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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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President Trump is traveling to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today to discuss the U.S. economy, world trade, and other key topics. Klaus Schwab, the chairman of the World Economic Forum, is not leading this year’s event, which could influence the political and economic discussions taking place. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews streaming host Bill O’Reilly. Many citizens, especially Democrats, are reportedly growing weary of the rapid pace at which President Trump is tackling the country’s challenges. Bill argues that the Trump Administration should be more transparent about its approach to these issues, as the lack of detailed information can be frustrating for Americans who want to understand the actions being taken.

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0:00.0	Now on the voice of New York. It's the Mark Simone show on 710 W.O.R.
0:10.1	Well, hey, everybody's back. We got a four-day week. We got a lot to talk about. Greenland. What the hell is that actually all about? We'll get to that. Minnesota, what's really going on there? The president leaves today for Davos. Now, for years, we always
0:24.6	attack and ridicule this Davos conference, but
0:27.4	it's a whole different thing now. It's not the same Davos from before. This is going to be
0:32.6	a whole new Davos type of conference. We'll explain. We'll get to
0:36.8	Mamdani and his bidetis. We'll get to, oh, New Jersey.
0:41.3	It's the, yeah, it's the 20th. You get a new governor today. Mikey Sherrill, who's promised on your
0:48.1	behalf to declare war on the federal government. I don't know what that's going to accomplish.
0:52.3	We'll get to Josh Shapiro. We'll get the Don Lemon and a whole lot more coming up. Hey, by the way, it's January 20th. Today's the one-year
1:00.1	anniversary of President Trump taking office. The inauguration, remember that cold freezing
1:07.3	inauguration day? It was unbelievably cold. It was like real feel. Temperature was like five degrees.
1:15.1	A bitterly cold. Remember, they had to move it inside into the Capitol Rotunda. That was one year ago today.
1:21.2	So if you look back now on this first year, more stuff happened. More stuff got accomplished. More controversies, more fighting, more Trump
1:31.3	derangement syndrome. It has been an incredible year. And, you know, we always talk about Trump
1:37.5	derangement syndrome. The left, the Democrats, the liberals, they've got their own thing they keep
1:43.0	talking about. It's called T.E-S. It's Trump exhaustion syndrome.
1:47.8	He is simply wearing them out.
1:50.1	We've never seen a president or for that matter any politician ever behave like this guy
1:56.8	or do things the way this guy does.
1:59.5	It's just fast and furious. It's nonstop. There's action all the
2:04.2	time. You know, this is, for years, I've talked about, why can't we get somebody from the private
2:09.9	sector into politics into the White House, a great CEO, a Jack Welch, who was talk of Lee Iacocca at one time.
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