Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the U.K. with a special program: an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies he’s come up with since taking office in January.
The U.S. President will come to London for a second state visit this month, and the British channel has vowed to put a spotlight on his “prolific oeuvre of untruths.”
On Sep. 17 from 10 a.m. local time, Channel 4 will broadcast Trump v The Truth, the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths running over several hours. The statements will be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”
“Donald J Trump loves making history. So, on Wednesday Channel 4 will do just that: we’ll show what we believe to be the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television,” said the channel’s chief content officer Ian Katz. “We hope it will remind viewers how disorientating and dangerous the world becomes when the most powerful man on earth shows little regard for the truth. And if President Trump cares to watch along after the state banquet, he may even clear up a few misconceptions.”
The theme will run across the day, with a Trump impersonator taking over from the Channel 4 continuity announcers, to deliver false information “as a sobering reminder of what can happen when once-trusted sources of truth cannot be relied upon.”
Also in the schedule will be the second episode of The Donald Trump Show, a three-part documentary from 72 Films. The series uses news footage from TV, podcasts and social media to tell the story of the last nine months of the presidency as an unfolding soap opera.
Trump v The Truth is produced by Bango and was commissioned by head of specialist factual, Shaminder Nahal and commissioning editor Vivienne Molokwu.