Starmer Steps Up. The White House Punches Down

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What a time to be alive. The news cycle is insane. Even people who normally don't talk about politics, are talking about politics - cue Susannah Constantine. In this episode Jemma and Marina revisit the various scenes from The Oval Office starting, of course, with Starmer's audience with the giant human wotsit that is Trump. Marina and Jemma both agreed that whilst it was faintly nauseating to watch the PM handing over a letter from the King, it was also a diplomatic coup and very cleverly played. It's fair to say Starmer's stock is up. Comedian, Michael Spicer, has a view too and provides commentary.

Sadly, things didn't go as smoothly when Zelensky paid his visit and JD Vance was particularly grotesque. Marina and Jemma unpack the bullying and share the best takes they've found. Unlike Vance, they won't force you to thank them.

The fallout, suit-gate and Marco Rubio's unease, it's all in this Trawl as are your underrated tweets of the week.

Pudding is sung for you by The Marsh Family

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0:30.0	Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?
0:32.8	No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:43.1	I'm Jim Afforte.
0:44.1	And I'm Marina Perkis and we're going to just go straight in with a tweet from a history of ghost's music who wrote,
0:51.4	Woo boy, what a time to have anxiety disorder, a love of history and a compulsion to stay informed.
0:58.8	Yes, we are certainly living through.
1:02.5	Can we say unprecedented presidential times?
1:05.6	If you can, try, yeah.
1:07.6	Yeah.
1:09.4	I was out on the tiles last night, so that actually was more difficult than I thought it was going to be, but I got there.
1:14.3	Yeah, no, the news is completely mind-bending.
1:17.6	And look, you know, we are aware that there's other stuff going on, that, you know, on the domestic front, for instance,
1:25.2	you've got big domestic issues like, I don't know,
1:31.6	Thames Water trying to get out of its off what finds for sewage spills.
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