‘False, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory’: Trump threatens BBC with $1 billion lawsuit

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the America Business Forum Miami at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)

PALM BEACH, Florida – As the head of BBC and its news chief resigned over the weekend amid a firestorm for deceptively editing Donald Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, the president wasted no time threatening a $1 billion lawsuit if the network does not retract its “false” and “defamatory” statements by Friday.

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