Nish Kumar

I keep reading op-ed pieces written by, I think, well-intentioned journalists that are asking questions like, is this the end of the rules-based international order?

Well,

the fuck are you talking about?

Rules-based international order.

It's like somebody trying to give etiquette lessons to a man who's currently dunking his balls in the soup.

It doesn't make any sense.

It just feels like there is a total fundamental disconnect between everything that Donald Trump is saying and the high-minded questions being asked by people who write op-eds and, to be honest, a lot of the front bench of the Labour Party at the moment.

He's repeatedly criticized Davos as a meeting of globalist elites or whatever insert phrase he's got from some bot on Twitter here.

But he's there right now.

And Nigel Farage has always been...

You know, an insider within the establishment who's managed to sell himself as an insurgent.

And in that way, he is very Trumpian.

You know, Trump is a sort of property dofam from the kind of New York elite who has sort of, again, sold himself as a kind of champion of the working man.

It's unsurprising that Trump and Farage have bound themselves as kind of political bedfellows because there is so much alignment in the way that they present themselves publicly.

Richard Tice has talked up the idea that Farage might have Trump's ear in these particular conversations.

I think any time I hear somebody...

say that they have a kind of ear with Trump or they have a Trump whisperer thing.

I always think you're about to get sold some fucking magic beans.

Like you're naive beyond belief.

And, you know, we talked to Tommy Vitor on this show a couple of weeks ago, and he said that there were a lot of leaders like Claudia Scheinbaum from Mexico and Mark Carney in Canada who are getting results often by standing up to Trump.