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Sunday, November 16, 2025

TRUMP V BBC

by Paul A. Freeman





A rambling Donald incites

his fans to treacherous fights.

So, shame if he sues,

the BBC news

for daring to air the highlights.


The BBC’s out on a limb,

for splicing a story. How dim!

With folk loudly booing,

and Trump maybe suing,

the BBC’s outlook is grim.


The Beeb is known sometimes to boast,

“We’re global, not just coast-to-coast.”

But due to spliced news,

if Donald Trump sues,

the BBC might just end up toast.



Paul A. Freeman is an English teacher. He is the author of The Movement, a dystopia-Americana novel set in a future United States. It is available from Amazon as an ebook download and as a paperback. His first book, Rumours of Ophir, a crime novel taught at ‘O’ level in Zimbabwean high schools, was also translated into German. In addition to having two novels, a children’s book and an 18,000-word narrative poem (Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers!) commercially published, Paul is the author of numerous published short stories, poems and articles. He works and resides in Mauritania, Africa.