Bezos Ties the Knot While America Comes Undone

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jemma and Marina tackle Venice’s most OTT nuptials as Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez say “I do” amidst a spectacle that felt like a Succession spin-off. From helicopters to haute couture and a Vogue cover cameo, the ladies break down the eyebrow-raising moment, including Leo Di Caprio's terrible attempt at camouflage and a Dolce & Gabbana dress that could have Bezos in for a long night.

But things turn darker, and dumber, with the U.S. Senate’s passage of the “Big Bullsh*t Bill,” a legislative grenade lobbed straight at America’s most vulnerable. Marina and Jemma break down the grim fallout: Medicaid slashed, clean energy sabotaged, food assistance gutted… all while millionaires snag tax cuts and ICE gets worryingly bloated.

And just when it couldn’t get more dystopian - enter Trump and Musk. Again. The MAGA soap opera gets spicier by the day with threats of deportation, party-splitting tantrums, and Elon hinting at a new political party. The ladies are living for the chaos - and if this feud reignites properly, the popcorn’s already in the microwave.

There’s also a pudding from satirist Rosie Holt that’s too pitch-perfect to miss. So pull up a gondola - because Jemma and Marina are taking no prisoners.

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0:34.9	Before we get into today's episode, I want to correct a comment I made on a previous episode from 26th of June regarding any suggestion that Sir Robbie Gibb was in any way connected to
0:41.1	facilitating a loan for Boris Johnson in 2020.
0:44.6	This was not the case and I would like to apologise to Sir Robbie Gibb for this inaccuracy.
0:51.1	What does that man in his 50s, that bald man in his 50s, got business inviting two 20-something social media stars to his wedding?
1:02.0	Hello and welcome to the trawl where we dive head first into the steaming pile of domestic and geopolitical turd.
1:08.0	So you don't have to. How kind are we? jemiforte and i'm marina pergis
1:13.8	and how are we all doing trawlers we're all right we're coping getting by are you finding the heat
1:19.7	how are you sleeping it's chilled out a little bit but yeah pretty pretty fitfully it's sort of like
1:26.7	an endurance test the other day i'm this loft bedroom
1:29.8	thing um i might decamp to my um to my sofa suit the shed garden sleeping naked i don't know
1:39.3	just whatever gets you through the night oh by the way my stepmom sally did text me the
1:42.8	other night just at a fantastic point and said she'd just seen a tip on Sky News. So if you've got a fan and you're basically lying there circulating warm, stuffy air around your body, if you get a bowl of ice, if you, I mean, obviously get some ice, put it in something and put it in front of the fan, you then get some icy air. It does work.
2:02.5	So picture the scene. I was like, I'm going to try that before I expire. And I did have
2:07.6	a big bag of ice in the freezer. I like to do that just in case anyone pops around for cocktails
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