There is no expertise with Trump in charge
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 148 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC. I mean, |
| 0:05.9 | I don't know. Does this count as a missed information? It probably does. I don't know how much coverage |
| 0:11.1 | you've seen or read today of Donald Trump's ludicrous comments about the so-called Chegos Island |
| 0:15.9 | deals. It's very unpopular with the usual sort of ignorant racists all over Twitter who don't understand |
| 0:21.9 | anything or follow the facts or events. |
| 0:24.0 | But you'd have thought on this occasion they might have actually double checked what Donald |
| 0:27.2 | Trump had to say about it at the time or indeed what his secretary of state Marco Rubio had |
| 0:31.6 | to say about it. |
| 0:32.4 | All those many, many moons ago in, I don't like doing that, hashtag checks notes or whatever it is, but May of |
| 0:40.4 | 2025, May the 22nd, 2025. So just lest you are confused about what is going on. Donald Trump |
| 0:47.8 | has made his enmity towards Europe and the United Kingdom crystal clear. His designs upon |
| 0:53.2 | sovereigns for European territory are now |
| 0:55.7 | visible from space. You either abandon your pathetic, mealy-mouthed support for the man, |
| 1:02.3 | or you erect ever more ludicrous facades of fraudulence and stupidity in order to mask your own sense of humiliation and shame at having backed such an obvious wrongen. |
| 1:15.5 | And of course, having been so obnoxious and so rude to the people who were pointing out what was to almost everybody honest, sensible and informed, blindingly obvious. |
| 1:24.6 | So what he has done today is essentially hand weapons to useful idiots on this side of the |
| 1:29.5 | Atlantic and say, please throw these at your own Prime Minister, which means that the useful |
| 1:33.9 | idiots on this side of the Atlantic throwing weapons at their own Prime Minister are latter-day |
| 1:38.0 | Lord Hawors. They are doing the bidding of a foreign leader who wishes us harm and ill. See it in the context of the United |
| 1:45.5 | Kingdom if you want or see it in the context of Europe, which he has refused to rule out |
| 1:50.4 | military force in the process of helping himself to land that he wants. So just because you |
| 1:56.9 | might think that you're going mad, I will file this under. |
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