GB News and Beverley Turner deserve huge kudos for landing the interview everyone wanted: Donald Trump unleashing fury on the BBC and delivering tough love on Britain’s existential problems.. Turner’s exclusive has cut through the noise.
In the course of it, Trump handed Britain a clear four-step plan to reverse its agonising decline: purge the BBC’s corruption, shut the borders, drill in the North Sea, and remove Sadiq Khan from City Hall. This is a priceless blueprint if implemented.
On the heels of the revelations of disgracefully doctoring his words, Trump brands the BBC “beyond fake—this is corrupt”, and he is right to threaten lawsuits.
The corporation is no longer a public service; it is a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine. In 2025, leaked memos from former standards adviser Michael Prescott exposed systematic distortion — Trump’s speeches doctored to smear him, Gaza agitators given soft interviews while trans-sceptics and colonial historians were silenced.
Director General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resigned in disgrace. Trust has collapsed: only 40 per cent of right-leaning viewers now have confidence in BBC News, the lowest on record. The BBC guzzles £3.84billion a year in licence fees yet serves one political tribe.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss captures the public disgust: “Lots of people in Britain are cheering Trump on. They’ve lied, they’ve cheated, they’ve fiddled with footage.
They’ve also covered up what’s happening in Britain, whether it be mass migration or economic problems. They are always biased towards the Left, and the British taxpayer has had to pay for all of this fake news.. Trump’s legal team has already fired off a demand for up to $5billion (£3.8 billion) in damages over a Panorama edit that twisted his January 6 words to imply direct incitement, with chairman Samir Shah admitting the “error of judgment.”
Past settlements with U.S. networks like CBS (£16million) and ABC (£15million) show Trump knows how to force payouts from biased outlets.
The BBC faces a choice: apologise, compensate, and reform—or fight and risk funding Trump’s legacy while exposing more failures.
It is not impartial; it is captured. Scrap the licence fee, break the monopoly, or watch the national broadcaster poison public debate forever.
Donald Trump just gave Britain a four-step blueprint to reverse its decline. This is why it works - Lee Cohen
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Next, the borders. History shows what Britain can do when it protects itself. The Channel was once a real barrier, not an open door.
Trump’s warning to Keir Starmer is in that tradition. “Do something about immigration,” he said, “or you won’t have a country left”.
He knows from America’s experience that open borders strain communities and create resentment. In Britain, more than 38,000 people crossed in small boats as of mid-November 2025 — already surpassing last year’s full total of 36,816 and on pace to shatter the 2022 record of 45,774. That is a 48 per cent surge in the first half of 2025 versus 2024, with over 50,000 arrivals since Labour took power.
Asylum claims and backlog processing now cost over £3.5 billion annually, ballooning with unchecked arrivals; only four per cent of small boat arrivals have been returned since 2018.
Despite recent drops, knife crime under Khan remains a crisis — 16,300 offences in the year to March 2025 (up from 12,800 in 2022/23), with London claiming 60 per cent of national knife-enabled robberies and victims overwhelmingly young men under 25.
Labour champions diversity but ignores the cost. Trump says to use the military to stop the boats. That is not extreme; it is common sense. Defend the border or lose control. Energy follows.
Trump calls climate change a hoax used to justify high taxes on ordinary people. He wants Britain to drill in the North Sea. Closing rigs while blackouts threaten is reckless. Families already struggle with bills. Wind farms do not run when the wind stops, and they cost jobs in real industries.
America has cut energy costs by producing more. Under Trump’s first term, U.S. crude oil production hit record highs, surpassing 1970 levels, and natural gas output reached 34.9 quadrillion BTUs in 2019 — lowering household energy costs by 12 per cent from 2005 to 2019 through deregulation and expanded drilling.
Britain could do the same. North Sea reserves could meet half of the UK’s oil and gas needs, nearly double current forecasts, unlocking £165billion in economic value and protecting 200,000 jobs while cutting reliance on imports that have a carbon footprint up to four times higher than domestic production. Starmer’s net zero targets risk poverty for the sake of ideology. Trump’s message is simple: use your own resources.
Finally, London under Sadiq Khan is a real bust. Trump calls him a disaster. Grooming gang scandals are concealed. Neighbourhoods feel lawless. Police avoid action to prevent accusations of bias. Khan focuses on gestures while residents worry about safety. Open-border policies have added to the problem. Trump says get rid of him. London needs a mayor who puts citizens first.
Starmer defends Khan and dodges questions about the BBC. His administration has strained the special relationship through social media crackdowns, cosying up to Beijing, and ceding the Chagos Islands to a Chinese partner. Labour volunteers meddled in America’s election against Trump.
Despite this, Trump has shown restraint — until now. His BBC broadside signals more pressure ahead on speech curbs, migration, and sovereignty.
That shows a government out of touch. Trump’s plan is a shot across the bow. Purge the BBC, close the borders, drill for energy, replace Khan. Britain can be strong again. Act now or accept ruin.
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