The David Pakman Show
10/2/25: Governor urges Trump’s removal as shutdown drama escalates
02 Oct 2025
-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump with Russ Vought cancels billions in climate and transit funding only for blue states, punishing voters who backed Kamala Harris -- Trump embraces the government shutdown because it delays the Epstein files, with Speaker Mike Johnson blocking Adelita Grijalva from being sworn in -- Congresswoman Madeleine Dean tells Mike Johnson that Trump is unhinged and unwell while Republicans pretend not to notice -- The ADP report shows Trump’s economy loses 32,000 private payroll jobs in September with declines in hospitality, construction, and small business -- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joins Gavin Newsom in declaring Trump has dementia and calls for his removal under the 25th Amendment -- Google search disables AI overviews for Trump dementia queries while providing them for Joe Biden, raising censorship concerns -- Karoline Leavitt lashes out at reporters asking about Jared Kushner’s foreign funding, Trump’s AI deepfake, and looming layoffs during the shutdown -- JD Vance defends Trump posting a sombrero meme of Hakeem Jeffries, dismisses racism concerns, and jokes while pushing the shutdown -- On the Bonus Show: Big Pharma benefits from Trump’s drug pricing plan, Pope Leo denounces support for the death penalty as incompatible with being pro-life, John Fetterman polls higher with Republicans than Democrats, and much more... 💳 PDS Debt: Get your free assessment & find the best option for you at https://pdsdebt.com/pakman 📄 UPDF: Try this revolutionary new PDF tool totally free at https://davidpakman.com/updf 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman ⚠️ Ground News: Get 40% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe to our (FREE) Substack newsletter: https://davidpakman.substack.com -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow (00:00) Trump cuts climate & transit funds in blue states (09:55) Shutdown delays Epstein files, Grijalva blocked (18:00) Congresswoman says Trump is unwell, GOP stays silent (22:56) Trump economy loses 32k private jobs (30:44) Pritzker, Newsom call for 25th Amendment (36:54) Google limits Trump dementia searches (43:19) Leavitt dodges Kushner funding, AI deepfake (57:43) Vance defends racist Trump meme, backs shutdown
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Welcome, everybody. You all know I'm not big on constantly fear mongering about civil wars. There are some content creators whose bread and butter has been predicting civil war for five, six, seven, eight, 10 years. However, I do want to raise the question of whether it is a colloquial civil war for the president to say we're going to start cutting from blue states.
We're going to start hurting the states whose politics at the top lever level are not aligned with my own. Now, before I even tell you what's going on, I know that some of you, because you're so smart and you're so intuitive and you're so astute, most of you anyway, not the ones I hear from in my email daily, but I know that that you're all out there and make up the vast majority of my audience.
You would all say, wait a second, when you hurt a, quote, blue state, because you're a Republican in most blue states, didn't 35, 40, 45, even 48 percent of the population still vote for the Republican? Aren't you hurting your own voters? And the answer is, of course you are. But Donald Trump doesn't care about that. Here's what's going on.
Trump is cutting off federal money, not across the board, not fairly, but to states that voted against him in the presidential election. It is not about saving money. It is not about fiscal conservatism. Any time a MAGA Republican talks about fiscal conservatism as if they care about that, I can't help but laugh. This is just about authoritarian punishment.
Donald Trump's budget director, Russ Vogt, bragged. that nearly eight billion dollars in green energy projects are gone. Every state that voted for Kamala Harris has been hit. And at the same time, Donald Trump has frozen 18 billion dollars in funding for New York subway and the tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey money, which, by the way, I believe is very much needed.
I don't know how many of you have been on the New York subway or in that tunnel lately. I have. And these projects were already approved by Congress, raising questions as to whether any of this is legal. But legality is just a quaint artifact of times gone by in the Trump era. Trump is blocking them because they are a blue state.
So here is a tweet or it's it's I guess now because it's X, we call them excretions. Here's an excretion that Russ Vogt put out, quote. Nearly eight billion dollars in green new scam funding to fuel the left's climate agenda is being canceled. More info to come from the Department of Energy. The projects are in the following states. What do these have in common?
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington.
Hmm.
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