What happened at Davos?
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump addresseda gathering of prominent global figures at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. The conference comes amid rising tensions between Europe and the United States over Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland, and several world leaders gave critical remarks about the U.S. prior to the speech. However, later on Wednesday, Trump said that he discussed a framework of a deal related to Greenland with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte that gives the U.S. “everything we needed.”
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Tangle. |
| 0:09.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we give views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.6 | I am your host, Isaac Saul. It is Thursday, January 22nd, and today we're going to be covering Davos, and specifically some addresses to the World Economic Forum, most notably from President |
| 0:39.5 | Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney. We're going to talk about what they said. |
| 0:43.9 | I've got some thoughts about what all this means. Before you jump in, I want to give you a quick |
| 0:49.3 | heads up on two things. First of all, yesterday, Ari, Camille, and I recorded a suspension of the |
| 0:55.3 | rules episode that you're really going to want to listen to. It is our one-year retrospective on |
| 1:00.9 | Trump. We answered four questions. What surprised you? What happened how you expected? What were |
| 1:08.2 | the biggest pros and what were the biggest cons of the first |
| 1:10.9 | year of Trump's presidency? And, well, the first year of Trump's second presidency. And we each |
| 1:16.5 | went around, answered the questions and then talked about each other's questions. It's a pretty |
| 1:20.0 | long episode. It ended up coming out to about an hour and a half, but we covered a ton of |
| 1:23.9 | ground. And I'm really proud of it. I think it is a really valuable addition to some of the |
| 1:28.9 | discourse that's happening. On that note, tomorrow Friday, we're going to be doing another |
| 1:36.0 | Trump retrospective that's basically the complete opposite. In the days before President Trump's |
| 1:41.9 | second inauguration, we published a special Friday edition in the newsletter in the podcast where we outlined a series of metrics and promises that we could track over the course of the president's term. |
| 1:52.6 | One year in, we're going to return to that piece and share the latest numbers. |
| 1:57.1 | This is on stuff like gas prices, housing prices, inflation tariffs, deportations, foreign conflicts, much more. |
| 2:03.4 | These are things that are really objective. |
| 2:07.1 | Like, what is the data say? |
| 2:09.2 | Where was it a year ago? |
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