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Nish Kumar

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Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Here he is addressing world leaders.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

So bear in mind, this is happening after we're recording.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

So I literally have no idea what the fuck I'm teeing up here.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

He's managed to get it wrong not once, but twice, because not only is that an unfathomable excuse for threatening to invade a country, it's also an independent committee that decides where to award the prize, not the Norwegian prime minister.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Listen, we are very repeatedly critical of Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party and this country.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

The only time where I feel he's completely powerless to manage what's going on in front of him is when Donald Trump becomes involved.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

What I would say is that as soon as Trump came into office, he had started sabre rattling about Greenland.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

So maybe actually we shouldn't have been as caught cold by this as we have been.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Sky News' Mark Stone has reported that in a weekend call, Starmer managed to get Trump to calm down a little and admit that he might have been misinformed and jumped to the tariff threats too quickly.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Now, obviously, that's an interesting development.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

It doesn't seem to have translated into any public pronouncements.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Trump continues to saber-rattle about tariffs on European countries that have sent troops into Greenland.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

There is this strange thing that Starmer said on Monday where he said that, you know,

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

As part of his reasoning for not threatening retaliatory tariffs, he said that this thing needs to be done in a kind of reasonable, grown-up way.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

But that's not taking into account who he's trying to negotiate with.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

You're not dealing with a reasonable person.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

It's like trying to explain string theory to a toddler.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

It's unfathomable what he's trying to do.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

I keep reading op-ed pieces written by, I think, well-intentioned journalists that are asking questions like, is this the end of the rules-based international order?

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Well,