Tesla Tackiness and Trump Turns Up the Dial
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
While Jemma suns herself on holiday, Marina has taken charge of the running order, so you're in for a Trumptastic ride...
Starting with the latest in totally unnecessary trade wars. Not only do the Americans have Trump to deal with, they now have the prospect of even more expensive booze thanks to retaliatory tariffs on The EU. Trump has reassured them however, that they'll be able to drink US made Champagne... Who's going to break it to him?
Jemma and Marina discuss the obscene optics of having martial arts menace, Conor McGregor at the White House (perhaps Trump and Conor are swapping notes?) before chat turns to the constitutional crisis gripping America.
Musk has proven even more obnoxious with his latest X posts, leading to a perfect opportunity for Marina to play an excerpt of her 4-year old's brand new word - if you know, you know.
Corruption, corruption, corruption is back once again (did it ever leave?) following Trump's new role as Tesla car salesman and now babysitter for Musk - bit of an odd choice to look after your kid if you ask us...
Finally it's onto the latest assault on free speech, before talk turns briefly to Palestine and Ukraine, and how Trump's hollow promises have been exposed.
Finally, a refreshing palette cleanser of a pudding from Irish comedian Justine Stafford and her take on when she sees people sharing parental advice they’ve received…
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| 0:00.0 | Make the most of longer, warmer days with Halford's biggest ever Easter sale. |
| 0:04.3 | We've got up to 50% off loads of motoring and cycling products, |
| 0:08.0 | like car cleaning, tools, bikes, cycling accessories and more. |
| 0:11.4 | Pop into your local Halford's today. |
| 0:13.5 | Halford's, keep on moving for less. |
| 0:15.7 | Offers subject to availability, full teas and season exclusion supply. |
| 0:18.5 | See halfts.com for details. |
| 0:19.8 | And these newspapers are really no different |
| 0:22.6 | than a highly paid political operative. |
| 0:25.6 | And it has to stop. |
| 0:27.0 | It has to be illegal. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl |
| 0:33.9 | where we scroll through social media |
| 0:35.3 | so you don't have to. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:38.4 | And I'm Marina Perkis and while I'm back from holiday and back to reality with a thud and with |
| 0:44.8 | endless washing, it's now Gemma's turn to son herself, leaving me in charge of the running |
| 0:50.2 | order for this week's pods. Are you worried, Gemma? Am I worried? No, I'm not. What, |
| 0:56.9 | the only thing I am worried about is trawlers, can you hear that? Can you hear the sound of running |
| 1:00.4 | water in the background? Can you hear the fact that I think a mopeds just gone past? This is |
| 1:07.6 | probably going to be record-breaking Marina in terms of the most ridiculous sound on a podcast ever. |
| 1:13.5 | But it was this trawlers on out because I was all set up, I'm away, I was all set up in the hotel room, absolutely super, got back, the resort Wi-Fi has gone down. |
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