Trump’s stand-up routine in Davos
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In a tumultuous week in geopolitics, Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech in Davos. Will Dunn finds the moments of (unintentional) humour amidst the chaos.
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Will to for a rundown of this mad week.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman |
| 0:02.1 | Hello, I'm Anoushekelian and I'm here with Will Dunn and you're listening to Daily Politics from the New Statesman. |
| 0:11.4 | So as it's Saturday, Will, we thought we would do a roundup of the week again. |
| 0:15.9 | It's the end of the week. |
| 0:17.1 | My first category for us to go through is avant-garde performance of the week. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah. Because there's quite a few contenders from this week. But first of all, I think we have to |
| 0:26.7 | mention the most important one for geopolitics. Yeah, the big one. The big one, which is Victoria |
| 0:32.9 | Beckham's alleged dance at her son, Brooklyn Beckham's wedding. |
| 0:37.9 | This is quite a sad story of his feud with his parents. |
| 0:42.0 | He's just made a big statement about it. |
| 0:44.2 | And part of the statement, the one that's been picked up on most by people who make memes on the internet, |
| 0:49.1 | is that she danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone at his wedding, |
| 0:55.3 | getting in the way of his first dance. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:59.2 | So that's, I really enjoyed the creativity that's come out of that claim, which is just to |
| 1:06.9 | paste that quote over a number of famous dances from Theresa May's dance at her ill-fated |
| 1:11.9 | conference to Dancing Queen and David Brent's dance in the office. |
| 1:16.4 | Nice. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.8 | And I really enjoyed being given the opportunity to grumble about the number of stories that the BBC News website ran on that. |
| 1:26.4 | Someone's got to do it. |
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