- by foxnews
- 25 Sep 2026
Last week, the BBC apologized to Trump and said it has no plans to rebroadcast the documentary, but stopped short of owning up to defaming the president. "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim," a BBC spokesperson said.
This prompted Trump to tell reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he planned to take legal action.
"We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion probably sometime next week," Trump said.
Trump's legal team has not contacted the BBC about any potential lawsuit since the president's comments, according to the network.
"We have had no further contact from President Trump's lawyers at this point. Our position remains the same," a BBC spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Monday.
A spokesperson for Trump's legal team referred Fox News Digital to Trump's Air Force One comments, implying a lawsuit remained imminent.
Trump's legal team demanded the BBC offer "a full and fair retraction of the documentary and any and all other false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements about President Trump in as conspicuous a manner as they were originally published," an immediate apology and compensation.
The BBC responded with its apology, but it doesn't appear that Trump is satisfied.
Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson, David Rutz and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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