War criminals and dictators invited to Trump's "Board of Peace"
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 149 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three minutes after ten is the time, and we find ourselves once again circling the toilet bowl |
| 0:05.1 | of the post-world order in the company of the Mango Mussolini. |
| 0:10.0 | Yesterday's speech to Davos, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, was a masterclass in |
| 0:15.2 | idiocy and possibly encroaching dementia. |
| 0:18.6 | If Joe Biden had got Greenland mixed up with Iceland several times, |
| 0:22.3 | it would probably be on the front page of the Daily Mail. It would certainly be on front pages |
| 0:26.2 | of American newspapers, as yet more evidence of his clear cognitive decline. But the thing about |
| 0:31.8 | Donald Trump, that's really hard to actually articulate, is that because the ridiculousness and the |
| 0:37.0 | horror go hand in hand and crucially |
| 0:40.2 | this is the really crucial bit and i know you probably already know it but sometimes it's helpful to |
| 0:46.0 | hear someone else put it into words because there is so much of it it loses all impact and it loses |
| 0:54.0 | all importance there's so many individual |
| 0:57.8 | instances of the unconscionable. But when they are following so fast upon each other that you |
| 1:05.2 | literally can't keep count, then they cease to resonate in the way that they would do in isolation. Think about all the |
| 1:12.7 | individual instances of moral depravity or political corruption that we have seen. Had they occurred |
| 1:19.5 | under any other presidency, they would have occurred individually and in isolation, and they would |
| 1:25.5 | have been, at the very least, impeachable and quite possibly career ending |
| 1:30.8 | Certainly electoral hopes would have been dashed at the |
| 1:33.9 | At the first mention of many of the things that Trump mentions millions of times this is a really important thing isn't it amazing that we can still |
| 1:42.2 | Stumble into some territory that feels vaguely fresh? |
| 1:45.9 | Or are we just repackaging previous observations in new words? Are we saying all the right words, but not necessarily in the right order? That double combination. So the horror and the hilarity go hand in hand. I think the horror gets diluted by the ridiculousness. |
| 2:03.8 | He announces something truly gross, but then he does something accidentally. |
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