Putin's Poodles, Musk's Cabinet & That Trump-Gaza Video

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The pod opens by addressing the dilemma many of us face as we try to not raise politics in every conversation, despite it impacting almost every facet of our lives, and the ladies reveal a new word that we can all begin using more often to express how we feel. And no, it doesn't begin with c...

Then it's onto Starmer's defense spending announcement which was so significant that the Reform poster boys, or Putin's poodles as they should affectionately be known, didn't even bother to turn up to.

There's a rundown of the latest craziness coming out of The US, which the ladies have kindly set to some retro music to make it more palatable, before delving into Trump's new grift: selling US citizenship for $5 million apiece - and would you believe it? The maths doesn't add up.

After more discussion about how the land of the free is becoming less free by the day, there's some chat about Musk's first cabinet meeting as the de-facto president before the topic turns to THAT Trump-Gaza AI video.

But worry not, because there are some lighter underrated tweets to leave you feeling hopeful and a delicious French pudding to boot.

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0:00.0	The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States.
0:06.8	Hello and welcome to the trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:11.3	I'm Gemma Fulte.
0:12.6	And I'm Marina Perkis and we have talked before on the pod about how nice it is for us to come together as a little trawl community.
0:20.8	I say little, but growing.
0:22.2	Over a million listeners.
0:23.7	Well done you.
0:24.6	Well done us.
0:25.7	So to come together as a little trawl community,
0:27.8	when so many of our friends and families have got, let's be honest,
0:32.3	no idea of the political chaos around us.
0:36.3	And then we've talked about how sometimes we try to,
0:38.9	when we're together, we try really hard to avoid talking about politics.
0:43.9	And so I love this clip.
0:46.1	Have a listen to it.
0:46.9	It's posted by Betcher's News,
0:49.4	which I think sums this feeling right up.
0:52.8	Hi!
0:53.2	Hi! Oh my God, it's so hot out!
0:55.0	Oh, February's been crazy.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	We didn't need to talk about climate change.
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