Trump’s Greenland Meltdown: Europe Pushes Back

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Trump wants Greenland and he's going to stamp his feet until he gets it. Jemma and Marina look back over a week which has included a lot of tariff threats, 'no comment' on military force, and a President who expects the rest of the world to just… nod along while he makes demands.

Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte wade through a truly unhinged news cycle: from Trump’s Greenland obsession and the fallout across Europe, to Britain discovering that rolling out the red carpet doesn’t actually stop you getting slapped with tariffs.

They unpack:

Why Greenland has suddenly become Trump’s favourite chew toy
The US tariff threats hitting the UK, Denmark and beyond
Starmer’s awkward position
Britain’s alarming love affair with Palantir and Peter Thiel
The surreal announcement of Trump’s self-appointed “Peace Board” (featuring some very familiar faces)
Who’s finally standing up to Trump and who is embarrassingly getting on their knees

Plus: political backbone from Denmark, crowd chants in London, leaked clips, authoritarian vibes, tech bros, trade wars, and one musical number involving a Nazi that somehow makes everything feel slightly better.

Doomscrolling so you don’t have to, because apparently we’re all collateral damage now.

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0:00.0	Let me put this in words you might understand.
0:04.0	Mr. President, Borgolf.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to the troll, where we doomskroll on your behalf, at the expense of our mental health and sometimes romantic relationships.
0:27.6	Also, we can bring you this podcast. I'm Marina Perkins. And I'm Gemma Forte, and that really is true trawlers. In fact, do you ever read something online, say, I don't know, a meme or a thread?
0:39.7	And you think, that's me. That's exactly how I feel. Well, this clip from Don't Look Up did exactly that.
0:48.4	The president of the United States is fucking lying. I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind.
1:01.3	And I think we're all going to die.
1:04.9	Oh, God.
1:07.3	And if you were tuned in to the state of Trump's ramblings, he is losing his mind. I think we're all seeing it in real time. And the fact that his Trump team, his inner circle, are not stepping in, is making me feel exactly like that clip. Yeah. So just for reference, you'll be listening to this. It's a
1:28.3	Friday episode, but we're recording this on Wednesday. So we may have missed some stuff in the
1:32.6	interim, but this is going to be the update until this very point. And it is absolutely nuts.
1:39.9	None of the history books prepared us for this. In fact, all my history lessons prepared me for
1:45.4	the whole world making sure none of this shit ever happened again. That was the idea.
1:50.4	That was the big idea. And then Trump got in. And I tell you my main fear at the moment as well is that
1:56.9	we have Nigel Farage hovering around in the background. And if you listen to Wednesdays,
2:01.4	you know that we often have a laugh. We've been laughing a lot about the defections and so on.
2:06.5	But the serious fact of the matter is, he is somebody who is funded by billionaires who have agendas.
2:14.9	He is somebody who has supported Trump, who's in Trump's pocket. And he is
2:19.9	somebody who admires Putin. So we better hope that we do not vote that frog face man in. Because
2:28.6	we could be in trouble too. And I think it's always there but for the grace of God. And you look at
2:33.3	America. You think,
2:34.3	this is America. How have they let this happen? And yet here we are. Yep, here we are.
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