Donald Trump Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed he will bring a lawsuit against the BBC over an edited speech of his in a Panorama documentary. "We'll sue them. We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably sometime next week," he told reporters on Air Force One on Friday night, according to White House audio of the press opportunity posted to YouTube. Trump was responding to a question from a British reporter over the BBC apologizing for the documentary edit in its Trump: A Second Chance? program, but rejecting any basis for compensation. Related Stories News BBC Apologizes to President Trump Over Doctored Speech, But Rejects Compensation TV 'South Park' Goes Deep on Deepfakes With Explicit Trump-Vance Video "I have to do it. I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated. I mean, not that they couldn't have not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth. That's worse than what CBS did with Kamala," Trump said. A BBC spokesperson on Thursday, in a statement, said "BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the President's speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the program." The U.K. broadcaster's statement added: "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." Trump, in his press encounter on Air Force One on Friday, said he would discuss the issue with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer this weekend, and asserted, "the people of the U.K. are very angry about what happened as you can imagine because it shows the BBC is fake news." Earlier this week, BBC News CEO Deborah Turness and the corporation's director-general Tim Davie resigned after the BBC was found to have edited a Jan. 6, 2021, address where Trump, speaking before the attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was made to appear as though he was "calling for violent action," according to BBC chair Shah. This week's series of responses from the BBC were intended in part to respond to Trump's threat of a lawsuit against the U.K. broadcaster, much as he has done with U.S. news outlets in the U.S., including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Walmart Mitu Filmmakers The Mitú | Walmart Filmmaker Mentorship Program is Changing the Landscape for Ultra-Talented, Under-Funded Latino Filmmakers Royal Family Royally Ghosted: How the Palace Silences Its Own Wicked Marketing Campaigns for 'Wicked,' 'Severance,' 'Sinners' Among 2025 Clio Entertainment Winners New York Times BBC Apologizes to President Trump Over Doctored Speech, But Rejects Compensation news Hollywood's Golden-Era Hotspots Get a Modern Close-Up Washington D.C. Leonardo DiCaprio Says Jane Goodall "Led With Hope" While Paying Tribute at Memorial Service Walmart Mitu Filmmakers The Mitú | Walmart Filmmaker Mentorship Program is Changing the Landscape for Ultra-Talented, Under-Funded Latino Filmmakers Royal Family Royally Ghosted: How the Palace Silences Its Own Wicked Marketing Campaigns for 'Wicked,' 'Severance,' 'Sinners' Among 2025 Clio Entertainment Winners New York Times BBC Apologizes to President Trump Over Doctored Speech, But Rejects Compensation news Hollywood's Golden-Era Hotspots Get a Modern Close-Up Washington D.C. Leonardo DiCaprio Says Jane Goodall "Led With Hope" While Paying Tribute at Memorial Service