Jarrell Anthony
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I did wonder how Trump would square his "everything was terrible until I got here" shtick with the fact that he'd been president for four years already.
I didnt expect he'd go with the obviously nonsensical "I fixed everything, then Biden undid it all, so now I have to fix it again" line".
I didnt expect he'd go with the obviously nonsensical "I fixed everything, then Biden undid it all, so now I have to fix it again" line".
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I did wonder how Trump would square his "everything was terrible until I got here" shtick with the fact that he'd been president for four years already.
I didnt expect he'd go with the obviously nonsensical "I fixed everything, then Biden undid it all, so now I have to fix it again" line".
I didnt expect he'd go with the obviously nonsensical "I fixed everything, then Biden undid it all, so now I have to fix it again" line".
A reminder of what some British right-wing politicians, pundits and papers were saying about Trump and January 6th, in the days after it happened.
Spoiler alert: they seemed to agree with Panorama's view of things...
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Spoiler alert: they seemed to agree with Panorama's view of things...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
His claims about defamation and fake news have always focused on media outlets not highlighting that he said "peacefully and patriotically" - that's not defamation, it's just standard editorialising.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
His claims about defamation and fake news have always focused on media outlets not highlighting that he said "peacefully and patriotically" - that's not defamation, it's just standard editorialising.
Did panorama's splice actually change Trump's message?
He told people they need to "fight like hell" to prevent the election being "stolen" - the only opportunity to do that was to go to the capitol that afternoon, to prevent the certification.
Whether he meant literal violence is irrelevant.
He told people they need to "fight like hell" to prevent the election being "stolen" - the only opportunity to do that was to go to the capitol that afternoon, to prevent the certification.
Whether he meant literal violence is irrelevant.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Did panorama's splice actually change Trump's message?
He told people they need to "fight like hell" to prevent the election being "stolen" - the only opportunity to do that was to go to the capitol that afternoon, to prevent the certification.
Whether he meant literal violence is irrelevant.
He told people they need to "fight like hell" to prevent the election being "stolen" - the only opportunity to do that was to go to the capitol that afternoon, to prevent the certification.
Whether he meant literal violence is irrelevant.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm not here to bat for the BBC, but I'm genuinely disgusted and infuriated by how this has blown up.
The BBC need to grow a spine and defend themselves, and us, from these fascists across the pond.
They're not our allies - they're a threat to our democracy.
The BBC need to grow a spine and defend themselves, and us, from these fascists across the pond.
They're not our allies - they're a threat to our democracy.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm not here to bat for the BBC, but I'm genuinely disgusted and infuriated by how this has blown up.
The BBC need to grow a spine and defend themselves, and us, from these fascists across the pond.
They're not our allies - they're a threat to our democracy.
The BBC need to grow a spine and defend themselves, and us, from these fascists across the pond.
They're not our allies - they're a threat to our democracy.
These are also the same people who run front pages screaming about Gary Lineker's £1.35m salary, calling it "BBC waste."
But Trump sues for ONE BILLION DOLLARS of *our licence fee money*, and they... cheer him on?
There's a word for that kind of thing - the one they threw at judges over Brexit.
But Trump sues for ONE BILLION DOLLARS of *our licence fee money*, and they... cheer him on?
There's a word for that kind of thing - the one they threw at judges over Brexit.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
These are also the same people who run front pages screaming about Gary Lineker's £1.35m salary, calling it "BBC waste."
But Trump sues for ONE BILLION DOLLARS of *our licence fee money*, and they... cheer him on?
There's a word for that kind of thing - the one they threw at judges over Brexit.
But Trump sues for ONE BILLION DOLLARS of *our licence fee money*, and they... cheer him on?
There's a word for that kind of thing - the one they threw at judges over Brexit.
Panorama's edit was clumsy, I won't lie - they could have made the same point without such a crude cut.
But I'm not having all this fake outrage about their underlying message, because we all knew what happened back in 2021, and plenty of the BBC's loudest critics are on record saying so.
But I'm not having all this fake outrage about their underlying message, because we all knew what happened back in 2021, and plenty of the BBC's loudest critics are on record saying so.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Panorama's edit was clumsy, I won't lie - they could have made the same point without such a crude cut.
But I'm not having all this fake outrage about their underlying message, because we all knew what happened back in 2021, and plenty of the BBC's loudest critics are on record saying so.
But I'm not having all this fake outrage about their underlying message, because we all knew what happened back in 2021, and plenty of the BBC's loudest critics are on record saying so.
