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TRUMP HUMILIATED - But West Still IN CHAOS

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

So Donald Trump has utterly humiliated himself, but that doesn't detract from the fundamentals.

0:05.3

The West is over, as we've understood it, as is the lynchpin of the West since World War

0:12.2

2, which is American hegemony, and European elites are in a total mess.

0:16.7

Now, yesterday, Trump did a long rambling, and if I'm honest, just boring speech at the

0:22.3

World's Economic Forum in Davos. I'm not saying that simply to make hot shots at this

0:28.1

far-right authoritarian demagogue, all of that accurate observation rather than insult,

0:32.2

because to be frank, sometimes Trump can be kind of funny. I hate admitting it, but it is what

0:37.2

it is.

0:37.6

It's always been my view that Donald Trump should have been a drag queen rather than a far-right aspiring dictator.

0:43.9

He's extremely camp and sometimes just kind of hilarious as a result without detracting from the seriousness of the threat he poses.

0:51.4

Now, this particular speech, I'm afraid to say, was not an example of this. It was just a meandering, tedious dream of consciousness.

0:59.2

Anyway, here was a salient part. We never asked for anything, and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we

1:12.2

would be, frankly, unstoppable.

1:15.3

But I won't do that.

1:19.3

Okay?

1:19.8

Now everyone's saying, oh, good.

1:22.2

That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.

1:26.8

I don't have to use force. I don't have to use force.

1:27.9

I don't want to use force. I won't use force. You know what? I tried to avoid getting into the

1:32.3

is Trump really with it narrative? Because often it seems like wishful thinking on the part

1:36.5

of liberals. You think this is all some passing nightmarish aberration. If only Trump's health

1:41.6

collapses, it will all be over. But just overall, having watched way too much of this beat,

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