Back Porch Files: Trump Goes Off The Rails in Davos

Your Neighbor on the Left Podcast · Jan 23, 2026 · 15m

World leaders came to Davos, Switzerland expecting economic policy, global cooperation, and maybe a little diplomatic reassurance. What they got instead was Donald Trump riffing his way through history that never happened, countries he seemed to confuse, lies he’s already been corrected on, and grievances that had absolutely nothing to do with the room he was in. In this episode, we walk through Trump’s Davos speech line by line — not just to fact-check the falsehoods, but to ask a much more uncomfortable question: what happens when the President of the United States can’t stay tethered to…