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The Gist

Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Klosterman returns with his one-word book, Football, using the Raiders' brand mystique—and the Pac-12 reduced to two lonely teams—as proof that the sport's identity outlives its on-field logic. He argues the short-term cash grab (conference realignment, NIL, gambling) is eroding the traditions that made college football feel timeless, even while the Saturdays are still great. Along the way: concussions as a rehearsal for America's broader "we can change it" institutional cycle, body cams as the reform that boomeranged, and the bleakly funny idea that our real hobby is forensic videography. Plus, a Davos "weave" tour where Trump sells "Green New Scam" riffs to bewildered Swiss elites, then Todd Blanche signals DOJ won't even bother with the usual investigative fig leaf after the Minnesota ICE killing. Produced by Corey Wara Coordinated by Lya Yanne Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ad-sales@libsyn.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, January 21st, 2026.

0:06.7

From Peachfish Productions, it's the gist.

0:09.0

I'm Mike Peska.

0:10.2

President Trump was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

0:15.4

There you're supposed to talk about interest rates and debt ratios.

0:19.2

And the president touched on that, but a whole lot more, yes,

0:22.8

he gave him the weave. Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided

0:28.2

the catastrophic energy collapse, which befell every European nation, that pursued the green news

0:35.5

scam. Perhaps the greatest hoax in history.

0:39.9

The green new scam, windmills all over the place, destroy your land.

0:44.0

Destroy your land.

0:45.5

Every time that goes around, you lose $1,000.

0:48.5

Okay, that was a riff on a riff about an FDR initiative.

0:52.7

The New Deal, which became the Green New Deal, and then

0:55.6

there's the Green New scam, very American kind of inside baseball, also American. I guess the

1:01.5

Europeans followed along. They might have been more perplexed when Trump told the crowd in

1:06.3

Switzerland that if the U.S. hadn't won World War II, they'd all be speaking German. In Switzerland, they pretty much all speak German.

1:12.8

The weave, what a, what a permission structure. It means the president can go wherever he wants and say anything he wants, and it's always brilliant, and of course it's always captivating to the audience. I looked at the audience. They didn't really seem captivated. He did speak to them, these leaders of finance and the world, like they were a crowd who had been warmed up by Kid Rock in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1:34.3

It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out people will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be.

1:46.2

It was a rigged election.

1:47.6

Can't have rigged elections.

1:49.4

You need strong borders, strong elections,

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