Man-Baby FIFA Peace Prize & Truss Hits YouTube
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina wade into a feed overflowing with colds, chaos and Christmas-level delusion and glide into today’s central theme: the most powerful man in the world being treated like an overgrown baby.
From FIFA inventing a brand-new prize seemingly just to flatter the White House resident, to clips of Trump lashing out at journalists, the infantilisation of global politics is truly in full swing. There's a painfully long World Cup draw, a sharp breakdown from commentator Adam Mockler, Liz Truss launching a new show (yes, really, and the one star reviews are in), and Flo & Joan with some much-needed musical therapy.
Plus: Under Rateds Of The Week, reviews, a pudding from “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” and all the festive nonsense you need to get through the week.
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| 0:00.0 | Even if Jesus was a physical person in the past, you don't think that he could return as artificial intelligence? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:08.0 | Artificial intelligence could absolutely return as Jesus. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello and welcome to the trawl where the week's feed is overflowing with drama, delusion and the sort of takes that make you question how we've survived as a species. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Jemaforte. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:35.4 | And how are you doing trawlers? |
| 0:36.0 | Are you right? |
| 0:40.0 | What percentage of you have got colds or flu? How many hangovers are you on? And who is feeling overwhelmed by their to-do list? This end, I am full on |
| 0:47.2 | threaten the kids over Father Christmas every day mode, every bloody day. And I will say it is working. |
| 0:56.9 | My little girl can be, shall we say, |
| 1:03.0 | a little bit spirited, spritosa, when it comes to bedtime, which is why this clip spoke to me, |
| 1:09.0 | because even though she's only three, I think she may have worked out what side her breads buttered on. |
| 1:10.9 | The caption for this clip was, |
| 1:13.6 | When My Daughter has been sassy all year, |
| 1:15.5 | but knows Christmas is coming. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. |
| 1:20.7 | I've got the nicest mother. |
| 1:22.8 | That's what I tell everybody. |
| 1:25.8 | I say I've got the sweetest mother in the world. |
| 2:18.9 | Yeah, she doesn't say that. Yeah, my daughter is about to turn 21. This is a double whammy trawish. She's a student. She gets, fuck all all year. And then it's like birthday and Christmas is coming. Yesterday night, forgot to do well from the shelf. Forgot to do it. Woke up this morning. It was just there on the island. And Luca went, oh, what happened? Do you know what I did? What? I said, I think that was because you didn't listen to mommy and daddy yesterday. Excellent. Think on your feet, guys. Think on your feet. Yeah, yeah. Just tis the season to sort of lie to your children. Shemma, I know you've not been very well. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm absolutely fine, ploughing through. You know what I mean? Stinking cold? Oh, absolutely stinking, like sandpaper at one point, but, you know, it's okay. Lemp is an absolute freaking wonder. So sort of limping towards Christmas, but also I do quite like the Christmas party vibe. |
| 2:25.0 | Although that said, I haven't been enjoying it just quite as much as Sandra from Finance has. |
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