Trump's 5 Year Scroll & Tragedy & Heroism in Bondi
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Marina and Jemma are back with a Christmas-adjacent scroll through the internet so you don’t have to.
With the festive season fast approaching, they bring you thrift tips courtesy of Donald Trump (yes, really), as he explains why American children might have to settle for 'two dolls instead of thirty' all in the name of tariffs. Marie Antoinette, but make it MAGA.
The Trawl ladies also take on the claim that Britain is somehow worse off than the United States, unpacking why that narrative doesn’t stand up from gun laws to healthcare to basic reality.
The episode then turns to two devastating mass shootings in the US and Australia, the heroism shown in the face of hate-fuelled violence, and the disturbing speed with which misinformation and outright fabrication spread online in their aftermath.
Plus: Trump’s response, a MAGA voter discovering too late what 'women's rights' actually means, and a new US policy that might just be the worst tourism advert in modern history.
They end, as always, with some much-needed internet relief — underrated tweets and a very beautiful pudding.
Scroll wisely, Trawlers.
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| 0:00.0 | You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice, |
| 0:06.1 | but you don't need 37 dolls. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:24.5 | So frankly, you're welcome. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:27.9 | And I'm Jem Forte, and we have got two jam-packed trolls for you this week, trawlers, |
| 0:33.0 | and we are going to be trawling heavily into the Christmas week as well. |
| 0:37.7 | So we will be in your ears, if you'll have us, on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day as well. |
| 0:44.4 | And it's writing itself. |
| 0:46.2 | In fact, Marina and I made a decision this morning because, I mean, it was so overexcited about the, |
| 0:52.9 | and perhaps you're not aware of it yet, the vanity fair spread. |
| 0:57.2 | Power to vanity fair. |
| 0:59.5 | Vanity fair have joined the resistance. |
| 1:01.6 | They have joined the resistance, exactly, and they have made Trump's cabinet look utterly ridiculous. |
| 1:06.8 | But I said, no, no, no, no, no, we're not cramming it into these episodes this week. We're going to savor it. We're going to savor it and let more takes come in and really enjoy it and give it some space. So that'll be next week. So, you know, perhaps next week you'll be in the car traveling to see your rallies. Or you might be in the car coming home from seeing your relatives and fancy listening to a trawl. Or you might be sat |
| 1:28.6 | outside your own house in the car because you'd rather be sat in the car than be with your |
| 1:32.3 | relatives for even a second long time. I mean, it just depends on what kind of family. |
| 1:35.5 | You might be like Lee, a little shout out to postman Lee who found us. |
| 1:40.3 | Yes, hello, Lee. And now he does all his rounds. He's gone right back through the back catalogue of trolls. |
| 1:46.6 | And then the week after Christmas week, we've got a very special couple of episodes for you too. |
| 1:51.9 | We have got the troll meets Cody Dala, which is such a good listen. |
| 1:57.4 | It's actually on Patreon now if you want to head over there and listen early. |
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