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The Trawl

Trump's Transgender Mice, Canadian Wrath, WW3 and Greenland

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, Jemma and Marina feel like they're having a fever dream. First they're agreeing with Dan Hodges from The Mail, then Trump is confusing transgenic mice with transgender mice. Furthermore, upon being told his error, rather than burying himself under a duvet so he can hide due to abject mortification, he's doubling down. Still, it's not like this person is in charge of the US or anything. Oh.......

The latest Trump week from hell has been a biggie, he's making another bid for Greenland, apropos of just...wanting it. He's really getting on Canada's nerves and more worryingly, he's causing Russia to get away with accusing the UK of being the 'main instigator' of global conflict, including the Second World War. This seems interesting to Marina and Jemma who had thought we were all agreed that that was started by the bloke who invaded Poland. 


Decision after heinous Trump decision makes it a pretty surreal Trawl. For instance, wanting to send Ukrainian refugees back when you've just made their country even more dangerous feels pretty low. Jemma can't handle it and needs to inject some levity with her new favourite clip. Marina's vaguely amused, but only vaguely. 


Still, with so much going on, it feels important to reserve some sympathy for the presenter of Pointless, Alexander Armstrong, who has been moaning to The Telegraph about VAT on private school fees while wearing a cravat.


Pudding is by the genius Randy Rainbow


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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey

Transcript

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0:00.0

And Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form.

0:10.3

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media, so you don't have to.

0:14.9

I'm Gemma Forte.

0:16.4

And I'm Marina Perkis. And when we started this podcast, there were a few things I could never have imagined saying and yet have said, and I thought over the last fortnight.

0:27.6

For instance, I have wholly agreed with the front cover of the Daily Express. I found myself agreeing with the political editor of the mail, Dan Hodges,

0:39.1

and now I find myself reading this and wondering if I've eaten, I know, a dodgy mushroom or something,

0:47.0

because Andrea C. Love, PhD, wrote this.

0:50.6

I can't believe this needs to be said.

0:54.2

Transgenic mice are not transgender mice.

1:00.4

But of course, Marina, you have indeed read correctly.

1:04.4

Mo tweeted, this idiot thinks transgenic mice means transgender.

1:11.6

Eight million dollars for making mice transgender.

1:16.1

Oh my God, Marina. How thick is he? He's so thick. There's no two ways about it.

1:21.5

I don't know what you're supposed to do about that. I don't know. I don't know how you're

1:25.0

supposed to debate it. How you're supposed to argue with it?

1:29.5

And this is, haven't they just, hasn't the White House just installed English as the national

1:35.5

language? And this fucking fruit loop doesn't even understand the difference between

1:39.7

transgenic and transgender. So Richard Angwin wrote this. Trump's claim about $8 million for

1:47.7

transgender mice is absurd. It's actually funding for critical transgenic research on diseases like

1:55.1

Alzheimer's and his confusion shows ignorance and his anti-trans agenda distracts from the real issues.

2:02.7

What I love as well is that then he'll come out on Twitter and sort of defend it

2:06.9

because he's all hurty feelings because everybody thinks he's an absolute dick.

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