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BREAKING: Joe Biden Freezes US Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia
We’re now more than a week into Joe Biden’s presidency and over all he has been doing an excellent job so far. Biden has done more good for the country than Donald Trump did in his entire four years in office. There have been some shortcomings of the new administration, including being behind on issuing $1,400 or $2,000 stimulus checks to the American people. But all things considered, Biden has been busy reimagining the nation’s approach to coronavirus and signing executive order after executive order. It’s why Biden’s approval rating has been as high as 63% in this honeymoon period of his administration.
Biden has been successful in ramping up vaccine distribution, with now more than one million vaccines being administered every day in the United States. Biden paused the arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and got back into the Paris Climate Agreement. He undid Trump’s travel ban and the transgender military member ban. There’s a whole lot left to do — and it won’t be easy with such slim majorities in Congress and right-wing judges ready to stand in the way. However, Biden is off to a stellar start and he has an opportunity to be a highly successful president.
Trump's Properties PLUMMETING in Value
Donald Trump has not been doing so well since leaving office and setting up shop in Mar-A-Lago. To make matter worse, his property values are plummeting. Trump-branded Manhattan buildings have lost half of their value since he took office. Properties that used to have the Trump name, but don’t anymore, have lost 17% of their value. The Trump brand and name is a disaster right now, to the point where maybe his post-presidency life won’t be so profitable after all. After the Capitol riots on January 6th, a number of banks cut ties with Trump. He also lost his social media accounts which could have been used to promote his businesses. If there aren’t going to be major political or criminal consequences for the damage Trump did to the country, maybe there can be financial ones.
From yesterday’s show:
Senate Bill Proposes Making Washington DC 51st State
House and Senate Democrats are moving forward on a bill that would make Washington DC the 51st state in the union. This District of Columbia has a bigger population than Vermont and Wyoming, and yet its residents don’t have representatives who can vote on their behalf in the House and Senate. If DC became a state, its 700,000 residents would have full representation (which they should have a right to as they are paying federal income taxes). The measure would need sixty votes to pass in the Senate, so it’s unlikely to happen without getting rid of the filibuster. Unfortunately, Republicans won’t vote for it, because DC statehood would mean another Democratic representative and two more Democratic senators.
--More on the show:
--Caller discuss progressive political messaging
--Caller asks about libertarian conspiracy theorists
--Caller asks why Senate Republicans still support Donald Trump
--Caller wonders if Republicans will get more radical with Trump gone
--Caller talks about the Gamestop short squeeze
--Caller thinks the American election system is wacky
--Audience Question: How long will mask-wearing continue?
--Audience Question: What will the Trump congresspeople do in the next four years?
--Audience Question: What will be the legacy of Donald Trump?
--On the Bonus Show: Investors turn on Robinhood, financial analysts pity the hedge fund managers, and much more...
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