Vance's Greenland Fiasco, US Deportations and Palestine

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This episode starts with a trip down memory lane. If you were at school in the 90's you might feel a shiver as the r Trawl ladies relive some Sunday night theme tunes. You could call it the calm before the storm because, in the next minute, they're talking about the new child labour laws in the US. Ron De Santis wants to get those minors working through the night, ideally with no breaks. Seems fair.....

Compared to Marjorie Taylor Greene however, De Santis almost cuts a reasonable figure. Marjorie is not liking the UK at the moment and makes no bones about showing her extreme disdain to a UK journalist. Hmm, that 'special' relationship appears to have gone rather toxic.

Should we want any kind of a relationship with the Trump adminstration? When a young woman can be taken from the streets simply because she opposes what's happening in Palestine, you've hit a new low and yet that's what's happened to Rumeysa Ozturk. Rumeysa was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner where they would break their Ramadan fast. Instead, the 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers. Six plainclothes officers surrounded Ozturk as she walked alone, though the officers did not show their badges until she was restrained. Horrifying.

On the subject of Palestine, Marina and Jemma barely know what to say any more given that this week, more humanitarian aid workers and medics have been killed by the Israeli army which breaches international law. Instead they have picked a few clips of brilliant people speaking powerfully.

On a lighter note, Vance went to Greenland and the entire trip was so pitiful it was comical. It begs the question, is he the worst diplomat ever?

Pudding is warming up for the next episode - from The Last Leg it's a brilliant poke at Labour

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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? Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very warm welcome to this British airway.
0:34.1	Right, have I got everything? Water bottle in Seaback? Check. Headphones? Check. The book that has been to a beach and roads, a park in Copenhagen, spa in Budapest, and back to London again. Unread. Check.
0:58.6	Fly to over 100 destinations across Europe, another British Airways travel essential. Anybody else? Wait, what country are you from? Okay, we don't give
1:05.2	a crap about your opinion and you're reporting. Why don't you go back to your country? We have a major
1:10.1	migrant problem.
1:14.6	Hello and welcome to The Trul where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
1:20.1	I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And here in the UK, the sky has been blue, the blossom is out,
1:27.1	and spring is in the air, which is lovely, actually.
1:30.8	And it also takes the edge off the news, which shows no signs of abating in terms of what the
1:36.2	fuckness. Honestly, you've got the spring statement, which was predictably drab and full of
1:41.6	austerity. We're going to get to that and some of the fallout in the next
1:44.6	episode. Then, of course, Trump's just completely off his rocker. And what is happening in Palestine
1:50.7	just continues to be utterly heart-wrenching and abysmal. So we've tried to collate all sorts
1:58.5	of different bits and pieces for you. We've stuffed them into two
2:01.3	trolls and we will try very hard to make sense of the world and give you lots of sort of quirky
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