Trump’s Gaza madness ft Lewis Goodall
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Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has left the world reeling with a plan to turn Gaza into *checks notes* “the Riviera of the Middle East”. He vowed that the US will “take over” and “own” the Gaza strip, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of 1.8 million Palestinians who would have “no alternative” but to leave.
With rumours circling that his inner-circle are calling him an “HR manager” rather than a leader, in classic style, Keir Starmer has pushed back but avoided directly criticising Trump.
News Agents co-host Lewis Goodall joins Nish and Coco to discuss this latest tidal wave of horror and whether Starmer has it in him to stand for something.
On a more hopeful note, the decision to greenlight the giant new Rosebank oilfield off Shetland has been ruled unlawful by the courts. At the forefront of the fight has been Uplift Director Tessa Khan, who calls in to celebrate this major win for climate action and let us know how we can stop this oilfield for good.
Later, Coco sinks her teeth into our household waste, after Green-led Bristol Council unleashes the wrath of local residents.
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Guests
Lewis Goodall
Tessa Khan
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Cocoa Khan. |
| 0:05.4 | And I'm Nish Kumar. Once again, we can't escape Trump. The president has unleashed a tidal wave |
| 0:10.6 | of incredulity around the world from backflips on tariffs to Elon Musk's interventions |
| 0:15.5 | in the apparatus of American government. And just this morning, as we record, announcing a |
| 0:20.4 | completely insane plan |
| 0:21.8 | to take over the Gaza Strip. Absolutely insane, incoherent and obviously terrifying. You know, |
| 0:28.6 | in my naivety, I woke up really early this morning before the news was circulating and thought |
| 0:33.2 | to myself, oh great, on today's episode, we can talk about the Grammys or something nice like |
| 0:37.6 | that. Do you know what I mean? I was like, oh, there seems to be a natural pause in the devastating, |
| 0:42.5 | horrifying news. No, there's no pause. There's not even time for us to make fun of Drake. That's |
| 0:46.9 | how serious the situation is. To discuss these waves of chaos and back in the UK, the salacious |
| 0:53.3 | allegations that is in a circle |
| 0:54.9 | described Kirstama as an HR manager will be joined by a very special guest for news |
| 1:00.2 | agents Lewis Goodall. |
| 1:05.3 | Let's start on this Garza news. Here's President Trump announcing his plans. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll understand if you skip the next 30 |
| 1:12.0 | seconds, if you can't stand the sound of him. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a |
| 1:18.4 | job with it too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, |
| 1:24.2 | unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get |
| 1:29.1 | rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply |
| 1:34.9 | unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. |
| 1:40.9 | That's Trump announcing his plans for Gaza in a press conference alongside Israeli |
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