Author and historian Rutger Bregman has accused the BBC of censorship after the corporation removed a line about the US president from a broadcast of his Reith Lecture, A Time Of Monsters.
It comes in the wake of controversy at the corporation after Donald Trump threatened the BBC with a billion-dollar lawsuit over an edit that spliced parts of his January 6 2021 speech together in a Panorama episode from 2024.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1 pic.twitter.com/Z0oRPqX7RW
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) November 25, 2025
In posts to his social media platforms, Dutch academic Bregman, author of Utopia For Realis

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