Things were already getting spicy in Switzerland this week, and President Donald Trump’s arrival just turned up the heat. Grab your popcorn because we have some entertainment for you.

If you thought Trump’s ego was bad, the elites at Davos are far worse. Columnist Larry Taunton dubs them the “global HOA from hell” and accurately describes WEF'ers as having “planetary-sized ambitions and egos to match, and not being content with annoying people individually, they maintain this exclusive club of like-minded maniacs to annoy whole populations.” Based, as the kids say. The fact that Trump and a few other key American figures popped some of their ego bubbles put a smile on my face.

Starting with America’s top hat, Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney was still harping on the climate, claiming, “We can’t stabilize the climate unless we get to net zero [emissions].” Carney has been cozying up to China, even more than usual for him, because he’s upset that Trump would want to protect our hemisphere from China. He goaded that the U.S.-led “rules-based international order” is finished and “will not return.” He had noted prior to Davos that Canada’s partnership with China would position it for the “new world order.”

Trump called Carney out when he took the stage. “Canada gets a lot of freebies from us,” Trump noted. “They should be grateful, but they’re not. … Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make those ungrateful speeches.” Carney’s cooked.

The French got in on the action (figuratively, because they’re lousy at real fights), with nitwits like French central banker François Villeroy de Galhau opining that the “privatization of money” is a threat to national sovereignty and that the solution is central bank digital currencies. The elite atmosphere wouldn’t be complete without Emmanuel Macron wearing his aviators inside and whining about big, mean Trump. The U.S. is undermining global governance and weakening Europe “with an endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable,” Macron complained. “Even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty.” He concluded, “We do prefer respect to bullies. We do prefer science to politicism. And we do prefer Rule of Law to brutality. You’re welcome in Europe, and you are more than welcome to France.” Indeed, so many people are welcome to France that they don’t have a country anymore.

Trump, in WWE fashion, body-slammed the French and all of Europe for their stupidity in believing the globalist lies. He spelled out the result of their folly: “Many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes, and the leaders don’t even understand what’s happening. And the ones that do understand aren’t doing anything about it. Virtually all of the so-called experts predicted my plans to end this failed model would trigger a global recession and runaway inflation, but we are proving them wrong.” He kept them pinned to the mat, pointing out the obvious: “Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore.”

Howard Lutnick joined Trump in turning Europe into the proverbial punching bag, stating point-blank, “Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export, offshore, far shore, find the cheapest labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it.” He encouraged the other countries to implement the same policies that America First is using to protect our own people and country. He stressed the lunacy of net zero by asking, “Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery?” The truth hurts.

Citadel’s CEO took shots at the disastrous state of America’s economy under Joe Biden’s sleepy watch: “You cannot imagine how painful it was each and every day under the Biden administration to look at what new, crazy proposal was being put into place to solve a problem that didn’t even exist.” He continued to describe the severity of the business-restricting regulatory conditions under Biden, and that the decisions made by that administration “were so poorly thought out in terms of economic consequences, it cost the U.S. economy dearly.” Was anything “thought out” during the Biden years? We share your pain, bro — we had to watch the clown show, too.

Europe was hammered hard, and I’m here for it! But probably the best burn of the day or week goes to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom is “here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros.” But his real gem was to say that “Newsom — who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken — may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.” The memes are already pouring in.

Lutnick and Trump are right — globalism has failed, and the future belongs to the country that puts its people first. The West will not survive if WEF policies and ideas are allowed to rule.

I’ll let Trump have the last word: “The explosion of prosperity … and progress that built the West did not come from our tax codes — it ultimately came from our very special culture. We have to defend that culture, and rediscover the spirit that lifted the West from the depths of the Dark Ages to the pinnacle of human achievement.”

That’s all, folks!