People often invoke George Orwell when discussing the grim state of the world, but Hans Christian Andersen, with his story about a vain, gullible emperor, and the townsfolk who are too afraid to challenge his stupidity, doesn't get the credit he's due.

#Davos #WEF

"There is a way to file for divorce from Donald Trump and Europe needs to grab the opportunity.

To the public it will look as if nothing has changed. But behind the scenes the EU and the UK could close the joint bank account and cut up the credit cards, or at least set in motion a form of financial separation that limits the power of a controlling former partner."

~ Phillip Inman

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/13

theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Here’s how Europe can file for divorce from Donald Trump

Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds

^{Phillip Inman (The Guardian)}

"The world we knew is dying, slain by the would-be emperor on the Potomac. But something else became visible this week: a new world waiting to be born."

~ Jonathan Freedland

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/12

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far?

The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

^{Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)}

Kate Riga and Josh Marshall discuss the self-destruction of Trump's American on the world stage and the rupture of the world order that Trump has created.

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/11

youtube.com/watch?v=VDdVsAbBps…

Ep. 397: Rupture of the World Order

Kate and Josh discuss the self-destruction of Trump’s America on the world stage and Bill Cassidy’s comeuppance.

^YouTube

"NATO leaders at last see it, perhaps it will also dawn on some critical American voters."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/10

"Trump has never believed in the principles that NATO was founded to promote and preserve. He doesn’t feel affinity for liberal democracy. ...

Trump has contempt for democratic norms. He wants to move America’s pieces to the other side of the chessboard, alongside those whose systems and methods he finds more congenial—Russia, China, El Salvador, Turkey, and Hungary."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/9

thebulwark.com/p/for-some-trum…

For Some, Trump’s Mask Is Finally Slipping

European leaders have given up pretending the president is someone he’s not. Maybe some American voters will, too.

^{Mona Charen (The Bulwark)}

"Trump created another international incident with his mouth as he claimed that the US has never needed to call on our NATO allies."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/8

meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

Today in Politics, Bulletin 292. 1/23/26

… Trump created another international incident with his mouth as he claimed that the US has never needed to call on our NATO allies.

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

"Everyone needs to forget everything they think they know about Donald Trump and just see him as Vladimir Putin sees him. As a useful idiot that can destroy America from the inside. ...

Trump for President was a Russian initiative, dating back to the 1980s, when Trump — upon his return from his first trip to Moscow — placed $100,000 worth of newspaper ads attacking NATO."

~ Heidi Cuda

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder #Putin #Russia
/7

bylinesupplement.com/p/billion…

Billionaires, Bagmen, and Thieves

This week has shown that the plot to install Trump as President was the greatest success of foreign espionage in history, writes American political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda

^{Heidi Cuda (Byline Supplement)}

"It is historic because it marks the end of a productive chapter in the history of trans-Atlantic relations and, face it, the end of American leadership in the world as we have known it. But it is also of great consequence because it marks a massive, ugly, public defeat of Trump and the establishment for all to see of the means by which the menace who is America’s president can be contained and, where necessary, defeated."

~ David Rothkopf

#Trump #Davos #NATO
/6

davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/d…

Davos Was the Beginning of the End for Trump

It's all downhill for here for the America's aging mad king

^{David Rothkopf (Need to Know by David Rothkopf)}

Mary Trump calls Trump's Davos performance "one of probably the most humiliating, consequential events in modern American history. I don't like to call it a speech, but Donald's delusional, mendacious, threatening ramblings on the world stage at Davos. So we're looking at the unraveling of the post-World War II order at the hands of an American president."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/5

americaamerica.news/p/mary-tru…

Mary Trump Live with Steven Beschloss

A recording from our live conversation

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"We have ended the American era. And the prime minister of our closest ally, comparing us to the Athenians in the Melian dialogue and to the Soviet Communist Party in the writings of Vaclav Havel, has called us out from Davos. I just want to open this by saying don't blame Mark Carney. He's just telling the truth."

~ Benjamin Wittes

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
/4

dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-post-a…

The Post-America Era

Listen now | Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, Tyler McBrien, and Eve Gaumond discuss Mark Carney's speech on Canadian-American relations.

^{Benjamin Wittes (Dog Shirt Daily)}

"It is irrevocably altering the world order, and only the proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand can continue to pretend that American hegemony is the benign force it has mostly been in the modern era."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
/3

Citing Canadian PM Mark Carney's Tyler McBrien and Benjamin Wittes note that the closest ally of the US is now comparing the US to the Soviets:

"Carney here is saying the quiet part out loud. Trumpism, or MAGA—as well as its cousins overseas—is not some aberration."

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #Canada #MarkCarney #GlobalOrder
/2

lawfaremedia.org/article/the-s…

The Situation: Our Closest Ally Compares Us To The Soviets

Reading Prime Minister Carney’s Davos speech carefully

^Default

"The United States is being ushered off the international stage. History will remember that as Trump’s most significant contribution."

