Cognitive Decline Meet Geopolitics: Confidently Clueless
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s back on the mic and it’s… Sharpies, sex, and 'aced' dementia tests while the world edges closer to chaos.
Marina and Jemma wade through the surreal: from Trump confusing cognitive screenings with IQ tests, to casually musing about seizing Iran’s oil like it’s on a tapas menu. Meanwhile, his administration openly flirts with war crimes, hands out awards for sycophancy, and somehow finds time to discuss ballroom renovations mid-conflict.
There’s dark absurdity (a literal assassination GoFundMe), genuine fear (what happens if Karg Island is targeted), and the creeping reality that global stability may hinge on one man’s ego.
Plus: brain-fart moments, EastEnders-style geopolitics, listener stories that hit hard, and a reminder that even in the bin fire humanity still exists.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want a stupid person being present. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to The Traw, where we get you up to date and hopefully not down in the dumps. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkins. And today we're going to be carrying on with what's coming out of, I guess, the White House, a bit more on Iran. There is so much to pack in yesterday's episode. We didn't even touch upon Trump's latest cognitive declines. There'll be lots of that. Just think how different, though. |
| 0:37.9 | Think how different it would have been, Gemma, |
| 0:39.7 | if we'd been coming to the mic |
| 0:41.2 | and we'd had different leaders in charge. |
| 0:43.8 | Jerry Ford, Jr. wrote, |
| 0:45.1 | just imagine if we had had eight years of Hillary and then Kamala. |
| 0:48.2 | Jules not realize how different this world would be |
| 0:50.4 | if you actually trusted women. |
| 0:52.6 | All of this was so unnecessary and a hundred percent mediocre male ego. |
| 0:58.6 | And look, this episode's quite heavy on the old cognitive decline, |
| 1:02.0 | but sometimes it's not just Trump, is it, that has brain farts. |
| 1:05.3 | We do, too. |
| 1:07.3 | You've heard quite a few of them. |
| 1:08.7 | Just like this one, shared by Dan and Mole with the caption, |
| 1:11.7 | when your brain doesn't work fast enough in social situations. |
| 1:15.6 | Nice weather. |
| 1:16.7 | Thanks, you too. |
| 1:18.1 | What? |
| 1:18.5 | Sorry, that come down wrong. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay, bye. |
| 1:21.9 | Bye, love you. |
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