Trump Mocks Starmer (Again)
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The US President mocks Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron at an Easter event at the White House. Does Macron's response reflect growing anger in Europe over Iran?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Michael Binyon and Alys Denby. They also discuss why teachers are turning to the Green Party, Reform UK's pension policy. and why a new deal with the EU could change the name of marmalade.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Edvasium. We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day from Donald Trump's latest insult to Kirstama to reform, taking away gold-plated civil service pensions to what it's like to meet Jonathan, who of course is a 200-year-old tortoise. |
| 0:21.1 | Joining me, two of the hardest working people in journalism. |
| 0:26.0 | They are not put off by a mere bank holiday. |
| 0:28.5 | We've got The Times' former diplomatic editor, Michael Binion. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to the show, Michael. |
| 0:33.5 | Thank you, Ed. |
| 0:34.2 | And the opinion and features editor at CDAM, Alice Denby. Hello, happy Easter. You're still mourning the demise of your pottery company. I am very sad about the death of Denby. Are you related? No, I don't think. I mean, maybe distantly. But it's great pottery and it's a great name. And it's very sad that this company has gone into administration, of course, partly due to energy costs. |
| 0:56.7 | This Ed Miliband strikes again. |
| 0:58.6 | You milked it. There were about 17 Alice Demby tweets, weren't there? |
| 1:02.6 | Save Demby. |
| 1:03.8 | Save Demby. |
| 1:05.1 | Survive Demby. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, buy the Demby dip. |
| 1:09.1 | Very good. Well, not very good for Demby, I should say. No, it's very sad for... Let's begin with Donald Trump's private White House speech. It was accidentally posted online in which he talked about a phone call with Keir Stama. Actually, that's UK, who should be our best. In fact, the king is coming over here in two weeks. He's a nice guy. King Charles. But should be our best, right, |
| 1:28.4 | Brooke? But they weren't our best. I said, you have two old broken down aircraft carriers. |
| 1:34.3 | You think you could send them over? Oh, I'll have to ask my team. I said, you're the prime |
| 1:40.5 | minister. You don't have, no, no, no. I have to ask my team, president. My team has |
| 1:46.5 | to meet. We're meeting next week. But the war already started next week. It's not good. The war's |
| 1:52.5 | going to be over. So I think really we have this conversation every week. And all the same |
| 1:59.0 | thoughts go through my head. There's something compelling about |
| 2:01.3 | Trump. It's like talking to a guy in a bar about an anecdote about his day at work, not kind of |
| 2:06.3 | super important geopolitics. It's full of kind of half-truths. We don't have two broken down all |
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