The Daily Mail: "Trump's hate mob storm the Capitol".
The Times: "Shots fired as president tells mob to 'take back the country'"
"Mr Trump has demeaned his office and his country... He bears heavy responsibility for this assault on the institutions of democracy."
The Times: "Shots fired as president tells mob to 'take back the country'"
"Mr Trump has demeaned his office and his country... He bears heavy responsibility for this assault on the institutions of democracy."
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Daily Mail: "Trump's hate mob storm the Capitol".
The Times: "Shots fired as president tells mob to 'take back the country'"
"Mr Trump has demeaned his office and his country... He bears heavy responsibility for this assault on the institutions of democracy."
The Times: "Shots fired as president tells mob to 'take back the country'"
"Mr Trump has demeaned his office and his country... He bears heavy responsibility for this assault on the institutions of democracy."
Douglas Murray (The Spectator):
Headline: "Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos."
"The centre of US democracy has come under assault... misled by a president who seems intent on leaving office as a sore and sinister loser."
www.spectator.co.uk/article/only...
Headline: "Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos."
"The centre of US democracy has come under assault... misled by a president who seems intent on leaving office as a sore and sinister loser."
www.spectator.co.uk/article/only...
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Douglas Murray (The Spectator):
Headline: "Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos."
"The centre of US democracy has come under assault... misled by a president who seems intent on leaving office as a sore and sinister loser."
www.spectator.co.uk/article/only...
Headline: "Only Trump is to blame for the Capitol chaos."
"The centre of US democracy has come under assault... misled by a president who seems intent on leaving office as a sore and sinister loser."
www.spectator.co.uk/article/only...
Trump glazer Piers Morgan:
"President Trump’s gone mad. He’s now mentally unfit to be President... This is an insurrection attempting a coup, encouraged to fight by their own President."
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....
"President Trump’s gone mad. He’s now mentally unfit to be President... This is an insurrection attempting a coup, encouraged to fight by their own President."
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Trump glazer Piers Morgan:
"President Trump’s gone mad. He’s now mentally unfit to be President... This is an insurrection attempting a coup, encouraged to fight by their own President."
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....
"President Trump’s gone mad. He’s now mentally unfit to be President... This is an insurrection attempting a coup, encouraged to fight by their own President."
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....
Priti Patel (then Home Secretary):
“His comments directly led to the violence...”
“He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn’t do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
“His comments directly led to the violence...”
“He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn’t do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
Priti Patel: Trump's remarks 'led to violence' in US Capitol
UK home secretary urged to deny departing president entry to UK once he leaves office
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Priti Patel (then Home Secretary):
“His comments directly led to the violence...”
“He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn’t do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
“His comments directly led to the violence...”
“He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn’t do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
Boris Johnson (Then PM):
"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol."
www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol."
www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Boris Johnson (Then PM):
"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol."
www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol."
www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
I think it's right that deceptive coverage should be investigated - we should hold the BBC to the highest standards.
But the gusto with which RW politicians/pundits are throwing them under the bus of most petulant man in the world is so short-sighted in terms of future diplomacy.
But the gusto with which RW politicians/pundits are throwing them under the bus of most petulant man in the world is so short-sighted in terms of future diplomacy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think it's right that deceptive coverage should be investigated - we should hold the BBC to the highest standards.
But the gusto with which RW politicians/pundits are throwing them under the bus of most petulant man in the world is so short-sighted in terms of future diplomacy.
But the gusto with which RW politicians/pundits are throwing them under the bus of most petulant man in the world is so short-sighted in terms of future diplomacy.
Exactly this.
It made my blood boil reading Karoline Leavitt's asinine comments about the BBC being a "left-wing propaganda machine", as it does whenever those ghouls try to demean, threaton or patronise us.
Do I get to call myself a patriot now? 🤔
It made my blood boil reading Karoline Leavitt's asinine comments about the BBC being a "left-wing propaganda machine", as it does whenever those ghouls try to demean, threaton or patronise us.
Do I get to call myself a patriot now? 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Exactly this.
It made my blood boil reading Karoline Leavitt's asinine comments about the BBC being a "left-wing propaganda machine", as it does whenever those ghouls try to demean, threaton or patronise us.
Do I get to call myself a patriot now? 🤔
It made my blood boil reading Karoline Leavitt's asinine comments about the BBC being a "left-wing propaganda machine", as it does whenever those ghouls try to demean, threaton or patronise us.
Do I get to call myself a patriot now? 🤔
Have you seen this before?
