Trump's Tastelessness, Tariffs and Tablets at the Dining Table
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Marina and Jemma dive headfirst into the week’s online chaos, starting with a very British debate about kids and iPads at the dinner table. Kirstie Allsopp has thoughts, and so do they. From there, it’s a whirlwind tour through cultural clashes, viral romances, and the latest Trumpian monstrosity: a golden ballroom and a concrete patio.
They unpack the U.S. employment nosedive and subsequent firing, Trump’s bizarre tariff spree (69 countries, really?), and the tourism crisis hitting even Las Vegas. Epstein’s legacy rears its ugly head again, with updates on Ghislaine Maxwell’s cushy prison transfer, plus theirs an update on White House Press Speaker Karoline Leavitt’s soul-selling antics and Trump's admiration for...her lips. Vom
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| 0:00.0 | Has the side hustle gone all laid back? Your plan's gone way off track. Or are the orders |
| 0:07.8 | flowing, but it's hard to keep going? It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting |
| 0:14.1 | sidetracked. It's time to crack a Costa. Side hustle without the struggle. |
| 0:21.8 | Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today. |
| 0:26.5 | Crack a Costa. |
| 0:29.7 | I believe the numbers were phony just like they were before the election. |
| 0:34.1 | And there were other times. |
| 0:35.1 | So you know what I did? |
| 0:36.1 | I fired her. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello and welcome to The Trul, the podcast that turns online carnage into commentary. I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:46.9 | And I'm Gemma Forte. And in this episode, Donald Trump unveils his latest architectural insult to good taste. |
| 0:53.8 | A golden ballroom. It looks so gaudy. It makes Versailles |
| 0:58.4 | look like a travelodge. Less mara lago, more mara laughable. And there's all sorts of crazy |
| 1:04.1 | stuff happening, quite frankly. But we're going to begin by kicking off with a British tale. |
| 1:09.3 | So let's lube up. Oh, Gemma. What? By starting with a British tale. So let's lube up by starting with a clip, |
| 1:15.3 | which highlights the cultural differences between us Brits and the Americans. This is Russell Hicks. |
| 1:23.5 | Dear Diary, in Britain, they engage their friends in something called banter. |
| 1:28.2 | In America, we would know this as verbal abuse. |
| 1:31.7 | I've got to go now. |
| 1:32.8 | My British friend just logged onto my Facebook page and posted, I'm a nonce. |
| 1:40.9 | Oh, good old British humor. |
| 1:42.6 | So, Marina, before we start bantering, |
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