When regimes collapse under their own lies artwork

When regimes collapse under their own lies

The David Pakman Show

July 17, 2026

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump uses a primetime address to renew claims about the 2020 election and push the SAVE America Act -- Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House podium and defended the administration's Iran policy before previewing Trump's primetime address -- Donald Trump and Rep.
Speakers: David Pakman, Donald Trump, Tony DeCople, Caitlin Collins, Karoline Leavitt, Garrett Haake, Ed, Keith Self, Laura Ingraham
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**David Pakman** (1:27)
Donald Trump delivered a bizarre, deeply alarming primetime speech yesterday, barely able to read the teleprompter that, of course, he doesn't need. He wants criminal investigations. He wants to purge voters. He wants to revoke TV licenses. But it all collapsed when Trump's bombshell documents reveal that Putin's government was working to help Trump win. Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, resurfaced, refuses to say whether Trump will accept the midterm election results. Reporters confronted her over all sorts of election conspiracies. And we're also going to look at an administration that is gleefully threatening civilian infrastructure, a war crime. And there is growing concern among senior military leaders that this guy is not right in the head. Meanwhile, Laura Ingraham accidentally discovers that the states that are kind of good places to live didn't vote for Trump. And a stunning $81 billion tariff refund is going to be financed by take a guess by you and me, the American taxpayers. What a show today. Shouldn't even be legal, folks.
Donald Trump must be removed immediately. This is the logical conclusion from seeing him rant and rave like a lunatic last night, barely able to speak in a borderline criminal speech. Donald Trump attempting to seize the airwaves in prime time to lie to us about 2020 Now I'm going to tell you what this speech is really about in a moment, but first let me give you a little bit of the atmospherics and set the tone. A very weird start, a sort of jump scare with Donald Trump looking at the camera with rapidly shifting expressions, not realizing that we're live.
I understand this is very visual, but bear with me.

**Donald Trump** (3:36)
Good evening. Before we begin, I'm proud to report.

**David Pakman** (3:39)
All right. So Donald Trump suddenly live and didn't even know it. He did sound absolutely terrible. You might have noticed there that he sounds hoarse and he kind of looked like a horse too. But that's a different story. Here is the beginning of the speech, a complete and total clown show before we begin.

**Donald Trump** (3:58)
I'm proud to report that our country is safer, stronger and far wealthier than it has ever been before. We are doing great.
Less than two years ago, we inherited an economic and social disaster after the worst inflation in 48 years, the wide open borders with millions.

**David Pakman** (4:18)
All right. So again, I'm going to try to give you the meat of this thing. Trump ranting about how terrible everything was under Biden and how great everything is now. That's the context. Notable that Donald Trump really struggled to read, even inserting random words that were not on his teleprompter, which of course he doesn't need. Barack Obama needed a teleprompter.
Biden needed a teleprompter, but Trump doesn't. And I guess, you know, they had to pick a different teleprompter operator because it turned out Trump's regular prompter guy was betting on the betting markets about the duration of Trump's speeches. Kind of interesting. So maybe Antifa was in charge of the prompter last night.

**Donald Trump** (4:58)
Information showing that China engaged in other election related activities to undermine my first administration in our 2020 campaign. They did not not want and they just didn't want it. They fought like hell not to have it. Donald Trump.

**David Pakman** (5:16)
They fought like hell not to have it. Donald Trump.

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