Try Free

DEMENTIA EXPLODES at Trump speech gone wrong

David Pakman Show April 18, 2026 10m 1,639 words
▶ Watch original video

About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of DEMENTIA EXPLODES at Trump speech gone wrong from David Pakman Show, published April 18, 2026. The transcript contains 1,639 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.

"Donald Trump delivered a complete and total freak show speech in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trump was over an hour late to his own speech. This behind the stage, you see the big banner, no tax on tips. Just a reminder, no tax on tips isn't part of the bill that Republicans passed. It's made up. It's fake...."

[0:00] Donald Trump delivered a complete and total freak show speech in Las Vegas, Nevada. [0:05] Trump was over an hour late to his own speech. This behind the stage, you see the big banner, [0:13] no tax on tips. Just a reminder, no tax on tips isn't part of the bill that Republicans passed. [0:19] It's made up. It's fake. It's phony. But we will get back to that. As Donald Trump was over an [0:26] hour late, the crowd participated in some kind of unusual sing along. Imagine waiting hours to see [0:37] an obese, orange, crumbling president lie incoherently. And then when he's over an hour [0:46] late because he doesn't respect your time, this is what they do, etc. I won't subject you to more of [1:09] it because it is, quite frankly, vomitous. One of the most out of touch moments from this no tax on [1:17] tips event to celebrate a bill that doesn't include no tax on tips was Trump visibly confused by the [1:25] phrase corner store. And he tried to cover it up by going, of course, I know what it is, [1:30] but I've never heard the phrase before. [1:33] Billions of American small businesses, including restaurants, strike cleaners, [1:38] corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, [1:42] but I've never heard it described a corner store. Who the hell wrote that? Please. [1:46] So understand what's going on here. Trump gives us his real reaction up front, which is what is a [1:53] corner store? That's the real reaction. We could stop there. He's completely out of touch. But then [1:59] Trump realizes, oh, that probably sounds a little bit out of touch. So he goes. So the initial [2:05] reaction is, what is a corner store? I've never heard that term. Oops, that's going to make me [2:09] sound like an out of touch rich guy. So then he goes, I know what a corner store is, but I've never [2:15] heard it described a corner store. Well, if you know what a corner store is, wouldn't corner store [2:23] be the most appropriate term for it? And he goes, no, no, no. I've never heard the term, [2:28] but I know what the thing is, but I don't know what it means to describe it as such. Well, [2:34] it sounds like you do or don't you? Nobody knows. Trump is completely and totally out of touch. [2:40] Now, I want to remind you this entire no tax on tips thing. It's fake. The law Trump passed and is [2:48] bragging about does not include no tax on tips. It has a deduction up to $25,000 in tip income can be [2:58] deducted from federal income tax. It doesn't say no tax on tips. You've got to report the tips. And [3:06] we went over this last week. You've got to pay payroll taxes on them. You likely pay state taxes [3:11] on them. So it's not no tax. You can deduct. But most tipped workers already pay little to no federal [3:18] income tax. And that's because of something called the standard deduction of $14,000. So this is not [3:24] primarily a show about tax policy, but it's important to consider that the average server [3:30] will benefit zero or this teeniest, tiniest bit from this deduction on tips. It's not no tax on tips, [3:39] but they keep saying that Trump in a bizarre moment says that a year ago, our country was an embarrassment. [3:46] Remember that Trump was president a year ago, our country a year ago. Our country was an embarrassment [3:55] and all over the world they laughed at us and they don't laugh anymore. They are not laughing [4:00] anymore. They're not laughing anymore. I don't think I want to remind you that a year ago was almost May, [4:09] almost May of 2025. And Donald Trump was the president of the United States. Suddenly, [4:17] when it was Scott Besson's turn to speak, Trump was out cold, just completely asleep. [4:25] And the I just want to thank President Trump for championing this program, because I can tell [4:30] by the way, championing the some of the Republican, the some of the more traditional Republican. [4:38] Speaker 1 So as you can see, Trump just completely asleep. Reality doesn't matter. He spent years [4:43] calling him sleepy Joe. Now he's asleep. The maggots don't care because it was never really about being [4:50] sleepy. Trump, in a rare, accurate moment, he said something that's true. He said that his door dash [4:57] grandma stunt at the White House earlier this week was a little bit tacky. And I've got to tell you, [5:04] he finally gets it right. It was extraordinarily tacky that no one has ever uttered before. God [5:11] bless the