British TV Network Is Set To Air A Reel Of Trump’s Lies During His UK Visit

Channel 4 will greet Trump this week with a "marathon" of his past misstatements.


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Donald Trump is set to visit the U.K. this week, where he will meet with both Prime Minister Kier Starmer and King Charles. And when he goes, a TV station there is planning a surprise.

According to Rolling Stone, Channel 4 has announced plans to broadcast “over 100 untruths back to back, with each extensively fact checked.” The broadcast will begin on Wednesday, with live streaming available.

“The trip has already drawn criticism given Trump’s increasingly authoritarian governance of the United States, and one UK news station is adjusting its programming to ensure the American president’s affinity for lies and misinformation isn’t overlooked in the pageantry,” Rolling Stone reported.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the program will run for “several hours.”

“Donald J Trump loves making history. So, on Wednesday Channel 4 will do just that: we’ll show what we believe to be the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television,”  the channel’s chief content officer Ian Katz told the Hollywood Reporter. “We hope it will remind viewers how disorientating and dangerous the world becomes when the most powerful man on earth shows little regard for the truth. And if President Trump cares to watch along after the state banquet, he may even clear up a few misconceptions.”

Channel Four will also air an episode of The Donald Trump Show, described as “a three-part documentary from 72 Films [which] uses news footage from TV, podcasts and social media to tell the story of the last nine months of the presidency as an unfolding soap opera.”

Per NBC News, Trump will visit an “unsettled” Britain, on his second state visit to the country.

“Should he open the country’s notorious tabloids, the president could survey the fallout from flag-waving far-right marchers in the streets, feverish speculation about the prime minister’s position and a family summit over tea that sought to ease those royal tensions,” NBC News reported.

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 


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