The Kentucky Primary That Broke America
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this Trawl, Marina and Jemma dive headfirst into what might be the most jaw-dropping week of Trump 2.0 so far.
From claims of billion-dollar “slush funds” and eye-watering stock trades to the political takedown of Republican congressman Thomas Massie after he pushed for the Epstein files release, the corruption alarms are deafening. The pair unpack the terrifying power of MAGA loyalty, the growing influence of billionaire donors and lobbying groups, and why so many Americans are starting to feel utterly powerless watching it all unfold.
Plus: RFK Jr on Joe Rogan, Elon Musk’s latest nonsense, the staggering amount of misinformation flooding social media, and why even Lululemon somehow ended up in the culture war.
There’s rage. There’s despair. There’s Trump’s comb-over in a wind tunnel. And somewhere in the middle of it all, a very wholesome story about periods.
Basically: the world is on fire, but at least we’ve got each other.
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| 0:00.0 | I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. |
| 0:03.1 | And the 9% I don't, they're taken up for pedophiles, starting another war or bankrupting |
| 0:08.3 | our country. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to The Trolll, the news and politics podcast for people who are paying attention and who are absolutely furious about what they're seeing. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:31.3 | And I'm Marina Perkis and as ever, we've looked at the news this week and genuinely don't know whether to laugh, cry, |
| 0:39.4 | or just move to maybe a cave somewhere off the grid. It'd be nice. I could, I could grow my |
| 0:45.8 | vegetables, Gemma. Yes, although I suspect maybe the vegetables would rot and the news would |
| 0:51.4 | still find you. There'd be an echo in the cave and it would come around calling your name. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, you're probably right. |
| 0:57.6 | I kill everything. |
| 0:58.6 | I can't even keep plants alive. |
| 1:00.7 | So as we've covered in the earlier episodes this week, it's a shambles here in Blighty, |
| 1:05.6 | but it is even more, even more of a rotten shambles beyond our border. I feel myself aging. Honestly, |
| 1:14.1 | I feel like my face is like collapsing in on itself as I doomscroll. Alex Steed wrote, |
| 1:20.7 | I've noticed how much I've aged in the past five years and I'm really hoping that adding |
| 1:24.4 | cheer seeds to my yoghurt can turn this whole thing around. We're hoping. Also, I've got to this grand old age, Kia or chia? Don't know. Oh, it's definitely chia. I've never heard it said it's Kia. Right, okay. Maybe it's the old Italian thing where CH is hard, like Keiz or QD, and I look at it and I see Kia. No? Oh no. Yeah. All right. |
| 1:45.3 | Okay. Let's go with that. Anyway, look, we are on a bit of a mess over here, which is why this |
| 1:49.9 | clip from Ed Jones, UK, summed up the state of affairs absolutely perfectly. He put, |
| 1:55.9 | what LBC sounds like when you only ever hear it in a taxi? With this morning's budget expected to take millions from the pockets of hardworking people, |
| 2:04.8 | we ask when will dogs get the vote? |
| 2:08.0 | I wonder if Madam Chancellor has actually had a chance for her to look at the numbers. |
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