Trump Seeks $5B from BBC for Editing Speech, Because Justice Now Has a Price Tag

KEY POINTS

•President Trump sued the BBC on November 11, 2025, claiming $5 billion in damages over a 2021 speech edit in a pre-2024 election documentary.
•This is Trump's third major media lawsuit in 2025, following $15 billion suits against the New York Times and Wall Street Journal earlier this year.
•Two top BBC leaders resigned after an internal memo exposed bias concerns, and while the BBC apologized, they refused to pay Trump any compensation.

In a plot twist stranger than TV cable bills, President Trump sued the BBC this Monday demanding a $5 billion jackpot for allegedly doctored edits of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech in a documentary aired right before the 2024 election. This comes hot on the heels of his $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times in September—re-filed because the original was too long, like his Twitter rants—and a July lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal about his link to Jeffrey Epstein's birthday guest book. BBC bosses resigned after a leaked memo rocked the newsroom with accusations of bias, prompting a BBC apology but no billion-dollar payout. With last year’s media lawsuits against Des Moines Register, ABC, and CBS, Trump’s legal resume is starting to look like a lawyer’s wet dream — or nightmare, depending on how you feel about media coverage. Meanwhile, the BBC is probably prepping their best courtroom cocktail: "actual malice" denial served with a twist, since the documentary didn’t even air in the U.S. Plot thickens, popcorn bags ready.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Trump’s suing an English broadcaster for a speech edit no American even saw. At this rate, expect him to sue the BBC for not serving afternoon tea right.

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