Trump is setting Republicans up for total failure

Pat Ford (0:00)

Welcome to The David Pakman Show. I'm producer Pat Ford filling in for David today. David's heading back home from Martha's Vineyard, so it's me filling in for him. We have an awesome lineup. We're going to start things off by talking about Donald Trump doing this interview with GBN, a British outlet, and it looks like he just rolled out of bed to do the interview. Then we're going to talk about JD Vance, who did this press conference filling in for Caroline Levitt, who's now left her post as the White House press secretary. And he did not impress anyone, I got to say, especially when he said that Americans should feel grateful that gas prices aren't even higher. That's not going to play very well. Later, we'll get to Ken Paxton ducking a debate with James Talarico, while fellow Texan Ted Cruz ways running for president. It's very highly likely that he's going to run for president, taking a look at all the steps that he's taking. And then we have probably the best anti-Trump ad I've seen in a long time. We're going to take a look at that one. And then video games on the White House website. Are you serious? Is that what taxpayer dollars are being spent on? All of that and more on the David Pakman Show today. So happy to be here with you.

Donald Trump sat down for an interview with GB News, which is like the British equivalent of Fox News here in the US. And I got to say, he looked just completely disheveled. I'm not sure if he just rolled out of bed through this interview, if he didn't know what was happening and they had to rush him in last second. Maybe he's just having a bad hair day. Maybe it's the lighting or the angle, I don't know. But half of his hair is just completely all over the place. We have Donald Trump here in this interview saying that the US went 17 months without a person crossing through the southern border illegally.

Yeah, no, that's just not believable. 17 months in a country of hundreds of millions of people. You're going to say that no one came through the southern border. It's just on its face is totally a lie. Let's take a look at this first clip.

Donald Trump (1:53)

I took it very seriously. I closed our border. We haven't had a person come in illegally into our country through the southern border in 17 months now.

They just announced 17 months. Nobody, nobody gets in. And you could do the same thing and so could Spain.

Pat Ford (2:08)

And then we have Donald Trump rambling about windmills because it wouldn't be a Trump interview if he wasn't spending some time complaining about how he doesn't like how windmills look and how he thinks they're ugly. But he comes up with this new claim that I haven't heard him say before, which is that they're somehow bad for the environment. I've heard Trump say that they kill a bunch of birds. I've heard him say that they're an eyesore, but bad for the environment. That's a new one. I got to say.

Donald Trump (2:32)

Actually, it's interesting. In Ireland, you don't see that many windmills.

But when you fly over Scotland and you fly over the, you know, if you land in Heathrow, they have windmills all over the place. And it's so bad environmentally, you know. The environmentalists say, oh, it's wonderful.

It's a big hug.

Pat Ford (2:50)

So there was about three minutes of windmill talk in this interview. I'm not going to subject you to all of that, but like 10% of the interview was about windmills and how Donald Trump doesn't like them. Next up, we have him talking about Venezuela and Iran. And he calls both of those conflicts wars, which of course he sometimes will do and sometimes won't do, depending on what's politically convenient at the moment. This time, he says that they are both wars. And he brags about ExxonMobil and other oil companies going into Venezuela to steal their oil, steal their country's resources. He's making it seem like this is some big win that America should be bragging about.

Donald Trump (3:26)

You know, Venezuela had oil, but they weren't using it because the system was bad. And we have a very good relationship with the government. You know, we had an attack and we had a war. And it lasted for a very short period of time, like less than a day. But we had a war.

Now we have a war with Iran. And that one's for a different reason.

Pat Ford (3:45)