Once you have, it will explain 90% of his random tweet/Truth Social posting frenzies.
youtu.be/v1d7UvKWh6M?...
Once you have, it will explain 90% of his random tweet/Truth Social posting frenzies.
youtu.be/v1d7UvKWh6M?...
The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop, explained
YouTube video by Vox
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Have you seen this before?
Once you have, it will explain 90% of his random tweet/Truth Social posting frenzies.
youtu.be/v1d7UvKWh6M?...
Once you have, it will explain 90% of his random tweet/Truth Social posting frenzies.
youtu.be/v1d7UvKWh6M?...
The "trillions" he keeps talking about are the foreign investments he claims to have secured, not cash into the treasury.
Trump is a terrible communicator, but it baffles me to keep seeing this get misinterpreted and it's even weirder for his own cabinet to not clear this up.
Trump is a terrible communicator, but it baffles me to keep seeing this get misinterpreted and it's even weirder for his own cabinet to not clear this up.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The "trillions" he keeps talking about are the foreign investments he claims to have secured, not cash into the treasury.
Trump is a terrible communicator, but it baffles me to keep seeing this get misinterpreted and it's even weirder for his own cabinet to not clear this up.
Trump is a terrible communicator, but it baffles me to keep seeing this get misinterpreted and it's even weirder for his own cabinet to not clear this up.
It seems pretty clear to me that when Trump talks about taking in "trillions of dollars" he's talking about the investment he claims to have secured from foreign companies.
So it's weird that Bessent continues to undermine their Supreme Court case by not clarifying this in interviewers.
So it's weird that Bessent continues to undermine their Supreme Court case by not clarifying this in interviewers.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It seems pretty clear to me that when Trump talks about taking in "trillions of dollars" he's talking about the investment he claims to have secured from foreign companies.
So it's weird that Bessent continues to undermine their Supreme Court case by not clarifying this in interviewers.
So it's weird that Bessent continues to undermine their Supreme Court case by not clarifying this in interviewers.
Step 1 already happened...Biden was repeatedly asked about them before signing off on them. He even released an official statement to explain his reasoning, which remains on the white house website to this day.
I'm in the UK, and even *I* remember him discussing it. share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
I'm in the UK, and even *I* remember him discussing it. share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News
The outgoing president says the action will prevent "unjustified... politically motivated prosecutions".
share.google
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Step 1 already happened...Biden was repeatedly asked about them before signing off on them. He even released an official statement to explain his reasoning, which remains on the white house website to this day.
I'm in the UK, and even *I* remember him discussing it. share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
I'm in the UK, and even *I* remember him discussing it. share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
Its hard to understate the amount of contempt both Comey and Fox must have for their viewers, to let him repeat this BS on air.
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News
The outgoing president says the action will prevent "unjustified... politically motivated prosecutions".
share.google
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Its hard to understate the amount of contempt both Comey and Fox must have for their viewers, to let him repeat this BS on air.
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee - BBC News share.google/ORA7tyM9BOJ7...
I'm in and from the UK, so I dont have much skin in the game.
But it's infuriating (and worrying) to see a seasoned journalist nodding along while his guest spews easily disprovable lies.
Biden was asked about this im interviews and released an official statement explaining his decision.
But it's infuriating (and worrying) to see a seasoned journalist nodding along while his guest spews easily disprovable lies.
Biden was asked about this im interviews and released an official statement explaining his decision.
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'm in and from the UK, so I dont have much skin in the game.
But it's infuriating (and worrying) to see a seasoned journalist nodding along while his guest spews easily disprovable lies.
Biden was asked about this im interviews and released an official statement explaining his decision.
But it's infuriating (and worrying) to see a seasoned journalist nodding along while his guest spews easily disprovable lies.
Biden was asked about this im interviews and released an official statement explaining his decision.
Saying Biden's choice to pardon people was wrong is one thing.
But it's a whole new level of BSijng and parronising the public for this mf to be out here claiming Biden knew nothing about pardons that HE (Comey) went on TV and criticised before they even happened.
But it's a whole new level of BSijng and parronising the public for this mf to be out here claiming Biden knew nothing about pardons that HE (Comey) went on TV and criticised before they even happened.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Saying Biden's choice to pardon people was wrong is one thing.
But it's a whole new level of BSijng and parronising the public for this mf to be out here claiming Biden knew nothing about pardons that HE (Comey) went on TV and criticised before they even happened.
But it's a whole new level of BSijng and parronising the public for this mf to be out here claiming Biden knew nothing about pardons that HE (Comey) went on TV and criticised before they even happened.