~ Timothy Noah

#Trump #Davos #NATO #Europe #GlobalOrder
/1

newrepublic.com/article/205530…

Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

^{The New Republic}

Real Nobel Prize winner says Republican President Donald Trump shot himself in foot at Davos

msn.com/en-gb/news/world/nobel…

"Trump may have imagined that the Europeans would cower in the face of his wrath. Instead, they humiliated him. He dropped his latest tariff threats in return for a 'framework' that gave the United States essentially nothing it didn’t already have..."

@paulkrugman.substack.com

#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #Davos #Krugman #press

"He never dignified Donald Trump by specifying him as the source of this rupture. But he didn’t need to. ...

The conceptual originality of the speech was the power of the less powerful. The 'great powers' had given up any pretense of self-restraint. By that Carney meant, and didn’t need to spell out, Russia, China, and the United States, It was now up to everyone else, including 'middle powers' like Canada, to fend for themselves, and for their values."

#MarkCarney #Davos #NATO
/9

"I’s worth noticing the craft, the composition, and the content of these 17 minutes [of PM Carney] on stage. ...

It made several important ideas 'real,' by naming them. That is one of the most powerful things any piece of writing can do. Through the speech, Carney threaded the idea that world relations were at a rupture, not a 'transition.'”

~ James Fallows

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/8

fallows.substack.com/p/a-speec…

A Speech for the History Books.

And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.

^{James Fallows (Breaking the News)}

"As Prime Minister of a country whose own territory it is the stated policy of the US president to annex- and which would be encircled by America if Trump succeeds in his ambition of seizing Greenland – he surely feels both the gravity and urgency of the moment keenly."

~ Simon Nixon

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/7

bylinesupplement.com/p/mark-ca…

Mark Carney’s Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned

The Canadian Prime Minister’s powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon

^{Simon Nixon (Byline Supplement)}

"[Carney] didn’t say Donald Trump’s name, though. He didn’t need to. What he said was calmly, straightforwardly earthshaking enough as it was."

~ Evan Hurst

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/6

wonkette.com/p/canadian-pm-mar…

Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares Flame Of American Global Era Extinguished

July 4, 1776-January 20, 2025. It was a good run, or something.

^{Evan Hurst (Wonkette)}

"It's a brilliant articulation of the new architecture that is going to frame the world going forward. So the days of the American hegemonic power, this from 1988 to today, this is the first day you heard the articulation from what was an ally saying America is no longer the lone superpower. It's over."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/5

"Carney just gave the first speech today of the new global order as it exists. … He was the first major leader to say… America, the United States of America, is no longer a hegemon. We are in a multipolar world, a multilateral world, where the great powers, Russia, China, the United States of America, are finding their equilibrium through panic, fear, greed, & just the pursuit of all of the middle powers."

~ Mike Madrid

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/4

thelefthook.substack.com/p/und…

Under Trump, A Weak, Isolated America Stumbles Into the New World Order

At Davos, Canada's PM Mark Carney acknowledged that Trump's failed leadership has blown up the fiction of a rules-based order, alienated America's allies, and forced the world to move forward.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"We cannot simply carry on as if it’s business and normal. ...

We’ve been lucky through a golden age of peace and prosperity but as he so clearly articulates, that age is gone. Ahead lies [sic] dragons."

Cadwalladr's posting has the full text of Carney's speech. It's also at the Guardian link below.

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/3

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

^{Mark Carney (The Guardian)}

"It does what a great speech should do: it gives us the language to process and understand what is happening. It does so from a position of moral clarity. And it includes a call to action to what remains of the liberal world. ...

We can’t respond and act to this hugely consequential geopolitical moment if we are complicit in the denial of our leaders and media. This is a week in which the world we have known has swung on its axis."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/2

"Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. Part of the challenge of this moment - and I believe the job of journalists - is to focus on the signal, not the noise. And if you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
/1

broligarchy.substack.com/p/the…

The Rupture

Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending"

^{Carole Cadwalladr (How to Survive the Broligarchy)}

"The functional end of the American century that began in the aftermath of World War II is what [Mark Carney's speech] marks. He hand-wrote that speech. It was not put together by a team of speechwriters. It was a serious adult's remarks to a room full of the world's leaders…"

~ Steve Schmidt

#MarkCarney #Trump #Greenland #Davos #NATO #fascism #Europe
/13

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/a…

A conversation with Julie Roginsky

A recording from Julie Roginsky and Steve Schmidt's live video

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}

"As I’ve watched the news of Trump’s progressively erratic statements, his confusion over which country’s land he wants to claim and colonize (Iceland, erm, Greenland), it is becoming increasingly obvious that his insatiable appetites are now being filtered through a mind that is malfunctioning.

