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The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Reeves' Spring statement is looming but as Marina and Jemma await what sound like it's going to be underwhelming, unimaginative and full of austerity, they get into the far juicier news from across the pond. Should any attack be planned on a group chat? And even if so, perhaps inviting in a journalist wasn't the cleverest thing to do. Though given said chat is strewn with emojis and demonstrates no care for the loss of life they're planning to inflict, perhaps clever would be pushing it in the first place.

Still, Trump has way more important thing to worry about than National Security. Someone's painted a portrait of him and he doesn't like it. In fact, he's furious so spends a lot of his day wailing about it on socials like the fragile cheesy wotsit he surely is. All against a backdrop of deportations on a scale that will blow your mind. Jemma and Marina had warned about Project 2025 prior to the US election, the manifesto laid out by the darkest of think tanks. Trump always said he didn't know anything about it. He also says he doesn't know anything about the incredibly serious breach of security committed by his administration....hmm.

Still, Marina and Jemma probably won't be visiting America any time soon, partly because there's a chance they wouldn't be allowed in. Listen to find out why and then maybe consider if you'll be taking a 'vacation' there any time soon.

URTOTW features some of the weird and wonderful and frankly desperate things people were up to during lockdown.

Pudding is provided by Bill Bailey.

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1:07.5	No, he's got an unbelievable aptitude in technology.
1:13.7	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
1:18.4	I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. And today's episode is going to be a bit of a mixed
1:24.8	bag of UK and US politics because it appears no matter what side of the Atlantic you're on,
1:31.0	our politicians are doing stupid, unforgivable things, and staying alert to it all is becoming tougher and tougher.
1:39.3	Pale for Style, wrote, if you're not visibly stressed out right now, I don't trust you. The end.
1:46.8	And on that, if I said the words project chainsaw to you, who would you think of?
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