Leaks, Lies & Lawsuits: Hegseth Spills, Trump Fumbles & Harvard Strikes Back

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Things kick-off with an aptly updated version of Green Day's song 'American Idiot' which they performed at Coachella last week before a sassy, direct and frankly refreshing take on the state of affairs in the US from news channel, MSNBC. BBC take note...

Then fetch the sick-bags as the ladies share with you a montage of obnoxious obsequiousness from Trump's cabinet who couldn't be further up his bottom. Strangely, not one of them thought to query their dear leader on the plummeting stock market and dollar, nor the mounting trade war with China which has now reached tariff levels so obscene that Marina and Jemma have a theory for how Trump and his team arrived at them.

Next up, prepare for a moment of hilarious awkwardness as Trump navigates a reporter questioning him ad to whether China's Xi Jinping has given him a call. We'll let you make your minds up as to what you believe, but Jemma certainly smelt something pongy.

Marina has some unexpected words of praise for Trump who is the most supportive boss in the world when it comes his leaky Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth who has been caught sharing Houthi attack plans (or 'Hooties' if you're Trump) with his wifey, bro and lawyer...as you do. And Trump takes on a new enemy, Harvard University - in a legal battle that will either blaze or burn the trail for other institutions in Trump's firing line.

Finally the ladies check in on Musk after a disastrous week for Tesla followed by some punchy underrated tweets including a clip on the negatives of being a liberal, topped off with a pudding of one of the best 911 calls ever!

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0:30.5	universities and he's done lawyers, he's done the press. I mean, you could argue that he's a straightforward
0:36.0	fascist.
0:43.8	Hello and welcome to The Trul where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:44.9	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:46.4	And I'm Gemma Forte. And in today's episode, we'll cover the latest in Trump's Tiddlywinks Tariff World,
0:52.5	as well as another group chat, whoops, a daisy,
0:55.8	caused by the potentially inebriated Secretary of US Defence, Pete Heggseth.
1:01.1	I loved this on threads posted by Dems Might.
1:04.7	Who could have guessed that putting together a team with a convicted felon, an alcoholic,
1:09.3	a guy missing part of his brain and a ketamine
1:11.7	abuser would lead to chaos and unrest.
1:16.3	Speaking of ketamine abuser, we'll also check in on how Elon Musk is doing because it
1:20.7	looks like he might be regretting his decision to wade into politics. And if like us,
1:26.6	you're delighted at the prospect of him wading out,
1:29.3	just be wary of criticizing him online.
1:33.3	Five-Minute Media posted this clip with the caption,
1:37.3	Dudes on the Internet when you criticize their favorite billionaire.
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