Up for Grabs: The Riviera of the Middle East and the US Govt

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Marina and Jemma open with a flicker of good news, before putting on their waders to get stuck into the latest political developments stateside...

They revisit the ugly fallout from the two fatal air disasters, Trump's inane ramblings and the insanity of blaming diversity, equity and inclusion before turning their attention to the latest monstrosity to fall out of Trump's mouth when discussing his intentions for Gaza - or what he is now referring to as 'The Riviera of the Middle East'.

There's some brief chat around Marina watching CGI videos of mega prisons in El Salvador (which will become clear once you listen ) before the conversation moves to deportations and how the White House chose to, in an act of rank immaturity and unprofessionalism, single out actress Selena Gomez.

We finish off with the constitutional crisis facing America as Musk and his allies infiltrate Government departments and cut off life-saving aid, and the undeniable reality of the richest man on earth taking away support from the very poorest, and how somehow the Trump-evangelicals will still find a way to wrap their warped minds around that...

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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey

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0:00.0	You. Yeah, you sitting there.
0:02.1	I know what you're thinking of. I know what you're really thinking of.
0:04.9	You want that cheese snack. Yeah. The one you steal from your kids' lunchbox, perfectly round, cheesy and baked to perfection.
0:12.1	The one you hide on the top shelf so your short game can't reach.
0:15.2	The one you keep in your glove box for traffic jams? Or just because? You're thinking of mini-cheddars.
0:20.3	Oh, did it just make it worse by
0:21.8	mentioning it? Sorry, go on. Give in, I would. Mini-cheddars baked with real cheese. Still thinking
0:29.0	about it, aren't you? They realized that we were illegal immigrants. Well, I'm sure. I'd say it's a great area.
0:39.4	Hello and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media, so you don't have to.
0:44.1	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:45.4	And I'm Marina Perkins, and Joe and I have been doing our best to scrape the internet barrel for you to find you some good news.
0:52.2	And do you know what?
0:52.7	I think we found some.
0:54.0	Oh, brilliant. Here it is. Are you ready? Yeah. So the Associated Press tweeted,
0:59.8	Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
1:05.9	That's great. I can take that off my worry list. Wonderful.
1:10.5	Honestly, the news that we're going to get into, I messaged Gemma at 5am this morning and
1:16.1	was like, Trump, Gaza. Oh my God. And then we've just like been squeezing stuff in so we can
1:22.5	talk about it because it's absolutely abhorrent. Obviously, I replied at 7.30 like a normal person.
1:27.9	Morning.
1:29.0	Oh, God.
1:31.1	But before we get into that, a few episodes back, you might remember we talked about
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