Nish Kumar

Donald Trump rolls into the elite money club of Davos today, having had, even by his standards, an insane week.

We have no idea what's going to come out of his mouth.

Here he is addressing world leaders.

So bear in mind, this is happening after we're recording.

So I literally have no idea what the fuck I'm teeing up here.

He's managed to get it wrong not once, but twice, because not only is that an unfathomable excuse for threatening to invade a country, it's also an independent committee that decides where to award the prize, not the Norwegian prime minister.

Listen, we are very repeatedly critical of Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party and this country.

The only time where I feel he's completely powerless to manage what's going on in front of him is when Donald Trump becomes involved.

What I would say is that as soon as Trump came into office, he had started sabre rattling about Greenland.

So maybe actually we shouldn't have been as caught cold by this as we have been.

Sky News' Mark Stone has reported that in a weekend call, Starmer managed to get Trump to calm down a little and admit that he might have been misinformed and jumped to the tariff threats too quickly.

Now, obviously, that's an interesting development.

It doesn't seem to have translated into any public pronouncements.

Trump continues to saber-rattle about tariffs on European countries that have sent troops into Greenland.

There is this strange thing that Starmer said on Monday where he said that, you know,

As part of his reasoning for not threatening retaliatory tariffs, he said that this thing needs to be done in a kind of reasonable, grown-up way.

But that's not taking into account who he's trying to negotiate with.

You're not dealing with a reasonable person.

It's like trying to explain string theory to a toddler.

It's unfathomable what he's trying to do.