Jets, Deals, and Holy Seals: Trump’s Qatari Bribe, UK-US Trade Deal, and a Pope

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins with some good news - the goons who cut down the beautiful tree in the Sycamore Gap for no reason whatsoever, have gone to prison. So that's one reason to be cheerful. Meanwhile, the Vatican have elected a new Pope, quicker than it takes to hire someone in most normal offices these days and newsflash, the MAGA lot are not fans. Apparently he's a Marxist lefty loon (ie he seems pretty compassionate).

Meanwhile, there has been much made of the UK US trade deal. A win for Starmer in some regards? And yet what does it really entail and how much of an improvement is it in real terms?

Then, Trump has accepted a plane worth $400,000, 000 from the Qatari government. Super! Nothing to see here then. Enjoy hearing Trump's defence when questioned by a journalist, and hear about where Trump chose to take a little nap.

There's plenty of Trump batshittery and then to end the ep, one of the craziest conspiracy theories ever to have gripped the internet before being roundly disproved.

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0:30.0	Is it better than, say, six months ago, given, for instance, some tariffs are still there?
0:36.1	Well, Chris, the question you should be asking is, is it better than where we were yesterday?
0:44.6	Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:48.8	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:50.5	And I'm Marina Perkis, and in this episode, we're going to start with some good news.
0:54.9	The two men who cut down famous sycamore gap tree face lengthy jail terms.
1:01.0	Good.
1:01.2	So that's good. A bit of justice.
1:02.9	Yeah, absolutely bell ends.
1:05.2	Though admittedly, we don't think it took the most genius detective work to figure out who done it.
1:11.8	Let's cut down that tree at Sycamore Gap. Yeah, fuck that tree. Let's drive there right now.
1:16.6	I'm going to keep my phone's GPS on for the entire journey there and back. Here I go.
1:21.3	Chain store o'clock. I'm going to film it. Oh.
1:25.9	Don't forget to take a huge fucking chunk of it for our trophy.
1:28.6	Hey, have you seen the news?
1:29.9	The entire country absolutely fucking hates us because we totally did it.
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