You can't keep a sociopath exercising absolute power sweet
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 150 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning to you. And, well, here we are. It's hard to track, |
| 0:07.2 | isn't it? Whether or not we are hitting brick walls or just passing through ever more milestones |
| 0:12.4 | in the assembly of increasingly incontrovertible evidence that the United States of America is led by a lunatic. |
| 0:20.0 | I wonder whether it's time even to drop the |
| 0:22.1 | F word. Fascistic doesn't seem to come close to some of the conduct that's been on display now. |
| 0:28.0 | Donald Trump is a lunatic. Some of the problems we have in properly tracking these moments, |
| 0:33.0 | of course, is knowing what's real and what isn't real. I've seen a letter and it's been posted |
| 0:36.9 | on a reputable site that appears to show Donald Trump |
| 0:41.1 | complaining to the Prime Minister of Norway that because they didn't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 0:45.8 | he's doubly committed to the notion of stealing Greenland. |
| 0:50.5 | I presumably thinking that one Scandinavian country is very much the same as the other. |
| 0:55.3 | We'll look into that a little later in the program, but the point, of course, is that |
| 0:59.5 | never has it been more important to rely upon trusted sources? |
| 1:04.3 | And how can you, when so many of those sources in this country have been in abject and |
| 1:08.8 | fairly pathetic denial about the obvious threat that Donald |
| 1:12.2 | Trump poses, both to the world order and to the safety and security, whether economic or |
| 1:18.6 | actual, of former NATO allies, most obviously, of course, in the Baltic states and Scandinavia. |
| 1:26.3 | I thought it might be helpful to run through |
| 1:29.6 | moments upon which, it's not an exhaustive list, but notable occasions when a UK Prime Minister |
| 1:37.5 | has formally addressed the nation. It's not quite as rare as you might have thought. You might |
| 1:43.6 | have thought, well, |
| 1:49.5 | what is it? Wars and pandemics with a little bit of Brexit, probably, the morning up. But it's a little bit more than that. But not quite as much as you might hope on a morning like this, |
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