The Daily Populous Tuesday September 16th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by rollingstone.com and submitted by Appropriate-Star-462

President Donald Trump will be traveling London this week for a state visit with King Charles III and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The trip has already drawn criticism given Trump’s increasingly authoritarian governance of the United States, and one U.K. news station is adjusting its programming to ensure the American president’s affinity for lies and misinformation isn’t overlooked in the pageantry.

Channel 4, the publicly owned broadcaster founded in 1982, announced today that it will greet Trump’s visit with a televised special chronicling the many lies told by the president during the first months of his second administration. Trump v The Truth will air Wednesday and, according to a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, the special will likely be “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods, and distortions ever broadcast on television.”

The special will catalog over 100 of Trump’s lies and falsehoods, with “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”

Channel 4 chief content officer Ian Katz told The Hollywood Reporter that he hopes the special programming “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.”

This is not Trump’s first visit with the British monarchy. Trump met with Queen Elizabeth II in 2019, during his first term, in a state visit that was marked by widespread protests in London and a visibly frosty reception from the queen. While the queen reportedly found Trump to be “very rude,” the visit provided Trump with a level of public legitimacy on the international stage — which he hopes to burnish this week despite ever-increasing turmoil at home.

Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will travel to the United Kingdom on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the president and his wife will be greeted by the prince and princess of Wales, William and Kate, at Windsor Castle before meeting King Charles and Queen Camilla for an inspection of the Guard of Honour at the historic royal residence. Trump is also expected to lay a wreath at the tomb of Elizabeth II, and attend a state banquet in the evening. Trending Stories Coachella Unveils 2026 Lineup: See Who’s Joining Justin Bieber, Karol G, Sabrina Carpenter British TV Station to Air Marathon of Trump’s Lies as He Visits U.K. Robert Redford, Oscar-Winning Actor and Director, Dead at 89 Paul Mescal Is Trying to Break Your Heart

On Thursday, the president is scheduled to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a bilateral summit. The pair are expected to sign off on a series of economic and tech deals during the visit, including plans to develop a dozen nuclear power plants and nuclear powered data centers.

The visit comes just weeks after Trump met with Starmer in Scotland at one of his golf courses. Trump inaugurated a new golf course on the same taxpayer-funded trip. As European leaders wary of Trump’s erratic economic whipsawing over the past few months attempt to butter up the American president, the masses should expect an excess of pomp and circumstance for this state visit that only the British monarchy could provide.

Brok3nMonkey on September 16th, 2025 at 11:15 UTC »

Isn’t trump the guy who rapes children?

cup-of-tea-76 on September 16th, 2025 at 11:12 UTC »

Channel 4 are the masters of satire production and I hope they deliver it with the ridicule and exposure I’d expect

Tiny-Western9010 on September 16th, 2025 at 11:00 UTC »

Good for them. Everyone should be doing this. It’s almost as good as the prime minister asking trump to read the letter from King Charles out loud & he wouldn’t. I swear they were trying to prove he’s illiterate & it worked.