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British Media Puts American Media to Shame with Longest Reel of Untruths Trump Fact-check

It’s titled: Trump v the Truth, and sadly, this highlights the lack of rigorous fact-checking of the Trump regime from U.S. media.

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Sep 17, 2025
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This is a lot awesome and a little awkward.

In honor of President Trump’s visit to the UK, Britain’s Channel 4 News will run what they describe as the “longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television.”

It’s titled: Trump v the Truth, and sadly, this highlights the lack of rigorous fact-checking of the Trump regime from U.S. media.

The show will feature an uninterrupted, several-hours-long broadcast of over 100 of Trump's false or misleading statements, with accompanying fact-checks as a way to welcome Trump’s second state visit to Britain.

It even includes a little something many of us have been asking U.S. media to include in their coverage: brief, text-based fact-checks.

Ahhh, so it is possible.

“The British channel has vowed to put a spotlight on his ‘prolific oeuvre of untruths,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote. They…

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