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Nish Kumar

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

And they're getting results in terms of pushback, but also they are, you know, seeing domestic bumps at home in politics

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

polling data.

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

I think that the line Starmer is trying to draw is possibly politically inadvisable, but also it's perilously naive to think that you can reason with Donald Trump.

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

And people keep refusing to take the things that he's saying at face value.

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

You know, we kept being told he's not going to invade Venezuela.

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

Look at where we are now.

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

He has been talking about Greenland for almost the entirety of the last 12, 13 months.

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

When he says things like, we will have to take it or we will have to do it however we have to do it, we should probably start taking him at face value.

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

And the next phase of conversation has to be what happens if US troops land in Greenland.

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

Emmanuel Macron has called the tariffs unacceptable.

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

He's actually at Davos and we should shout out his incredible choice of sunglasses.

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

He has gone full aviators.

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

Full Top Gun.

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

Legally, we can make no pronouncements about what Emmanuel Macron may have been doing the night before he had to give the speech.

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

But aviators are quite a good way of covering up your eyes if you've hit the claret a bit too hard.

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

Listen, the row has got very strange in the last few days.

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

Trump called the British decision to return the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius an act of, and this was in a Truth Social post, so it was in all caps, great stupidity.

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

And, you know, let's face it, he is the expert in great stupidity.

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

But it was less than a year ago that he, as US president, backed the deal during Starmer's trip to Washington.

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

So he's decided to have a complete U-turn on this.