# Holy shit, I watched Trump's speech from Davos and he is insane! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 22, 2026, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916 "2026-01-22T06:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/61 "2026-01-22T21:18:59Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > When I first heard the word on the old Seinfeld TV show I thought it was made up. Some rando said that Kramer “has the kavorka”. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/ai3fzu.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/ai3fzu.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/62 "2026-01-22T21:36:39Z")
> [@Awb78](#): > > ANNDDDDD…now I need to go poor bleach into my ears. > > The things I do for you people! Thanks. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/63 "2026-01-22T21:49:17Z")
He’s auditioning for a cabinet position when one becomes available. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/64 "2026-01-22T22:37:35Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Larry Kudlow at [foxbusiness.com](http://foxbusiness.com) called it “one of his best speeches ever”. > [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > He can’t really think that, can he? Yes he can. All Trump speeches are universally awful. “Best speech ever” is a low bar, especially “one of”. I think it’s very possible someone could make a case that many of Trump’s speeches are even worse than this one. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/65 "2026-01-22T22:50:17Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > His tone always impressed me as disinterested, and his meagre vocabulary and simplistic grammar as unintelligent. I’ve always thought he sounds more _un_interested than _dis_interested. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/66 "2026-01-23T00:40:45Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > We also know (from interviews with Ivana) that Trump enjoyed reading transcripts of Hitler’s speeches (large print edition, I’m sure) – one of the very few books he’s said to have read in adulthood. Jesus Christ. Do you have a cite? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/67 "2026-01-23T00:41:14Z")
[There’s a video](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P_idmooRqc0) of the leaders of Albania and Azerbaijan making fun of Trump for claiming he ended a war between them (he probably confused Armenia and Albania). Best comment: “great, Trump will probably bomb Alabama in response to this.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/68 "2026-01-23T01:08:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jesus Christ. Do you have a cite? > Mr. Trump has long expressed interest in the most notorious dictator of the past century, Adolf Hitler, whose Nazis also used that phrase. In a 1990 interview, Mr. Trump said he had a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” although his first wife Ivana Trump and the friend who gave him the book said it was actually “My New Order,” a collection of Hitler speeches. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html) > Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. > > “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump. > > Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?” > > “I don’t remember,” I said. > > “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”) > **[7 Takeaways from Vanity Fair’s 1990 Profile of Donald Trump](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce)** > > V.F. writer-at-large Marie Brenner’s investigation of Trump reveals he hasn’t changed much in 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/69 "2026-01-23T02:35:52Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > I’ve always thought he sounds more _un_interested than _dis_interested. You are correct! “Disinterested” means “impartial,” however it is a common mistake ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/70 "2026-01-23T02:40:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The man is a complete imbecile, uninformed and incurious, not knowledgeable about anything, and basically just a massively ignorant and hateful blowhard totally in love with himself. He is the living embodiment of The Dunning-Kruger Effect. His picture should be next to its entry in the dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/71 "2026-01-23T02:54:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Both were rambling and just went from subject to subject. When I hear him rambling incoherently, it occurs to me that he thinks he is performing standup comedy. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/72 "2026-01-23T06:30:17Z")
Trump’s charisma is of the sort you might see in a good wrestling heel. He’s not a good orator by any means. But he is a good performer. He knows how to talk trash, how to push people’s buttons. The guy may be full of shit, but he knows his audience and he knows how to work them into a lather. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/73 "2026-01-23T11:09:03Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Well there was one, but he wasn’t American. I get the reference, but sadly there have been way more than one, across Latin America, Asia and Africa, not just Europe. It has never, even once, worked out well. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/74 "2026-01-23T11:24:45Z")
Trump seems to have read the playbook of an African dictator, and to have all the charisma of the same. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/75 "2026-01-23T11:36:35Z")
> [@Awb78](#): > > The things I do for you people I was born in a country, Zimbabwe, where bullshitting had become truth, and reported in the (government) media, for all my life. But Robert Mugabe, an inveterate bullshitter had nothing on this man. We were just sold lies about crop yields and the Gukuruhundi massacres, in standard Orwellian style. Trump cannot be even be arsed to pretend he is not lying. When your country is run by a dictator - no, a bad, unprofessional dictator - you guys in the States might want to have a look at African and South American history. I hope it does not come to that - hopefully your next Senate elections will make him a lame duck.. (it is somewhat good that Trump is a pathetic unprofessional wanna-be, but his arms and legs are strongly (bigly?) tied to his puppet masters) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/76 "2026-01-23T11:38:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You don’t like him, I don’t like him, pretty sure nobody reading this right now likes him, but there are millions of Americans who are absolutely devoted to him, entirely based on his personality. That’s _objectively_ charismatic. Right on. Come now, people, he’s got _some_ sort of twisted gift, otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/77 "2026-01-23T12:43:17Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > I’ve always thought he sounds more _un_interested than _dis_interested. Thank you for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/78 "2026-01-23T12:44:35Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > When your country is run by a dictator - no, a bad, unprofessional dictator - you guys in the States might want to have a look at African and South American history. Back when Trevor Noah took over TDS, he did a spot on riff on this exact topic. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/79 "2026-01-23T12:52:11Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Trevor Noah I find his humor a little facile. He was funnier mocking South African culture while in South Africa. But I am happy he is mocking US culture while within the USA. Every little bit helps. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916/80 "2026-01-23T14:33:50Z")
> **[I, Don Quixote, Vow to Conquer Greenland](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-don-quixote-vow-to-conquer-greenland)** > > “In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump… touched on his desire to obtain Gre... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-watched-trumps-speech-from-davos-and-he-is-insane/1026916.md?page=5)