**BBC Crisis: UK Government to Weigh In Amid Feud Between BBC and Donald Trump**
*ABC News | November 11, 2025 | By Jill Lawless*
Britain’s government was set to address a growing feud between the BBC and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Trump is threatening legal action against the broadcaster over the way it edited a speech he delivered after losing the 2020 presidential election.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was scheduled to make a statement on the BBC crisis in the House of Commons. This comes amid mounting criticism demanding significant reforms to the corporation, while supporters urge the government to defend the UK’s public broadcaster from political interference.
Outgoing BBC Director-General Tim Davie, who announced his resignation on Sunday amid the scandal, emphasized the need for the BBC “to fight for our journalism” in the face of escalating criticism.
“We have made some mistakes that have cost us,” Davie acknowledged in a statement to staff, but added he was “fiercely proud” of the organization. “I think we’ve got to fight for our journalism,” he said.
A lawyer representing Donald Trump is demanding a retraction, an apology, and compensation from the BBC over an allegedly defamatory sequence in a documentary that aired last year.
The fallout from the documentary has already led to high-profile resignations at the BBC, including Director-General Tim Davie and Head of News Deborah Turness, both stepping down over what the broadcaster described as an “error of judgment.”
The BBC has apologized for misleading editing of a speech Trump gave on January 6, 2021, shortly before a crowd of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Broadcast days before the November 2024 U.S. election, the documentary titled *“Trump: A Second Chance?”* spliced together three quotes from two separate parts of the speech—delivered nearly an hour apart—into what appeared to be a single statement in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.”
Notably, the edited sequence omitted a section where Trump explicitly called for peaceful demonstration.
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**Topics:** Foreign Affairs, News/Current Events, United Kingdom
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