What an extraordinary week. I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of his return to power by insulting NATO, alienating our allies and threatening to invade Greenland. Now, he backed off during a speech at Davos that Maywell Rank is one of the most bizarre presidential addresses ever, but then announced his so-called

Board of Peace, which is a sort of United Nations for Misfit toys. And meanwhile, Jack Smith makes an

appeal for the rule of law on Capitol Hill, and the violent occupation of an American city continues.

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So let's get down to it because we have a lot of ground to cover on this weekend's edition.

And our special guest this weekend to mark the first anniversary of Donald Trump's return to power, the Trump 2.0. So a good friend, David

French. David, how are you? I'm good, Charlie. I am down in Nashville where we,

there was a Twitter meme yesterday that pretty much summed up our condition exactly, which was

expected forecast for Nashville,

anywhere between zero and 30 inches of snow.

Okay. Now, I have to admit that normally we Wisconsinites kind of look at scans at other

people who are talking about snow apocalypse, but that's pretty amazing because here in Wisconsin,

we have all the snow equipment,

right? We have the salters. We have the trucks. We have the plows. We have the snow plows.

You know, you guys are just basically going to have to like, what, you know, hibernate.

It's going to be the law of the jungle here, Charlie, within hours. You know, people are already friend groups and families are already allocating, like, who's going to eat which member of the family first, if it just gets really bad. Like, it's, you know, cannibalism is already on the table down here, Charlie. It's pretty, okay, so you don't just draw a lot.

Well, by the way, up here, we haven't got that much snow, but when I woke up this morning,

it was minus 14.

It was minus 14.

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