The CEO of BBC news has also stepped down
Donald Trump has released a statement after Tim Davie resigned as the BBC’s director general this evening following controversy over an edit of one of Trump’s speeches.
Alongside Davie, CEO of BBC news Deborah Turness also stepped down.
The news comes as the BBC is set to apologise on Monday for its editing of a Donald Trump speech featured in an episode of its Panorama documentary series about the 2021 US Capitol Hill riots.
This comes in the wake of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the BBC of being “purposefully dishonest” and used “selectively edited” footage in its film.
In an interview with the Telegraph, Leavitt described the BBC as “100% fake news”.
She added that watching BBC bulletins on trips to the UK “ruins” her day and claimed taxpayers are being “forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine”.
Now Donald Trump has reacted to the news with a statement on his social media platform Truth Social.
He wrote: “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th.
“Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists.’
Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 03:46 PM EST 11/09/25 pic.twitter.com/dekAqj9enj
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) November 9, 2025
“These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally.
“What a terrible thing for Democracy!”
BBC chair Samir Shah is expected to apologise for the editing choice of the episode.
A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC chairman will provide a full response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday.”
The Telegraph claim to have seen a leaked document that suggested an episode of BBC’s Panorama programme “completely misled” viewers being splicing two parts of the speech together.
The leaked extract of the memo reads: “It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.”
Davie took the role in 2020, replacing Tony Hall.