IRS. Can you believe it? I've never heard that before. We have to patent that. We have [5:23] to do something. Earlier this week at the White House, I met a wonderful woman named Sharon Simmons, [5:28] a grandmother driving DoorDash to help support her husband's cancer treatment. She's got serious cancer. [5:34] She's going to be okay, I think. Sharon delivered McDonald's to the Oval Office. It was a little [5:39] bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky. You know, they come up with these [5:45] crazy ideas like McDonald's, although that was the biggest ever on Google, they say. Number one ever [5:51] in the garbage truck. I mean, we do these things in politics. They're a little embarrassing. They're a [5:58] little tiny embarrassing, but we do them and you win by landslides. You know, it's one of those. [6:03] So we got to keep doing. No, we got to knock on the Oval Office door. This does not happen. [6:08] That's the first baby in the history of the Oval Office. And it was a very beautiful woman [6:12] standing there with two big bags of McDonald's hamburgers. Bags. And I say, is this really [6:17] believable? But the point of it was she made $11,000 that she had no idea was coming. And it was [6:27] really great. It turned out to be really great. So it's all really great. It was tacky. Trump [6:31] is right. It was extraordinarily tacky. At another point, a completely confused and bewildered [6:37] Donald Trump said that we just hit an all time new stock market. Now, you might be saying, [6:42] David, there's there must be some word missing there. Did we hit an all time new stock market [6:46] high? Did we hit an all time new stock market low? No, we just hit an all time new stock market. [6:52] Oh, well, we're doing and we have this. A lot of people thought that inflation would be through [6:57] the roof and the stock market would crash. Well, we just hit an all time new stock market. So [7:03] there you go. We just hit an all time new stock market. Woo. Does anybody in the audience know [7:11] what that means? No. And of course, as I said earlier, the stock market partially recovering [7:16] from the decline caused by Trump's Iran fiasco. And it is an arsonist setting a huge fire, [7:23] putting out a little bit of the fire and going, praise me, praise me. I have just put out a little [7:30] bit of the fire that I started. Trump refers to the inflation, the rising gas prices as fake [7:38] inflation years. Don't forget, we're having some fake inflation because of the fuel, the energy prices, [7:43] which everybody said was going to 250. We're talking about that. Scott years. Don't forget, [7:47] we're having some fake inflation, complete and total fake inflation. When you go to the gas pump [7:53] and it's 414 for regular and 529 for premium, that's fake. How do I know? Because Trump said it [8:03] quite simply. And then finally, Trump wrapping up this completely harebrained event with some of his [8:11] double jerk dancing, making everybody feel really good. So in case anybody was worried about rising [8:30] prices, in case anybody was worried about paying tax on tips, Trump showed up. He said he got rid of [8:37] taxes on tips, even though he didn't. He said that gas prices are low, even though they're high. And he [8:44] danced, which no president would ever do unless everything was great. Now, there was one other [8:50] little thing that happened, which was that when Donald Trump was flying to this event on Air Force [8:57] One, he turned on Fox News and he saw something that simply enraged him. And we will look at that [9:05] after the break. We do need your help. I'm talking about you to get to 4 million YouTube subscribers. [9:15] This would be an achievement like no other for a little tiny independent show like this one. [9:21] Make sure you are subscribed on YouTube. I'll tell you what happened on Air Force One [9:26] after the break. You use your email for everything. Banking, work, purchases, medical information [9:34] that makes your email provider one of the most important places to think about privacy. Most big [9:40] tech email services scan your messages, build profiles about you, use the data to show you ads. [9:47] Our sponsor Startmail takes a different approach. Startmail looks and works just like the big name email [9:53] services you're used to. But Startmail never scans your mail, never tracks anything about you, [9:59] never sells your data. Startmail also includes powerful privacy features you don't get from big [10:05] tech email providers. For instance, you can create unlimited email aliases so you don't have to give [10:10] out your real address to anybody, which will reduce spam and phishing risks. You can also send [10:17] PGP encrypted emails even if the recipient isn't using encryption. And if you switch to Startmail, [10:24] it is really easy to migrate your existing emails and contacts in just a few clicks. [10:29] Go to Startmail.com slash Pacman to get 50% off your first year. The link is in the description.

Transcribe Any Video or Podcast — Free

Paste a URL and get a full AI-powered transcript in minutes. Try ScribeHawk →