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The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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By now you’ve seen President Trump’s big speech at Davos. The slurring, the confusing of Greenland and Iceland, the nonsense about wind power, and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world—it was an unmitigated disaster.  But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise, absurdly declaring that “America is back” and that Trump played “leader of the free world.” When reporters savagely noted the Greenland-Iceland confusion, she offered a true knee-slapper of buffoonish damage control. We think it all exposed the scam at the core of MAGA in a fresh way. We talked to Mona Charen, a podcast host at The Bulwark and penetrating critic of Trump’s lawless unfitness. We discuss the brutal criticism of the speech, how this may have killed NATO, why other countries can never trust the U.S. to refrain from electing another Trump, and how it all revealed MAGA’s anti-globalism as a sick scam.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

1:03.3

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. By now you've seen the brutal video clips and harsh reviews of President Trump's big speech at Davos.

1:18.0

The whole thing was an unmitigated disaster, not just for Trump, but for our country.

1:24.0

Things got even more revealing after the speech, however, when Trump's propagandists were forced to spin this moment as a world historical triumph.

1:33.3

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, as always, rose to the moment, unleashing an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise, and J.D. Vance wasn't far behind. It all exposed the scam at the core of

1:47.3

MAGA in a fresh way. So we're talking about all of this with Mona Charon, who hosts a podcast of the

1:53.8

bulwark and has been a penetrating critic of Trump's global vision and of his profound unfitness for

1:59.0

the presidency. Great to have you on, Mona.

2:01.8

Hi, Greg. Always good to see you. Does he have a vision for international affairs other than

2:07.5

me, me, me? Not really, and we're going to get deep into that. So everybody has by now seen

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it all, the slurring, the incoherence, the confusing of Greenland and Iceland, the angry

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