Trump ❤️ Mamdani: The Unrequited States of America
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, Trawlers! In this 'starting to feel' festive-but-feral episode, Jemma and Marina wade through glitter explosions, Christmas tree catastrophes and a BBC News bauble-gate blooper before heading straight into the most unexpected love story of the season: Donald Trump going full heart-eyes for New York’s new Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani.
What was meant to be an explosive Oval Office showdown somehow turned into a political rom-com, complete with cheesy poses and Trump posting Mamdani like a teenage crush. We unpack the memes, the madness and the moment Trump’s ego got speared by Cupid.
But don't get too cosy because from there it’s back to the grim stuff: Trump resharing posts calling for Democrats to be hung, a “peace plan” for Ukraine that appears to have been written in Moscow, Europe’s furious backlash, and the Kremlin fingerprints smeared all over MAGA’s online army.
Plus a bang-on satirical closer from Alex With Pen.
It’s festive, furious and fully unhinged - exactly how you like it. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | And I've been called much worse than a despot, so it's not that itself. |
| 0:05.0 | I met with a man who wants to see, really wants to see New York be great again. |
| 0:09.0 | And if he can, we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl, the podcast that trolls the seabed of the internet, casts its net wide, fishing for funnies and facts, but occasionally snagging a fascist that it can't throw back, along with a pearl in the oyster of life. |
| 0:37.2 | Got bit carried away this week. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:40.8 | And I'm Marina Perkis, and the countdown to Christmas is on trawlers. |
| 0:46.2 | Oh, I think we need some music. |
| 0:47.4 | We do. |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, very nice. |
| 0:56.5 | So the Christmas tree is up already in my house. |
| 0:59.6 | Is it? It's gone early. |
| 1:00.7 | It is. |
| 1:01.0 | I did that thing where I was like, I'm going to do it like, you know, |
| 1:04.4 | like you envisage it when you're younger. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm going to pull myself a nice bailies, get the kids involved. |
| 1:10.4 | It was an absolute disaster. They fucked it up. I was up to 11 o'clock, hoovering up glitter, rearranging the tree because they'd made an absolute bloody dog's dinner of it. Yeah. It's Christmas. Oh, you see, is it bad that you say I'd put the tree up and I'm looking in it still November and I'm thinking, |
| 1:27.8 | oh, lots of dead pine needles. |
| 1:29.7 | Mine's, I hate to say it, mine is false. Oh, okay. I used to love a real one. I used to get mine delivered by a man as a company. Oh, yeah. I think it's called pines and needles and it gets delivered, well, used to, by a man in a kilt. And I thought, what a wonderful, you know, USP. |
| 1:44.2 | Anyway, there's a problem with that issue. |
| 1:46.2 | It drops. |
| 1:47.6 | The truth. by a man in a kilt. And I thought, what a wonderful, you know, USP. |
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