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BBC’s Trump coverage enters its tenth year



UK media outlets were last night celebrating what seems to have been a decade of uninterrupted Presidential headlines; both simultaneously amusing and spine-chilling. Explained one BBC hack: 'Trump fills a neat little gap between stories about rescued kittens and the weather.


Eclipsed by the US election coverage, UK stories will be forced to grab our attention with Princess Diana references and undulating breasts. Said one lethargic editor: 'It's just easier to write about Trump. He puts the big into bigotry, the primary colours into primaries and the fear of God into...well that's it...he just puts the fear of God into you'.


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