‘Corrupt’: Trump Slams BBC Journalists, Alleges Foreign Interference After Executives Resign

Last Updated:November 10, 2025, 03:06 IST

Trump thanked UK newspaper the Telegraph and said the BBC was caught doctoring his ‘PERFECT’ January 6 speech.

Trump’s “corrupt journalists” charge lands as the BBC grapples with multiple editorial scandals. (IMAGE: REUTERS)

US President Donald Trump called UK broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) journalists “corrupt" after BBC Chief Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness resigned following a scandal over the editing of a documentary about the US President.

Trump also alleged “foreign interference" from an “ally" and said the BBC was exposed, calling its staff “very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election." He also thanked the UK-based newspaper The Telegraph.

“The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th," Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists’," he wrote.

“These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!" he further added.

Britain’s publicly funded national broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on January 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.

Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Pressure on the broadcaster’s top executives has been growing since the right-leaning Telegraph published parts of a dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, who had been hired to advise the BBC on standards and guidelines.

As well as the Trump edit, it criticized the BBC’s coverage of transgender issues and raised concerns of anti-Israel bias in the BBC’s Arabic service.

The BBC, funded by a licence fee paid by all UK households that watch live television, has been at the centre of several editorial controversies in recent months. Earlier this year, the broadcaster issued multiple apologies over “serious flaws" in the production of its February documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.

In October, the BBC also accepted a sanction from the UK’s media watchdog after one of its programmes was found to be “materially misleading." The investigation revealed that the child narrator featured in the film was the son of a former Hamas deputy agriculture minister.

Shankhyaneel Sarkar

Shankhyaneel Sarkar is a Chief Sub-Editor at News18. He covers international affairs, where he focuses on breaking news to in-depth analyses. He has over seven years of experience during which he has covered se...Read More

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