because if he has crime, he puts it out very quickly.

161.697 - 165.223 Donald Trump (clips)

Some people think that's not nice, but I think it's great.

165.389 - 178.994 David Pakman

Some people think that brutal authoritarianism, it's not so nice, but I think it's absolutely great. And Trump continuing to wax poetic about brutal authoritarianism.

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