I don’t take this observation lightly. I lived through caring for two parents with dementia."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/25

"For many years, these appetites have threatened individuals, now, as he teeters at the brink of sense, distressing and shocking allies, he not only endangers our representative democracy, but he is destabilizing America’s place on the world stage."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/24

For her blog, Sarah Stankorb reprises an essay she just published in DAME Magazine. It focuses on Leviathan as the proper image to understand Trump and his increasingly apparent dementia:

"Donald Trump’s appetites—for women’s bodies, for prizes and trinkets, for land (international norms be damned)—are insatiable."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/23

sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/o…

Our Insatiable, Confused President

Leviathan, so hungry, he forgets what he wants to devour

^{Sarah Stankorb (In Polite Company)}

"Let’s face it: The Donald doesn’t know what The Donald is going to do or say from one day to the next, so it’s hardly likely that anyone else will. He isn’t even sure if Greenland is Iceland. Hell, they’ve both got land in them. Watch out, England."

~ John Crace

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #SupremeCourt #Congress #Republicans
/22

theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Along comes Trump and our emperors have no clothes

There’s no shame in not knowing what he’ll say next: neither does he. But that didn’t stop many claiming to make sense of it

^{John Crace (The Guardian)}

(continued from /20)

"and a legislative branch that has ceded its own Constitutional authority to rein in Donald’s worst impulses despite his blatant corruption, obvious mental decline, and clear desire to dismantle the post-World War II order for his own profit."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #SupremeCourt #Congress #Republicans
/21

"Our allies lay the blame squarely at the feet of an American electorate that, with full knowledge of Donald’s incompetence, psychological unfitness, and megalomania, put him back in charge; a judicial branch, with the corrupt Supreme Court as its back-stop, that granted him virtually complete immunity and continues to expand the reach of his imperial presidency;" (continued in /21)

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #SupremeCourt
/20

"He humiliates himself on an almost daily basis and often in the most public ways imaginable. It feels like a bit of cosmic poetic justice.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, his humiliation is ours. The rest of the world doesn’t see Donald as the problem."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/19

"Given the perfect storm of his incompetence, increasing decline across several categories (the psychological, the cognitive, and the physical); and the sense that he is losing control—over himself and the narrative—and the desperation that goes along with that, it was perhaps inevitable that humiliation has come to stalk him at every turn."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/18

marytrump.org/p/more-humiliati…

More Humiliation on the World Stage

The long-term consequences of allowing this to continue

^{The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump}

"Instead, Tapper dismissed Trump’s multiple mistaken references to Iceland, saying, 'Trump clearly said Iceland. It’s not that big a deal. Why lie about it?'

Yes, Jake, it is a big deal."

In so many ways, Jake epitomizes what's seriously awry with legacy media: the arrogance, insularity, moral vacuity, elision of truth, cozying up to power and money. This is why many of us have stopped listening to the big pundits.

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #JakeTapper #media
/17

"Where is Jake Tapper when we need him? I hope he is feverishly working on his next book, which will detail Trump’s descent into dementia, claims that Tapper made about Biden in a wildly profitable book. Or, better yet, Tapper could just use his nightly news platform to report Trump’s rapidly deteriorating mental state. There is no time like the present, Jake."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #JakeTapper #media
/16

'Trump embarrassed himself—and America--on the world stage at Davos. In a highly anticipated address, Trump stumbled and slurred his way through an incoherent stream-of-consciousness speech in which he repeatedly referenced Iceland (rather than Greenland), even as he surrendered his delusional quest to conquer Greenland."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #JakeTapper #media
/15

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t…

Trump collapses on world stage at Davos.

January 22, 2026

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

Peter Rothpletz notes the obsessive focus of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden's cognitive decline, and he then offers a list of crazy Biden statements that he claims Tapper and Thompson uncovered, which prove Biden's dementia.

But these are Trump statements, about which Tapper-Thompson have had absolutely zero to say….

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing #JakeTapper #media
/14

zeteo.com/p/dementia-vs-davos

First Draft: Dementia vs. Davos

The US President has mashed potato brains, ICE kills again, and the late Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA threatens lawfare against Candace Owens.

^{Peter Rothpletz (Zeteo)}

"But it's also, you know... This idea that yesterday, the press conference yesterday, which went on for 80 rambling, delusional, crazy, mendacious minutes, and the utter humiliation of the United States at Davos on the world stage, as if, you know, suddenly, oh, wow, this is bad."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/13

"And there are all sorts of presumably neurological issues cropping up.
And he's physically unwell based on observations of people who know better than I. I'm a clinical psychologist. I'm not a neurologist or a medical doctor of any kind."

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/12

"The title of our talk today is Donald Davos and Dementia."

~ Dean Obeidallah

"I've got to tell you, one of the main reasons we're here is because of the normalization of his depravity, his corruption, and his serious mental illness. Obviously, it's worse now because Ten years have passed. There's that. And so he's older."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Greenland #Iceland #Davos #dementia #MadKing
/11

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…

Mary Trump on Donald, Davos and Dementia!

Mary does not hold back!

^{Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)}